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Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference
by Michael Barlow 24 Mar '26

24 Mar '26

Dear colleagues, We are happy to announce the 2nd CFP for APCLC 2016. The 6th Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference (APCLC2026) will be held in Toyama, Japan, from September 8–11, 2026. The main conference runs September 9–10, with pre-conference workshops on September 8 and an excursion on September 11. Conference Theme: Emerging Paradigms of Corpus Linguistics in the Age of AI Venue: Toyama International Conference Centre (Toyama, JAPAN) TOYAMA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CENTER Plenary speakers: Eric Friginal (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) https://www.polyu.edu.hk/engl/people/academic-staff/prof-eric-friginal/ Akira Murakami (University of Birmingham) https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/murakami-akira Others to be confirmed Call for Papers: We welcome submissions for oral & poster presentations. Oral presentations: Abstracts should be a maximum of 300 words (not including list of references). Abstracts should report on the background, research questions, data, methods, results, and implications of the research, as appropriate to the nature of the paper. Posters: Abstracts should be a maximum of 300 words (not including list of references). Abstracts may report on the background, research questions, data, methods, (provisional) results, and (potential) contributions of the research, as appropriate. Pre-conference workshops: Proposals are welcome for short workshops (1.5 hours) and half-day workshops (3 hours). For those who are interested in offering a workshop, please contact the organizer directly. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to AI & CORPUS LINGUISTICS Applications of AI in corpus design and construction Applications of AI in corpus analysis Ethics of using AI in corpus research Corpus-based evaluation of AI-generated language CORPUS METHODS New tools and analytical techniques Innovations in corpus design, construction, and annotation New analytical techniques New theoretical frameworks Critical evaluation of existing tools, techniques, and frameworks Replication studies APPLICATIONS OF CORPUS LINGUISTICS Corpus developments in the Asia-Pacific region Forensic linguistics Stylistics Discourse analysis Sociolinguistics and language change Lexicography Grammar analysis Translation Contrastive analysis Genre, register, and textual variation Intercultural communication Multilingualism and translanguaging Underrepresented languages and language varieties Digital communication and social media Multimodal communication Language for specific/academic purposes Learner corpora Pedagogical applications of corpus linguistics Language learning, teaching, and assessment Teaching corpus linguistics as a discipline Important dates: March, 2026: 2nd circular (with CFP) May 31, 2026: Deadline for abstract submission; Early bird registration open June 20, 2026: Notification of acceptance of abstracts July 31, 2026: End of early bird registration (Details provided later) August 10, 2026: Submission deadline for online proceedings August 31, 2026: Deadline for full registration September 8, 2026: Pre-conference workshops & Registration September 9-10, 2026: Main conference September 11, 2026: Excursion Please save the dates and visit our APCLC2026 official site (to appear) for future updates. Organising committee: Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Association (APCLA) steering committee Michael Barlow (University of Auckland) Monika Bednarek (University of Sydney) Eric Friginal (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Hitoshi Isahara (Otemon Gakuin University) Yukio Tono (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) Naixing Wei (Beihang University) Raksangob Wijitsopon (Chulalongkorn University) Jiajin Xu (Beijing Foreign Studies University) Program committee Hitoshi Isahara (Otemon Gakuin University) Yukio Tono (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) Yasutake Ishii (Seijo University) Kyoko Kanzaki (Gunman Women’s University) Naho Kawamoto (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) Yoshiyuki Notohara (Doshisha University) Sachiko Hachino (Tezukayama Gakuin University) Satoshi Yamazaki (Chiba University of Commerce) Emi Izumi (Kyoto University) Contact: apclc2026(a)gmail.com<mailto:apclc2026@gmail.com> --- Michael Barlow. www.michaelbarlow.com<http://www.michaelbarlow.com/> Assoc. Prof. Applied Linguistics, University of Auckland Recent publications M. Barlow. 2026. Writing the Social Science Research Article.<https://www.amazon.com/dp/0940753367/ref=sr_1_1_so_ABIS_BOOK?crid=25EQBROGY…> Athelstan. M. Barlow. 2026. Writing the Humanities Research Article.<https://www.amazon.com/s?k=writing+the+humanities+research+article&i=stripb…> Athelstan. M. Barlow. 2026. Writing the Business Research Article<https://www.amazon.com/dp/0940753405/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2XO1YCSNL8ZT&dib=eyJ2I…>.<https://www.amazon.com/dp/0940753405/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2XO1YCSNL8ZT&dib=eyJ2I…> Athelstan M. Barlow. 2026. Writing the Economics Research Article<https://www.amazon.com/dp/0940753383/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2XO1YCSNL8ZT&dib=eyJ2I…>. Athelstan M. Barlow 2023. Ten Lectures on Corpora and Cognitive Linguistics<https://brill.com/display/title/61682>. Brill Le, Pham & Barlow 2023. The Academic Discourse of Mechanical Engineering<https://benjamins.com/catalog/scl.107>. Benjamins

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Call for Participation for HAHA at IberLEF 2026
by Luis Chiruzzo - Inco 23 Mar '26

23 Mar '26

*** Call for Participation for HAHA at IberLEF 2026 <https://sites.google.com/view/iberlef-2026> *** Humor Analysis based on Human Annotation and Automatic Humor Generation https://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/grupos/pln/haha/ Codabench page: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/14700/ Can computers be funny? Can humans identify computer-generated humor? While humor has been studied historically from psychological, cognitive, and linguistic perspectives, its computational study is an active area of research in Machine Learning and Computational Linguistics that has gained traction in recent years. There has been significant development mainly in the field of automatic humor detection and classification, but a characterization of humor that enables its automatic recognition and generation is far from being solved. This task aims to gain better insight into what is humorous and what causes laughter, and to take some steps forward by assessing the capabilities of current LLMs to generate actual humorous content in Spanish and attempting to see whether it’s possible to automatically distinguish between computer-generated humor and humor written by humans. The target audience is NLP researchers interested in advancing the understanding of highly subjective and creative tasks, though anyone is welcome to participate. Task description This year, the HAHA evaluation campaign proposes three different subtasks related to automatic humor detection and generation, with the aim of deepening our understanding of computational humor. Subtask 1 - Humor Detection: determining if a news headline is satirical or real. The main performance metric for this subtask will be the F1 score of the 'humorous' class. This subtask is similar to the first subtask proposed in previous editions of the HAHA shared task, but this time it's applied to a particular domain where humorous and non-humorous content might sometimes be difficult to tell apart. Subtask 2 - LLM-generated humor detection: determining if a joke inspired by a news headline was generated by an LLM or written by a human. The main performance metric for this subtask will be the F1 score of the 'automatic' class. Subtask 3 - Humor Generation: generating jokes from a news headline using computational methods. This subtask will be evaluated through human preference judgments, employing LLM arena-style battles between pairs of generated jokes, and ranking the systems using an Elo-based leaderboard. How to Participate The CodaBench page for the competition is available: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/14700/ Registration is open! Important Dates March 18th, 2026: team registration page. April 1st, 2026: development sets released and open for dev submissions. May 27th, 2026: test sets released and open for test submissions. June 3rd, 2026: end of test submissions, publication of results of subtasks 1 and 2. June 10th, 2026: publication of results of subtask 3. June 12th, 2026: paper submission. June 23rd, 2026: notification of acceptance. July 1st, 2026: camera-ready paper submission. September 2026: IberLEF 2026 Workshop.

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PsyDefDetect shared task (co-located with BioNLP @ ACL 2026) - Call for Participation
by hongbin.na＠student.uts.edu.au 22 Mar '26

22 Mar '26

PsyDefDetect invites researchers to tackle a novel challenge at the intersection of Clinical Psychology and Natural Language Processing: detecting and classifying psychological defense mechanisms in emotional support dialogues. Grounded in the clinically validated Defense Mechanism Rating Scales (DMRS) framework, this shared task aims to advance the understanding of unconscious defensive functioning in text. Shared task website: https://psydefdetect-shared-task.github.io/ Discord server: https://discord.com/invite/AhuspeXNkM Google group: https://groups.google.com/g/psydefdetect RedNote: https://xhslink.com/m/34ddMoz7E4L Evaluation Platform (Codabench): https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12124/ Task Overview Psychological defenses are the “immune system” of the mind, shaping what speakers disclose and how they accept or resist help. Despite their critical role in mental health and counseling, defensive functioning remains largely unmodeled in current emotional support conversation systems. This shared task invites participants to bridge the gap between clinical theory and NLP by analyzing the PSYDEFCONV dataset. Participants will work with multi-turn dialogues to identify the specific defense level of a target utterance given its context. The goal is to develop models that can recognize subtle, context-dependent defensive maneuvers—ranging from adaptive coping to immature distortion. Data and Labels PSYDEFCONV is the first conversational dataset annotated with defense levels based on the DMRS. The dataset is constructed from a stratified subset of the ESConv corpus to ensure diverse coverage of problem types and emotions. The corpus contains 200 dialogues and 4,709 total utterances, including 2,336 help-seeker turns annotated for defense levels. Participants must classify utterances into 9 categories, comprising seven hierarchical levels of defensive maturity and two auxiliary labels. Key Challenge Capturing subtle linguistic cues of deep-seated psychological mechanisms within highly informal and context-dependent emotional dialogues. Timeline This preliminary timeline is subject to change. Follow our website and channels for updates. Dec 15 2025: Task announced. Dec 20 2025: Task Launch on CodaBench. Mar 15 2026: Start of evaluation period. Apr 05 2026: End of evaluation period. TBA: Paper submission. TBA: Author notifications. TBA: Camera ready due. Baseline and Evaluation Metrics Baseline runs and official metrics are published on our CodaBench Page (https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12124/) Organizers Hongbin Na, University of Technology Sydney Zimu Wang, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Zhaoming Chen, University of Utah Yining Hua, Harvard University Rena Gao, The University of Melbourne Kailai Yang, The University of Manchester Ling Chen, University of Technology Sydney Wei Wang, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Shaoxiong Ji, ELLIS Institute Finland & University of Turku John Torous, Harvard University Sophia Ananiadou, The University of Manchester & ELLIS Manchester

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International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026): Last Call for Journal First Papers
by Announce 21 Mar '26

21 Mar '26

*** Last Call for Journal First Papers *** International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026) 29 September - 2 October 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/variability-2026 The VARIABILITY conference series brings together the communities previously served by ICSR, SPLC, and VaMoS, forming a unified venue for research on variability, configuration, customization, and related disciplines in software and systems engineering. VARIABILITY 2026 invites Journal-First presentations of papers recently published in leading software engineering journals, including TSE, TOSEM, IST, EMSE, JSS, ASEJ, SoSyM, and reputable open-access journals. This initiative provides authors with the opportunity to engage directly with the VARIABILITY community, while offering attendees a richer and more diverse program. The Journal-First papers remain published in their respective journals, and a one-page summary will be included in the VARIABILITY 2026 proceedings with a pointer to the original publication. Scope To qualify for a Journal-First presentation at VARIABILITY 2026, a paper must meet these criteria: • It was published on the publisher’s website between May 2024 and March 2026. • It fits within the scope of VARIABILITY 2026, as described in the research track call (https://conf.researchr.org/track/variability-2026/variability-2026-papers#C…), and can bring new insights or directions to the community. • It presents new research results or significant extensions of prior work that have not been presented at SPLC, VaMoS, or ICSR before. • It has not been presented at, and is not under review for, Journal-First Tracks of other related conferences. How to Submit Authors of papers that meet the above criteria are invited to submit a short proposal for presentation. The proposal should be one page and include the following: • Paper title, authors, extended abstract, and a link or DOI to the original journal paper. • If the journal paper builds on or is related to previously published work (such as a poster or tool demo), the proposal must clearly explain why it should be considered a Journal- First paper. • All proposals must be submitted as a PDF via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=variability2026 (Journal-First Track). • Please upload both the proposal PDF and a ZIP file containing the original journal paper. Accepted papers will be published in the VARIABILITY 2026 Companion Proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series. A Journal-First proposal must be at most one page long and it must follow the Springer guidelines: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… . By submitting your paper for inclusion in these proceedings, you acknowledge that you and your co-authors must comply with Springer’s publications policies (https://www.springer.com/gp/editorial-policies) including requirements related to research integrity, copyright, and ethical standards. Any alleged violations of these policies may be investigated by Springer and could result in corrective actions, including withdrawal of the paper. Evaluation and Selection Proposals will be selected based on the quality of the publication and the journal, after confirming that the paper fits the scope of the conference. Since the papers have already been peer-reviewed and accepted by their journals, they will not undergo another technical review. The goal is to include as many papers as possible in the Journal-First Track. However, if an unusually high number of papers are received, some might not be accepted. If needed, priority will be given to papers that best align with the conference topics of interests and the structure of the sessions. Conference Attendance For each paper accepted into the Journal-First Track, at least one author must register for the conference and attend to give the oral presentation. Important Dates (AoE) • Submission of Papers: 2 April 2026 • Notification of Acceptance: 1 June 2026 • Camera-Ready Submission: 15 July 2026 • Author Registration: 15 July 2026 Organisation General Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Gilles Perrouin, FNRS & University of Namur, Belgium Research Track Chairs • Thorsten Berger, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany • Ina Schaefer, KIT, Germany Industry Track Chairs • Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Lab and Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany Journal First Track Chairs • Mathieu Acher, University Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France • Xhevahire Tërnava, LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France Doctoral Symposium Track Chairs • Rick Rabiser, LIT CPS, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria • Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel Demos and Tools Track Chairs • Sandra Greiner, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark • Leopoldo Teixeira, Federal University of Pernambuco Projects Showcase Chairs • Daniel Struber, Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, Radbound University, Sweden • Dalila Tamzalit, Nantes Université, France Hall of Fame Chairs • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany • Goetz Botterweck, Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Ireland • Natsuko Noda, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan Workshops Chairs • Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de Malaga, Spain • Malte Lochau, University of Siegen, Germany Tutorials Chairs • Loek Cleophas, Eindhoven University of Technology and Stellenbosch University, The Netherlands • Mahsa Varshosaz, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Proceedings Chair • Sophie Fortz, King's College London, UK Publicity Chairs • Wesley Assunção, North Carolina State University, USA • Kentaro Yoshimura, Hitachi Ltd, Japan Local Organiser and Finance Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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Second call for participation - MentalRiskES@IberLEF2026: Early detection of mental risk
by María Dolores Molina González 20 Mar '26

20 Mar '26

*Registration open!!* ****We apologize for multiple postings of this e-mail**** MentalRiskES2026 announces the fourth edition of a novel and enhanced task on early risk identification of mental disorders in Spanish comments from social media sources. Unlike previous editions (IberLEF 2023, 2024, and 2025), this edition introduces significant innovations: psychologists are now actively involved in generating and validating the data, which ensures a closer connection to real clinical settings. The task continues to be solved as an online problem, requiring participants to detect potential risks as early as possible in a continuous stream of data. Consequently, performance depends not only on the accuracy of the systems but also on the speed of detection, reflecting these dynamics in both task design and evaluation metrics. For this fourth edition, we propose two entirely new tasks: the first subtask focuses on the detection of symptoms, while the second subtask addresses decision support for therapeutic interventions. We would like to invite you to participate in the following tasks: *1. Early Symptom Detection in Therapeutic Conversations2. Therapist Response Selection* Find out more at https://sites.google.com/view/mentalriskes2026. <https://sites.google.com/view/mentalriskes2026> MentalRiskES 2026 is part of the IberLEF Workshop and will be held in conjunction with the SEPLN 2026 conference in León (Spain). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Feb 9th Registration open* Mar 27th Release of trial corpora (trial server available) Apr 6th Registration closed Apr 13th Release of test corpora and start of the evaluation campaign (test server available and trial submissions closed) Apr 20th End of evaluation campaign (deadline for submission of runs) Apr 27th Publication of official results and release of test gold labels May 11th Deadline for paper submission June 1st Acceptance notification Jun 15th Camera-ready submission deadline Sep TBD Publication of proceedings Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 Please reach out to the organizers at MentalRiskEs@IberLEF2026. The MentalRiskES 2026 organizing committee. Mª Dolores Molina González PCD del Departamento de Ingeniería de Telecomunicación mdmolina(a)ujaen.es Grupo de Investigación SINAI <http://sinai.ujaen.es/> EPS Jaén, Edificio A3, Despacho 328 Campus Las Lagunillas s/n 23071 - Universidad de Jaén Edificio Departamental, Despacho D-122 Campus Científico Tecnológico de Linares, Avda. de la Universidad s/n 23700 (+34) 953 64 86 51 <+34%20953%2064%2086%2017> - Escuela Politécnica Superior de Linares ----------------------------------------------------------- Mas informacion sobre listas de correo en la Univ. de Jaen http://www.ujaen.es/sci/redes/listas/ -----------------------------------------------------------

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[CfP] IEEE FedCSIS 2026: "Digital Humanities, Computational Social Sciences and Economics Research (AI-HuSo)"
by Jens Dörpinghaus 20 Mar '26

20 Mar '26

Dear all, I would like to inform you about a call for papers for a thematic track at FedCSIS 2026 (IEEE #61123) called "AI in Digital Humanities, Computational Social Sciences and Economics Research (AI-HuSo)". FedCSIS 2026 will be held in Riga, Latvia, 23-26 August, 2026. See https://2026.fedcsis.org/thematic/ai-huso for details. --> Paper submission: 15.04.2026 This thematic session is dedicated to the computational study of Social Sciences, Economics and Humanities, including all subjects like, for example, education, labour market, history, religious studies, theology, cultural heritage, and informative predictions for decision-making and behavioural-science perspectives. While digital methods, intelligence systems, and AI have been emerging topics in these fields for several decades, this thematic session is not only limited to discoveries in these domains, but also dedicated to the reflections of these methods and results within the field of computer science. Thus, we are in particular interested in interdisciplinary exchange and dissemination with a clear focus on computational and AI methods for intelligence systems. Since there is a clear methodological overlap between these three domains and often similar algorithms and AI approaches are considered, we see this thematic session as place for interdisciplinary learning, discussing a joint toolbox as a support for scholars from these field with human and context-aware agents. The aim of this thematic session is thus to bridge the gap between scientific domains, foster interdisciplinary exchange and discuss how research questions from other domains challenge current computer science. In particular, we are interested in communications between researchers from different fields of computer science, social sciences, economics, humanities, and practitioners from different fields. Topics ====== The list of topics includes, but is not limited to: - AI and computational approaches for the interdisciplinary work of the social sciences, economics, and humanities: report on theoretical, methodological, experimental, and applied research. - AI and computational approaches for linking data from different digital resources, including online social networks, web and data mining, Knowledge Graphs, Ontologies. - AI and computational methods for text mining and textual analysis, for example texts within social sciences, digital literary studies, computational stylistics and stylometry. - Text encoding, computational linguistics, annotation guidelines, OCR for humanities, economics, and social sciences. - Network analysis, including social and historical network analysis. - Ethical and philosophical considerations of AI in society, education and humanties research In general, the applications of interest are included in the list below, but are not limited to: - Labour market research and qualification, including behavioral-science perspectives. - Education: Digital methods and systems, e-learning, adult education, etc. - Contributions to the application of technology to culture, history, and societal issues: For example, computational text analysis, analytical and visualization, databases, etc. - In particular, we welcome submissions which focus on a critical reflection of digital methods in the humanities, economics and social sciences within computer science. - Linking of digital resources, a discussion of data sets, their quality and reliability, combining quantitative and qualitative data, anonymization and data protection. Contact: ai-huso(a)fedcsis.org Submission rules ================ - Authors should submit their papers as Postscript, PDF or MSWord files. - The total length of a paper should not exceed 12 pages IEEE style (including tables, figures and references). More pages can be added, for an additional fee. IEEE style templates are available here. - Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the Topical Area. - Preprints containing accepted papers will be published online. - Only papers presented at the conference will be published in Conference Proceedings and submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore® database. - Conference proceedings will be published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers and posted at the conference WWW site. - Conference proceedings will be submitted for indexation according to information here. - Organizers reserve right to move accepted papers between FedCSIS Sessions.

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[CfP] 4th Workshop on Digitalization and AI for Society, in Education and Educational Research (DAI-EaR’26)
by Jens Dörpinghaus 20 Mar '26

20 Mar '26

Dear all, I would like to inform you about a call for papers for a workshop at INFORMATIK FESTIVAL 2026 in Dresden, 22.09. – 25.09.2026: 4th Workshop on Digitalization and AI for Society, in Education and Educational Research (DAI-EaR’26) Submission Deadline: 07.05.2026 See https://wp.uni-koblenz.de/cssbibb/4th-workshop-on-digitalization-and-ai-for… for details. Aims & Scope ============ Societies today have to deal with multifaceted risks such as pandemics, geopolitical tensions, and virtual security risks. At the nexus of these risks computational social sciences, computing education and digital literacy are emerging as a critical political and societal lever for designing digitalized futures. In pursuit of an open society, open science and open source, this workshop addresses the transformative power of computational methods, including AI, not only in education, but also in society and labor markets by exploring interdisciplinary insights to questions of digital and open sovereignity, societal structures, and the evolving demands of labor markets. Call for Papers =============== This workshop aims to comprehensively explore the intersection of computer science, computational methods, education research, sociological research, their respective methods and societal implications, with a special focus on digitalization and AI for and in society, education and educational research. It focuses on interdisciplinary perspectives on the design of an open society, open science and open source, examining aspects such as society, general education, labor markets, qualifications, vocational education and training, or adult education. In addition, the workshop encourages submissions that critically reflect on the application of digital methods in these research areas. The overarching goal is to understand how computational methods, especially AI, can be sensibly applied in the development of open, digital and sustainable societies and economies. Emphasis is placed on theoretical as well as empirical research, including data science methods and AI approaches applicable to recommender systems, digitized learning, and effective linking of digital resources. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Computational Social Sciences, in particular AI and computational approaches for the interdisciplinary work of the social sciences, economics, and humanities: report on theoretical, methodological, experimental, and applied research. - Quantitative and qualitative research - Data science methods to analyse (vocational) education and labour market data - Digital methods and systems in education (e-learning, adult education, general, VET and academic education, etc.) - AI approaches for recommender systems and digitized learning - Linking of digital resources, a discussion of data sets, their quality and reliability, combining quantitative and qualitative data, anonymization and data protection. AI and computational methods for text mining and textual analysis, for example texts within social sciences, digital literary studies, computational stylistics and stylometry. - Network analysis, including social and educational network analysis. - We also welcome submissions focusing on a critical reflection of digital methods in labour market research, education and other research areas. Submission ========== The workshop will consist of paper and poster presentations. Selected papers will be published in “GI-Edition: Lecture Notes in Informatics” (LNI). Submissions (6-16 pages for full paper, 3-6 pages plus references for poster presentation) must be written in English and follow the guidelines published at https://informatik2026.converve.io/ and https://gi.de/service/publikationen/lni. Please submit your papers to https://www.conftool.org/informatik2026/index.php?page=login Submissions are reviewed using a single-blind review process, which means you do not have to hide authors’ names and affiliations. Important Dates: 07.05.2026 – Submission Deadline 01.06.2026 – Notification 01.07.2026 – Deadline Proceedings/Full Paper Submission – Submission of camera-ready papers. 31.07.2026 – Publication of agenda.

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Postdoctoral position: Autonomous Agents in Distributed Ledger Technologies
by Damir Korenčić 20 Mar '26

20 Mar '26

Institution: Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia Closing date: April 10th 2026 We recently opened a position of potential interest for NLP researchers. We are looking for a motivated candidate with relevant technical expertise and compatible scientific interest. The successful candidate will work in a group consisting of two senior researchers and a PhD student. The focus of the project is twofold: 1) researching how autonomous agents operate on DLT platforms, and 2) developing and deploying a long-running agents to interact with DLT platforms and social networks. The first part encompasses collection and analysis of relevant DLT data, while the second part will focus on development and deployment of an LLM-based agentic system, and on studying its behavior and patterns of interaction. Initially, we plan to focus on Farcaster as the target platform. The candidate will be welcome (and expected) to actively participate in the design of the research. How to apply: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/418300 (basically you need to send a cover letter, plus the other information described as required). If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at: matija.piskorec(a)irb.hr damir.korencic(a)irb.hr

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CODI CRAC 2026 Workshop - deadline extended - April 3
by Amir.Zeldes＠georgetown.edu 19 Mar '26

19 Mar '26

*apologies for cross-postings* � DEADLINE EXTENDED: *April 3* � Joint CODI CRAC 2026 Workshop � July 2026 - ACL 2026 - San Diego, USA � We are pleased to announce that we are organizing the second joint CODI-CRAC workshop which will be held during ACL 2026! More information at: � <https://sites.google.com/view/codi-crac2026/home> https://sites.google.com/view/codi-crac2026/ � � CODI-CRAC is officially endorsed by SIGDial, the ACL Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. � Deadline for CODI CRAC papers: April 3 2026 � The workshop will also host the CRAC shared task. More information at: � - CRAC shared task: <https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/corefud/crac26> https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/corefud/crac26 Aims and scope � Recent breakthroughs in NLP and Large Language Models have dramatically expanded our systems’ abilities to interpret and generate not just sentences, but whole documents and conversations. This shift has renewed interest in discourse-level challenges, driving new work on inter-sentential phenomena, coherence modeling, long-form summarization, discourse-aware representation learning, and large-scale resources for discourse understanding and parsing. � Discourse sits at the intersection of many NLP subfields, as it is where context, structure, and meaning come together beyond single sentences. Discourse shapes how we capture coherence, cohesion, and inference across long texts, and brings together researchers tackling the shared challenges of document structure, long-range dependencies, and the requirements of extended context. � In 2025, we organized the first joint CODI-CRAC workshop. The CODI workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse has been a forum for a broad range of work at the discourse level. The CRAC workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference has been a primary venue for researchers interested in the computational modeling of reference phenomena. Together, these workshops have catalyzed work to advance research on discourse-level problems and have served as a forum for discussing suitable datasets and reliable evaluation methods. � This joint edition corresponds to the 7th CODI workshop and the 9th CRAC workshop. It will welcome contributions from all the areas below, including state-of-the-art textual NLU and NLG work using LLMs, as well as classic structured work on automatic discourse analysis -- corresponding to challenging tasks such as coreference resolution or discourse parsing -- to encourage interaction between communities. The workshop is set to host the 5th edition of the CRAC shared task on Multilingual Coreference Resolution. � The workshop is planned as a 1-day event that brings together different subcommunities. It will feature regular papers and invited talks by Ruihong Huang (Texas A&M University) and Philippe Laban (Microsoft Research). We also accept papers accepted at other major conferences for non-archival presentation, including Findings papers. � Topics of interest � We welcome papers on symbolic and probabilistic approaches, corpus development and analysis, as well as machine and deep learning approaches to discourse. We appreciate theoretical contributions as well as practical applications, including demos of systems and tools. The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for the community of NLP researchers working on all aspects of discourse. � Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: � - discourse structure - discourse connectives - discourse relations - annotation tools and schemes for discourse phenomena - corpora annotated with discourse phenomena - discourse parsing - cross-lingual discourse processing - cross-domain discourse processing - anaphora and coreference resolution - event coreference - argument mining - coherence modeling - discourse and semantics - discourse in applications such as machine translation, summarization, etc. - evaluation methodology for discourse processing - discourse pretraining tasks - long-text modeling and generation � Submissions Double submission of papers is allowed, but this information will need to be disclosed at submission time. � We solicit three categories of papers: � * (1) Regular workshop papers � * (2) Demos * (3) Extended abstracts Only regular workshop papers and demos will be included in the proceedings as archival publications. Extended abstracts are non-archival and will be included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings. 1- Regular papers must describe original unpublished research. � * Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. * Short papers can be up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references. 2- Demo submissions may describe systems, tools, visualizations, etc., and may consist of up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references. 3- Extended abstracts can describe work in progress. They may be two pages long (without references). Extended abstracts are non-archival. They will be included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings. Each submission can contain unlimited pages for Appendices, but the paper submissions need to remain fully self-contained, as these supplementary materials are completely optional, and reviewers are not even asked to review them. Final versions of all types of papers will be given one additional page of content. Paper accepted or rejected at one of the main conferences � We also invite presentations of papers accepted at another main conference. They will be included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings. We also fast-track ARR papers with existing reviews. Submission website � All submissions must be anonymous and follow the ACL 2026 formatting instructions described here: <https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp> https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp � � Submission website: * CODI-CRAC: <https://softconf.com/acl2026/codi-crac2026/> https://softconf.com/acl2026/codi-crac2026/ � Schedule Important dates for the workshop are listed below: � * CODI-CRAC papers due: April 3 * Pre-reviewed ARR fast-track (with reviews, can be accepted or rejected): April 5 � * Notification of acceptance: May 11, 2026 * Grant application: May 5, 2026 * Camera-ready paper due: May 19, 2026 * Pre-recorded video due: June 4, 2026 * Workshop dates: July 4, 2026 � �All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth"). Invited Speakers � - Ruihong Huang, Texas A&M University - Philippe Laban, Microsoft Research Organizers � - Chloé Braud, CNRS-IRIT - Christian Hardmeier, IT University of Copenhagen - Chuyuan (Lisa) Li, � University of British Columbia - Jessy Li, University of Texas, Austin - Sharid Loáiciga, University of Gothenburg - Vincent Ng, University of Texas at Dallas - Michal Novák, Charles University, Prague - Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences - Massimo Poesio, Queen Mary University of London and University of Utrecht - Michael Strube, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies - Amir Zeldes, Georgetown University, Washington DC � To contact the organizers, please send an email to: <mailto:codi-crac-workshop@googlegroups.com> codi-crac-workshop(a)googlegroups.com � � � �

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3rd Disciplinary Literacy Symposium
by David Beauchamp 19 Mar '26

19 Mar '26

Dear Corpus Linguists, The following event may be of interest to those who are engaged in corpus-based research and practice for educational purposes. The University of Bath's 3rd Disciplinary Literacy Symposium will be taking place on 17th and 18th June 2026. This two-day event hosted by the University's BAWESS corpus project<https://www.bath.ac.uk/projects/disciplinary-literacy-corpus-based-pedagogy…> team brings together some of the leading educational specialists, linguists and academics, who will present research and lead hands-on workshops in the areas of: * Disciplinary knowledge and literacy * Genres and genre-based pedagogy * Cross-disciplinary collaboration * Teacher/researcher collaboration * Corpus-based pedagogy * Data-driven Learning Registration is now open: Third Disciplinary Literacy Symposium<https://www.bath.ac.uk/events/third-disciplinary-literacy-symposium/> Disciplinary literacy, encompassing the specialised ways of reading, writing, and communicating knowledge within distinct academic disciplines, has emerged as a critical focus in education worldwide as educators and learners face the challenge of mastering subject-specific literacies in a wide range of curriculum areas, sometimes in more than one language. The event is designed to be of particular interest to secondary school teachers, and promises excellent opportunities for discussion, knowledge exchange, professional development and networking. This is a two-day in-person event with refreshments provided. Dr David Beauchamp Research assistant BAWESS team University of Bath Queen's Award for Enterprise International Trade 2022 Ranked in the top 50% of UK universities for research power Times Higher Education analysis of REF 2021 Rated Gold Overall Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) 2023 5 QS Stars Overall (Excellent) QS Stars University Rankings NOTICE This message and any files transmitted with it is intended for the addressee only and may contain information that is confidential or privileged. Unauthorised use is strictly prohibited. If you are not the addressee, you should not read, copy, disclose or otherwise use this message, except for the purpose of delivery to the addressee. Any views or opinions expressed within this e-mail are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Coventry University.

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