MATS Summer 2026 applications are now open!
<https://matsprogram.org/apply?utm_source=corpora&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=s…>
We believe reducing risks from unaligned AI is one of the world's most
urgent and talent-constrained challenges, and that ambitious people from a
wide range of backgrounds can meaningfully contribute to this work. That's
why we're training the next generation of AI alignment, interpretability,
security, and governance researchers.
Running June-August 2026, MATS’ 12-week research program provides
everything you need to launch your career in AI safety. This includes
field-leading research mentorship, funding ($15k stipend + $12k compute),
Berkeley/London offices (depending on mentor preference), housing,
talks/workshops with AI experts, and a global network of peers.
MATS has accelerated 450+ researchers so far. Among alumni who graduated
before 2025, 80% are working directly in AI safety/security and 10% have
co-founded active AI safety startups. Participants have coauthored 150+
papers, with 7,800+ citations
<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=VgJaUK4AAAAJ&hl=en>, and rate
our program 9.4/10. Our mentors include world-class researchers from
Anthropic, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, UK AISI, GovAI, Redwood, METR, Apollo
Research, Goodfire, RAND, AI Futures Project, and more.
*Apply by January 18 AoE to be considered!* Visit our website
<https://matsprogram.org/apply?utm_source=corpora&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=s…>
for details.
Help us spread the word with people you know who'd be a good fit, and feel
free to reach out if you have any questions!
Best,
Eric
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Eric Dhan
Operations Generalist, MATS
LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-dhan/>
Dear all,
Registration is now open for the shared tasks at AbjadNLP 2026, which will run at EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco. The workshop will host four shared tasks covering Arabic and other Abjad languages. https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/
Participating teams will have the opportunity to submit a system paper. Accepted papers, following peer review, will be published in the AbjadNLP 2026 workshop proceedings on the ACL Anthology.
Shared Tasks
1. AbjadGenEval
AI-generated text detection for languages using Arabic script
https://ezzini.github.io/AbjadGenEval/
2. AbjadStyleTransfer
Authorship style transfer while preserving meaning
https://ezzini.github.io/AbjadStyleTransfer/
3. AbjadAuthorID
Authorship identification across genres and historical periods
https://ezzini.github.io/AbjadAuthorID/
4. Medical Text Classification in Arabic
Multi-class classification task in the medical domain
https://balajinaga.github.io/EACL2026-Abjad-NLP-SharedTask/
We warmly invite researchers and practitioners to participate. Full details, including data, evaluation, and timelines, are available on the task websites.
Best regards,
Mo - AbjadNLP 2026
https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/
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Dr Mo El-Haj
Director of NLP @ VinUniversity
Reader (Associate Professor) in NLP
CECS, VinUniversity, Vietnam
SCC, Lancaster University, UK
https://elhaj.ukhttps://arabicnlp.uk<https://arabicnlp.uk/>
https://vinnlp.com
We are seeking highly motivated and talented individuals to join our MilaNLP research team as Postdoctoral Researchers in the field of Natural Language Processing. The positions offer an exciting opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge research with a focus on two interdisciplinary projects that explore socially aware language technologies (SALMON) and innovative speech-based data collection frameworks (TOLD). To learn more about the two research projects, please visit: https://milanlproc.github.io/open_positions/postdoc_tef/.
Your profile:
- A Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics/NLP, Machine Learning, Data Science, or related fields.
- Excellent programming skills in Python.
- Fluency in spoken and written English. Knowledge of Italian is not required.
- Familiarity with modern neural network models and deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch).
- A strong publication record in NLP or related areas.
Position Details:
- Starting date: March 1st, 2026 (flexible)
- Duration: 2 years (renewable)
- Deadline: January 31st, 2026
- Competitive Salary
How to apply:
Submit your application via the Bocconi job market portal: https://jobmarket.unibocconi.eu/?id=889
Candidates should upload a CV, a cover letter, a research statement, and the required documentation listed on the application page.
Online interviews will take place during February 2026. Please contact debora.nozza(at)unibocconi.it and dirk.hovy(at)unibocconi.it if you have any questions.
ClimateCheck 2026: Shared Task on Scientific Fact-Checking and Disinformation Narrative Classification of Climate-related Claims
Hosted as part of the NSLP 2026 Workshop at LREC 2026
12 May 2026
Palma de Mallorca, Spain
https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2026/docs/climatecheck_shared_task.html
Competition on Codabench: to be announced
Task Overview
The rise of climate discourse on social media offers new channels for public engagement but also amplifies mis- and disinformation. As online platforms increasingly shape public understanding of science, tools that ground claims in trustworthy, peer-reviewed evidence are necessary. The new 2026 iteration of ClimateCheck builds on the results and insights from the 2025 iteration (run at SDP 2025/ACL 2025), extending it by adding training data, a new task on classifying disinformation narratives in climate discourse, and a focus on sustainable solutions. We offer two tasks:
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Task 1: Abstract retrieval and claim verification
Given a claim and a corpus of publications, retrieve the top 5 most relevant abstracts and classify each claim-abstract pair as supports, refutes, or not enough information.
Evaluation: Recall@K (K=2, 5) and B-Pref (for retrieval) + Weighted F1 (for verification) based on gold data; additional unannotated documents will be evaluated automatically. In addition, we will ask participants to use CodeCarbon<https://codecarbon.io/> to assess emissions and energy consumption at test inference.
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Task 2: Disinformation narrative classification
Given a claim, predict which climate disinformation narrative exists according to a predefined taxonomy.
Evaluation: Macro-, micro-, and weighted-F1 scores based on annotated documents.
Important dates
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Release of datasets: December 15, 2025 (task 1); December 19, 2025 (task 2)
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Testing phase begins: January 15, 2026 (Codabench link TBA)
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Deadline for system submissions: February 16, 2026
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Deadline for paper submissions: February 20, 2026
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Notification of acceptance: March 13, 2026
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Camera-ready papers due: March 30, 2026
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Workshop: May 12, 2026
We encourage and invite participation from junior researchers and students from diverse backgrounds. Participants are also highly encouraged to submit a paper describing their systems to the NSLP 2026 workshop.
Datasets, Evaluation, and Rankings
Task 1: Abstract retrieval and claim verification
The dataset for task 1 will follow the same structure as the 2025 iteration, but with triple the amount of available training data. We will evaluate systems on both abstract retrieval and claim verification tasks in an end-to-end manner. Abstracts retrieval will be evaluated using Recall@K and B-Pref, while claim verification will be evaluated using weighted F1 scores. Gold annotations will be used for both, with an automatic evaluation approach to evaluate incomplete judgments iteratively (more details will be announced soon).
In addition, this year’s iteration will focus on coming up with sustainable solutions, encouraging the development of systems that can potentially be used in real-world scenarios. Thus, we will ask participants to use the CodeCarbon library when running the test inference to measure emission rates and energy consumption. This will not, however, be counted towards the final rankings.
Task 2: Disinformation narrative classification
The dataset for task 2 will consist of the same claims used for task 1, each annotated with labels denoting whether the claim is an example of a known climate disinformation narrative, and if so, which one(s). We follow the CARDS taxonomy (levels 1 and 2) to annotate our claims in a multi-label manner. Results will be evaluated using macro-, micro- and weighted-F1 scores.
Participants can take part in task 1, task 2, or both tasks (better yet – think of ways to incorporate task 2 into the task 1 pipeline!).
Organisers
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Raia Abu Ahmad (DFKI, Germany)
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Aida Usmanova (Leuphana University, Germany)
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Max Upravitelev (XplaiNLP Group, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
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Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany)
Dear all,
this is the cfp for the first Workshop on Creating Interoperable Corpora of Historical Newspapers (PressMint-LREC2026) on 16 May 2026. see details below. Apologies for cross-posting!
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First Workshop on Creating Interoperable Corpora of Historical Newspapers (PressMint-LREC2026)
Call for Papers
Date: 16 May 2026, half-day workshop
Location: Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Submission Deadline: 1 March 2025
Submission link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/PressMint/
Workshop Website: https://www.clarin.eu/PressMint-LREC2026
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Workshop description
Historical newspapers are of interest to historians and historical linguists, as well as to social and political scientists, ethnologists, anthropologists, media and communication scholars, and researchers in cultural studies. All of these are fields where contemporary digital resources, tools and methods (e.g. “distant reading”) are still underutilised. On the other hand, corpora of historical newspapers already exist for a number of languages and countries to a large extent, as they are out of copyright. Also, the images, and often OCR, are available through the national libraries. Also, in recent years these data started to be of big interest to the researchers since they preserve the historical, cultural, political, societal past. However, these corpora are not interoperable, which precludes methods for their comparison, as well as any translingual and transnational research, an especially important consideration, as statehood and nationhood are highly dynamic in Europe in the period to be covered by the project corpora. An initial joint attempt towards the creation of a corpus of historical newspapers from the beginning of 20. century on, is the CLARIN flagship project PressMint<https://www.clarin.eu/pressmint>. The project features data from 20 partners at the moment, aiming to develop a standard for interoperable resources of newspapers in diachronic timespans. The final goal is to provide structured and high quality multilingual data in a common format, with the same type of linguistic annotation that covers (at least partially) the same time period.
The workshop is supported by CLARIN
<https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/strategy/strategy-2020-2024/ou…>
and the PressMint project.
Objective
The PressMint workshop aims to gather experts interested in creating, processing and analyzing interoperable corpora of historical data in general, but especially with a focus on newspapers. Another very important objective is to consider also the perspective of the communities who use historical data - their purposes, requirements, feedback.
We encourage the interested colleagues to present their work on both types of levels – national and pan-European; monolingual and multilingual as well as task-specific and multidisciplinary. We view this workshop as a venue to exchange research ideas and start collaboration on this topic.
The workshop will feature one invited speaker: Maud Ehrmann, EPFL, CH
We invite unpublished original work focusing on (but not exclusive to) on the following topics:
* compilation, annotation, visualisation and utilisation of historical newspaper corpora of the period relevant to PressMint (ideally around the start of the 20th century but not constrained by this period)
* harmonisation of the existing multilingual historical newspaper corpora that contain either synchronic or diachronic data, or both
* linking or comparing historical newspaper corpora with other datasets, including sources of structured knowledge, such as formal ontologies and LOD datasets
* enrichment of historical newspaper corpora (with e.g. sentiment annotation, etc.)
* machine translation of historical newspaper corpora
* employment of LLMs as stand alone tools or as parts of
architectures for historical data processing, maintenance and knowledge deployment.
* various scenarios of usage of historical data
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Submission & Publication
We accept submission of long papers (from 6 to 8 pages), short papers (4 pages) and demo papers (4 pages) to be presented as a long or short oral presentation or poster presentations at the workshop. To support double-blind reviewing, all submissions must be fully anonymized and should be formatted according to the stylesheet available on the LREC 2026 website<https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/>. The papers of the workshop will be published in online proceedings.
At the time of submission, authors are also offered the opportunity to share related language resources with the community. All repository entries are linked to the LRE Map [https://lremap.elra.info/], which provides metadata for the resources.
Please note that the LREC style guide should be followed. The formatting guidelines can be found here: https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/.
Important Dates
* Paper submission deadline: 1 March 2026
* Notification of acceptance: 15 March 2026
* Camera-ready paper: 30 March 2026
* Workshop date: TBA
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Organizing Committee
* Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, PL
* Tanja Wissik, Austrian Academy of Sciences, AT
* Petya Osenova, Sofia University ”St. Kl. Ohridski” & Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, BG
To contact the organisers, please email maciej.ogrodniczuk(a)gmail.com<mailto:maciej.ogrodniczuk@gmail.com>.
Programme Committee (in alphabetical order)
* Tomaž Erjavec, Jožef Stefan Institute, SI
* Maria Gavriilidou, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athena Research Center, GR
* Normunds Grūzītis, University of Latvia, LV
* Matyáš Kopp, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics. Charles University, CZ
* Taja Kuzman, Jožef Stefan Institute, SI
* Nikola Ljubešic, Jožef Stefan Institute, SI ́
* Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, PL
* Petya Osenova, Sofia University "St. Kl. Ohridski" and IICT-BAS, BG
* Adam Pawłowski, University of Wrocław, PL
* Stelios Piperidis, Athena Research Centre, GR
* German Rigau, HiTZ Basque Research Center for Language Technology, EHU, ES
* Claudia Resch, Austrian Academy of Sciences, AT
* Inguna Skadiņa, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia, LV
* Steinþór Steingrímsson, The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, IS
* Tanja Wissik, Austrian Academy of Sciences, AT
Dr. Tanja Wissik
ACDH- Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities
Austrian Academy of Sciences
Bäckerstraße 13, A-1010 Vienna
E-mail: Tanja.Wissik(a)oeaw.ac.at
Tel: + 43 1 51581 - 2206
http://www.oeaw.ac.at/acdh/
CLARIN National Coordinator for Austria
https://www.clarin.eu/governance/national-coordinators-forum
Editor of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative
https://journals.openedition.org/jtei/<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjournals.…>
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Second Workshop on Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources
(HTRes-2026), a pre-conference workshop at LREC2026
Date: 11 May 2026
Location: Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Workshop web page: https://www.clarin.eu/HTRes2026
Submission Deadline: 20 February 2026
Submission link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/HTRes2026/
Holocaust testimonies serve as a bridge between survivors and history’s
darkest chapters, providing a connection to the profound experiences of
the past. Testimonies stand as the primary source of information that
describes the Holocaust, offering first-hand accounts and personal
narratives of those who experienced it. The majority of testimonies are
captured in an oral format, as survivors vividly explain and share their
personal experiences and observations from that time period.
Transforming Holocaust testimonies into a machine-processable digital
format can be a difficult task owing to the unstructured nature of the
text. The creation of accessible, comprehensive, and well-annotated
Holocaust testimony collections is of paramount importance to our
society. These collections empower researchers and historians to
validate the accuracy of socially and historically significant
information, enabling them to share critical insights and trends derived
from these data.
The primary objective of this workshop is to explore how various
theories, techniques, and tools from corpus linguistics, natural
language processing, and digital humanities can contribute to the
examination, analysis, dissemination, and preservation of Holocaust
testimonies and other Holocaust-related documents.
The workshop is supported by CLARIN and EHRI.
Please find full details of the call for papers at the workshop web page
at https://www.clarin.eu/HTRes2026. The main conference website is at
https://lrec2026.info/ .
IMPORTANT DATES
Final date for paper submission: 12 February 2026
Notification of Acceptance: 11 March 2026
Camera-ready version submission: 30 March 2026
Workshop date: 11 May 2026
To contact the organisers, please email holocausttlr(a)gmail.com
From Martin Wynne on behalf of the organizing committee.
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Senior Researcher in Corpus Linguistics
Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford
National Co-ordinator, CLARIN-UK
martin.wynne(a)ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4155-0530
ICMI 2026 CALL FOR MULTIMODAL GRAND CHALLENGES
!!! DEADLINE EXTENSION !!!
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5-9 October 2026, Napoli - Italy
https://icmi.acm.org/2026/
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-> THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION IS EXTENDED TO JANUARY 16, 2026
We are calling for teams to propose one or more ICMI Multimodal Grand Challenges.
The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development.
The conference's goals are to implement believable, autonomous, adaptive, context-aware Human Computer Interaction (HCI) systems able to infer how organizational, cultural and physical contexts shape individual perception, choices and actions. Such systems, e.g. synthetic agents, robots, avatars or analysis systems act in real-time, sustain dyadic/group interactions and actively cooperate in discussion, decision-making, problem solving, learning/knowledge building. These systems gather information and meanings in the course of everyday activity and build knowledge and practical ability to render the world interpretable while interacting with users attuned to behavioural sequences that underpin collaboration.
ICMI Multimodal Grand Challenges aim to inspire new ideas in the ICMI community and create momentum for future collaborative work. Analysis, synthesis, and interactive tasks are all possible.
Challenge papers will be indexed in the main proceedings of ICMI.
We invite the ICMI community from various fields related to multimodal interaction to collectively define and tackle these scientific Grand Challenges in this domain including but not limited to the following categories:
1. DATA CHALLENGES: gathering new experimental data and theories across a spectrum of disciplines;
2. ALGORITHM CHALLENGES: developing algorithms, models and computational paradigms that may equip machines with human level automaton intelligence;
3. APPLICATION CHALLENGES: implementing HCI systems that enhance quality of life in society and simplify the user access to future telecommunication services;
4. MULTIDISCIPLINARY CHALLENGES: promoting multidisciplinary exchanges, educational initiatives, and new socio-psychological and computational approaches towards socially-emotionally-context-aware Information Communication Technologies (ICT).
Prospective organizers should submit a five-page maximum proposal containing the following information:
1. Title
2. Abstract appropriate for possible Web promotion of the Challenge
3. Distinctive topics to be addressed and specific goals
4. Detailed description of the Challenge and its relevance to multimodal interaction
5. Length (full day or half day)
6. Plan for soliciting participation
7. Description of how submissions (challenge's submissions and papers) will be evaluated, and a list of proposed reviewers
8. Proposed schedule for releasing datasets (if applicable) and/or systems (if applicable) and receiving submissions
9. Short biography of the organizers (preferably from multiple institutions)
10. Funding source (if any) that supports or could support the challenge organization
11. Draft call for papers; affiliations and email address of the organisers; summary of the Grand Challenge; list of potential Technical Program Committee members and their affiliations; important dates
Proposals will be evaluated based on originality, ambition, feasibility, and implementation plan.
A Challenge with dataset(s) or system(s) that has had pilot results to ensure its representativity and suitability to the proposed task will be given preference for acceptance; an additional 1 page description must be attached in such case.
Continuation of or variants on the 2025 challenges are welcome, even if we require submissions of this form to highlight the number of participants that attended during the previous year and describe what changes (if any) will be made from the previous year.
The ICMI organizers will offer support with basic logistics, which includes rooms and equipment to run the Workshop, coffee breaks can be offered if synchronised with the main conference.
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Important Dates and Contact Details
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-> Proposals due: January 16, 2026 EXTENDED
Proposal notification: February 7, 2026 POSTPONED
Grand challenge date: October 5, 2026
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Proposals should be emailed to the ICMI 2025 Multimodal Grand Challenge Chairs, Sebastian Zepf (sebastian.zepf(a)mercedes-benz.com) and Alessandro Vinciarelli (Alessandro.Vinciarelli(a)glasgow.ac.uk).
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CALL FOR WORKSHOPS
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Please note that the call for workshops remains open until January 16,
2026.
We are seeking workshop proposals on emerging research areas related to the main conference topics and those that focus on multi-disciplinary research. We would also strongly encourage workshops that will include a diverse set of keynote speakers (factors to consider include: gender, ethnic background, institutions, years of experience, geography, etc.).
The content of accepted workshops is under the control of the workshop organizers. Workshops may be of half-day or one-day duration. Workshop organizers will be expected to manage the workshop content, solicit submissions, be present to moderate the discussion and panels, invite experts in the domain, conduct the reviewing process, and maintain a website for the workshop.
Workshop papers will be indexed by ACM Digital Library in an adjunct proceedings, and a short workshop summary by the organizers will be published in the main conference proceedings.
*CogSci 2026 - Call for Submissions to the 48th Annual Meeting of the
Cognitive Science Society Conference*
Theme: Cognitive (In)Efficiency
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
July 20 - 25, 2026
The Cognitive Science Society invites submissions to the 2026 edition of
its annual conference, *CogSci*. Submissions should address cognition from
any area related to Cognitive Science, including Artificial Intelligence,
Linguistics, Anthropology, Psychology, Neuroscience, Philosophy, and
Education. Submission guidelines, including submission categories,
templates and important dates are available at
https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/submissions/. Submission will be open
from November 26th 2025 to February 2nd 2026.
*Special Theme: Cognitive (In)Efficiency*
A core objective of cognitive science is to identify the mental processes
that guide thought and behavior. Much research has focused on understanding
these processes through the lens of utility and cognitive efficiency. Human
and non-human species are often seen as striving toward learning,
problem-solving, communication, and other goals by making optimal use of
cognitive resources. However, many behaviors and mental processes are not a
product of this ideal of efficiency and often deviate from it. CogSci 2026
focuses on the theme of Cognitive (In)Efficiency, and aims at exploring
through three thematic symposia: *(In)efficiency in Language and
Communication*, *(In)efficiency in Social Cognition and Cooperation*,
and *(In)efficiency
in Cognitive Science Research*.
The first two emphasize the critical need to address both cognitive
efficiency and inefficiency as natural and influential aspects of
processing and behavior. By exploring instances where cognitive processes
and behavioral outputs appear suboptimal—particularly in the contexts of
communication and social coordination—we invite a deeper examination of
what constitutes “optimality” across different domains and settings. In
doing so, we aim to broaden the understanding of cognitive processes by
considering both efficient and inefficient pathways that shape thought and
behavior. The third symposium addresses (in)efficiencies arising from
disparities in research conditions across cognitive science laboratories
and departments worldwide. This symposium will spotlight how unequal access
to funding creates systemic barriers to global representation while
showcasing cognitive scientists who produce impactful research despite
facing disadvantaged material conditions. Our aim is to advocate for a more
equitable approach that values contributions from researchers across
diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, ultimately enriching the field as a
whole.
Each symposium topic will feature one keynote and three invited speakers.
Our keynote speakers include:
- Balthasar Bickel, Universität Zürich
- Hyowon (Hyo) Gweon, Stanford University
- Julia Hermida, National Scientific and Technical Research Council of
Argentina and National University of Hurlingham
*Conference Format*
CogSci 2026 will be fully hybrid with streaming of the entire program,
except for workshops (which will all be in-person). Presenters can choose
to present in-person in Rio de Janeiro or virtually, and virtual attendees
will be able to view the entire program synchronously. Virtual talks will
be presented synchronously throughout the program, and virtual posters will
be available for asynchronous interaction via the conference app, as well
as synchronous online interaction via video conferencing.
*Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives*
CogSci is committed to providing opportunities for people with different
backgrounds to attend the conference. Therefore, and since this is the
first time the Cognitive Science Society Conference comes to South America,
on top of the already existing initiatives promoted by the society, CogSci
2026 will feature reduced registration rates for participants from South
America.
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Gemma Boleda
Universitat Pompeu Fabra / ICREA
https://gboleda.github.io/
The Language, Computation, and Cognition Lab (LaCoCo)
<https://lacoco-lab.github.io/home/> at Saarland Informatics Campus
(Saarbrücken, Germany), directed by Michael Hahn <https://mhahn.info/>,
invites applications for fully funded PhD and postdoc positions, with a
flexible start date.
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RESEARCH AREAS
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We’re especially excited about projects on:
* Architectural limitations of large language models (LLMs),
especially from theoretical perspectives
* New architectures and efficient reasoning for LLMs
* Mechanistic interpretability
* Theoretical foundations for AI safety
You’ll have substantial freedom to shape your topic within the lab’s scope.
*ABOUT THE LAB*
The lab is generously supported by an Emmy Noether grant (DFG) and has
substantial GPU resources. We regularly publish at top venues (e.g.,
six NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR papers in 2024–2025; ACL Best Paper 2024) and are
embedded in a world-class environment: Saarland University (Departments
of Computer Science and Language Science & Technology)
<https://saarland-informatics-campus.de/en/>, MPI for Informatics
<https://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/home>, MPI-SWS <https://www.mpi-sws.org/>,
CISPA <https://cispa.de/en>, and DFKI <https://www.dfki.de/en/web>.
Learn more about the lab at https://lacoco-lab.github.io/
<https://lacoco-lab.github.io/><https://lacoco-lab.github.io/>
*HOW TO APPLY
*
Please follow the procedure here: https://lacoco-lab.github.io/joining/
<https://lacoco-lab.github.io/joining/><https://lacoco-lab.github.io/joining/>
Deadline: December 20, 2025.
For questions, please contact Michael Hahn, mhahn(a)lst.uni-saarland.de
Applicants are expected to have a Master's degree by the start date.
Applicants who only have an undergraduate degree should instead apply to
the Saarbrücken Graduate School of Computer Science
<https://www.graduateschool-computerscience.de/>.
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Michael Hahn
Assistant Professor
Saarland Informatics Campus
Saarland University
Group: https://lacoco-lab.github.io/
Personal: https://www.mhahn.info/
Deadline Extension and Final Call for Papers: 7th AfricaNLP Workshop @ EACL
2026 (Rabat, Morocco)
Theme: Multilingual Multimodal LLMs
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/africanlp2026/home
Submission URL:
https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop/AfricaNLP
The AfricaNLP workshop at EACL 2026 invites papers related to any aspect of
NLP for African languages.
In the current landscape, large language models (LLMs) have seen widespread
use and significant innovation, yet African languages remain
underrepresented. To address this disparity, the theme for the 2026
workshop is Multilingual Multimodal LLMs. We believe this is an especially
timely theme as LLMs are becoming more multilingually capable, but their
performance across other modalities such as images and speech continues to
lag behind. This workshop invites research and discussion on how
multilingual and multimodal systems can better reflect the diversity of
African languages and communities.
Key Dates (all deadlines Anywhere on Earth time zone)
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Direct Submission: December 22nd, 2025 (extended)
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ARR Submission: January 9th, 2026
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Acceptance Notification: January 23, 2026
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Workshop: day-long event during EACL 2026 (March 24-29, 2026)
Submission Formats
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Full Papers: 4–8 pages (archival or non-archival)
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Extended Abstracts: up to 2 pages (non-archival)
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ARR Submissions: Papers from the October 2025 ARR cycle (or earlier)
with completed reviews and metareview
AfricaNLP aspires to bring together a diverse group of researchers to
explore solutions, collaborations, and innovation around enhancing LLMs’
capabilities in African languages and ensuring cultural awareness in their
applications. We particularly welcome first-time authors, collaborative
efforts, and work connecting multiple modalities — text, speech, or vision
— for the benefit of African communities.
*Contact: *africanlp-eacl2026(a)googlegroups.com
Constantine Lignos
Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics
Pronouns: he/him/his