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Deadline extended: VarDial 2026 @ EACL – The Thirteenth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects
by verena.blaschke＠cis.lmu.de 15 Dec '25

15 Dec '25

Dear all, This is the last CfP for VarDial 2026 - The Thirteenth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects. We have extended the submission deadlines (January 2 for direct submissions, January 10 for committing pre-reviewed submissions), see details below. Apologies for cross-posting! -- VarDial 2026: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2026/ VarDial 2026 will be colocated with EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco. We anticipate a discussion on computational methods and language resources for closely related languages, language varieties, and dialects. We welcome papers dealing with one or more of the following topics: - Language resources and tools for similar languages, varieties and dialects; - Evaluation of language resources and tools applied to non-dominant language varieties; - Cross-lingual transfer and adaptation of models to similar languages, varieties and dialects; - Automatic identification of lexical variation; - Automatic classification of language varieties; - Machine translation between closely-related languages, language varieties and dialects; - Corpus-driven studies in dialectology and language variation; - Computational approaches to mutual intelligibility between dialects and similar languages; - Text similarity and adaptation between language varieties; - Linguistic issues in the adaptation of language resources and tools (e.g., cognate detection, semantic discrepancies, lexical gaps, false friends); - Studies focusing on related creole languages and their lexifier languages; - Studies focusing on diachronic language variation (e.g. phylogenetic methods, historical dialects). In addition to the topics listed above, we also welcome papers dealing with diachronic language variation (e.g. phylogenetic methods, historical dialects). Instructions for Authors Submissions should be formatted according to the ACL Rolling Review template and submitted as a PDF. The review process will be double-blind. More information is on the website (https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2026/). Important Dates - Direct Submission deadline: January 2, 2025 (updated!) - Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 10, 2026 (updated!) - Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026 - Camera-ready paper due: February 3, 2026 - Workshop at EACL (hybrid): March 24-29, 2026 (exact date TBD) Shared Task: Arabic Modeling In Your Accent (AMIYA) VarDial 2026 will have a shared task on language modelling for dialectal Arabic (DA), where participants can contribute LLMs trained or adapted for DA. These will be evaluated using the AL-QASIDA benchmark (Robinson et al., 2025), an evaluation suite that comprehensively measures an LLM’s dialectal fidelity, understanding, generation quality, and MSA-DA diglossia in DA. More information: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2026/shared-tasks - Training data release: November 30, 2025 - Registration deadline, eval data finalized: December 15, 2025 - System submission deadline: January 10, 2025 - System description paper deadline: January 20, 2025 Workshop Organizers Yves Scherrer – University of Oslo (Norway) Noëmi Aepli – University of Pennsylvania (USA) Verena Blaschke – LMU Munich and Munich Center for Machine Learning (Germany) Tommi Jauhiainen – University of Helsinki (Finland) Nikola Ljubešić – Jožef Stefan Institute and University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) Preslav Nakov – Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (UAE) Jörg Tiedemann – University of Helsinki (Finland) Marcos Zampieri – George Mason University (USA) Contact: yves.scherrer(a)ifi.uio.no or verena.blaschke(a)cis.lmu.de

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December 2025 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 15 Dec '25

15 Dec '25

In this newsletter: LDC 2026 membership discounts now available LDC's 1000th corpus Approaching deadline for Spring 2026 data scholarship applications LDC closed for Winter Break December 25 - January 2 New publications: 2021 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation Development and Test Set<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S11> LORELEI Sinhala Incident Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T17> ________________________________ LDC 2026 membership discounts now available Now through March 2, 2026, any organization that joins the Consortium or renews their membership will receive a 10% discount off the 2026 membership fee. Membership remains the most economical way to access current and past LDC releases. Consult Join LDC<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/members/join-ldc> for details on membership options and benefits. LDC's 1,000th corpus LDC is delighted to announce the release of the 1,000th corpus into the Catalog! This milestone represents the commitment we made over thirty years ago to provide large quantities of diverse data, robust research program support, and exceptional member services. We are grateful for the continued support and collaboration of our members, friends, and the community. Approaching deadline for Spring 2026 data scholarship applications Attention students: don't miss out on the chance to receive no-cost access to LDC data for your research. Applications for Spring 2026 data scholarships are due January 15, 2026. For more information on requirements and program rules, see LDC Data Scholarships<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/language-resources/data/data-scholarships>. LDC closed for Winter Break December 25-January 2 LDC will be closed from Thursday, December 25, 2025, through Friday, January 2, 2026, in accordance with the University of Pennsylvania Winter Break Policy. Our offices will reopen on Monday, January 5, 2026. Requests received by the Membership Office during Winter Break will be processed when the office reopens. ________________________________ New publications: 2021 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation Test Set<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S11> was developed by LDC and NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology). It contains approximately 447 hours of Cantonese, Mandarin, and English conversational telephone speech, audio from video, and selfie image data for development and test, along with answer keys, enrollment, trial files, and documentation from the NIST-sponsored 2021 Speaker Recognition Evaluation (SRE)<https://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/mig/nist-2021-speaker-recognition-evaluation-s…>. The SRE task is speaker detection, that is, to determine whether a specified target speaker was speaking during a segment of speech. SRE21 focused on telephone speech and audio from video and included close-up images of participants. The evaluation also featured cross-lingual trials, that is, enrollment and test segments spoken in different languages. The data was drawn from the WeCanTalk corpus collected by LDC in which speakers called friends or relatives who agreed to record their telephone conversations lasting between 8-10 minutes. Subjects contributed multiple conversational telephone speech recordings and audio recordings in which they were talking, plus a single selfie image. Recordings were manually audited to verify speaker, language, and quality. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * LORELEI Sinhala Incident Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T17> was developed by LDC and is comprised of 8.1 million words of Sinhala monolingual text, 700,00 words of English monolingual text, 6.4 million words of parallel Sinhala- English text, and 50,000 words annotated for entity discovery and linking and situation frames. It constitutes all of the text data, annotations, supplemental resources, and related software tools for the Sinhala language used in the DARPA LORELEI / LoReHLT 2018 Evaluation<https://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/mig/lorehlt-evaluations>. The LORELEI (Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents) program was concerned with building human language technology for low resource languages in the context of emergent situations. In the evaluation scenario, an unforeseen event triggered a need for humanitarian and logistical support in a region where the incident language had received little or no attention in NLP research. Evaluation participants provided NLP solutions, including information extraction and machine translation, with limited resources and limited development time. Data was collected from news, social network, weblog, newsgroup, discussion forum, and reference material. Entity discovery and linking annotation identified entities to be detected by systems for scoring purposes. Situation frame analysis was designed to extract basic information about needs and relevant issues for planning a disaster response effort. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. 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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The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): Last Mile for Posters and Demos Submissions
by Announce 15 Dec '25

15 Dec '25

*** Last Mile for Posters and Demos Submissions *** The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> The ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) is the leading annual venue for researchers and practitioners to explore advancements at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). IUI submissions should address HCI challenges using machine intelligence and consider both computational and human- centric aspects. As AI becomes more integrated into everyday technology, understanding its role in meeting human needs is vital for developing effective and responsible systems. This conference fosters collaboration among experts from diverse fields to tackle significant issues in AI and HCI through discussions, workshops, and networking sessions. UI 2026 attracted a record number of submissions for the main conference (561 full paper submissions after an initial submission of 697 abstracts). Posters Posters provide an opportunity for sharing valuable last-minute ideas, eliciting useful feedback on early-stage work and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. We invite submissions relevant to all conference topics. All submissions should convey a scientific result or work in progress that is not yet ready to be published as a full-length research paper at a refereed conference. The page limit for poster papers is 4 pages (references do not count toward the page limit). Submitting a draft poster along with your submission is not required, but is recommended. Accepted poster papers will appear in the companion proceedings of the conference. Each accepted contribution is expected to be presented in person during the poster session. Demos The demonstration track complements the overall program of the conference. Demonstrations show implementations of novel, interesting, and important intelligent user interface concepts or systems. We invite submissions relevant to intelligent user interfaces and which address, but are not limited to, the topics of the conference. All submissions are intended to convey a scientific result or work in progress and should not be advertisements for commercial software packages. The page limit for demo papers is 4 pages (references do not count toward the page limit). Authors further need to submit a video (max. 5 mins) along with their demo paper to showcase their work. Accepted demo papers will be presented as interactive demonstrations at IUI and published in the companion proceedings of the conference. Each accepted contribution is expected to be presented in person during the demo sessions. Important Dates (AoE) • Submission: December 21, 2025 • Decision notification: January 26, 2026 • Camera-ready submission: February 6, 2026 Topics The topics for the Posters and Demos are the same as for the main track. Submission Instructions Papers must be up to 4 pages (references do not count towards the page limit). Demo and poster submissions do not need to be anonymized. Submissions should follow the ACM Master Article Templates in a single-column format. We adopt the ACM TAPS Workflow. Please prepare your submission for review in a single column format, using the latest templates: Word Submission Template, or the LaTeX template using \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for the LaTeX template. Authors are required to include a proper classification for the paper according to the ACM Classification System (CCS). Additional information on how to use it is available at: https://dl.acm.org/ccs<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> . A video (up to 5 mins) is required for demo submissions. The video should showcase the system that will be demonstrated during the conference. Please follow the SIGCHI Technical Requirements and Guidelines for Videos (https://sigchi.org/resources/guides-for-authors/videos/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…>). Please submit your demos and posters electronically to the Precision Conference Submission (PCS) Portal (https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…>) by the paper deadlines. In PCS, first click “Submissions” at the top of the page, from the dropdown menus for Society, Conference, and Track, please select “SIGCHI”, “IUI 2026”, and “IUI 2026 Posters” or “IUI 2026 Demos”, respectively, and then press “Go”. Note: If the corresponding author (the individual who submits the paper, not necessarily the first author) is affiliated with a participating institution that has an open access agreement with ACM, the Article Processing Charges (APCs) will be waived for publishing the paper. Details are under “Publication and Open Access”. Accessibility Authors are asked to make their paper submissions accessible (so that reviewers with vision impairments can access them, for example). The authors of accepted papers will be required to make their final PDFs accessible. Please use the SIGCHI Guide to an Accessible Submission for detailed instructions. If you are submitting a video as supplemental material, please provide captions, as described in Technical Requirements and Guidelines for Videos. Please refer to the Accessibility page of the conference site for further details and guidelines. Usage of Generative AI All submissions must comply with the ACM policy on the usage of GenAI: the April 2023 ACM Policy on Authorship and Frequently Asked Questions. Text generated from a large-scale language model (LLM), such as ChatGPT, must be clearly marked where such tools are used for purposes beyond editing the author’s own text. Authors should include a “GenAI Usage Disclosure” section, right before the references, to provide full disclosure of all use of GenAI tools in all stages of the research (including the code and data) and the writing. This section, together with the references, will not be counted toward the word limit. While we do not anticipate using tools on a large scale to detect LLM-generated text, we will investigate submissions brought to our attention and desk reject papers where LLM use is not clearly marked. Organisation General Chairs • Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel • Styliani Kleanthous, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Posters and Demos Chairs • Julia Sheidin, Braude College of Engineering, Israel • Marko Tkalcic, University of Primorska, Slovenia • Ming Yin, Purdue University, USA

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Call for Participation: SAIL Spring School 2026 at Paderborn University, Germany
by Yasir mahmood 15 Dec '25

15 Dec '25

** Call for Participation ** We are pleased to open the registration for the SAIL Spring School 2026, which will take place from 17–19 March 2026 at Paderborn University, Germany. Organized by the SAIL Research Network (Sustainable Life-cycle of Intelligent Socio-Technical Systems), the Spring School offers interdisciplinary perspectives on resilience and artificial intelligence, bringing together technical, theoretical, and socio-technical viewpoints. Over the course of three days, participants will gain insights into current research on knowledge-driven AI methods, explainability, and the role of AI in engineering robust and sustainable systems. A poster session and several social activities will provide further opportunities for exchange and networking. - Participation is free of charge, but due to limited capacity, registration is required. - All details and the registration form can be found here: https://indico.uni-paderborn.de/e/SAILspringschool <https://indico.uni-paderborn.de/e/SAILspringschool>- Registration deadline: 5 January 2026. We are happy to announce the following speakers and topics at the summer school: - Knowledge Representation as Political AI (Prof. Stefan Schlobach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) - Data-efficient learning of physics systems by exploiting knowledge (Prof. Sebastian Peitz, TU Dortmund) - Symbol emergence in explainable and continual learning (Prof. Natalia Diaz Rodriguez, University of Granada) - Chances and Limits of AI in the Engineering of Resilient Software Systems (Prof. Eric Bodden. Paderborn University) - Engineering Cognitive Sustainability: How to Implement Social XAI (Prof. Kary Främling, Umeå University) - TBD (Prof. Sina Zarrieß, Bielefeld University) - TBD (Prof. Eyke Hüllermeier, LMU München) - TBD (Prof. Marco Platzner, Paderborn University) Further information about the SAIL Research Network can be found at: https://www.sail.nrw/ <https://www.sail.nrw/>

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job opening: prof. (W1 or W2) in ML / NLP, Düsseldorf, Germany
by Laura Kallmeyer 15 Dec '25

15 Dec '25

The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf is inviting applications for the position of a *****Professorship for Machine Learning***** (open rank: W2 or W1 with tenure track to W2) at the department of Computer Science to be filled as soon as possible. We are seeking an individual with outstanding expertise in the field of Machine Learning, particularly in modern machine learning techniques (e.g. Large Language Models and Deep Learning architectures for Explainable AI, Agentic AI, Neuro-symbolic AI and Reinforcement Learning) with connections to Natural Language Processing, who will represent this expertise in both research and teaching. The candidate should have proven expertise in the development of machine learning methods, and it is expected that he/she will contribute to collaborative projects. Active participation in the Heine Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (HeiCAD) is desirable. Experience or --- for an initial appointment on W1 level --- a well-founded potential in acquiring competitive third-party funding and publications at leading conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, EMNLP, ACL, and/or leading scientific journals is expected. Furthermore, excellent didactic skills are required. Teaching responsibilities include courses in computer science (Bachelor and Master in Computer Science, Master in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science), including regular participation in basic courses. In addition, active involvement in teaching offerings for other disciplines (e.g., within the framework of „KI für alle“) and participation in university self-administration are expected. For a direct appointment on W2 level a scientific performance equivalent to Habilitation, in particular high-level publications, success in acquiring third-party funding, and suitable experience in teaching in Computer Science or related programs is required. Heinrich Heine University upholds the principle of “excellence through diversity.” It has signed the “Diversity Charter” and successfully participated in the Stifterverband‘s “Shaping Diversity” audit. It is certified as a family-friendly university and has received the European Union‘s HR Excellence in Research Award. Applications from suitably qualified severely disabled persons or disabled persons regarded as being of equal status according to Book IX of the German Social Legal Code (SGB – Soziales Gesetzbuch) are encouraged. At Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, appointments may also be part-time, provided there are no overriding administrative reasons in individual cases for requiring full-time employment. Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf offers a Dual Career Support and is a member of the Rhineland Dual Career Network (Dual Career Netzwerk Rheinland). www.dualcareer-rheinland.de provides further information. For questions about the professorship, please contact Prof. Dr. P. Swoboda (paul.swoboda(a)hhu.de). For further assistance, contact berufungsportalmnf(a)hhu.de. Please submit your application in digital form with the usual documents (letter of motivation, curriculum vitae, details of all academic publications, tabular list and proof of competitively acquiredthird-party funding (including scholarships), copies of academic certificates, research concept (max. 2 pages), teaching concept (max. 2 pages), course catalogue) in the HHU appointment portal at https://berufungsportal.hhu.de and complete the requested information as fully as possible. Deadline for applications: 14.01.2026 Conditions for employment are, in addition to general administrative conditions in accordance with § 36 of the North Rhine-Westphalia University Act (Gesetz über die Hochschulen des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen), an aptitude for teaching, exceptional competence in research, and additional scientific achievements. Female candidates are encouraged to apply; they will be given preference in cases of equal aptitude, ability, and professional achievements unless there are exceptional reasons for choosing another applicant. -- Prof. Dr. Laura Kallmeyer Institut für Linguistik Heinrich-Heine Universität Duesseldorf Universitaetsstr. 1 D-40225 Duesseldorf, Germany https://user.phil.hhu.de/kallmeyer/ Phone +49 (0)211 8113899

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1st CfP for CMCL at LREC 2026: 15th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics
by Takmaz, E.K. (Ece) 15 Dec '25

15 Dec '25

The 15th edition of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2026) will be co-located with the fifteenth biennial Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026), at the Palau de Congressos de Palma in Palma, Mallorca, Spain, on May 16, 2026. CMCL 2026: 1st Call for Papers<https://sites.google.com/view/cmclworkshop/cfp> Deadline: Feb. 25; Workshop: May 16 (co-located with LREC) We invite submissions to the 15th edition of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2026). CMCL invites papers on cognitive modeling, cognitively-inspired natural language processing, and more broadly, the alignment of language models with human cognition. Specific topics include, but are not limited to: * Analysis of computational models that process linguistic data to yield insights into human language comprehension, production, or acquisition. * Presentation and/or analysis of language resources that can yield insights into human language comprehension, production, or acquisition. * Aligning computational models with human subject data to understand what computations underlie language comprehension, production, or acquisition. * Modeling conditions and pressures that shape the emergence of human-like communicative systems. * Forward-looking positions about what and how the cognitive science, linguistics, and NLP fields can (or should) contribute to one another. CMCL will only accept direct submissions through the START platform (submission link TBA). We invite three types of submissions, formatted according to the LREC guidelines<https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/>: 1. Archival, regular workshop submissions that present original, unpublished research that are between 4 to 8 pages in length. 2. Non-archival submissions of extended abstracts that present preliminary results (from 2 to 4 pages + references). 3. Non-archival cross-submissions of long/short papers that present relevant research submitted/published elsewhere. Only archival papers will be included in the proceedings, but all types of papers will be presented at the workshop. Important Dates: * February 25, 2026: Paper submission deadline * March 23, 2026: Notification of acceptance * March 30, 2026: Camera-ready paper due * May 16, 2026: Workshop date * Deadlines are at 11:59 pm AOE. The CMCL workshop is supported by the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL)<https://www.ninjal.ac.jp/english/>. For questions, please contact cmclworkshop.organizers(a)gmail.com<mailto:cmclworkshop.organizers@gmail.com>

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CLEF-2026 CheckThat! Lab -- Call for Participation
by Julia Maria Struß 15 Dec '25

15 Dec '25

(apologies for cross-posting) Dear colleague, We invite you to participate in the 2026 edition of the CheckThat! Lab at CLEF 2026. This year, we feature three tasks ---two follow-up and one new--- that correspond to important components within and around the full fact-checking pipeline in multiple languages: Task 1 Source Retrieval for Scientific Web Claims: Given a social media post that contains a scientific claim and an implicit reference to a scientific paper (mentions it without a URL), retrieve the mentioned paper from a pool of candidate papers. Available in English, German, and French. Task 2 Fact-Checking Numerical Claims:Given claims, potential evidences, and possible reasoning paths, rank the reasoning paths and provide an output of verdict. Available in Arabic, English, and Spanish. Task 3 Generating Full Fact-Checking Articles:Given a claim, its veracity, and a set of evidence documents consulted for fact-checking the claim, generate a full fact-checking article. Register and participate:https://clef-labs-registration.dipintra.it/ <https://clef-labs-registration.dipintra.it/> Further information:https://checkthat.gitlab.io/ <https://checkthat.gitlab.io/> Datasets:https://gitlab.com/checkthat_lab/clef2026-checkthat-lab <https://gitlab.com/checkthat_lab/clef2026-checkthat-lab> Discord Server: https://discord.gg/PEMh4a2YHV <https://discord.gg/PEMh4a2YHV> Important Dates --------------------- - November 2025: Lab registration opens - December 2025: Release of the sample materials - December - February 2026: Release of training materials - 23 April 2026: Lab registration closes - April 2026: Beginning of the evaluation cycle (test sets release) - 7 May 2026 (23:59 AOE): End of the evaluation cycle (run submission) - 28 May 2026: Deadline for the submission of working notes [CEUR-WS] - 30 June 2026: Notification of Acceptance for working notes [CEUR-WS] - 6 July 2026: Camera Ready Copy of working note papers [CEUR-WS] - 10 July 2026: Regular Registration Ends - 31 August 2026: Late Registration Ends - 21-24 September 2026: CLEF 2026 Conference in Jena, Germany Best regards, The CLEF-2026 CheckThat! Lab Shared Task Organizers -- ___________________________ Prof. Dr. Julia Maria Struß Fachhochschule Potsdam University of Applied Sciences Fachbereich Informationswissenschaften/ Department of Information Sciences Kiepenheuerallee 5 14469 Potsdam phone: +49 331 580 4532

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1st CFP-GITT-2026 at EAMT 2026
by bsavoldi＠fbk.eu 15 Dec '25

15 Dec '25

1st CALL FOR PAPERS Fourth International Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies (GITT) at EAMT 2026 15 June 2026, Tilburg, The Netherlands https://sites.google.com/view/gitt2026/ @gitt-workshop.bsky.social Important Dates (Time zone: Anywhere on Earth) Submission deadline: 20 April, 2026 Notification of Acceptance: 13 May, 2026 Camera Ready Copy due: 20 May, 2026 Workshop: 15 June, 2026 **Aim and scope** The Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies Workshop (GITT) is set out to be the dedicated workshop that focuses on gender-inclusive language in translation and cross-lingual scenarios. The workshop aims to bring together researchers from diverse areas, including industry partners, MT practitioners, and language professionals. GITT aims to encourage multidisciplinary research that develops and interrogates both solutions and challenges for addressing bias and promoting gender inclusivity in MT and translation tools, including LMs applications for the translation task. **Topics** GITT invites technical as well as non-technical submissions, which consist of experimental, theoretical or methodological contributions. We explicitly welcome interdisciplinary submissions and submissions that focus on innovative, non-binary linguistic strategies and/or with sociolinguistically-informed perspectives. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Models or methods for assessing and mitigating gender bias - New resources for inclusive language and gender translation (e.g., datasets, translation memories, dictionaries) - Social, cross-lingual, and ethical implications of gender bias - Qualitative and quantitative analyses on the potential limits of current approaches to gender bias in translation and MT, error taxonomies as well as best practices and guidelines - User-centric case studies on the impact of biased language and/or mitigating approaches which can include translators, post-editors, or monolingual MT users GITT is also open to other non-listed topics aligned with the scope of the workshop and works focusing on non-textual modalities (e.g., audiovisual translation) **Submission** We welcome four types of submissions, two archival and two non-archival. ARCHIVAL - Research papers: of at least 4 up to 10 pages (excluding references) - Extended Abstracts: up to 2 pages (including references) Accepted papers and extended abstracts consisting of novel work will be published online as proceedings in the ACL Anthology. NON-ARCHIVAL - Research Communications: up to 2 pages (including references). We include a parallel submission policy in the form of Research Communications for papers related to the topic of GITT that were accepted in other venues in 2025 and 2026. - Potluck Communications: short abstract up to 500 words (including references). Potluck Communications offer a space for anyone—especially students and early career researchers—to discuss bold new ideas for collaboration, brainstorm about ongoing work, and explore future research directions. The communications will not be included in the proceedings, but will serve to promote the dissemination of research aligned with the scope of the workshop. All submissions should adhere to the EAMT 2026 guidelines and style templates (PDF, LaTeX, Word) and be uploaded on Easychair ( https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=eamt2026) **Workshop organizers** Manuel Lardelli, University of Padova Janiça Hackenbuchner, University of Ghent Luisa Bentivogli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Joke Daems, University of Ghent Beatrice Savoldi, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Eleni Gkovedarou, University of Ghent

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From: AdabEval 2026 Organizing Team
by Sharefah A. Al Ghamdi 14 Dec '25

14 Dec '25

Dear all We’re excited to invite you to take part in AdabEval 2026, a shared task on politeness classification in Arabic social media posts, hosted at OSACT7 and co-located with LREC 2026. The website for the shared task is: https://sites.google.com/view/adabeval2026/home Description: Participants will develop systems to perform one of the following two subtasks, which investigate politeness in Arabic social media posts: Politeness Classification (Subtask A): This subtask focuses on building and evaluating models that automatically assess the politeness level of Arabic social-media posts. Given a post’s text, participants must classify it into one of three categories: Polite, Neutral, or Impolite. Systems will be compared using accuracy as well as macro-averaged precision, recall, and F1-score on the test data. Subtask A Summary - Input: Arabic post - Output: One of 3 predefined category labels (polite, neutral or impolite) - Metric: Accuracy, macro-averaged precision, recall, and F1-score Category Prediction (Subtask B): In this subtask, the objective is to assess systems’ ability to identify multiple pragmatic functions in Arabic social-media posts. Each text may express one or more categories drawn from nine culturally grounded functions, including criticism, insult, respect, prayer, greeting, and hospitality. The task is formulated as a multi-label classification problem, requiring systems to predict all applicable categories for each instance. The official evaluation metric is the macro-averaged F1 score computed across the nine categories. Subtask B Summary - Input: Arabic post - Output: All applicable categories for each instance. - Metric:Macro-averaged F1-score Dataset Information: The dataset is an annotated corpus of Arabic social‑media posts. Each record contains an identifier, raw text, a primary label (polite, neutral or impolite), and up to three category-keyword pairs. Categories capture pragmatic functions such as Criticism, Insult, Disparagement, Prayers, Greetings, Admiration, Respect, Felicitation and Hospitality & generosity. Keywords highlight words or phrases that motivated the annotation. EXAMPLE 1: --------------- Sentence: مبدعون ومميزين بطرحكم وضيوفكم. جزاكم الله خير الجزاء Source: YouTube Label: Polite Criteria 1: Appreciation & Love (الإعجاب والحب) — Keywords: مبدعون، مميزين Criteria 2: Thanks & Gratitude (الشكر والامتنان) — Keywords: جزاكم الله خير الجزاء EXAMPLE 2: --------------- Sentence: من كان بتخيل دكتور معتز ومقالاته قبل ثوره ٢٥ يناير يتحول لحذاء في أيدي العسكر ويصبح مجرد دلدول ويتبع اُسلوب منحط ووضيع كده Source: Tweet Label: Impolite Criteria 1: Insult (شتيمة) — Keywords: منحط، وضيع How to Participate? 1. Registration is required, please complete the registration form<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSezmjuMBJBi6KHxk6hdEF5JQwX8w3TwdXq…>. 2. Join the AdabEval2026 at slack<https://adabeval2026.slack.com/?redir=%2Farchives%2FC09TZFH47FZ%3Fname%3DC0…>. System Description Papers All participating teams are encouraged to submit a short system description paper. Papers will be included in the workshop proceedings and do not require high leaderboard ranking. We welcome creative approaches, analysis, and lessons learned. Contact For questions or clarifications, please contact the organising team at adabeval2026(a)gmail.com. We look forward to your participation and contributions! Best regards, The AdabEval 2026 Organizing Team ________________________________ Disclaimer: This communication is intended for the above named person and is confidential and / or legally privileged. Any opinion(s) expressed in this communication are not necessarily those of KSU (King Saud University). If it has come to you in error you must take no action based upon it, nor must you print it, copy it, forward it, or show it to anyone. Please delete and destroy the e-mail and any attachments and inform the sender immediately. Thank you. KSU is not responsible for the political, religious, racial or partisan opinion in any correspondence conducted by its domain users. Therefore, any such opinion expressed, whether explicitly or implicitly, in any said correspondence is not to be interpreted as that of KSU. KSU may monitor all incoming and outgoing e-mails in line with KSU business practice. Although KSU has taken steps to ensure that e-mails and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that, in keeping with best business practice, the recipient must ensure they are actually virus free.

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[CFP]-DravidianLangTech-at ACL 2026
by Bharathi Raja Asoka Chakravarthi 13 Dec '25

13 Dec '25

*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------* *Call for Participation for *DravidianLangTech-2026 Workshop and Sharedtaks @ ACL-2026 *-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------* *CFP for the Sixth Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages- * *DravidianLangTech-2026 (**Theme: Multilingual Multicultural Multimodal LLMs)* *---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------* *DravidianLangTech-2026 @ The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2026* *Venue: San Diego, California, United States* *Conference Date: July 02 - 07, 2026* *Workshop Website: https://sites.google.com/view/dravidianlangtech-2026 <https://sites.google.com/view/dravidianlangtech-2026>* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence and language technologies, internet usage has continued to surge globally, enabling many widely spoken languages to adapt successfully to the digital age. However, regional and underresourced languages still face significant challenges due to limited computational resources, annotated datasets, and specialized tools. One such group is the Dravidian language family, primarily spoken in South India and Sri Lanka, with communities across Nepal, Pakistan, Malaysia, London, and other parts of the world. The Dravidian languages, with a history spanning more than 4,500 years and spoken by millions of speakers, are under-resourced in speech and natural language processing. Despite growing research interest, gaps persist in areas such as speech recognition, multimodal processing, and generative AI applications for Dravidian languages. This is the sixth workshop on speech and language technologies for Dravidian languages, building upon the success of the previous editions. DravidianLangTech-2026 continues to serve as a collaborative forum for researchers, practitioners, and students to share insights and advance computational methods for Dravidian languages. The main objectives of DravidianLangTech-2026 are as follows, The broader objectives of DravidianLangTech-2026 will be - To explore challenges and innovations in developing speech and language resources for Dravidian languages. - To design and adapt language technologies for multilingual, multimodal, and code-mixed Dravidian contexts. - To facilitate collaboration between the global Dravidian language community and international scholars across computational linguistics, AI, and digital humanities. - To address ethical, cultural, and inclusivity aspects in the creation of language technologies for under-represented communities. - To encourage the integration of Agentic AI frameworks for building interactive, explainable, and collaborative language systems in Dravidian contexts. *Call for Papers :* DravidianLangTech-2026 welcomes theoretical, empirical, and application driven contributions on any Dravidian languages (e.g., Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Tulu, Allar, Aranadan, Attapadya, Kurumba, etc.) that advance language processing, speech technologies, multimodality, or resource development. Submissions can address challenges in monolingual, bilingual, and code-mixed settings as well as crosslingual and low-resource transfer approaches. Topics of interest include but are not limited to - Corpus(Data) development, annotation tools, benchmarks, and evaluation methodologies - Detecting Hate Speech, Offensive Language, Misinformation, Fake News, Spam, and Rumor - Generative AI and Prompt Engineering for Dravidian languages - Agentic AI and Multi-agent Systems: workflow orchestration, reasoning agents, and collaborative agents for Dravidian language processing - Multimodal processing: Text, Speech, Image, Video, and Memes in Dravidian contexts - Speech Technology: Automatic Speech Recognition, Speech Synthesis, Voice Conversion - Impaired/Normal Speech Recognition and Assistive Technologies for Dravidian speech - Accent Recognition, Verification, and Dialect Modeling - Emotion and Sentiment Recognition from Dravidian Speech and Text - Machine Translation and Cross-lingual Transfer in Dravidian languages - Language Resources for Generative and Instruction-Tuned LLMs - Document Analysis and Understanding for Dravidian texts and scripts - Object Detection and Recognition in multimodal Dravidian datasets - Ethical and Fair AI for Low-resource Language Communities - Healthcare and Mental Health Applications (e.g., depression detection, doctor-patient communication) in Dravidian speech - Educational Applications: Digital literacy, inclusive tools for rural Dravidian language communities *---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------* *Workshop Paper Submission Link <https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2026/Workshop/DravidianLangT…>* *---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------* *Important Dates* *---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------* *First call for workshop papers: December 10, 2025Second call for workshop papers: January 15, 2026Third call for workshop papers: February 20, 2026Direct paper submission deadline: March 5, 2026Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline: March 24, 2026Notification of acceptance: April 28, 2026Camera-ready paper due: May 12, 2026Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline): June 4, 2026* *Workshop dates: July 2-3, 2026* with regards, Dr. Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Assistant Professor / Lecturer-above-the-bar Programme Director (MSc Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence) <https://www.universityofgalway.ie/courses/taught-postgraduate-courses/compu…> School of Computer Science, University of Galway, Ireland Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, University of Galway, Ireland E-mail: bharathiraja.akr(a)gmail.com , bharathi.raja(a)universityofgalway.ie <bharathiraja.asokachakravarthi(a)universityofgalway.ie> Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=irCl028AAAAJ&hl=en Website: https://research.universityofgalway.ie/en/persons/bharathi-raja-asoka-chakr…

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