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Computation and Written Language Workshop (at LREC 2026) Final Call for Papers
by Constantine Lignos 07 Feb '26

07 Feb '26

Computation and Written Language Workshop (at LREC 2026) Final Call for Papers The Third Workshop on Computation and Written Language (CAWL 2026) will be held in conjunction with LREC 2026 as a half-day workshop on May 12th in Palma, on the island of Mallorca, Spain. The workshop will feature an invited talk, a tutorial on working with different writing systems, and posters and presentations for submitted work. Annual CAWL workshops are organized under the guidance of the ACL Special Interest Group on Writing Systems and Written Language (SIGWrit). We welcome submissions of scientific papers to be presented at the workshop and archived in the ACL Anthology. Please see the submission guidelines below and see the workshop webpage (https://sigwrit.org/) for additional relevant information. For the first time ever, CAWL will also feature a cash prize of $500 USD for the best student submission. Topics Most work in NLP focuses on language in its canonical written form. This has often led researchers to ignore the differences between written and spoken language or, worse, to conflate the two. Furthermore, methods for dealing with written language issues (e.g., various kinds of normalization or conversion) or for recognizing text input (e.g. OCR & handwriting recognition or text entry methods) are often regarded as precursors to NLP rather than as fundamental parts of the enterprise, despite the fact that most NLP methods rely centrally on representations derived from text rather than (spoken) language. This general lack of consideration of writing has led to much of the research on such topics to largely appear outside of ACL venues, in conferences or journals of neighboring fields such as speech technology (e.g., text normalization) or human-computer interaction (e.g., text entry). This workshop will bring together researchers who are interested in the relationship between written and spoken language, the properties of written language, the ways in which writing systems encode language, and applications specifically focused on characteristics of writing systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Writing systems for less-resourced, Indigenous, and minoritized languages - Multi-writing system models - Text entry and tokenization - Processing abbreviations and homographs - Grapheme-to-phoneme conversion, transliteration, and diacritization - Text normalization for speech and for processing “informal'” genres of text - Information-theoretic and machine-learning approaches to decipherment - Optical character (incl. handwriting) recognition and historical document processing - Orthography for unwritten languages - Spelling error detection and correction - Script normalization and encoding - Writing system typology and its relevance to speech and language processing - Properties of written language - Applications specifically focused on characteristics of writing systems Important dates (all deadlines anywhere-on-earth (AoE) time): Paper submission deadline: February 20, 2026 Notification of acceptance: March 17, 2026 Camera-ready paper due: March 30, 2026 Workshop date: May 12, 2026 Submission Guidelines Please submit short (4 page) or long (8 page) submissions in PDF format. Both short and long paper submissions will be reviewed in the same process. Authors should follow the formatting guidelines of LREC 2026, available in the authors’ kit (https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/). Note that, as with the main conference, reviewing is double-anonymous, i.e., reviewers will not know author identity and vice versa, hence no author information should be included in the papers; self-reference that identifies the authors should be avoided or anonymised. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings in the ACL anthology. Submissions will be accepted at https://softconf.com/lrec2026/CAWL/ between now and February 20, 2026. For questions about the submission guidelines, please contact workshop organizers at cawl-2026-organizers(a)googlegroups.com.

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Call for paper - LLMs for Equitable Education Systems
by Marco Bombieri 06 Feb '26

06 Feb '26

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the Research Topic *“*LLMs for Equitable Education Systems*”*, to be published in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. This special issue focuses on the role of LLMs and agentic AI in fostering equitable and responsible educational systems. We welcome original research articles, reviews, and perspectives addressing topics such as AI-driven personalized learning, fair and transparent assessment, bias mitigation, accessibility, and ethical implications of LLMs in education. Key deadlines: - Manuscript Summary: 30 June 2026 - Full Manuscript: 30 September 2026 Call for paper and submission guidelines are available at: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/77438/llms-for-equitable-educat… With best regards, The Research Topic editorial team

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2nd CfP: Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora @LREC-2026
by Piotr Banski 06 Feb '26

06 Feb '26

12^th Workshop on the Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora 2^nd Call for Papers The next meeting of CMLC will be held as part of theLREC-2026 conference <https://lrec2026.info/> in Palma, Mallorca. Workshop description As in the previous CMLC meetings, we wish to explore common areas of interest across a range of issues in language resource management, corpus linguistics, natural language processing, natural language generation, and data science. Large textual datasets require careful design, collection, cleaning, encoding, annotation, storage, retrieval, and curation to be of use for a wide range of research questions and to users across a number of disciplines. A growing number of national and other very large corpora are being made available, many historical archives are being digitised, numerous publishing houses are opening their textual assets for text mining, and many billions of words can be quickly sourced from the web and online social media. A mixed blessing of the times is that much of those texts, in mono- and multi-lingual arrangements can now be created automatically by exploiting Large Language Models at various scales. That, on the one hand, makes it possible to inflate the amounts of data where normally data would be scarce: in under-resourced languages or language varieties, in specific genres or for intricate and rarely attested constructions. On the other hand, such procedures immediately raise concerns regarding the authenticity and quality of such data, casting doubt on the possibility of adequately (truthfully, verifiably, reproducibly) addressing the kind of research questions that provoked the rapid but tainted increase of the available data volumes in the first place. Similar doubts may be directed at mass creation of secondary and tertiary data ordinarily crucial for linguistic research: apart from potential legal constraints on the use of the initial amounts of human-created data, new questions arise as to the legal status of the derived data, the ways to create e.g. provenance metadata of the derived resources, and the level of trust regarding mass-produced grammatical (and other) annotation layers. These new as well as more traditional questions lie at the base of the list of topics that management of large corpora (for any currently suitable definition of “large”) invokes or at least strongly brushes against. Topics of interest This year's event adds new items to the standard range of CMLC themes and addresses some of LREC-2026 focus topics: * Interoperability and accessibility o How to make corpora as accessible as possible o Interoperable APIs for query and analysis software o Provision of multiple levels of access for different tasks * Machine/Deep Learning o Data preparation for machine learning input o Creation, curation, maintenance and dissemination of language models based on machine learning (e.g. word embeddings and entire deep learning networks) o Legal issues concerning language model distribution * Linguistic content challenges o Dealing with the variety of language: multilinguality, minority and/or underrepresented languages, historical texts, noisy OCR texts, user-generated content, etc. o Diversity and inclusion in language resources o Integration of human computation (crowdsourcing) and automatic annotation o Quality management of annotations o Ensuring linguistic integrity of data through deduplication, correction of typos and errors, removal of incomplete or malformed sentences, and filtering harmful, offensive and toxic content, etc. o Integrating different linguistic data types (text, audio, video, facsimiles, experimental data, neuroimaging data, …) * Technical challenges o Storage and retrieval solutions for large text corpora: primary data (potentially including facsimiles, etc.), metadata, and annotation data o Corpus versioning and release management o Scalable and efficient NLP tooling for annotating and analysing large datasets: distributed and GPGPU computing; using big data analysis frameworks for language processing o Dealing with streaming data (e.g. Social Media) and rapidly changing corpora o Environmental impact of big language data computing o Engineering and management of research software * Exploitation challenges o Legal and privacy issues o Query languages, data models, and standardisation o Licensing models of open and closed data, coping with intellectual property restrictions o Innovative approaches for aggregation and visualisation of text analytics o Repurposing or extending application areas of existing corpora and tools In the tradition of CMLC, we invite reports on national corpus initiatives; submitters of these reports should be prepared to present a poster. Important dates * Deadline for paper submission: the 16^th of February 2026 (Monday, 23:59 UTC) * Notification of acceptance: the 12^th of March 2026 (Thursday) * Deadline for the submission of camera-ready papers: the 30^th of March 2026 (Monday) * Meeting: the 11^th of May, morning slot Paper submission * We invite anonymised extended abstracts for oral presentations on the topics listed above, as PDF created according toLREC-2026 templates <https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/>. o Length and content: 4 to 8 pages in length, excluding acknowledgements, references, potential Ethics Statements and discussion on Limitations. Appendices or supplementary material are not permitted during the initial submission phase, as papers should be self-contained and reviewable on their own. However, appendices and supplementary material will be allowed in the final, camera-ready version of the paper. * CMLC has always reserved a track for national corpus project reports, and to this end, we invite/poster proposals/of 500-750 words. National project reports need not be anonymised. * Submissions are accepted solely through theLREC START system <https://softconf.com/lrec2026/CMLC2026/>. * A volume of proceedings will be published online by ELRA. Oral and poster contributions will have equal status. LRE 2026 Map and the "Share your LRs!" initiative When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). Programme Committee * Laurence Anthony (Waseda University, Japan) * Vladimír Benko (Slovak Academy of Sciences) * Mark Davies (English-Corpora.org) * Nils Diewald (IDS Mannheim) * Kaja Dobrovoljc (University of Ljubljana / Jožef Stefan Institute) * Jarle Ebeling (University of Oslo) * Tomaž Erjavec (Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana) * Andrew Hardie (Lancaster University, UK) * Serge Heiden (ENS de Lyon) * Ulrich Heid (University of Hildesheim) * Nancy Ide (Vassar College / Brandeis University) * Olha Kanishcheva (Heidelberg University) * Gražina Korvel (Vilnius University) * Natalia Kocyba (Samsung Poland) * Michal Křen (Charles University, Prague) * Anna Latusek (ICS PAS, Warsaw) * Paul Rayson (Lancaster University) * Laurent Romary (INRIA) * Thomas Schmidt (University of Duisburg-Essen) * Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds) * Maria Shvedova (Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute / University of Jena) * Irena Spasić (Cardiff University) * Martin Wynne (University of Oxford) Organising Committee * 📩 Piotr Bański (IDS Mannheim) * 📩 Dawn Knight (Cardiff University) * 📩 Marc Kupietz (IDS Mannheim) * 📩 Andreas Witt (IDS Mannheim) * 📩 Alina Wróblewska (ICS PAS, Warsaw) Homepage CMLC series homepage is located athttp://corpora.ids-mannheim.de/cmlc.html .

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Call for paper: 1st Workshop on Clinical Natural Language Processing for Quality of Life (cNLP4QoL)
by jej_0312_＠naver.com 06 Feb '26

06 Feb '26

1. Workshop Overview: Quality of Life (WHOQOL) is a multi-dimensional, whole-person construct encompassing physical health, psychological state, level of independence, social relationships, environment, and spirituality, operationalized through 24 facets including pain & discomfort, energy & fatigue, sleep & rest, mobility, activities of daily living, dependence on medication/treatment, work capacity, positive feelings, thinking/learning/memory/concentration, self-esteem, bodily image & appearance, negative feelings, personal relationships, social support, sexual activity, physical safety & security, home environment, financial resources, health & social care accessibility/quality, opportunities for acquiring information/skills, participation in recreation/leisure, physical environment (pollution/noise/traffic/climate), transport, and spirituality/religion/personal beliefs. Many of the most meaningful QoL indicators are primarily documented in unstructured clinical narratives and patient-generated text. This workshop adopts a whole-person perspective and aims to bring together researchers, clinicians, and practitioners to advance robust, explainable, and clinically actionable NLP methods for extracting, modeling, and integrating QoL signals into real-world healthcare workflows. 2. Topics of Interest (include but are not limited to): - NLP methods for extracting, interpreting, and predicting QoL indicators - Functional, psychosocial, and behavioral health modeling from text - Explainability, trustworthiness, and reasoning in clinical language models - Annotation frameworks and evaluation metrics for subjective QoL constructs - Patient portals, clinical messages, conversations, and longitudinal narratives - Synthetic data generation, ontologies, knowledge graphs, and benchmarks for QoL - Clinical deployment and workflow integration of QoL-focused NLP systems - Applications: EHRs including clinical notes, social media data, patient narratives 3. Submission Types (original, unpublished work): - Regular papers (8–10 pages): mature work with substantial evaluation - Short papers (4–6 pages): innovative ideas with preliminary results - Position papers (4–6 pages): emerging directions or critical perspectives - Abstracts (2 pages): vision papers or work in progress All submissions will undergo single-blind peer review. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and published in the IEEE ICHI 2026 Proceedings, archived in IEEE Xplore (camera-ready submission required). 4. Important Dates: - Workshop paper submission deadline: March 15, 2026 - Notification of acceptance: March 21, 2026 - Camera-ready papers due: March 28, 2026 - Workshop date: June 1, 2026 5. Submission Link: https://easychair.org/my2/conference?conf=ieeeichi2026 followed by cNLP4QoL track. Website Link: https://cnlp4qol.github.io/ICHI-cnlp4qol-2026/ Contact: cnlp4qol(a)gmail.com

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Job announcement: W3-Professorship in Digital Humanities at the University of Freiburg
by DH Lab 05 Feb '26

05 Feb '26

Dear all, We are pleased to share the following professorship announcement with you. Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen Klara Oehler und Elena Renje University of Freiburg Coordination Digital Humanities Lab Job announcement: W3-Professorship for Digital Humanities at the University of Freiburg German Version below The Faculty of Philology (Department of General Linguistics in collaboration with the Digital Humanities Lab) is offering a W3-Professorship for Digital Humanities. * Application deadline: 17 March 2026 * Start date: At the earliest possible date * Scope of work: Full-time position * Id no.: 00004827 Description We are looking for an internationally visible scholar from the field of Digital Humanities (DH) with a language- or text-focused profile. A specialization in methods, applications, and contexts of Artificial Intelligence in the broader sense (including technical understanding such as coding, application to philological research questions, and ideological/ethical/didactic implications, etc.) is required. In-depth knowledge of established DH methods (e.g., NLP and other computational techniques and models, distant reading, etc.) is advantageous. Networking within the Faculty of Philology as well as active participation in research foci, centers, and collaborative projects are expected. The successful candidate will assume a leadership function in the DH Lab established in 2024 at the Faculty of Philology, and will play a leading role in the (further) development of DH-related study and certificate programs, as well as in modules within language, literary and cultural studies curricula. In all other respects, the conditions for appointment according to § 47 Landeshochschulgesetz apply: https://www.landesrecht-bw.de/bsbw/document/jlr-HSchulGBWV28P47 We request the following application materials: * Resumé * Certificates and diplomas * Complete list of publications and lectures, listing the five most important publications We will be particularly pleased to receive applications from women for the position advertised here. The university supports individuals appointed to professorial positions through a Dual Career Service and a Family Service. Application Please send your application including supporting documents mentioned above and the application form (https://intranet.uni-freiburg.de/public/downloads/saz/bewerbungsbogen-profe…) citing the reference number 00004827, by 17 March 2026 at the latest. Please send your application to the following address in written or electronic form: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Bernd Kortmann University of Freiburg Faculty of Philology P.O. Box 79085 Freiburg or to the email address bewerbungen(a)philologie.uni-freiburg.de For further information, please contact Herr Prof. Dr. Achim Rabus on the phone number +49 761 203-8315 or E-Mail achim.rabus(a)slavistik.uni-freiburg.de Further information on the appointment procedure can be found in the Code for Practice for professorial appointments (in German): https://intranet.uni-freiburg.de/public/downloads/saz/berufungsleitfaden.pdf Link to job posting: https://uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004827/ General and legal remarks: Full-time positions may generally be split up into two or more part-time positions, provided that there are no formal or legal barriers. Candidates are selected in accordance with the provisions of the AGG (Allgemeines Gleichbehandlungsgesetz - German General Equal Treatment Act). Applicants with disabilities (Schwerbehinderte Menschen) will be given preferential consideration in case of equal qualification. The department offering the position is liable for the content of this job posting. Textual errors do not constitute a basis for any claims or rights. The relevant human resources department has sole responsibility for all legal transactions made within the context of the selection and hiring process. Please note that breaches in privacy and unauthorized access by third parties cannot be excluded in communication by unencrypted email. Privacy policy: Privacy policy professorship: https://uni-freiburg.de/en/data-protection-applications/ ________________________________________ GERMAN VERSION Ausschreibung: W3-Professur für Digital Humanities an der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg An der Philologischen Fakultät ist am Sprachwissenschaftlichen Seminar gemeinsam mit dem Digital Humanities Lab eine W3-Professur für Digital Humanities zu besetzen. * Bewerbungsfrist: 17. März 2026 * Eintrittstermin: Zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt * Arbeitsumfang: Vollzeitstelle * Kennziffer: 00004827 Beschreibung Gesucht wird eine international sichtbare Persönlichkeit aus dem Bereich der Digital Humanities (DH) mit sprach- bzw. textbezogenem Profil. Ein Schwerpunkt im Bereich von Methoden, Anwendungen und Kontexten der Künstlichen Intelligenz im weiteren Sinne (technisches Verständnis inkl. Coding, Nutzbarmachung für philologische Fragestellungen, ideologische/ethische/didaktische Implikationen usw.) wird vorausgesetzt. Von Vorteil sind vertiefte Kenntnisse klassischer Methoden der DH (beispielsweise NLP- und weiterer komputationeller Techniken und Modelle, Distant Reading usw.). Die Vernetzung innerhalb der Philologischen Fakultät sowie die Mitwirkung an Forschungsschwerpunkten, Zentren und Verbundprojekten werden vorausgesetzt. Der*die erfolgreiche Kandidat*in nimmt eine leitende Funktion im 2024 gegründeten DH Lab an der Philologischen Fakultät ein und spielt eine führende Rolle bei der (Weiter-)Entwicklung DH-bezogener Studien- und Zertifikatsprogramme sowie von Modulen in sprach-, literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Studiengängen. Im Übrigen gelten die Einstellungsvoraussetzungen des § 47 Landeshochschulgesetz: https://www.landesrecht-bw.de/bsbw/document/jlr-HSchulGBWV28P47 Folgende Bewerbungsunterlagen werden erbeten: * Lebenslauf * Zeugnisse und Urkunden * Vollständiges Schriften- und Vortragsverzeichnis unter Nennung der fünf wichtigsten Publikationen Für die hier ausgeschriebene Position freuen wir uns besonders über Bewerbungen von Frauen. Die Universität unterstützt Berufene über einen Dual Career Service und einen Familienservice. Bewerbung Bitte bewerben Sie sich mit o. g. Unterlagen und dem Ausdruck Ihres Bewerbungsformulars: https://intranet.uni-freiburg.de/public/downloads/saz/bewerbungsbogen-profe… unter Angabe der Kennziffer 00004827 bis spätestens 17. März 2026. Ihre Bewerbung richten Sie bitte in schriftlicher oder elektronischer Form an: Herrn Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Bernd Kortmann Universität Freiburg Philologische Fakultät Postfach 79085 Freiburg bzw. an die Mailadresse bewerbungen(a)philologie.uni-freiburg.de Für nähere Informationen steht Ihnen Herr Prof. Dr. Achim Rabus unter Tel. +49 761 203-8315 oder E-Mail achim.rabus(a)slavistik.uni-freiburg.de zur Verfügung. Weitere Informationen zum Berufungsverfahren: https://intranet.uni-freiburg.de/public/downloads/saz/berufungsleitfaden.pdf Link zur Stellenausschreibung: https://uni-freiburg.de/stellenangebot/00004827/ Allgemeine und rechtliche Hinweise Vollzeitstellen sind grundsätzlich teilbar, soweit dienstliche oder rechtliche Gründe nicht entgegenstehen. Die Auswahl erfolgt nach den Regeln des AGG (Allgemeines Gleichbehandlungsgesetz). Schwerbehinderte Menschen werden bei entsprechender Eignung bevorzugt eingestellt. Für den Inhalt dieser Anzeige ist die jeweils ausschreibende Einrichtung verantwortlich. Etwaige inhaltliche Fehler begründen keine Ansprüche oder Rechte. Die rechtsgeschäftliche Vertretung im Zusammenhang mit dem Besetzungsverfahren und der Einstellung erfolgt ausschließlich durch das zuständige Personaldezernat. Bitte beachten Sie, dass Gefährdungen der Vertraulichkeit und der unberechtigte Zugriff Dritter bei der Kommunikation per unverschlüsselter Mail nicht ausgeschlossen werden können. Datenschutz Datenschutzerklärung Professur: https://uni-freiburg.de/datenschutz-bewerbungen/

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[RetroEval 2026] 1st Call for Papers
by Saad Mahamood 05 Feb '26

05 Feb '26

RetroEval 2026: Symposium on Natural Language Generation Evaluations ============================================ 1-2 June 2026, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom https://retroeval.github.io/ ============================================ Evaluation in the field of Natural Language Generation (NLG) has changed considerably over the past several decades. This special symposium in honour of Prof. Ehud Reiter’s retirement provides a forum for academic and industry researchers to look back on the topic of how evaluations in the field of NLG have changed and to explore unaddressed challenges. The two day symposium will be held in-person at the Sir Duncan Rice Library in the historic University of Aberdeen, June 1-2, 2026. For this symposium, we welcome submissions of long papers, short papers, and extended abstracts. *** Workshop Theme *** Ehud Reiter has been a leading light in Natural Language Generation (NLG) research throughout the four decades he worked in this area, in both academia (Aberdeen) and industry (CoGenTech; Arria NLG). Ehud’s influence extends to all aspects of NLG, but the areas in which it has arguably been the strongest is evaluation of NLG systems. On the occasion of his retirement, this workshop, which is held in his honour, will therefore focus on evaluation of NLG systems, highlighting in particular some of the topics that Ehud has tended to emphasize (see below) such as the importance of reproducibility and the risks of data contamination. *** Topics of Interest *** Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: -- The aims of NLG and NLG evaluation -- Intrinsic versus extrinsic NLG evaluation -- Evaluation of NLG systems in the real world -- Impact assessment of NLG systems and LLMs -- New evaluation challenges arising from the use of LLMs -- Hallucination annotation and its role in NLG evaluation -- Statistical analysis for NLG evaluations -- Data contamination in NLG evaluation -- LLMs as evaluators: opportunities and pitfalls -- The role of LLMs in the development of evaluation metrics -- Reproduction and reproducibility of human evaluation experiments -- Publication bias: What to do with negative results? -- Pre-publication of research hypotheses in NLG evaluation -- NLG evaluation versus psycholinguistic experimentation: what can we learn from each other? -- Disciplinary cultures and evaluation methods -- Evaluating NLG systems/LLMs for assistive technology *** Submission Types *** The workshop accepts the following submission types: • Long Papers (archival) • Short Papers (archival) • Extended Abstracts (non-archival) Accepted contributions will be presented as oral or poster presentations. *** Archival Submissions *** • Long papers: • Up to 8 pages (excluding references) • Unlimited references • Up to 2 appendix pages • 1 additional page in the final version to address reviewer comments • Short papers: • Up to 4 pages (excluding references) • Unlimited references • Up to 1 appendix page • 1 additional page in the final version for reviewer comments *** Non-Archival Submissions *** • Extended abstracts: • Up to 2 pages including references • 1 additional appendix page for tables/figures • Selection based on the symposium fit *** Submission Format *** • Two-column ACL 2026 format • LaTeX template only • PDF submissions only • Submissions via OpenReview *** Important Dates *** Note: All deadlines are 23:59 UTC-12. • ARR commitment deadline (archival): 16 March, 2026 • Direct paper submission deadline (archival): 24 April, 2026 • Direct paper submission deadline (non-archival): 1 May, 2026 • Notification of acceptance: 8 May, 2026 • Camera-ready deadline: 22 May, 2026 • Symposium dates: 1-2 June, 2026 *** Review Policy *** Long and short papers will follow ACL double-blind review policies. Submissions must be anonymized, including self-references and links. Papers violating anonymity requirements will be rejected without review. Contact and Information • Website: https://retroeval.github.io/ • Email: retroeval(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:retroeval@googlegroups.com> Workshop Organisers: Saad Mahamood (Shopware), David Howcroft (University of Aberdeen), Kees van Deemter (Utrecht University), Albert Gatt (Utrecht University), Simone Balloccu (TU Darmstadt), Margaret Mitchell (Hugging Face), Alberto Bugarín Diz (CiTIUS & University of Santiago de Compostela), Jose María Alonso-Moral (CiTIUS & University of Santiago de Compostela), Adarsa Sivaprasad (University of Aberdeen), Chenghua Lin (Manchester University), and Alexandra Johnstone (University of Aberdeen).

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Online Workshop - Large Language METAPHORS: New Trends in Computational Approaches to Metaphorical Expressions
by ginevra.martinelli＠iusspavia.it 05 Feb '26

05 Feb '26

We are pleased to announce the online workshop "Large Language METAPHORS: New Trends in Computational Approaches to Metaphorical Expressions", to be held on 5th March, organised by the Neurolinguistics and Experimental Pragmatics Laboratory (NEPLab) and supported by the ERC project “PROcessing MEtaphors: Neurochronometry, Acquisition and DEcay” (PROMENADE). The workshop adopts an interdisciplinary perspective, bringing together linguistics, computational linguistics, and psycholinguistics. It will investigate how Large Language Models (LLMs) can be used for the detection, interpretation, mapping, and evaluation of metaphors across languages. Particular attention will also be given to aligning computational models with human cognitive data, as well as to the use of metaphorical language as a means of probing the linguistic capabilities of LLMs. Talk lineup: - Using Large Language Models to Identify Metaphorical Expressions in Text Matteo Fuoli, Weihang Huang, Jeannette Littlemore, Sarah Turner, Ellen Wilding - Language Models and the Magic of Metaphor, Revisited: A Comparative Evaluation of Italian Baby and Large Language Model with Human Interpretations Simone Mazzoli, Alice Suozzi, Gianluca E. Lebani - A Novel Metaphor Dataset of Toxic Posts from Christian Subreddits Sebastian Reimann, Tatjana Scheffler - Exploring Metaphors in LLMs with a Human-Centric and Culture-Aware Approach Bolette S. Pedersen, Ali Basirat, Alberto Parola, Sussi Olsen - Commonsense Reasoning for Automatic Metaphor Elaboration: A Conceptual Combination Approach Antonio Lieto, Gian Luca Pozzato, Stefano Zoia - HUMMUS: a Dataset of Humorous Multimodal Metaphor Use Xiaoyu Tong, Zhi Zhang, Pia Sommerauer, Martha Lewis, Ekaterina Shutova - Participants and Models: the Role of LLMs in Psycholinguistic Approaches to Metaphor Veronica Mangiaterra, Hamad Al-Azary, Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro, Paolo Canal, Valentina Bambini - MetaMap – Mapping Metaphors Across Languages and Cultures Ginevra Martinelli, Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro, Maddalena Bressler, Veronica Mangiaterra, Valentina Bambini The workshop will be fully online and free of charge, but registration is required. For registration and further information: • Workshop website: https://www.neplab.it/large_language_metaphors_home/ • Email: ginevra.martinelli(a)iusspavia.it Organizing Committee: Valentina Bambini Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro Veronica Mangiaterra Ginevra Martinelli

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CfP Extended to March 1st – Special Collection on Language Datasets Reuse (JOHD)
by Paola Marongiu 04 Feb '26

04 Feb '26

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the submission deadline for the Special Collection "Language Datasets Reuse: Opportunities, Challenges, and Best Practices" has been extended to March 1st, 2026. The call for papers is still open! This Special Collection will be featured in the _Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD)_ and focuses on the reuse of language data across the humanities. We invite contributions that explore how existing mono- and multilingual language datasets (in any modality) have been reused in research. We are particularly interested in papers that: * Present case studies on the reuse of deposited language datasets (preferably those created by researchers other than the authors). * Explore how dataset reuse has led to the creation of new datasets. * Reflect on both successful and less successful experiences with language data reuse, highlighting challenges encountered and lessons learned. * Offer position papers on strategies for data creators to maximize the future reuse potential of language datasets. Submission format: Discussion Paper (3,000-5,000 words). Discussion papers should provide in-depth narratives illustrating the reuse of existing language datasets or showcase approaches to dataset design with reuse in mind. Submissions should adhere to the specific template provided for this Special Collection. New Submission Deadline: March 1st, 2026 Information and submission link: https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/collections/language-datasets-reuse Guest Editorial Team: Darja Fišer (Executive Director of CLARIN; University of Ljubljana; Institute of Contemporary History, Slovenia) Francesca Frontini (ILC-CNR, Pisa; CLARIN-IT, Italy) Coordinating Editor: Paola Marongiu (ILC-CNR, Pisa) Thank you for considering this opportunity. We hope to hear from you soon. With best regards, The Special Collection Editorial Team

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Antonio Zampolli Prize @ LREC 2026: Call for Nominations
by info＠elda.org 04 Feb '26

04 Feb '26

[Apologies for multiple postings] In 2004, the ELRA Board created a prize to honour the memory of its first President, Professor Antonio Zampolli, a pioneer and visionary scientist who was internationally recognized in the field of Computational Linguistics and Human Language Technologies (HLT). He also contributed much through the establishment of ELRA and the LREC conference. To reflect Professor Zampolli's specific interest in our field, the ELRA Antonio Zampolli Prize is awarded to individuals and small groups whose work lies within the areas of Language Resources and Language Technology Evaluation with acknowledged contributions to their advancements. The Prize will be awarded for the 11th time in May 2026 at the LREC 2026 conference in Palma de Mallorca, Spain (11-16 May, 2026). Nominations should be sent to AntonioZampolli-Prize(a)elra.info no later than March 6, 2026. On behalf of ELRA Board German Rigau, President Please visit ELRA web site for: * the ELRA Antonio Zampolli Prize Statutes <https://www.elra.info/elra-events/lrec/elra-antonio-zampolli-prize/prize-st…>, * the nomination procedure <https://www.elra.info/elra-events/lrec/elra-antonio-zampolli-prize/case-for…>, * the previous winners <https://www.elra.info/elra-events/lrec/elra-antonio-zampolli-prize/> --- More information ELRA Language Resources Association Contact us @ info(a)elda.org Follow us on LinkedIn @ https://www.linkedin.com/company/elra-language-resources-association/ LREC 2026 <http://lrec2026.info> in Palma de Mallorca, Spain (11-16 May, 2025) - Palau de Congressos

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Deadline Extension NLDB 2026
by elena_cabrio 04 Feb '26

04 Feb '26

*---------------------------------------------------* *New submission deadline: 20 February 2026* *---------------------------------------------------* *Call for papers* NLDB 2026: 31st Annual International Conference on Natural Language & Information Systems 17-19 June 2026 | Norwegian University of Science and Technology | Trondheim, Norway *Website:*https://www.ntnu.edu/nldb2026/ <https://www.ntnu.edu/nldb2026/> Objectives Recent advances in AI have increased the expectations for users when it comes to information access systems. With powerful LLMs, users engage with information using natural language instead of artificial query languages. At the same time, this raises not only technical but also ethical concerns, such as sustainability, reliability, and privacy. NLDB has established itself as a venue to discuss precisely the intersection of natural language and information systems. We invite researchers and practitioners to contribute. Important Dates: Paper Submission: 20 February 2026, Anywhere on Earth Author Notification: 20 March 2026 Camera-ready Deadline: 2 April 2026 Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to): * Multimodality * AI safety and ethics * Interactivity and Natural Language Interfaces * Social Media and Web Data * eXplainable AI * Interpretability and Model Analysis in NLP * Generative models, Large Language Models * Information Retrieval and Text Mining * Discourse and Pragmatics, Sentiment Analysis, Argument Mining * Question Answering, Dialogue, and Interactive Systems * NLP Applications * Efficient/Low-resource methods in NLP * Big Data and Scalability Paper Submission Detailed instructions covering formatting, submission procedures, and all relevant requirements are available on the conference website. * *Submission system*: Manuscripts must be submitted in PDF format via Microsoft CMT: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/NLDB2026/ * *Author guidelines*: Authors should follow the LNCS format <https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>. Submissions that do not adhere to these requirements will be desk-rejected. * *Paper categories and length limits*: o Full papers: up to 15 pages, including references and appendices o Short papers: up to 11 pages, including references and appendices o Demo papers: up to 6 pages, including references

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