SIGHUM (LaTeCH-CLfL) 2026
The 10th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics
for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature
to be held at EACL in March 2026 in Rabat, Morocco
as a two-day workshop with one on-site and one online day
Second Call for Papers (with apologies for cross-posting)
Organizers: Diego Alves, Yuri Bizzoni, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb,
Anna Kazantseva, Janis Pagel, Stan Szpakowicz
SIGHUM (LaTeCH-CLfL) 2026 is the tenth in a series of meetings for NLP researchers who work with data from the broadly understood arts, humanities and social sciences, and for specialists in those disciplines who apply NLP techniques in their work. The workshop continues a long tradition of annual events which also host the SIGHUM business meetings.
Workshop site
https://sighum.wordpress.com/events/sighum-latech-clfl-2026/
Important dates
Submission deadline: January 5th, 2026
Notification of acceptance: February 3rd, 2026
Camera-ready paper due: February 10th, 2026
Description
The community of the broadly understood Digital Humanities (DH) has witnessed remarkable growth and transformation, fueled by the rapid advancements in NLP. There is a steady interest in, and a high demand for, NLP methods of semantic and structural annotation, intelligent linking, discovery, querying, cleaning and visualization of primary and secondary data. Even so, the heterogeneous landscape of the DH with their diverse, often multi-lingual or multi-modal sources can be a challenge for NLP. Consider, for example, the growing interest in historical language data and in under-resourced languages.
There are unique obstacles in developing comprehensive language models in aid of the linguistic diversity in DH. The handling of noisy and non-standard data, and the need for domain adaptation and intensive annotation, continue to be at the forefront of research effort in the community. The literary studies, which have witnessed substantial progress in the application of NLP methods, bring their own similar problems. Navigating forms of creative expression requires more than the typical information-seeking tools. A case in point might be the study of literature of a certain period, author or sub-genre, the recognition of certain literary devices, or the quantitative analysis of poetry.
The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) expands the DH toolkit. There is support for automatic text cleaning and annotation, creation of semantic resources, analysis of narrative, genre and literary style, and linking information across sources. LLMs can support historical or low-resource languages, particularly when complemented with domain-specific fine-tuning and careful evaluation. One must note, however, that even with careful adaptation, curation and attention to interpretability, LLM outputs remain prone to errors, biases and lack of transparency; that requires rigorous assessment to ensure their suitability for scholarly research.
There is growing emphasis on the importance of explanation in NLP models. That applied equally to DH, whose various domains enjoy the effect of NLP. Transparency and clarity of the results are critical if one is to accept the processed data, and gain valuable insights. That is why one must carefully consider a balance between raw performance scores and interpretability, in keeping with the specific research objectives.
For many years now, this broad research context has drawn together NLP experts, data specialists and researchers in Digital Humanities who work in and across their domains. Our long-standing series of workshops has shown that cross-disciplinary exchange supports work in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Heritage communities. It encourages the Computational Linguistics community to build rich, effective tools and, above all, interpretable models.
Topics
Our workshops attract original work on a wide variety of topics, including – but as usual not restricted to – these:
adaptation of NLP tools to Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and literature;
automatic error detection and cleaning of textual data;
complex annotation schemas, tools and interfaces;
creation (fully- or semi-automatic) of semantic resources;
creation and analysis of social networks of literary characters;
discourse and narrative analysis/modelling, notably in literature;
emotion analysis for the humanities and for literature;
generation of literary narrative, dialogue or poetry;
identification and analysis of literary genres;
information/knowledge modelling in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Heritage;
interpretability of large language models output for DH-related tasks (explainable AI);
linking and retrieving information from different sources, media, and domains;
low-resource and historical language processing;
modelling dialogue literary style for generation;
profiling and authorship attribution;
search for scientific and/or scholarly literature;
work with linguistic variation and non-standard or historical use of language
Information for authors
We invite papers on original, unpublished work in the topic areas of the workshop. We will consider long papers, short papers and system descriptions (demos). We also welcome position papers.
Long papers, presenting completed work, may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content plus additional pages of references (just two if possible -:). The final camera-ready versions of accepted long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages), so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account.
A short paper / demo presenting work in progress or the description of a system may consist of up to four (4) pages of content plus additional pages of references (one if you can). Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings.
A position paper — clearly marked as such — should not exceed eight (8) pages including references.
All submissions are to follow the *ACL paper styles (for LaTeX / Overleaf and MS Word) available at https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files <https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>. Papers should be submitted electronically, only in PDF, via the LaTeCH-CLfL 2026 submission website on the SoftConf pages (we will publish the link as soon as we have it).
Reviewing will be double-blind. Please do not include the authors’ names and affiliations, or any references to Web sites, project names, acknowledgements and so on — anything that immediately reveals the authors’ identity. Please keep references to your own work at a reasonable minimum, and do not use anonymous citations.
In accordance with the EACL 2026 policy on multiple submission, we will not consider any paper that is under review in a journal or another conference at the time of submission. During the review period, papers submitted to our workshop cannot also be submitted elsewhere.
Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb
Associate Professor
Universität des Saarlandes
Language Science and Technology
Campus A2.2, 1.06
66123 Saarbrücken
Tel.: ++49 681 302 70077
E-Mail: s.degaetano(a)mx.uni-saarland.de
www.stefaniadegaetano.com
*** Last Combo Call for Workshop Papers ***
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 2026 attracted a record number of submissions for the main conference (561 full
paper submissions after an initial submission of 697 abstracts). Although the submission
deadline for the main conference is now over, we welcome the submission of papers to
a number of workshops that will be held as part of IUI 2026.
A list of these workshops, with a short description and the workshops' websites for
further information, follows below.
AgentCraft: Workshop on Agentic AI Systems Development (full-day workshop)
Organizers: Karthik Dinakar (Pienso), Justin D. Weisz (IBM Research), Henry Lieberman
(MIT CSAIL), Werner Geyer (IBM Research)
URL: https://agentcraft-iui.github.io/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…>
Ambitious efforts are underway to build AI agents powered by large language models
across many domains. Despite emerging frameworks, key challenges remain: autonomy,
reasoning, unpredictable behavior, and consequential actions. Developers struggle to
comprehend and debug agent behaviors, as well as determine when human oversight is
needed. Intelligent interfaces that enable meaningful oversight of agentic plans,
decisions, and actions are needed to foster transparency, build trust, and manage
complexity. We will explore interfaces for mixed-initiative collaboration during agent
development and deployment, design patterns for debugging agent behaviors, strategies
for determining developer control and oversight, and evaluation methods grounding
agent performance in real-world impact.
AI CHAOS! 1st Workshop on the Challenges for Human Oversight of AI Systems
(full-day workshop)
Organizers: Tim Schrills (University of Lübeck), Patricia Kahr (University of Zurich),
Markus Langer (University of Freiburg), Harmanpreet Kaur (University of Minnesota),
Ujwal Gadiraju (Delft University of Technology)
URL: https://sites.google.com/view/aichaos/iui-2026?authuser=0<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…>
As AI permeates high-stakes domains—healthcare, autonomous driving, criminal justice
—failures can endanger safety and rights. Human oversight is vital to mitigate harm, yet
methods and concepts remain unclear despite regulatory mandates. Poorly designed
oversight risks false safety and blurred accountability. This interdisciplinary workshop
unites AI, HCI, psychology, and regulation research to close this gap. Central questions
are: How can systems enable meaningful oversight? Which methods convey system states
and risks? How can interventions scale? Through papers, talks, and interactive
discussions, participants will map challenges, define stakeholder roles, survey tools,
methods, and regulations, and set a collaborative research agenda.
CURE 2026: Communicating Uncertainty to foster Realistic Expectations via Human-
Centered Design (half-day workshop)
Organizers: Jasmina Gajcin (IBM Research), Jovan Jeromela (Trinity College Dublin), Joel
Wester (Aalborg University), Sarah Schömbs (University of Melbourne), Styliani Kleanthous
(Open University of Cyprus), Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy (IBM Research), Hanna
Hauptmann (Utrecht University), Rifat Mehreen Amin (LMU Munich)
URL: https://cureworkshop.github.io/cure-2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…>
Communicating system uncertainty is essential for achieving transparency and can help
users calibrate their trust in, reliance on, and expectations from an AI system. However,
uncertainty communication is plagued by challenges such as cognitive biases, numeracy
skills, calibrating risk perception, and increased cognitive load, with research finding that
lay users can struggle to interpret probabilities and uncertainty visualizations.
HealthIUI 2026: Workshop on Intelligent and Interactive Health User Interfaces
(half-day workshop)
Organizers: Peter Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburgh), Behnam Rahdari (Stanford
University), Shriti Raj (Stanford University), Helma Torkamaan (TU Delft)
URL: https://healthiui.github.io/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…>
As AI transforms health and care, integrating Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) in wellness
applications offers substantial opportunities and challenges. This workshop brings
together experts from HCI, AI, healthcare, and related fields to explore how IUIs can
enhance long-term engagement, personalization, and trust in health systems. Emphasis
is on interdisciplinary approaches to create systems that are advanced, responsive to
user needs, mindful of context, ethics, and privacy. Through presentations, discussions,
and collaborative sessions, participants will address key challenges and propose
solutions to drive health IUI innovation.
MIRAGE: Misleading Impacts Resulting from AI-Generated Explanations (full-day
workshop)
Organizers: Simone Stumpf (University of Glasgow), Upol Ehsan (Northeastern University),
Elizabeth M. Daly (IBM Research), Daniele Quercia (Nokia Bell Labs)
URL: https://mirage-workshop.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…>
Explanations from AI systems can illuminate, yet they can misguide. MIRAGE at IUI
tackles pitfalls and dark patterns in AI explanations. Evidence now shows that
explanations may inflate unwarranted trust, warp mental models, and obscure power
asymmetries—even when designers intend no harm. We classify XAI harms as Dark
Patterns (intentional, e.g., trust-boosting placebos) and Explainability Pitfalls
(unintended effects without manipulative intent). These harms include error propagation
(model risks), over-reliance (interaction risks), and false security (systemic risks). We
convene an interdisciplinary group to define, detect, and mitigate these risks. MIRAGE
shifts focus to safe explanations, advancing accountable, human-centered AI.
PARTICIPATE-AI: Exploring the Participatory Turn in Citizen-Centred AI (half-day
workshop)
Organizers: Pam Briggs (Northumbria University), Cristina Conati (University of British
Columbia), Shaun Lawson (Northumbria University), Kyle Montague (Northumbria
University), Hugo Nicolau (University of Lisbon), Ana Cristina Pires (University of Lisbon),
Sebastien Stein (University of Southampton), John Vines (University of Edinburgh)
URL: https://sites.google.com/view/participate-ai/workshop<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…>
This workshop explores value alignment for participatory AI, focusing on interfaces and
tools that bridge citizen participation and technical development. As AI systems
increasingly impact society, meaningful and actionable citizen input in their development
becomes critical. However, current participatory approaches often fail to influence actual
AI systems, with citizen values becoming trivialized. This workshop will address
challenges such as risk articulation, value evolution, democratic legitimacy, and the
translation gap between community input and system implementation. Topics include
value elicitation within different communities, critical analysis of failed participatory
attempts, and methods for making citizen concerns actionable for developers.
SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR (full-day workshop)
Organizers: Giuseppe Caggianese (National Research Council of Italy, Institute for High-
Performance Computing and Networking Napoli), Marta Mondellini (National Research
Council of Italy, Institute of Intelligent Industrial Systems and Technologies for Advanced
Manufacturing, Lecco), Nicola Capece (University of Basilicata), Mario Covarrubias
(Politecnico di Milano), Gilda Manfredi (University of Basilicata)
URL: https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…>
This workshop explores how eXtended Reality (XR) can serve as a multimodal interface
for AI systems, including LLMs and conversational agents. It focuses on designing
adaptive, human-centered XR environments that incorporate speech, gesture, gaze, and
haptics for seamless interaction. Main topics include personalization, accessibility,
cognitive load, trust, and ethics in AI-driven XR experiences. Through presentations,
discussions, and collaborative sessions, the workshop aims to establish a subcommunity
within IUI to develop a roadmap that includes design principles and methodologies for
inclusive and adaptive intelligent interfaces, enhancing human capabilities across various
domains, such as healthcare, education, and collaborative environments.
TRUST-CUA: Trustworthy Computer-Using Generalist Agents for Intelligent User
Interfaces (full-day workshop)
Organizers: Toby Jia-Jun Li (University of Notre Dame), Segev Shlomov (IBM Research),
Xiang Deng (Scale AI), Ronen Brafman (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), Avi Yaeli
(IBM Research) Zora (Zhiruo) Wang (Carnegie Mellon University)
URL: https://sites.google.com/view/trust-cuaiui26/home<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…>
Computer-Using Agents (CUAs) are moving from point automations to generalist agents
acting across GUIs, browsers, APIs, and CLIs—raising core IUI questions of trust,
predictability, and control. This workshop advances trustworthy-by-design CUAs
through human-centered methods: mixed-initiative interaction, explanation and
sensemaking, risk/uncertainty communication, and recovery/rollback UX. Outcomes
include (1) a practical TRUST-CUA checklist for oversight, consent, and auditing, (2) a
user-centered evaluation profile (“CUBench-IUI,” e.g., predictability, oversight effort,
time-to-recovery, policy-aligned success), and (3) curated design patterns and open
challenges for deployable, accountable agentic interfaces.
Important Dates
• Paper Submission: December 19, 2025
• Notification: February 2, 2026
All dates are 23:59h AoE (anywhere on Earth).
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
Workshop and Tutorial Chairs
• Karthik Dinakar, Pienso Inc, USA
• Werner Geyer, IBM Research, USA
• Patricia Kahr, University of Zurich, Switzerland
• Antonela Tommasel, ISISTAN, CONICET-UNCPBA, JKU, Argentina, Austria
Dear colleagues,
We are delighted to announce *SemEval-2026 Task 3: Dimensional Aspect-Based
Sentiment Analysis on Customer Reviews and Stance Datasets*.
*Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA)* is a widely used technique for
analyzing people’s opinions and sentiments at the aspect level. However,
current ABSA research predominantly adopts a coarse-grained, categorical
sentiment representation (e.g., positive, negative, or neutral). This
approach stands in contrast to long-established theories in psychology and
affective science, where sentiment is represented along fine-grained,
real-valued dimensions of valence (ranging from negative to positive) and
arousal (from sluggish to excited). This valence-arousal (VA)
representation has inspired the rise of dimensional sentiment analysis as
an emerging research paradigm, enabling more nuanced distinctions in
emotional expression and supporting a broader range of applications.
To bridge this gap, we propose *Dimensional ABSA (DimABSA)*, a shared task
that integrates dimensional sentiment analysis into the traditional ABSA
framework. Furthermore, there is a conceptual similarity between stance
detection and ABSA when the stance target is treated as an aspect. Building
on this, we introduce *Dimensional Stance Analysis (DimStance)*, a
Stance-as-DimABSA task that reformulates stance detection under the ABSA
schema in the VA space. This new formulation extends ABSA beyond consumer
reviews to public-issue discourse (e.g., social, political, energy,
climate) and also generalizes stance analysis from categorical labels to
continuous VA scores.
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*Languages*
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*We provide data in 9 languages*, including: German (deu), English (eng),
Hausa (hau), Japan (jpn), Russian (rus), Swahili (swa), Tatar (tat),
Ukrainian (ukr), and Chinese (zho)
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*Domains*
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*A total of 6 application domains*, including: Restaurant, Laptop, Hotel,
Finance, Environmental Protection, and Politics
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*Subtasks*
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*Track A – Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (DimABSA)*: Predict
real-valued valence–arousal (VA) scores for aspects and extract their
associated information from text. Its subtasks include:
- *Subtask 1: DimASR *– Dimensional Aspect Sentiment Regression
- *Subtask 2: DimASTE* – Dimensional Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction
- *Subtask 3: DimASQP* – Dimensional Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction
*Track B – Dimensional Stance Analysis (DimStance)*: A Stance-as-DimABSA
task, where the target in stance detection is treated as an aspect. Its
subtasks include:
- Subtask 1: DimASR for stance analysis
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*Evaluation*
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For both tracks, RMSE is used for Subtask 1, and a new metric (continuous
F1) for Subtasks 2 & 3.
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*Participation*
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*Website* (checkout details):
https://github.com/DimABSA/DimABSA2026
*Codabench* (register and submit results)
- Track A: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/10918/
- Track B: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/11139/
*Discord* (community and discussion)
https://discord.gg/xWXDWtkMzu
*Google Group* (official updates):
https://groups.google.com/g/dimabsa-participants
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*Important Dates *
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- Sample Data Ready: 15 July 2025
- Training Data Ready: 30 September 2025
- Evaluation Start: 12 January 2026
- Evaluation End: 30 January 2026
- System Description Paper Due: February 2026
- Notification to Authors: March 2026
- Camera Ready Due: April 2026
- SemEval Workshop 2026: co-located with ACL 2026 (San Diego, CA, USA)
We warmly invite the community to participate in this exciting shared task
and contribute to advancing NLP research.
Best regards,
SemEval-2026 Task 3 Organizers
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PROPOR 2026: 17th International Conference on Computational Processing of
Portuguese
Salvador - BA, Brazil
April 13th to 16th 2026
https://propor2026.ufba.br/
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS (deadline extension: January 9)
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The International Conference on the Computational Processing of Portuguese
(PROPOR) is the main event in the area of human language processing that is
focused on theoretical and technological issues of written and spoken
Portuguese and Galician. The meeting has been a rich forum for the exchange
of ideas and partnerships for the research and industry communities
dedicated to automated language processing, promoting the development of
methodologies, resources, and projects.
We invite submissions describing work on any topic related to the
computational processing of Portuguese and Galician by researchers in
industry or academia. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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Natural language processing tasks (e.g., parsing, word sense
disambiguation, coreference resolution)
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Natural language processing applications (e.g., question answering,
subtitling, summarization, sentiment analysis)
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Natural language generation
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Information extraction and information retrieval
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Speech technologies (e.g., spoken language generation, speech and
speaker recognition, spoken language understanding)
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Speech applications (e.g., spoken language interfaces, dialogue systems,
speech-to-speech translation)
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Resources, standardization, and evaluation (e.g., corpora, ontologies,
lexicons, grammars)
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NLP-oriented linguistic description or theoretical analysis
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Distributional semantics and language modeling
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Portuguese language varieties and dialect processing (including the
language varieties of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Galicia,
Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, and São Tomé and Príncipe)
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Multilingual studies, methods, applications, and resources, Portuguese
and/or Galician
PROPOR 2026 will take place from April 13-16th in Salvador, Bahia (Brazil),
a city that stands as a historical meeting point between the Portuguese
language, the Indigenous languages of Brazil, and the African languages
brought by enslaved peoples.These long-standing linguistic and cultural
interactions have been instrumental in shaping the evolution of Brazilian
Portuguese and Brazilian culture.
PROPOR 2026 will be the 17th edition of the biannual PROPOR conference,
hosted alternately in Brazil and Portugal, and more recently also in
Galiza. Past meetings were held in Lisbon, PT (1993); Curitiba, BR
(1996); Porto Alegre, BR (1998); Évora, PT (1999); Atibaia, BR (2000);
Faro, PT (2003); Itatiaia, BR (2006); Aveiro, PT (2008); Porto Alegre, BR
(2010); Coimbra, PT (2012); São Carlos, BR (2014); Tomar, PT (2016);
Canela, BR (2018); Évora, PT (2020); Fortaleza, BR (2022); and Santiago de
Compostela, GZ (2026).
*Important dates*
- Full and short paper submission deadline: *09/01/2026 *
- Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: 11/02/2026
- Camera-ready papers due: 15/03/2026
- Conference: 13-16/04/2026
Submissions
Submissions should describe original and unpublished work. Authors are
invited to submit two types of papers:
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Full papers reporting substantial and completed research, particularly
work that contributes significantly to the advancement of the field. Where
appropriate, submissions should include concrete evaluation results. Full
papers may be up to 8 pages of content + 2 additional pages for
references.
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Short papers reporting small, focused contributions such as ongoing
research, position papers, promising ideas for discussion, negative
results, or an interesting application nugget. Short papers can have up to
4 content pages + 1 page for references.
Each submission will be evaluated by at least two reviewers. As the review
process is double-blind, submitted papers must be fully anonymized.
Submissions must not include authors’ names, affiliations, or any other
information that could be used to identify them. Authors must avoid
self-references that reveal identity, like “We previously showed (Freitas,
1991) …”. Instead, they should prefer citations such as “Freitas (1991)
previously showed …”. Author information will be collected separately
during the submission process.
While recent editions have only accepted submissions in English, this year
we are pleased to also accept papers written in Portuguese, reaffirming our
commitment to promoting scientific exchange in our language.
At submission time, only PDF format is accepted. For the camera-ready
version, authors of accepted papers will be given 1 additional content page
to address the reviews’ suggestions. Authors of accepted papers will be
requested to send the source files for the production of the proceedings.
All submitted papers must adhere to the ACL style guidelines and use the
LaTeX template below:
- LaTeX stylesheet
<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files/archive/refs/heads/master.zip>
- Overleaf Template
<https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/association-for-computational-ling…>
- Paper Formatting Guidelines
<https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html>
Papers should be submitted via the following URL
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/PROPOR2026 by selecting the track
PROPOR2026 Long and short papers.
Multiple-submission policy
For work that has been or will be submitted to other venues, this
information must be clearly indicated at submission time. If a paper is
accepted, the authors must inform the Program Chairs of their final
decision regarding the venue at which the work will be presented. Papers
that are published (or scheduled for publication) elsewhere cannot be
accepted for publication or presentation at PROPOR 2026.
*Mandatory Reviewing Workload *As the pace of research in the field
continues to accelerate, it is essential to reinforce our collective
commitment to the review process. Accordingly, during submission, authors
will be required to indicate which co-authors commit to serving as
reviewers for the conference.
Publication
The proceedings of PROPOR 2026 will be published in the ACL Anthology. They
will be available online. To ensure publication, at least one author of
each accepted paper must complete a full registration for PROPOR 2026 by
the early registration deadline.
Ethics Policy
Authors are advised to follow the ACL Ethics Policy for submission, which
can be found at: https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#ethics-policy
Authors are also strongly advised to follow the ACL guidelines for
generative AI assistance in authorship, which can be found at:
https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Policy_on_Publication_Ethics…
Kindest regards,
Diana Santos and Larissa Freitas
PROPOR 2026 Program Chairs
propor2026(a)ufba.br
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Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira
CISUC, Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra
http://eden.dei.uc.pt/~hroliv
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to inform you that the deadline for abstract submission to
the International Online Conference 'Bringing together research on the
CEFR/CV and LCR: a focus on descriptors' has been extended until 18
December 2025.
Please notice that you can submit either research, a proposal to present
your project in process, your work in process, a round table or to present
a journal/association/etc. related to the Common European Framework of
Reference for Languages, the Companion Volume and/or Learner Corpus
Research.
Conference website: https://www.finedesc.naturalde.es/
*LAST CALL FOR PAPERS*
*Description*
This international online conference (29–31 January 2026) aims to provide a
forum for researchers working on the implementation of the Common European
Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) and its Companion Volume (CV)
(Council of Europe, 2001, 2020) as well as for scholars employing Learner
Corpus Res
earch (LCR) to describe learner language at different CEFR levels.
Colleagues working on the CEFR/CV and LCR are welcome to share their
findings at this international online conference and explore opportunities
for future collaboration.
The conference will be organized into five thematic panels:
a) Empirical research on the implementation of the CEFR/CV in the
learning, teaching and/or assessment of languages, with a special focus on
descriptor use, if possible.
b) The description of learner language by means of Learner Corpus Research
in CEFR/CV-aligned learner corpora at different CEFR/CV levels.
c) The possibility of supplementing the CEFR/CV descriptors with
linguistic information, i.e., fine-tuned descriptors (Díez-Bedmar, 2018),
based on LCR results.
d) The design of learning/teaching/assessment materials for different
communicative language activities and CEFR/CV levels based on LCR results
e) The knowledge gained and/or challenges encountered in the use of
descriptors in the learning/teaching or assessment of languages.
We invite contributions (either in English or Spanish) on the topics above
in the following formats.
a) Papers: 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes for Q&A
b) Work in Progress (WiP): 10 minutes followed by 5 minutes for Q&A
c) Projects in Progress (PiP): 10 minutes followed by 5 minutes for Q&A
d) Round tables: maximum three participants, 40 minutes followed by 15
minutes for Q&A
e) Presentations of associations, journals, fora, etc. related to the
CEFR/CV or LCR: 10 minutes (followed by 5 minutes for Q&A).
*Instructions for authors*
Contributions may be submitted either in *English or Spanish*.
· *Paper abstracts* should be 400 words maximum (excluding
references) and are expected to include a brief literature review, the
methodology of the study, and the main results obtained.
· *WiP* should be 300 words maximum (excluding references) and
include a brief literature review, the methodology employed, and the main
results expected
· *PiP* should be 300 words maximum (excluding references) and
should include the objectives of the project, the participants, the
methodology employed, and the main results expected.
· *Round-tables* should be 500 words maximum (excluding references)
and focus on the knowledge gained and/or challenges encountered in the use
of descriptors in the learning/teaching or assessment of languages. The
proposals should include the name of the three participants, the
contextualization of the research conducted/the institutional context and
the structure of the round table proposed. Directors and/or teachers in
University Language Centres/Language Centres/etc. are welcome to submit
proposals for round-tables.
· *Presentations* of associations, journals, fora, etc. related to
the CEFR/CV or LCR should be 200 words maximum.
*Pre-conference workshop*
Dr. Yukio Tono (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) will offer a
pre-conference workshop entitled ‘Introducing CEFR-based text analysis
tools’ on January, 29, 2026. This workshop is free of charge, but
registration is required (https://www.finedesc.naturalde.es/#workshop).
*Conference format*
The conference will be online via Zoom.
*Submissions*
Proposals should be anonymized before submission via EasyChair. Further
information is available at
https://www.finedesc.naturalde.es/conference-information/
The deadline for submission is *December, 8th, 2025 December 18th, 2025*
*Registration*
There is no registration fee for attendants and /or presenters, but
registration is required both for the International Online Conference (
https://www.finedesc.naturalde.es/registration/) and/or the pre-conference
workshop (https://www.finedesc.naturalde.es/#workshop).
*Important dates*
Deadline for submission: *December, 8th, 2025 December 18th, 2025*
Notifications of acceptance: January 9, 2026
Pre-conference workshop: 29 January 2026
Conference: 29-31 January 2026
*Publication of a special issue*
A special issue in *Research in Corpus Linguistics* (
https://ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl) will be edited by Dr. Díez-Bedmar
on the topic “LCR meets the CEFR/CV” and published in 2027. We encourage
researchers analyzing learner language -including linguistic,
sociolinguistic, or pragmatic competences- at or across CEFR/CV levels in
CEFR/CV-aligned learner corpora to submit their research to the CFPs for
the special issue. Further information about the CFPs will be provided in
due course.
*Conference organization*
This international online conference is organized by the research project
‘Making the CEFR/CV more user-friendly: fine-tuning descriptors with
Learner Corpus Research (LCR) results’ (Project PID2020-117041GA-I00 funded
by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities,
MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033), ((
https://web.ujaen.es/investiga/finedesc/index.php). The project has focused
on analysing the needs of CEFR/CV end-users and fine-tuning CEFR/CV
descriptors using the FineDesc Learner Corpus compiled during the project.
*Organizing committee*
Marisa Carrió Pastor (Universitat Politècnica de València)
María Belén Díez Bedmar (Universidad de Jaén)
Natalia Judith Laso Martín (Universitat de Barcelona)
Gloria Luque Agulló (Universidad de Jaén)
Carmen Maíz Arévalo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
María del Carmen Méndez García (Universidad de Jaén)
Arturo Montejo Ráez (Universidad de Jaén)
*Scientific committee*
Isabel Alonso Belmonte (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Marisa Carrió Pastor (Universitat Politècnica de València)
Paola Celentin (Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy)
Raquel Criado Sánchez (Universidad de Murcia)
María Belén Díez Bedmar (Universidad de Jaén)
Miguel Fernández Álvarez (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
Stefania Ferrari (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy)
Neus Figueras Casanovas (EALTA CEFR SIG Chair)
María del Carmen Fonseca Mora (Universidad de Huelva)
Dana Gablasova (Lancaster University, UK)
Jesús García Laborda (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares)
Natalia Judith Laso Martín (Universitat de Barcelona)
Gloria Luque Agulló (Universidad de Jaén)
Carmen Maíz Arévalo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Geraldine Mark
María del Carmen Méndez García (Universidad de Jaén)
Akira Murakami (University of Birmingham, UK)
Brian North (CEFR co-author)
Ignacio Palacios Martínez (Universidade Santiago de Compostela)
Magali Paquot (Université catholique de Louvain)
Víctor Pavón Vázquez (Universidad de Córdoba)
Pascual Pérez Paredes (Universidad de Murcia)
Enrica Piccardo (University of Toronto, Canada)
Ariadna Sánchez Hernández (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Adolfo Sánchez Cuadrado (Universidad de Granada)
Juana R. Sanmartín Vélez (Presidenta de la Asociación de Centros de Lenguas
en la Enseñanza Superior (ACLES))
Yukio Tono (Tokio University of Foreign Studies, Japan)
Project PID2020-117041GA-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033
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Dear all,
This is the third CfP for VarDial 2026 - The Thirteenth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (apologies for cross-posting):
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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: December 19, 2025
- Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026
- 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
18th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2026
Interactive Creativity: Agencies, Interfaces, and Ethics
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8-12 June 2026
Venice, Italy
http://unive.it/avi2026
In-Cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB
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IMPORTANT DATES
- Workshop proposals submission: December 14, 2025
- Notification: December 21, 2025
- Workshop website online: January 12, 2026
(all deadlines are 23:59, AoE)
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WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
We invite proposals for workshops that will facilitate the exchange of new ideas in all areas related to Advanced Visual Interfaces and Human-Computer Interaction.
We invite organizers to propose either half-day or one-day long workshops held either on June 8 or 9, 2026, at the AVI2026 venue in Venice.
Workshop proposals must be submitted using the following form, which also contains relevant information for the workshop organisers:
https://forms.gle/v7gEKFchxAGzMJtj8
Workshop Chairs
- Daniela Fogli, Università di Brescia, Italy (daniela.fogli(a)unibs.it)
- Kyle Montague, Northumbria University, UK (kyle.montague(a)northumbria.ac.uk)
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DESCRIPTION
Since its first edition in 1992, AVI has become an influential space for encounters among scholars and practitioners interested in interfaces, interactions, and experiences. Rooted in pioneering research on visual interfaces characterized by a distinctive attention to the human factor, the conference has evolved across the different waves of Human-Computer Interaction. It has addressed the pragmatic and hedonic needs of heterogeneous groups of users up to the current challenge of self-actualization. Creativity is a core behavior that leads to the realization of a person’s full potential, and the explosion of generative AI presents both opportunities and challenges to human creativity. They address fundamental issues related to agencies, interfaces, and ethics.
AVI 2026 will take place in San Servolo, a small island in Venice. This delicate and fragile ecosystem provides the ideal venue for reflecting, reframing, and speculating about creative solutions to more sustainable, inclusive and rewarding technological futures. AVI is an International Conference considering the nationality of participants, authors, and organizing committees. However, it has always taken place in Italy, thus complementing a strong and diverse research program with carefully selected cultural and social activities alongside a distinct sense of hospitality and conviviality.
The conference is held under the patronage of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy.
We look forward to your participation in AVI 2026!
Antonella De Angeli, AVI 2026 General Co-Chair
Albrecht Schmidt, AVI 2026 General Co-Chair
Rosella Gennari, AVI 2026 Program Co-Chair
Fabio Pittarello, AVI 2026 Program Co-Chair
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MAIN THEMES AND TOPICS
Themes and topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
/ Theme: Interaction Paradigms and Modalities /
Brain-Computer Interaction
Embodied and Tangible Interaction
Material-Centric Interaction
Information Visualization
Screen-based Interaction
Interfaces for Sound and Music
Multi-sensory Interaction
Multimodal Interaction
/ Theme: Interaction Spaces /
Augmented Reality
Cross Reality
Virtual Reality
Interaction between Black-Boxes
Dynamic Physical Environments
Natural Environments
Urban Places
/ Theme: Human-System Interaction /
Adaptive and Context-Aware Interfaces
Affective Interfaces
Human-Robot Interaction
Intelligent Interfaces
Interfaces and Recommender Systems
/ Theme: Ecosystems of People, Groups and Societies /
Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
Learning Ecosystems
Game and Play Ecosystems
Social Interaction and Cooperation Systems
/ Theme: Values and Moral Principles /
Beyond Human Interaction
Critical Computing
Critical Data Science
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Responsible Design
/ Theme: Applications /
Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities
End User Development
AI and Creativity
Human Factors in Security Systems
Health, Well-being, and Self-Actualization
Training and Learning Systems
Industry 5.0
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AVI 2026 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Chairs
Antonella De Angeli, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (antonella.deangeli(a)unibz.it)
Albrecht Schmidt, Ludwig-Maximilians Munich University, Germany (albrecht.schmidt(a)um.ifi.lmu.de)
Program Chairs
Rosella Gennari, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (gennari(a)inf.unibz.it)
Fabio Pittarello, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (pitt(a)unive.it)
Long Papers Chairs
Paloma Diaz, Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain (pdp(a)inf.uc3m.es)
Alessandra Melonio, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (alessandra.melonio(a)unive.it)
Short Papers Chairs
Luigi De Russis, Politecnico di Torino, Italy (luigi.derussis(a)polito.it)
María Menéndez Blanco, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (Maria.MenendezBlanco(a)unibz.it)
Proceedings Chairs
Niccolò Pretto, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (niccolo.pretto(a)unibz.it)
Nadine Wagener, OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology, Germany (nadine.wagener(a)offis.de)
Workshops Chairs
Daniela Fogli, Università di Brescia, Italy (daniela.fogli(a)unibs.it)
Kyle Montague, Northumbria University, UK (kyle.montague(a)northumbria.ac.uk)
Interactive Experiences and Demos Chairs
Stefania De Vincentis, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (stefania.devincentis(a)unive.it)
Florian Michahelles, TU Wien, Austria (florian.michahelles(a)tuwien.ac.at)
Sebastiano Vascon, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (sebastiano.vascon(a)unive.it)
Posters Chairs
Alba Bisante, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy (bisante(a)di.uniroma1.it)
Tanja Doering, TU Berlin, Germany (tanja.doering(a)mms.tu-berlin.de)
Doctoral Consortium Chairs
Rosa Lanzilotti, University of Bari, Italy (rosa.lanzilotti(a)uniba.it)
Monica Divitini, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway (divitini(a)ntnu.no)
Industry Chairs
Fabio Morreale, Sony, Spain (Fabio.Morreale(a)sony.com)
Emanuele Pucci, Politecnico di Milano (emanuele.pucci(a)polimi.it)
Accessibility and Inclusion Chairs
Marco Mores, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (marco.mores(a)student.unibz.it)
Teresa Scantamburlo, University of Trieste, Italy (teresa.scantamburlo(a)units.it)
Web Chair
Tommaso Pellegrini, Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice, Italy (tommaso.pellegrini(a)unive.it)
Publicity & Social Networks Chairs
Andrea Rezzani, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (andrea.rezzani(a)student.unibz.it)
Mehdi Rizvi, University of East Anglia, UK (mehdi.rizvi(a)uea.ac.uk)
Student Volunteers Chairs
Daniel Bermudez, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (JulioDaniel.BermudezChinea(a)student.unibz.it)
Bilal Khan, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
(MuhammadBilal.Khan(a)student.unibz.it)
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AVI STEERING COMMITTEE
Paolo Bottoni,
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Cristina Conati
University of British Columbia, Canada
Emanuele Panizzi,
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Ilaria Torre
University of Genoa, Italy
Genny Tortora
University of Salerno, Italy
Giuliana Vitiello
University of Salerno, Italy
Gualtiero Volpe
University of Genoa, Italy
Marco Winckler
Université Côte d'Azur, France
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Applications are invited for a *postdoctoral researcher (Research Support
Officer III)* to work full-time on the project *“3M-XL – Maltese-centric
Multilingual Model using Cross-lingual Transfer”* at the Department of
Artificial Intelligence, University of Malta.
The post focuses on multilingual language modelling and transfer learning
for low-resource languages, with a particular emphasis on Maltese,
including corpus preparation, model development, and
benchmarking/evaluation. The position is funded for up to 18 months,
starting 1st February 2026. The successful candidate will be required to
reside in Malta for the duration of the contract.
Full details of the post (duties, requirements, salary, and application
procedure) are available in the call text:
https://www.um.edu.mt/media/um/docs/directorates/hrmd/workatum/projects/FTR…
While the call formally allows appointments at RSO I/II level, our primary
aim is to recruit at postdoctoral (RSO III) level.
The application deadline is *Friday, 19 December 2025*.
Informal enquiries are welcome at claudia.borg(a)um.edu.mt.
Tislijiet,
Claudia
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