Search Solutions 2025 is the UK’s premier forum for presenting the latest innovations in search and information retrieval, organised by the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group (IRSG).
Tutorial Day: Tuesday 25 November 2025
Conference Day: Wednesday 26 November 2025
Location: BCS London, 25 Copthall Avenue, EC2R 7BP
The conference brings together practitioners, researchers, and end-users to share insights between research and practice. This year’s programme features sessions on Evaluation, User-Centred Search, Search Effectiveness, and Professional Search, with contributions from academic and industry leaders including Sease, University of Glasgow, City St George’s, France Labs, Zuva, Trip Database, and others.
The day concludes with the BCS Search Industry Awards, drinks reception, and AGM.
Ticket prices (incl. VAT & fees)
* BCS/ISKO members – £92
* Non-members – £110
* Students – £80
Full agenda and registration:
* Conference – https://www.bcs.org/events-calendar/2025/november/search-solutions-2025 <https://www.bcs.org/events-calendar/2025/november/search-solutions-2025>
* Tutorials – https://www.bcs.org/events-calendar/2025/november/search-solutions-tutorial… <https://www.bcs.org/events-calendar/2025/november/search-solutions-tutorial…>
We look forward to welcoming you to another inspiring event showcasing the latest innovations in search and information retrieval.
**2nd CALL FOR PAPERS**
22nd Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2026)
https://multiword.org/mwe2026/
Organized, sponsored, and endorsed by SIGLEX, the Special Interest Group on
the Lexicon of the ACL, and by UniDive <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr>
Cost Action CA21167
Half-day workshop collocated with the 19th Conference of the European
Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (*EACL 2026*,
https://2026.eacl.org/), *Rabat, Morocco*.
Hybrid (on-site & on-line)
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Important Dates
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Direct Submission deadline: December 19, 2025
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Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026
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Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026
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Camera-ready paper due: February 3, 2026
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Workshop dates: March 24-29, 2026
All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12 (Anywhere on Earth).
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Multiword expressions (MWEs), i.e., word combinations that exhibit lexical,
syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and/or statistical idiosyncrasies (Baldwin
and Kim, 2010), such as “by and large”, “hot dog”, “make a decision” and
“break one's leg” are still a pain in the neck for Natural Language
Processing (NLP). The notion of MWE encompasses closely related phenomena:
idioms, compounds, light-verb constructions, phrasal verbs, rhetorical
figures, collocations, institutionalized phrases, etc. Given their
irregular nature, MWEs often pose complex problems in linguistic modeling
(e.g., annotation), NLP tasks (e.g., parsing), and end-user applications
(e.g., natural language understanding and Machine Translation), hence still
representing an open issue for computational linguistics (Miletić and
Schulte im Walde, 2024; Ramisch et al., 2023; Phelps et al., 2024; Mahajan
et al., 2024).
For more than two decades, the topic of modeling and processing MWEs for
NLP has been the focus of the MWE workshop, organized by the MWE section
<https://multiword.org/> of ACL-SIGLEX <http://www.siglex.org/> in
conjunction with major NLP conferences since 2003. Impressive progress has
been made in the field, but our understanding of MWEs still requires much
research, considering their need and usefulness in NLP applications. This
is also relevant to domain-specific NLP pipelines that need to tackle
terminologies most often realized as MWEs.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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Computationally-applicable theoretical work in psycholinguistics and
corpus linguistics;
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Annotation (expert, crowdsourcing, automatic) and representation in
resources such as corpora, treebanks, e-lexicons, WordNets, constructions
(also for low-resource languages);
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Processing in syntactic and semantic frameworks (e.g. CCG, CxG, HPSG,
LFG, TAG, UD, etc.);
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Discovery and identification methods, including for specialized
languages and domains such as clinical or biomedical NLP;
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Interpretation of MWEs and understanding of text containing them;
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Language acquisition, language learning, and non-standard language (e.g.
tweets, speech);
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Evaluation of annotation and processing techniques;
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Retrospective comparative analyses from the PARSEME shared tasks;
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Processing for end-user applications (e.g. MT, NLU, summarisation,
language learning, etc.);
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Implicit and explicit representation in pre-trained language models and
end-user applications;
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Evaluation and probing of pre-trained language models;
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Resources and tools (e.g. lexicons, identifiers) and their integration
into end-user applications;
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Multiword terminology extraction;
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Adaptation and transfer of annotations and related resources to new
languages and domains including low-resource ones.
Co-located Shared tasks
The workshop MWE 2026 will host two shared tasks
<https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=other-events:parseme-admire-st…>
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PARSEME 2.0, whose objective is to identify and paraphrase MWEs in
written text, and
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AdMIRe 2 (Advancing Multimodal Idiomaticity Representation), which explores
the comprehension ability of multimodal models for MWEs in a variety of
languages.
Submission formats
The workshop invites two types of submissions:
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archival submissions that present substantially original research in
both long paper format (8 pages + references) and short paper format (4
pages + references).
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non-archival submissions of abstracts describing relevant research
presented/published elsewhere, which will not be included in the MWE
proceedings.
Paper submission and templates
Papers should be submitted via the workshop's submission page
<https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop> (
https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop). Please choose
the appropriate submission format (archival/non-archival). Archival papers
with existing reviews will also be accepted through the ACL Rolling Review.
Submissions must follow the ACL stylesheet
<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>.
Authors are encouraged, wherever relevant, to adopt the conventions on
citing, glossing and translating multilingual examples of MWEs
<https://gitlab.com/parseme/pmwe/-/blob/master/Conventions-for-MWE-examples/…>
promoted by the editors of the Phraseology and Multiword Expressions book
series <https://langsci-press.org/catalog/series/pmwe> published by
Language Science Press.
Organizing Committee
Verginica Barbu Mititelu, A. Seza Doğruöz, Alexandre Rademaker, Atul Kr.
Ojha, Mathieu Constant, Ivelina Stoyanova
Anti-harassment policy
The workshop follows the ACL anti-harassment policy.
Contact
For any inquiries regarding the workshop, please send an email to the
Organizing Committee at mwe2026workshop(a)gmail.com.
WSDM Cup 2026 - MULTILINGUAL RETRIEVAL
https://wsdmcup-2026.github.io
*** CHALLENGE FEATURES ***
Why you should care about this Cup!
* Multilingual: Search with queries and documents in different languages is difficult.
* For Better RAG: Incorporating information in different languages is critical for effective RAG.
* Informational Queries: We prepare rich information queries instead of factoid QA questions.
*** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ***
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems provide an opportunity to expand the scope of available information to users, since they are able to retrieve and synthesize information from documents in languages that the user does not necessarily understand. The ability to retrieve documents only based on their relevance, regardless of language, is crucial for modern retrieval models to support better coverage of perspectives from different parts of the world. Thus, WSDM Cup 2026 features a multilingual retrieval task.
The participants will develop systems that receive English queries and search a collection of about 10 million documents (https://huggingface.co/datasets/neuclir/neuclir1) in Chinese (3.1M), Persian (2.2M), and Russian (4.6M). For each query, the system must produce a ranked list of 1,000 documents selected from the entire multilingual collection, ordered by likelihood and relevance to the topic. All systems should operate automatically without human intervention. Submissions must be in the TREC run file format. Each team may submit up to 5 submissions and will be evaluated using nDCG@20.
*** PARTICIPATION AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ***
There are 41 development queries that the participants can use in system development. Participants are free to use other data, such as MIRACL. However, using the TREC NeuCLIR Track data besides the development queries provided by the organizers is strongly prohibited. The participants should not use the publicly available relevance assessments on this specific collection (NeuCLIR) besides the development queries and labels provided by the Cup. Participants will be asked to provide code for their training and inference process either through a tarball submission or a publicly available repository.
All participants are expected to submit a short write-up about their submissions (similar to the TREC system paper). Selected teams (including the winner of the Cup) will receive a slot at WSDM for oral presentation.
Submissions will also be made to the submission Google Form. All test queries should have at least 20 retrieved documents in each submission file. The following is an example of the submission format (the TREC run format).
*** IMPORTANT DATES ***
* November 17, 2025: Document collection, development/test queries, and the submission portal are available.
* December 1, 2025: Online Q&A session if needed
* February 2, 2025: Submission due
* February 22-26, 2026: WSDM Conference; winner and evaluation result announcement. An overview technical report will be released along with the final results.
*** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ***
* Dawn Lawrie (HLTCOE, Johns Hopkins University)
* Sean Macavaney (University of Glasgow)
* James Mayfield (HLTCOE, Johns Hopkins University)
* Luca Soldaini (Allen Institute for AI)
* Eugene Yang (HLTCOE, Johns Hopkins University)
* Andrew Yates (HLTCOE, Johns Hopkins University)
WSDM 2026: 19th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
Feb 22, 2026 - Feb 26, 2026
Boise, Idaho, USA
Call for WSDM Day Presentations
Submission deadline: November 18, 2025
Notification: December 2, 2025
WSDM Day Date: February 26, 2026
All deadlines are 11:59 pm anywhere on Earth.
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Artificial intelligence has become a critical enabler of scientific discovery, amplifying and accelerating research through massive literature analysis, hypotheses generation, design and control of experiments, collection and interpretation of large datasets, and scalable verification and validation. Autonomous science is an emerging field that uses artificial intelligence, robotics, and automated systems to conduct scientific experiments and discovery, enhancing human capabilities. This year, the WSDM Day will be held on February 26th, 2026, aiming to promote WSDM-aligned topics relevant to autonomous science and discuss the “State of Data Mining & Web Search in Scientific Discovery.” The organizing committee invites submissions for oral/poster presentation on topics aligned with those set forth in the call for papers of the main conference, focusing on issues relevant to autonomous science. We welcome all submissions related to, but not limited to, the following topics:
* Agentic models for reasoning in science *
Agentic AI and LLM-based systems are increasingly being used to support hypothesis generation and reasoning over complex models. Integrating web search and data mining allows these agents to continuously draw upon open scientific resources, digital libraries, and web knowledge graphs, thereby grounding hypotheses in the latest accessible evidence. Such integration accelerates workflows in fundamental sciences as well as user facility operations wherein researchers must make data-driven decisions regarding experimental and simulation design and control. By embedding reasoning into agents with web-mined knowledge, autonomous systems can help scientists frame and test ideas quickly and efficiently.
Topics in this area include:
** LLMs and agentic models for hypothesis generation and knowledge extraction that leverage large-scale web-mined corpora and open-access repositories.
** Query formulation and expansion using scientific knowledge bases and web-scale search engines.
** Multi-agent systems for problem solving in scientific workflows enriched by open data and community-contributed resources.
** Foundation models for single and multiple scientific domains, trained and evaluated on mined web and literature data.
** Privacy, trust, and interpretability in autonomous reasoning systems that rely on heterogeneous, web-sourced knowledge.
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* Embodied intelligence for autonomous experiments *
Laboratories increasingly integrate robotics and AI for high-throughput experimentation and autonomous sample handling. Embodied intelligence can enable closed-loop operation of particle accelerator beamlines, synthesis robots, and advanced microscopes, reducing human intervention and increasing reproducibility. Web search and data mining provide complementary resources by enabling embodied systems to draw on prior experimental data, shared lab protocols, and open-access knowledge to guide adaptive control. There is also strong interest in developing digital twins of experimental systems that integrate web-accessible datasets to guide exploration of large parameter spaces.
Topics in this area include:
** Robotics and mechatronics for operating experiments, informed by mined online design repositories and shared experimental logs.
** Closed-loop control in complex laboratory settings that leverages streaming data and searchable metadata collections.
** Benchmarking and validation through open science datasets, test collections, and evaluation methodologies made discoverable via data mining.
** Digital twins and online data streaming for linking simulation to experiment, enriched by knowledge integration from web and community datasets.
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* Search and planning algorithms for scientific discovery *
Search and planning algorithms play a central role in scientific discovery pipelines, from designing materials with desired properties to planning experiments. When integrated with web search and data mining, such algorithms can exploit open repositories of molecular structures, experimental data, or prior results to guide decision-making. In laboratories, adaptive planning algorithms can maximize information gain from limited resources, such as beam time and sample availability, while leveraging web-accessible experiment registries. This area also includes the operational task of optimal planning and scheduling of experiments at scientific facilities, aided by searchable databases of facility usage and constraints.
Topics in this area include:
** Tree search, graph algorithms, and combinatorial methods that integrate mined data from scientific publications and web repositories.
** Filtering and re-ranking results based on relevance and criticality using web-scale knowledge graphs and citation networks.
** Reinforcement learning and adaptive experimental design augmented with external data mined from past studies.
** Planning and scheduling under uncertainty in constrained environments, supported by searchable facility schedules and open metadata.
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* Data reduction at scale *
Science experiments and simulations often generate petabytes of multi-modal data. Example data sources include particle collisions, climate simulations, or high-resolution microscopy images and spectra. In-situ and edge computing strategies must be used to perform reduction and compression at the source. Web search and data mining play an essential role in discovering, indexing, and linking these massive datasets with open-access resources, enabling cross-facility comparisons and meta-analysis. These capabilities are crucial for processing data from user facilities and making large-scale simulation models usable in practice.
Topics in this area include:
** In-situ and edge computing for real-time reduction of experimental data, linked to searchable web repositories for downstream use.
** Streaming analytics for large-scale experimental datasets integrated with data mining for anomaly detection and trend discovery.
** Compression, summarization, and representation learning for scientific data, with searchable embeddings accessible via open web interfaces.
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*** Submission Guidelines ***
Submissions are invited in the form of 4-page papers (with an additional one page for references) or a 2-page abstract for poster and demonstration proposals. All submissions must adhere to the formatting requirements specified in the conference’s author guidelines, available at https://wsdm-conference.org/2026/index.php/call-for-short-papers/. Submissions are now open via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wsdm2026, select WSDM Day Presentations Track).
Submissions will be reviewed in a single-blind manner by at least two reviewers and must include all authors’ names and affiliations. Papers that fail to adhere to the submission guidelines or fall outside the scope of relevant topics will be rejected without review. The papers will go through a peer reviewed process, and the accepted papers would be presented as an oral or poster presentation during the WSDM Day. Accepted papers will be featured in the WSDM Day program and included in the conference proceedings with the ACM Digital Library, with a strict 2-page limit for all content.
Dual-submission policy: We welcome ongoing and unpublished work. We also welcome papers that are under review at the time of submission.
Presentation: The presentation format will include short oral presentations (e.g., talks ranging from 10 to 15 minutes) and poster session. At least one author of each accepted presentation must register in the conference and be able to present the work during WSDM Day 2026.
We look forward to your submissions and participation in this exciting event!
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*** Contact ***
For questions or additional information, please contact the organizing committee at WSDM2026-day(a)easychair.org:
Organizing Committee:
* Mahantesh Halappanavar (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
* Natalie Isenberg (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
* Nathan Urban (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
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
Interactive Experiences, Demo and Poster Paper Submission Deadline:
March 9, 2026
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POSTER PAPERS
The AVI 2026 Poster Track is dedicated to showcasing work-in-progress that
pushes the boundaries of Advanced Visual Interfaces and Human-Computer
Interaction.
We especially welcome posters that explore creativity through a critical
lens, addressing its complex dimensions of agency, interfaces, and ethics.
This track offers a valuable opportunity to obtain precious feedback from
peers and experts in an engaging, informal setting. Submissions must
describe original (though not yet fully completed) research.
INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCES AND DEMO PAPERS
The interactive experiences and demo track is intended to provide a forum
to showcase interactive installations, innovative implementations, systems,
and technologies demonstrating new ideas about creativity, in relation to
AVI themes and topics, and reaching out to novel communities.
Interactive Experiences are expected primarily from musicians, designers,
and artists.
Demo submissions should be more technical, typically originating from
Computer Engineering or Computer Science fields.
Please notice that:
The committee reserves the right to reject proposals whose hardware and/or
space requirements cannot be met by organizers (if you have any doubt
please contact the Interactive Experiences and Demo Chairs before
submitting). The organizers cannot provide any specific equipment (e.g.,
sound or lighting systems).
There is no possibility for any remuneration by the conference organizers.
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SUBMISSION FORMAT
All the papers mentioned above require online submission.
Specific information concerning the submission (e.g., submission format) is
available on the AVI website.
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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
Albrecht Schmidt, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany
Program Chairs
Rosella Gennari, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Fabio Pittarello, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Long Papers Chairs
Paloma Diaz, Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain
Alessandra Melonio, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Short Papers Chairs
Luigi De Russis, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
María Menéndez Blanco, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Proceedings Chairs
Niccolò Pretto, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Nadine Wagener, OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology, Germany
Workshops Chairs
Daniela Fogli, Università di Brescia, Italy
Kyle Montague, Northumbria University, UK
Interactive Experiences and Demos Chairs
Stefania De Vincentis, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Florian Michahelles, TU Wien, Austria
Sebastiano Vascon, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Posters Chairs
Alba Bisante, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Tanja Döring, TU Berlin, Germany
Doctoral Consortium Chairs
Rosa Lanzilotti, University of Bari, Italy
Monica Divitini, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Industry Chairs
Fabio Morreale, Sony, Spain
Emanuele Pucci, Politecnico di Milano
Accessibility and Inclusion Chairs
Marco Mores, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Teresa Scantamburlo, University of Trieste, Italy
Web Chair
Tommaso Pellegrini, Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice, Italy
Publicity & Social Networks Chairs
Andrea Rezzani, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Mehdi Rizvi, Heriot Watt University, UK
Student Volunteers Chairs
Daniel Bermudez, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Bilal Khan, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
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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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IberLEF 2026 -- Call for Task Proposals
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IberLEF (the Iberian Language Evaluation Forum) is a shared evaluation
campaign of Natural Language Processing systems in Spanish and other
Iberian languages, whose 2026 edition will be held as part of the 42th
International Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language
Processing (SEPLN). The 2026 edition of the SEPLN conference will take
place in León, Spain.
The goal of IberLEF is to encourage the research community to organize
competitive text processing, understanding and generation tasks, with the
aim of defining new research challenges and advancing the state of the art
in Natural Language Processing challenges involving at least one of the
following Iberian languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Basque or
Galician. Researchers and practitioners from all areas of Natural Language
Processing and related communities are invited to submit task proposals
that fit IberLEF goals by December 22, 2026.
Proposals must be submitted (as a pdf file) to iberlef(a)googlegroups.com,
and should include the following fields:
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Title of the task.
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Description of the task, highlighting:
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Relevance and novelty of the task, and the challenges involved.
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Evaluation measures, and other relevant methodological aspects.
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Expected target community, and actual or potential industrial takeup.
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Related evaluation activities, if any.
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Previous editions of the task, if any. If it has been organized
previously, what the roadmap is and what the novelties for 2026 are.
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Linguistic resources to be gathered, created and/or reused. Please
include as many details on data gathering, selection and annotation
procedures as possible: sources and representativity,
training/validation/test sizes, harvesting procedures, profile of
annotators (experts, linguists, crowdworkers, etc.), multiple annotation
policy, IPR issues, baselines, etc.
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Tentative schedule (note that camera-ready versions of the proceedings
must be ready by July 3, 2026).
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Organization committee: full name and affiliation of the organizers,
with a succinct description of their research interests, areas of expertise
and experience organizing similar events.
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Funding, if available.
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Contact person.
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Any other relevant issues.
Task organizers duties
Note that organizers of accepted tasks are expected to:
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Set up the evaluation exercise according to the submitted proposal.
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Promote the task within the target research community.
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Manage the submission and scientific evaluation of the system
description papers of the corresponding systems submitted by the
participants. The accepted papers will be published in
the IberLEF proceedings.
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Prepare and submit an overview of the evaluation exercise.
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Present the results of the task at IberLEF 2026.
Task selection procedure
Each submitted proposal will be reviewed by members of the IberLEF steering
and program committee, and decisions will be sent back to the task
organizers by January 23, 2026.
Proceedings
IberLEF 2026 Proceedings including the description of the participating
systems will be published at CEUR-WS.org. Task Overviews will be published
in the SEPLN journal (http://www.sepln.org/en/journal, indexed in Clarivate
ESCI (JIF: 1,22), CiteScore (Scopus): 7,3 and SJR: 0,57) in its September
2026 issue. Task Organizers are expected to notify participants the
acceptance of their works by June 19, 2026, and send the camera ready task
and system description papers for their task to IberLEF organizers by July
3, 2026.
Important dates
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Task proposals due: December 22, 2026.
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Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026.
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Final date for sending paper acceptance to task participants: June 19,
2026.
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Camera ready submissions due: July 3, 2026.
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IberLEF Workshop: September 22, 2026.
IberLEF general chairs
Alba Bonet Jover, GPLSI, Universidad de Alicante (Spain)
Luis Chiruzzo, Universidad de la República (Uruguay)
José Ángel González Barba, TransPerfect (Spain)
Website
https://sites.google.com/view/iberlef-2026
Contact
E-mail: iberlef(a)googlegroups.com
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**
*CALL FOR POSTERS14th International Symposium on Foundations of
Information and Knowledge Systems (FoIKS 2026) Hannover, Germany,
March 23–26, 2026https://foiks2026.github.io/
<https://foiks2026.github.io/>**.*
<https://foiks2026.github.io/>
*Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call.*
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*FoIKS 2026 invites poster contributions presenting fresh research
ideas in the broad area of information and knowledge systems. Poster
papers need not report mature scientific results; they can also
describe early-stage work, starting points for discussions, or novel
perspectives on known problems.*
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*IMPORTANT DATES*
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Submission deadline: December 19, 2025
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Notification: January 19, 2026
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Final version due: January 26, 2026
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Conference: March 23–26, 2026
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SCOPE
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
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Mathematical Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems:
discrete structures, algorithms, graphs, formal languages
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Database Design and Management: formal models, dependencies,
transactions, concurrency control
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Logics in Databases and AI: classical and non-classical logics,
logic programming, description logics, spatial/temporal logics,
argumentation, probability and fuzzy logic
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Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: logical and non-monotonic
reasoning, reasoning under inconsistency, vagueness, or uncertainty
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Foundations of Neuro-symbolic Reasoning: embeddings for structured
information (knowledge graphs, logical theories, etc.)
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Intelligent Agents: multi-agent systems, formal models of
interaction, coalition formation, epistemic reasoning
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Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval: machine learning,
data mining, formal concept analysis, association rules,
information extraction
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Security in Information and Knowledge Systems: privacy, trust,
access control, secure services, inference control, risk management
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Integrity and Constraint Management: verification, validation,
consistent query answering, information cleaning
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Knowledge Graphs and Semi-structured Data: data modelling,
processing, compression, and exchange
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Poster papers must use the Springer LNCS LaTeX style
(seehttps://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings…
<https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>).Submissions
that deviate substantially from the guidelines may be rejected without
review.
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Review process: single-blind (submissions are not anonymous).
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Length: up to 5 pages including all material, i.e. including
references and no additional resources.
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Submissions: PDF format only (final versions require LaTeX sources).
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Submission
link:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=foiks2026<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=foiks2026>
Poster papers will undergo a rather lightweight review process. A good
poster paper should include motivation, a clear problem statement, and
initial results or report on work in progress. Preliminary ideas and
modest extensions of previous work are welcome.
At least one author of each accepted poster paper must register for
the conference. Each accepted poster will be presented in a lightning
talk and a poster session at FoIKS 2026.
For inquiries, contact: foiks2026(a)easychair.org
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PUBLICATION
Accepted poster papers will appear in the FoIKS 2026 proceedings,
published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
series.
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INVITED SPEAKERS
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Giuseppe De Giacomo (University of Oxford)
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Floris Geerts (University of Antwerp)
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Wolfgang Nejdl (Leibniz Universität Hannover)
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Ana Ozaki (University of Oslo)
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ORGANIZATION
Program Committee Chairs:Anni-Yasmin Turhan (Paderborn University,
Germany)Jonni Virtema (University of Glasgow, UK)
Local Chair:Arne Meier (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany)
Publicity Chair:Yasir Mahmood (Paderborn University, Germany)
Local Organizers:Timon Barlag, Nicolas Fröhlich, Vivian Holzapfel,
Rahel Kluge,Laura Strieker, Heribert Vollmer (all Leibniz Universität
Hannover)
Program Committee:Ringo Baumann, Meghyn Bienvenu, Thomas Bolander,
Stefan Borgwardt,Elena Botoeva, Willem Conradie, Fabio Cozman, Thomas
Eiter,Flavio Ferrarotti, Johannes K. Fichte, Valentin Goranko,Guido
Governatori, Marc Gyssens, Miika Hannula, Jelle Hellings,Andreas
Herzig, Martin Homola, Tomi Janhunen, Matti Järvisalo,Gabriele
Kern-Isberner, Sébastien Konieczny, Juha Kontinen,Mena Leemhuis, Joao
Leite, Sebastian Link, Maria Vanina Martinez,Arne Meier, Thomas Meyer,
Daniel Neider, Magdalena Ortiz,Nina Pardal, Elena Ravve, Sebastian
Rudolph, Katsuhiko Sano,Konstantin Schekotihin, Klaus-Dieter Schewe,
Guillermo R. Simari,Jan Van den Bussche, Stefan Woltran, Thomas
Ågotnes, Mantas Šimkus
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Dear all,
This is the second 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
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Dear colleagues,
We invite you to participate in a survey that will help us evaluate and
plan the development of services, activities, resources, and tools of
CLARIN.SI, the Slovenian infrastructure for language resources and
technologies. Your responses will play a key role in shaping our future
strategy and ensuring our infrastructure meets the needs of the research
community.
Take the anonymous survey here:
https://1ka.arnes.si/clarin?language=2<https://1ka.arnes.si/clarin?language=2>The
survey takes up to 15 minutes and is open until the end of November.
If you use, contribute to, or are simply interested in the language
data, services and technologies that CLARIN.SI offers, please take part
– and share the survey with others in your network.
Note: This is the English version of the Slovenian survey that was
available in March 2025. If you have already completed the survey in
Slovenian, please do not fill it out again.
Best regards,
The CLARIN.SI Team
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International Conference
'LAnguage TEchnologies for Low-resource Languages' (LaTeLL '2026)
Fes, Morocco
30 September, 1 and 2 October 2026
www.latell.org/2026/ [1]
First Call for Papers
The conference
Natural Language Processing (NLP) has witnessed remarkable progress in
recent years, largely driven by the emergence of deep learning
architectures and, more recently, large language models (LLMs).
Nevertheless, these advances have disproportionately benefited
high-resource languages that possess abundant data for model training.
By contrast, low-resource languages--which account for at least 85% of
the world's linguistic diversity and are often spoken by smaller or
marginalised communities- have not yet reaped the full benefits of
contemporary NLP technologies.
This imbalance can be attributed to several interrelated factors,
including the scarcity of high-quality training data, limited
computational and financial resources, and insufficient community
engagement in data collection and model development. Developing NLP
applications for low-resource languages poses major challenges,
particularly the need for large, well-annotated datasets, standardised
tools, and robust linguistic resources.
Although several workshops have previously addressed NLP for
low-resource languages, _LaTeLL_ represents the first international
conference dedicated specifically to the automatic processing of such
languages. The event aims to provide a forum for researchers to present
and discuss their latest work in NLP in general, and in the development
and evaluation of language models for low-resource languages in
particular.
Conference topics
We invite submissions on a broad spectrum of topics concerning
linguistic and computational studies focusing on low-resource languages,
including but not limited to the following topics:
Language resources for low-resource languages
* Dataset creation and annotation
* Evaluation methodologies and benchmarks for low-resource settings
* Lexical resources, corpora, and linguistic databases
* Crowdsourcing and community-driven data collection
* Tools and frameworks for low-resource language processing
Core language technologies for low-resource languages
* Language modelling and pre-training for low-resource languages
* Speech recognition, text-to-speech, and spoken language
understanding
* Phonology, morphology, word segmentation, and tokenisation
* Syntax: tagging, chunking, and parsing
* Semantics: lexical and sentence-level representation
NLP Applications for low-resource languages
* Information extraction and named entity recognition
* Question answering systems
* Dialogue and interactive systems
* Summarisation
* Machine translation
* Sentiment analysis, stylistic analysis, and argument mining
* Content moderation
* Information retrieval and text mining
Multimodality and Grounding for low-resource languages
* Vision and language for low-resource contexts
* Speech and text multimodal systems
* Low-resource sign language processing
Ethics, Equity, and Social Impact for low-resource languages
* Bias and fairness in low-resource language technologies
* Sociolinguistic considerations in technology development
* Cultural appropriateness and sensitivity
Human-Centred Approaches in low-resource languages
* Usability and accessibility of low-resource language technologies
* Educational applications and language learning
* Community needs assessment and technology adoption
* User experience research in low-resource contexts
Multilinguality and Cross-Lingual Methods for low-resource languages
* Multilingual language models and their adaptation
* Code-switching and code-mixing
* Cross-lingual transfer learning in low-resource languages.
Special Theme Track 1 -- Building Applications Based on Large Language
Models for Low-Resource Languages
_LaTeLL'2026_ will feature a Special Theme Track dedicated to the
development of applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) for
low-resource languages.
This track aims to explore innovative methodologies, architectures, and
tools that leverage the power of LLMs to enhance linguistic processing,
accessibility, and inclusivity for underrepresented languages.
Contributions are encouraged on topics such as model adaptation and
fine-tuning, multilingual and cross-lingual transfer, ethical and
fairness considerations, and the creation of datasets and benchmarks
that facilitate the integration of LLM-based solutions in low-resource
settings.
Special Theme Track 2 -- Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Arabic
Dialects
This special track addresses the unique challenges and opportunities in
processing Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and the rich landscape of Arabic
dialects. The diglossic nature of Arabic, where the formal MSA coexists
with numerous, widely used spoken dialects, presents a significant
hurdle for NLP. While MSA is relatively well-resourced, Arabic dialects
are quintessential examples of low-resource languages, often lacking
standardised orthographies, annotated corpora, and dedicated processing
tools. This track invites submissions on novel research and resources
aimed at bridging this gap and advancing the state of the art in Arabic
language technology. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Dialect identification and classification
* Creation of corpora and lexical resources for Arabic dialects
* Machine translation between MSA and dialects, and across different
dialects
* Speech recognition and synthesis for dialectal Arabic
* Computational modelling of morphology, syntax, and semantics for
dialects
* NLP applications (e.g., sentiment analysis, NER) for dialectal
user-generated content
* Code-switching between Arabic dialects, MSA, and other languages
Submissions and Publication
_LaTeLL'2026_ welcomes high-quality submissions in English, which may
take one of the following two forms:
* Regular (long) papers:Up to eight (8) pages in length, presenting
substantial, original, completed, and unpublished research.
* Short (poster) papers:Up to four (4) pages in length, suitable for
concise or focused contributions, ongoing research, negative results,
system demonstrations, and similar work. Short papers will be presented
during a dedicated poster session.
The conference will not consider submissions consisting of abstracts
only.
All accepted papers--both long and short--will be published as
electronic proceedings (with ISBN) and made available on the conference
website at the time of the event. The organisers intend to submit the
proceedings for inclusion in the ACL Anthology.
Authors of papers receiving exceptionally positive reviews will be
invited to prepare extended and substantially revised versions for
submission to a leading journal in the field of Natural Language
Processing (NLP).
Further details regarding the submission process will be provided in the
Second Call for Papers, scheduled for release in November 2025.
The conference will also feature a Student Workshop, and awards will be
presented to the authors of outstanding papers.
Important dates
* Submissions due: 1 May 2026
* Reviewing process: 20 May - 20 June 2026
* Notification of acceptance: 25 June 2026
* Camera-ready due: 10 July 2026
* Conference camera-ready proceedings ready 10 July 2026
* Conference: 30 September, 1 October and 2 October 2026
Organisation
Conference Chair
Ruslan Mitkov (Lancaster University and University of Alicante)
Programme Committee Chairs
Saad Ezzini (King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals)
Salima Lamsiyah (University of Luxembourg)
Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University)
Organising Committee
Maram Alharbi (Lancaster University)
Salmane Chafik (Mohammed VI Polytechnic University)
Ernesto Estevanell (University of Alicante)
Further information and contact details
The follow-up calls will provide more details on the conference venue
and list keynote speakers and members of the programme committee once
confirmed.
The conference website is www.latell.org/2026/ [1] and will be updated
on a regular basis. For further information, please email
2026(a)latell.org
Registration will open in March 2026.
Links:
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[1] http://www.latell.org/2026/