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SEARCH SOLUTIONS 2025 - London, 25-26 November
by Udo Kruschwitz 14 Nov '25

14 Nov '25

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.

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1st call Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2026) External Inbox
by Verginica Barbu Mititelu 14 Nov '25

14 Nov '25

**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) ******************************************* 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 dates: March 24-29, 2026 All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12 (Anywhere on Earth). ******************************************* 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: - Computationally-applicable theoretical work in psycholinguistics and corpus linguistics; - Annotation (expert, crowdsourcing, automatic) and representation in resources such as corpora, treebanks, e-lexicons, WordNets, constructions (also for low-resource languages); - Processing in syntactic and semantic frameworks (e.g. CCG, CxG, HPSG, LFG, TAG, UD, etc.); - Discovery and identification methods, including for specialized languages and domains such as clinical or biomedical NLP; - Interpretation of MWEs and understanding of text containing them; - Language acquisition, language learning, and non-standard language (e.g. tweets, speech); - Evaluation of annotation and processing techniques; - Retrospective comparative analyses from the PARSEME shared tasks; - Processing for end-user applications (e.g. MT, NLU, summarisation, language learning, etc.); - Implicit and explicit representation in pre-trained language models and end-user applications; - Evaluation and probing of pre-trained language models; - Resources and tools (e.g. lexicons, identifiers) and their integration into end-user applications; - Multiword terminology extraction; - 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…> : - PARSEME 2.0, whose objective is to identify and paraphrase MWEs in written text, and - 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: - archival submissions that present substantially original research in both long paper format (8 pages + references) and short paper format (4 pages + references). - 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.

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WSDM Cup 2026 - Call for Participation
by angelica.liguori＠icar.cnr.it 14 Nov '25

14 Nov '25

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)

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WSDM 2026 - Call for WSDM Day Presentations
by angelica.liguori＠icar.cnr.it 14 Nov '25

14 Nov '25

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. -------------------------------------------------------- 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. -------------------------------------------------------- * 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. -------------------------------------------------------- * 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. -------------------------------------------------------- * 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. -------------------------------------------------------- *** 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! -------------------------------------------------------- *** 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)

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AVI 2026: Advanced Visual Interfaces - 1st Call for Interactive Experiences, Demo and Poster Submissions
by Alba Bisante 13 Nov '25

13 Nov '25

18th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2026 Interactive Creativity: Agencies, Interfaces, and Ethics ======================================== 8-12 June 2026 Venice, Italy http://unive.it/avi2026 In Cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB ======================================== IMPORTANT DATES Interactive Experiences, Demo and Poster Paper Submission Deadline: March 9, 2026 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
by Luis Chiruzzo - Inco 13 Nov '25

13 Nov '25

================================= IberLEF 2026 -- Call for Task Proposals ================================= 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: - Title of the task. - Description of the task, highlighting: - Relevance and novelty of the task, and the challenges involved. - Evaluation measures, and other relevant methodological aspects. - Expected target community, and actual or potential industrial takeup. - Related evaluation activities, if any. - Previous editions of the task, if any. If it has been organized previously, what the roadmap is and what the novelties for 2026 are. - 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. - Tentative schedule (note that camera-ready versions of the proceedings must be ready by July 3, 2026). - 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. - Funding, if available. - Contact person. - Any other relevant issues. Task organizers duties Note that organizers of accepted tasks are expected to: - Set up the evaluation exercise according to the submitted proposal. - Promote the task within the target research community. - 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. - Prepare and submit an overview of the evaluation exercise. - 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 - Task proposals due: December 22, 2026. - Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026. - Final date for sending paper acceptance to task participants: June 19, 2026. - Camera ready submissions due: July 3, 2026. - 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 Posters – FoIKS 2026 (Hannover, Germany, March 23–26, 2026)
by Yasir mahmood 13 Nov '25

13 Nov '25

** *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.* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *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.* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *IMPORTANT DATES* * * Submission deadline: December 19, 2025 * Notification: January 19, 2026 * Final version due: January 26, 2026 * Conference: March 23–26, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SCOPE Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: * Mathematical Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems: discrete structures, algorithms, graphs, formal languages * Database Design and Management: formal models, dependencies, transactions, concurrency control * Logics in Databases and AI: classical and non-classical logics, logic programming, description logics, spatial/temporal logics, argumentation, probability and fuzzy logic * Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: logical and non-monotonic reasoning, reasoning under inconsistency, vagueness, or uncertainty * Foundations of Neuro-symbolic Reasoning: embeddings for structured information (knowledge graphs, logical theories, etc.) * Intelligent Agents: multi-agent systems, formal models of interaction, coalition formation, epistemic reasoning * Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval: machine learning, data mining, formal concept analysis, association rules, information extraction * Security in Information and Knowledge Systems: privacy, trust, access control, secure services, inference control, risk management * Integrity and Constraint Management: verification, validation, consistent query answering, information cleaning * Knowledge Graphs and Semi-structured Data: data modelling, processing, compression, and exchange ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. * Review process: single-blind (submissions are not anonymous). * Length: up to 5 pages including all material, i.e. including references and no additional resources. * Submissions: PDF format only (final versions require LaTeX sources). * 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PUBLICATION Accepted poster papers will appear in the FoIKS 2026 proceedings, published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INVITED SPEAKERS * Giuseppe De Giacomo (University of Oxford) * Floris Geerts (University of Antwerp) * Wolfgang Nejdl (Leibniz Universität Hannover) * Ana Ozaki (University of Oslo) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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2nd Call for Papers: VarDial 2026 – The Thirteenth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects
by verena.blaschke＠cis.lmu.de 13 Nov '25

13 Nov '25

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): — 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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Share your feedback and help shape the future of CLARIN.SI
by Taja Kuzman Pungeršek 12 Nov '25

12 Nov '25

* 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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CFP: ‘LAnguage TEchnologies for Low-resource Languages’ (LaTeLL ’2026)
by Amal Haddad 12 Nov '25

12 Nov '25

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: ------ [1] http://www.latell.org/2026/

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