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CODI CRAC 2026 Workshop - deadline extended - April 3
by Amir.Zeldes＠georgetown.edu 19 Mar '26

19 Mar '26

*apologies for cross-postings* � DEADLINE EXTENDED: *April 3* � Joint CODI CRAC 2026 Workshop � July 2026 - ACL 2026 - San Diego, USA � We are pleased to announce that we are organizing the second joint CODI-CRAC workshop which will be held during ACL 2026! More information at: � <https://sites.google.com/view/codi-crac2026/home> https://sites.google.com/view/codi-crac2026/ � � CODI-CRAC is officially endorsed by SIGDial, the ACL Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. � Deadline for CODI CRAC papers: April 3 2026 � The workshop will also host the CRAC shared task. More information at: � - CRAC shared task: <https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/corefud/crac26> https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/corefud/crac26 Aims and scope � Recent breakthroughs in NLP and Large Language Models have dramatically expanded our systems’ abilities to interpret and generate not just sentences, but whole documents and conversations. This shift has renewed interest in discourse-level challenges, driving new work on inter-sentential phenomena, coherence modeling, long-form summarization, discourse-aware representation learning, and large-scale resources for discourse understanding and parsing. � Discourse sits at the intersection of many NLP subfields, as it is where context, structure, and meaning come together beyond single sentences. Discourse shapes how we capture coherence, cohesion, and inference across long texts, and brings together researchers tackling the shared challenges of document structure, long-range dependencies, and the requirements of extended context. � In 2025, we organized the first joint CODI-CRAC workshop. The CODI workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse has been a forum for a broad range of work at the discourse level. The CRAC workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference has been a primary venue for researchers interested in the computational modeling of reference phenomena. Together, these workshops have catalyzed work to advance research on discourse-level problems and have served as a forum for discussing suitable datasets and reliable evaluation methods. � This joint edition corresponds to the 7th CODI workshop and the 9th CRAC workshop. It will welcome contributions from all the areas below, including state-of-the-art textual NLU and NLG work using LLMs, as well as classic structured work on automatic discourse analysis -- corresponding to challenging tasks such as coreference resolution or discourse parsing -- to encourage interaction between communities. The workshop is set to host the 5th edition of the CRAC shared task on Multilingual Coreference Resolution. � The workshop is planned as a 1-day event that brings together different subcommunities. It will feature regular papers and invited talks by Ruihong Huang (Texas A&M University) and Philippe Laban (Microsoft Research). We also accept papers accepted at other major conferences for non-archival presentation, including Findings papers. � Topics of interest � We welcome papers on symbolic and probabilistic approaches, corpus development and analysis, as well as machine and deep learning approaches to discourse. We appreciate theoretical contributions as well as practical applications, including demos of systems and tools. The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for the community of NLP researchers working on all aspects of discourse. � Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: � - discourse structure - discourse connectives - discourse relations - annotation tools and schemes for discourse phenomena - corpora annotated with discourse phenomena - discourse parsing - cross-lingual discourse processing - cross-domain discourse processing - anaphora and coreference resolution - event coreference - argument mining - coherence modeling - discourse and semantics - discourse in applications such as machine translation, summarization, etc. - evaluation methodology for discourse processing - discourse pretraining tasks - long-text modeling and generation � Submissions Double submission of papers is allowed, but this information will need to be disclosed at submission time. � We solicit three categories of papers: � * (1) Regular workshop papers � * (2) Demos * (3) Extended abstracts Only regular workshop papers and demos will be included in the proceedings as archival publications. Extended abstracts are non-archival and will be included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings. 1- Regular papers must describe original unpublished research. � * Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. * Short papers can be up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references. 2- Demo submissions may describe systems, tools, visualizations, etc., and may consist of up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references. 3- Extended abstracts can describe work in progress. They may be two pages long (without references). Extended abstracts are non-archival. They will be included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings. Each submission can contain unlimited pages for Appendices, but the paper submissions need to remain fully self-contained, as these supplementary materials are completely optional, and reviewers are not even asked to review them. Final versions of all types of papers will be given one additional page of content. Paper accepted or rejected at one of the main conferences � We also invite presentations of papers accepted at another main conference. They will be included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings. We also fast-track ARR papers with existing reviews. Submission website � All submissions must be anonymous and follow the ACL 2026 formatting instructions described here: <https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp> https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp � � Submission website: * CODI-CRAC: <https://softconf.com/acl2026/codi-crac2026/> https://softconf.com/acl2026/codi-crac2026/ � Schedule Important dates for the workshop are listed below: � * CODI-CRAC papers due: April 3 * Pre-reviewed ARR fast-track (with reviews, can be accepted or rejected): April 5 � * Notification of acceptance: May 11, 2026 * Grant application: May 5, 2026 * Camera-ready paper due: May 19, 2026 * Pre-recorded video due: June 4, 2026 * Workshop dates: July 4, 2026 � �All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth"). Invited Speakers � - Ruihong Huang, Texas A&M University - Philippe Laban, Microsoft Research Organizers � - Chloé Braud, CNRS-IRIT - Christian Hardmeier, IT University of Copenhagen - Chuyuan (Lisa) Li, � University of British Columbia - Jessy Li, University of Texas, Austin - Sharid Loáiciga, University of Gothenburg - Vincent Ng, University of Texas at Dallas - Michal Novák, Charles University, Prague - Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences - Massimo Poesio, Queen Mary University of London and University of Utrecht - Michael Strube, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies - Amir Zeldes, Georgetown University, Washington DC � To contact the organizers, please send an email to: <mailto:codi-crac-workshop@googlegroups.com> codi-crac-workshop(a)googlegroups.com � � � �

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3rd Disciplinary Literacy Symposium
by David Beauchamp 19 Mar '26

19 Mar '26

Dear Corpus Linguists, The following event may be of interest to those who are engaged in corpus-based research and practice for educational purposes. The University of Bath's 3rd Disciplinary Literacy Symposium will be taking place on 17th and 18th June 2026. This two-day event hosted by the University's BAWESS corpus project<https://www.bath.ac.uk/projects/disciplinary-literacy-corpus-based-pedagogy…> team brings together some of the leading educational specialists, linguists and academics, who will present research and lead hands-on workshops in the areas of: * Disciplinary knowledge and literacy * Genres and genre-based pedagogy * Cross-disciplinary collaboration * Teacher/researcher collaboration * Corpus-based pedagogy * Data-driven Learning Registration is now open: Third Disciplinary Literacy Symposium<https://www.bath.ac.uk/events/third-disciplinary-literacy-symposium/> Disciplinary literacy, encompassing the specialised ways of reading, writing, and communicating knowledge within distinct academic disciplines, has emerged as a critical focus in education worldwide as educators and learners face the challenge of mastering subject-specific literacies in a wide range of curriculum areas, sometimes in more than one language. The event is designed to be of particular interest to secondary school teachers, and promises excellent opportunities for discussion, knowledge exchange, professional development and networking. This is a two-day in-person event with refreshments provided. Dr David Beauchamp Research assistant BAWESS team University of Bath Queen's Award for Enterprise International Trade 2022 Ranked in the top 50% of UK universities for research power Times Higher Education analysis of REF 2021 Rated Gold Overall Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) 2023 5 QS Stars Overall (Excellent) QS Stars University Rankings NOTICE This message and any files transmitted with it is intended for the addressee only and may contain information that is confidential or privileged. Unauthorised use is strictly prohibited. If you are not the addressee, you should not read, copy, disclose or otherwise use this message, except for the purpose of delivery to the addressee. Any views or opinions expressed within this e-mail are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Coventry University.

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Call for participation - Low-Resource Indic Language Translation (INDIC MT) @ WMT2026
by Dr. Partha Pakray 19 Mar '26

19 Mar '26

Dear All, We are pleased to inform you that we are hosting the "*Shared Task on Low-Resource Indic Language Translation*" again this year as part of the Workshop on Machine Translation (WMT 2026). Following the outstanding success and enthusiastic participation witnessed in the previous year's edition (INDIC MT Task - WMT 2025, WMT 2024 and WMT 2023), we are excited to continue this important initiative, especially in North Eastern Languages. Despite recent advancements in machine translation (MT), such as multilingual translation and transfer learning techniques, the scarcity of parallel data remains a significant challenge, particularly for low-resource languages. The WMT 2026 Indic Machine Translation Shared Task aims to address this challenge by focusing on low-resource Indic languages from diverse language families. Specifically, we are targeting languages such as *Assamese, Mizo, Khasi, Manipuri, Nyishi, Bodo, and Kokborok*. In addition, WMT 2026 introduces three new languages to the shared task: *Karbi, Tagin, Nagamese and Mishing*. Additionally, you can find more details and updates on the task through the following link: Task Link: https://www2.statmt.org/wmt26/indic-mt-task.html. We highly encourage participants to register in advance so that we can provide updates regarding the release dates of data and other relevant information periodically To register for the event, please fill out the registration form available here: Link: https://forms.gle/VfADz8BA3sASbNqu5 For inquiries and further information, please contact us at lrilt.wmt(a)gmail.com. Thanks & Regards, Dr. Partha Pakray *WMT - Indic Task Organizers, 2026*

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ACM ICMI 2026 Tutorials
by Gualtiero Volpe 18 Mar '26

18 Mar '26

ICMI 2026 CALL FOR TUTORIALS ============================================ 5-9 October 2026, Napoli - Italy https://icmi.acm.org/2026/ ============================================ ACM ICMI 2026 will host half-day tutorials on context and cultural awareness for multimodal interaction, as well as on emerging topics within the scopes of multimodal AI and social interaction. A formal call for tutorial proposals will be issued soon, but for the first time, we invite the community to indicate which tutorial topics they would most like to see. This will help prospective proposers understand what the community considers most relevant. Please complete this short form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScQfyR6rHijr25CCBUP5tA4LhgEC4IoBfN… Prospective organizers are also encouraged to contact the co-chairs, Prof. Marco Cristani and Prof. Tsvi Kuflik (icmi2026-tutorials-chairs(a)acm.org), if they have any questions.

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CfP KlarText 2026 - Workshop on German Text Simplification & Readability Assessment @ KONVENS
by Stodden, Regina 18 Mar '26

18 Mar '26

CFP: KlarText 2026 �C Workshop on German Text Simplification & Readability Assessment<https://klar-text.github.io/> Co-located with KONVENS 2026<https://konvens2026.uni-hamburg.de/> (14�C17 Sept 2026 in Hamburg) The KlarText Workshop aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, and industry experts to discuss state-of-the-art methods, share resources, and identify future research directions in German text simplification and readability assessment. We especially want to raise awareness of different simplification goals and simplified language forms and attract researchers working on the challenges of German text simplification. Moreover, evaluating text simplification and readability poses challenges, such as the subjective nature of readability, difficulties in assessing cognitive load across different audiences, and the need for large, diverse datasets that reflect the complexity of real-world language use. The KlarText Workshop provides a dedicated venue for interdisciplinary collaboration, bridging NLP, computational linguistics, and cognitive science while also addressing these challenges and exploring regulatory frameworks for public communication. Additionally, we invite cross-linguistic perspectives that examine how insights from German or other languages can inform multilingual and cross-lingual simplification efforts, especially for Easy Language variants in other languages, such as lectura f��cil in Spanish, facile �� lire et �� comprendre (FALC) in French, or Viegl�� valoda in Latvian. We invite submissions on a broad range of topics, including - German Text Simplification - Readability Assessment - Resources & Approaches for Easy Language - Evaluation & Human-Centered Assessment - Applications & Real-World Impact - Cross-Linguistic & Multilingual Perspectives - Corpus analysis and non-computational approaches - Personalized simplification solutions - Multimodal solutions for accessible communication Important dates: Important Dates 2 July 2026, 23:59 AoE Direct paper submission deadline 26 July 2026, 23:59 AoE Submission deadline for pre-reviewed papers (ARR March/May 2026 cycle or KONVENS submissions) 4 August 2026 Notification of acceptance 15 August 2026 Deadline for camera-ready paper Organizers - Miriam Ansch��tz (Technical University of Munich, Germany) - Yingqiang Gao (University of Zurich, Switzerland) - Thorben Schomacker (HAW Hamburg & University of Hamburg, Germany) - Regina Stodden (University of Bielefeld, Germany) For more information, please visit the workshop page: https://klar-text.github.io/ Best regards, Regina Stodden, on behalf of the KlarText 2026 organizers

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PhD position in NLP & Information Extraction at HHU Düsseldorf
by Stefan Dietze 18 Mar '26

18 Mar '26

Starting from May 2026, the Data & Knowledge Engineering group at the Computer Science department at Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf (https://www.cs.hhu.de/lehrstuehle-und-arbeitsgruppen/data-knowledge-enginee…), affiliated with the Heine Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (HeiCAD) (https://www.heicad.hhu.de/) is looking for a *PhD student– Information Extraction & Natural Language Processing* (Salary group 13 TV-L, working time 100%, initially limited to 36 months with the possibility of further extension) In the context of the research project "WIEGE", we will investigate the spread of claims and political narratives across different social media platforms in an interdisciplinary consortium involving researchers from Communication Science, Computational Social Science and Computer Science. Our research will be concerned with novel Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods for the detection, linking and classification of claims and narratives in online discourse data. Challenges arise from the heterogeneous nature of different data sources, therefore the development of generalizable approaches will be a key focus. The PhD student will work in close collaboration with our project partners from Communication Science, benefitting from their tailored expert annotations and, vice-versa, aiding their annotation efforts by providing semi-automatic labeling approaches. Another task will entail the modeling and publishing of generated data according to Semantic Web principles. Your tasks will be: ******************* * Research in fields such as NLP, Machine Learning, Language Modeling and Representation learning, specifically with the aim to extract structured information from online discourse data * Develop NLP methods for (i) the detection and classification of claims and narratives on social media, and (ii) linking related claims and narratives within and across data sources; further (iii) assist semi-automated data annotations and (iv) model and publish data according to Semantic Web standards * Writing, publishing and presenting project results * Collaboration with team members and project partners in an interdisciplinary consortium Your profile: ************** * University degree (diploma/MSc) in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics or related fields * Research interests in NLP, machine learning, data mining, large language models, Semantic Web * Hands-on experience with Python, including knowledge of ML-Frameworks such as TensorFlow and PyTorch * Ability to communicate fluently in English (mandatory), good knowledge of the German language (desirable) What we offer: *************** * Flexible working hours and home office arrangements * A fast growing and international working environment with a lot of creative scientific freedom * Access to unique research data, (social) web archives and behavioral data * Support of collaborations with international research labs and experts The PhD research will be supervised by Prof. Dr. Stefan Dietze (Professor for Data & Knowledge Engineering at HHU and Scientific Director of KTS at GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne), mentored by Dr. Katarina Boland (Postdoctoral Researcher at Data & Knowledge Engineering and HeiCAD). For further information please contact Stefan Dietze (stefan.dietze(a)hhu.de) and/or Katarina Boland (katarina.boland(a)hhu.de). Interested? ************* Please apply by sending your complete application documents as a single PDF file to katarina.boland(a)hhu.de by 01 April 2026. -- Prof. Dr. Stefan Dietze Scientific Director Knowledge Technologies for the Social Sciences GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Web: https://www.gesis.org/en/kts Chair of Data & Knowledge Engineering Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf Web: https://www.cs.hhu.de/en/research-groups/data-knowledge-engineering Phone: +49 (0)221-47694-421 Web: http://stefandietze.net

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CfP Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence in African Studies workshop, Stellenbosch, South Africa
by Menno Van Zaanen 18 Mar '26

18 Mar '26

═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ ═ CALL FOR PAPERS ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ ═ A DFG Programme Point Sud Workshop Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence in African Studies: Towards Sustainable and Equitable Practices 21–24 September 2026 · STIAS, Stellenbosch, South Africa ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ABOUT THE WORKSHOP The integration of digital humanities (DH) and artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the production of knowledge in African Studies, offering new opportunities for innovative analysis, dynamic visualisation and cross-cultural research. Yet this shift raises urgent questions regarding equitable access, the representation of African languages, and the suitability of methodologies. Current large language models underrepresent African languages, digital scholarly infrastructures remain optimised for English, and digitisation pipelines that produce AI-ready data are themselves shaped by political choices about what to digitise, how to describe it, and who controls access. While recent initiatives on digital sovereignty in Africa have centred on policy and regulation, this workshop shifts attention to methodological practice. It asks how DH methods and AI transform research in African Studies, and how we can design, evaluate, and sustain these methods under African conditions. By bringing together scholars, independent researchers and practitioners from Africa, Europe, and beyond, the event will foster North–South and South–South dialogue at the intersection of African epistemologies and digital methods, moving from description to design. ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── CONVENORS - Frédérick Madore, University of Bayreuth - Vincent Hiribarren, King's College London - Emmanuel Ngue Um, University of Yaoundé 1 - Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── THEMATIC AXES The programme is structured around the following thematic axes: 1. Transforming Research Methods through AI and Digital Tools in African Studies This axis asks a fundamental question: how are AI and DH methods changing the study of African cultures, languages, and histories? Participants will present concrete uses of AI to analyse multilingual texts, employ computer vision to study visual culture and historical artefacts, and develop digital mapping to trace cultural movements and connections. We will evaluate what works for different kinds of African cultural materials, identify adaptations required for local contexts, and specify where computational approaches can complement—rather than replace—interpretive scholarship. The goal is clear: practical guidance for integrating these methods while preserving the interpretive richness that defines the humanities. 2. Building Sustainable Research Infrastructures from African Perspectives Moving beyond policy discourse, this axis asks what it takes to build and sustain digital research capacity within African institutions and communities. We will examine practical obstacles—limited connectivity, unstable funding, and scarce training data for local languages—and showcase South–South collaboration models that have navigated these constraints. Participants will share strategies for developing tools that utilise available resources rather than assuming high-end infrastructure. Key questions include how to keep research outputs accessible to the communities being studied, how to train the next generation of African DH scholars, and how to secure sustainable funding that does not depend solely on institutions in the Global North. The focus is on concrete, scalable approaches to durable capacity. 3. Centring African Knowledge Systems in Digital Research Design This axis poses a methodological challenge: how can digital research tools respect and incorporate African ways of knowing? Rather than retrofitting existing techniques to African materials, we explore how African epistemologies can shape the tools themselves. Case studies will show community knowledge informing database structures, oral traditions testing text-centred analytical frameworks, and local classification systems improving standard metadata schemas. We will consider protocols for culturally sensitive materials, interface design that does not privilege European languages, and criteria to ensure that AI systems trained on African data primarily serve African research needs. Here, decolonisation moves from critique to construction. ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── WORKSHOP FORMAT & LANGUAGE POLICY The workshop will run in a hybrid format to maximise participation and impact. In-person sessions at STIAS will be paired with remote access via Zoom for those unable to travel. Participants will pre-circulate draft papers in English or French one month in advance, each with a bilingual abstract to support preparation. To address language barriers, the workshop will operate bilingually in English and French. Presenters may speak in either language; where possible, a bilingual chair will moderate discussion and provide brief consecutive interpretation where needed. Recent advances in AI speech recognition and machine translation now enable near-real-time captioning; we will deploy these tools in the room and on Zoom. All presenters will supply slides with bilingual titles and key terms, and a one-page terminology handout in both languages. Together, these measures encourage meaningful participation in Africa’s Anglophone and Francophone communities, which are often divided by institutional and linguistic boundaries, and provide immediate, practical benefits for multilingual colleagues. ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── SUBMISSION GUIDELINES We invite proposals for individual papers (20-minute presentations). Submissions may be in English or French. Proposals of up to 500 words should be emailed to the convenors by 30 April 2026. Each submission must include: (i) a title; (ii) an abstract outlining the context, central question, and methodological approach; and (iii) a 100-word biographical note indicating the applicant’s discipline and institutional affiliation. Please send your proposals to the following addresses: - Frédérick Madore: frederick.madore(a)uni-bayreuth.de - Vincent Hiribarren: vincent.hiribarren(a)kcl.ac.uk - Emmanuel Ngue Um: ngueum(a)gmail.com - Menno van Zaanen: menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── PUBLICATION Our goal is to publish selected papers from the workshop as a special issue in the Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (JDHASA), subject to agreement with the journal’s editorial board. All submitted full papers will undergo peer review. Authors whose papers are selected for the special issue will be expected to revise their manuscripts in line with reviewer feedback before final publication. ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── SELECTION CRITERIA & INCLUSIVITY Selection will prioritise gender equity, support for early-career scholars based in sub-Saharan Africa, and balance across disciplines and regions. In addition to scholars, we will include practitioner-developers by directly engaging the teams behind DH tools. Their participation will help us to assess user needs and the feasibility of embedding African ways of knowing in tool design. DH remains gender-imbalanced; accordingly, the open call will explicitly encourage applications from women and weight gender equity in review. We will intentionally include Africa-based, diasporic, and returning scholars. Recognising uneven DH capacity, particularly in several Francophone regions, we will aim for a majority of Africa-based participants and amplify Francophone voices through targeted outreach and reserved places for early-career researchers. The workshop will uphold equal opportunity regardless of gender, religion, or other sociocultural differences. ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── KEY DATES - Submission Deadline: 30 April 2026 - Notification of Acceptance: 15 May 2026 - Deadline for Full Papers: 15 August 2026 - Workshop Dates: 21–24 September 2026 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ ═ https://fmadore.github.io/stias-dh-ai-workshop-2026 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ ═ -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. 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LREC 2026 - Early-bird deadline extension
by info＠elda.org 17 Mar '26

17 Mar '26

[Apologies for multiple postings] The Early-bird deadline has been extended to March 31, 2026 (23:59 AoE). Late and onsite fees will apply starting April 1, 2026. All participants are encouraged to take advantage of the extended deadline and register. We also encourage on-site participants to book their accommodation in Palma as soon as possible. Two partner hotel options are currently available for LREC participants, plus a selection of hotels suggested by the Local Chairs. 1. Meliá Hotels: https://events.melia.com/en/events/palma-port/LREC-2026 2. Aubamar Palma Resort: https://www.aubamar.com/en/?promocode=LREC2026 <https://www.aubamar.com/en/?promocode=LREC2026&utm_source=lrec2026&utm_medi…> 3. Selection of hotels by the Local Chairs: https://shorturl.at/kkr73 LREC 2026 Management Chairs

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ComputEL-9: 2nd Call-for-Papers
by Antti Arppe 17 Mar '26

17 Mar '26

ComputEL-9: Ninth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages Second CALL FOR PAPERS Submission deadline: March 20, 2026 Submission link: https://softconf.com/acl2026/ComputEL2026 ComputEL-9 will be co-located with ACL 2026 in San Diego, California. It will be a one-day workshop, held in Friday July 4, 2026. This time, we are co-ordinating our activities with Americas-NLP, held on the previous day. We encourage submissions that explore the interface and intersection of computational linguistics, documentary linguistics, and community-based efforts in language revitalization and reclamation. This includes submissions that: (i) demonstrate new methods or technologies for tasks or applications focused on low-resource settings, and in particular, endangered languages, (ii) examine the use of specific methods in the analysis of data from low-resource languages, or demonstrate new methods for analysis of such data, oriented toward the goals of language reclamation and revitalization, (iii) propose new models for the collection, management, and mobilization of language data in community settings, with attention to e.g. issues of data sovereignty and community protocols, (iv) explore concrete steps for a more fruitful interaction among computer scientists, documentary linguists, and language communities. IMPORTANT DATES 20 March 2026 Deadline for submission of papers or extended abstracts 1 May 2026 Notification of Acceptance 4 July 2026 Workshop PRESENTATIONS Presentation of accepted papers will be in both oral session and a poster session. The decision on whether a presentation for a paper will be oral and/or poster will be made by the Organizing Committee on the advice of the Program Committee, taking into account the subject matter and how the content might be best conveyed. Oral and poster presentations will not be distinguished in the Proceedings. SUBMISSIONS We offer two submissions lengths: short (up to 4 pages) or long (up to 8 pages) paper. The length of submission does not influence the likelihood of acceptance. Both paper types must include a section on ethical consideration and a section on limitations; these sections are not considered part of the page limit. All submissions must be anonymous and will be peer-reviewed by the scientific Program Committee. Papers must follow the style and formatting guidelines provided in by ACL Style Files (download template files for LaTeX: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files). Submissions that exceed the length requirements, or are missing a limitations section, will be desk rejected. Papers can be submitted to one of the workshop’s tracks: (a) language community perspective and (b) academic perspective. Submissions must be uploaded to SoftConf: https://softconf.com/acl2026/ComputEL2026 by March 20, 2026 11:59PM (UTC-12, “anywhere on earth”). A. Short Papers: Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. They are max. 4 pages excluding references. They must include a section on ethical consideration and limitations; these sections are not considered part of the page limit. Please note that a short paper is not a shortened long paper. Instead, short papers should have a small, focused contribution or describe work in progress (“working paper”). Short papers might not necessarily be intended for publication. Some common kinds of short papers are negative results, opinion pieces, interesting application nuggets, or descriptions of ongoing collaborative teamwork. B. Long Paper: Long papers must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Long papers are max. 8 pages excluding references and appendices. They must include a section on ethical consideration and limitations; these sections are not considered part of the page limit. PROCEEDINGS The Organizing Committee will select papers that have been accepted for presentation for online publication via the open-access ACL Anthology. Not all accepted papers for presentation are guaranteed inclusion in the Anthology. Final versions of long and short papers that are accepted for publication will be allotted one additional page (altogether 5 and 9 pages) excluding references. Papers accepted for inclusion in the Anthology should be revised and improved versions of the work that was submitted for, and which underwent, review. Any revisions should concern responses to reviewer comments or the addition of relevant details and clarifications, but not entirely new, unreviewed content. FUNDING SUPPORT Limited funding will be available for some accepted authors. A link to apply for funding will be sent to submitters after the submission deadline. Decisions on funding will be sent with notification of acceptance. Priority will be given to individuals without institutional support, for instance members of endangered language communities, other unsponsored or under-sponsored presenters (e.g. student/faculty of Linguistics Departments), and student presenters. ADDITIONAL AND CONTACT INFORMATION Please see the ComputEL-9 website for further information: https://computel-workshop.org/computel-9/ Organizing Committee Email: computel.workshop(a)gmail.com -- ====================================================================== Antti Arppe - Ph.D (General Linguistics), M.Sc. (Engineering) Professor of Quantitative Linguistics Director, Alberta Language Technology Lab (ALTLab) Project Director, 21st Century Tools for Indigenous Languages (21C) Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta Algonquian Studies Association - Secretary-Treasurer E-mail: arppe(a)ualberta.ca - antti.arppe(a)iki.fi WWW: www.ualberta.ca/~arppe - altlab.ualberta.ca - 21c.tools Mānahtu ina rēdûti ihza ummânūti ihannaq - dulum ugulak úmun ingul ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Postdoc Position in NLP at University of Potsdam, from Sept 2026,
by David Schlangen 16 Mar '26

16 Mar '26

I am looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join my group. Some keywords: language learning in interaction; learning to interact; simulating situated language use; building agents; evaluating LLMs / LLM-agents in interaction; pragmatics of human/AI interaction. Application deadline: April 7th 2026, for start in September 2026. For more information about the position and on how to apply, see: https://clp.ling.uni-potsdam.de/positions/ . --- David Schlangen Chair "Foundations of Computational Linguistics" Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24-25 14476 Potsdam, Germany Campus Golm, Building 14, Room 2.18 Tel. +49 331 977 2692 Tel. Secretary +49 331 977 2016 http://clp.ling.uni-potsdam.de

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