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MIRROR@IberLEF2026 - Final phase started
by Luis Villaseñor-Pineda 04 May '26

04 May '26

<Apologies for cross-postings> -------------------------------------------------------------- *CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - Final Phase Started * -------------------------------------------------------------- MIRROR@IberLEF20206: Motivational Interviewing Response & Rating via Synthetic cOnversational tuRns Challenge platform: https://www.mirror-iberlef.lat/ The final phase of MIRROR has now started, make your submissions through the platform to be considered for the final ranking. ------------------------------- ****Task description**** ------------------------------- We invite the community to develop Generative AI (GenAI) methods for creating synthetic conversation turns that can substantially improve the performance of models trained to recognize behavior codes (BCs) in the context of motivational interviews. A BC is a discrete, observable clinician action (e.g., asking a question, giving information) that is counted during coding of a motivational interviewing session to quantify specific techniques used. These codes allow raters to tally how often particular clinician behaviours occur, which helps assess adherence to MI-consistent versus MI-inconsistent practice. Our ultimate goal is to generate valuable data for training models for the automatic assessment of clinicians’ motivational-interviewing skills. These skills — crucial for promoting behavior change among patients — can be evaluated by using the “Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity (MITI)” rubric (https://tinyurl.com/38byjrwy). * * *This is a data-centric competition: *participants are expected to produce high-quality datasets representing a wide range of clinical conversations (rather than training a model) to enhance the performance of a frozen baseline model used for BC classification. We encourage participants to include samples featuring clients from diverse backgrounds, varied conversation topics, and conversing with different types of health professionals. Participants in this competition should provide three datasets (one per pair of considered BCs) of at most 100 labeled conversation turns that will be used to fine-tune pretrained models; the fine-tuned models will then be used to make predictions for a hold-out dataset. The performance of the fine-tuned model will be used as the leading evaluation metric to rank participants. The considered pairs of BCs are: (1) Simple reflection vs. Complex reflection; (2) Open question vs. Closed question; (3) Persuasion vs. Giving Information. Sample submissions, and detailed instructions on the formatting, evaluation criteria and competition platform will be available at the MIRROR website. ------------------------------- ****Important dates**** ------------------------------- * Mar 9th: Start of the development phase (platform starts receiving submissions for the validation set) * May 1st: Start of the final phase (platform starts receiving submissions for the test set) * May 11th: End of evaluation campaign (deadline for submission of runs) * May 22nd; Publication of official results * Jun 8th: Deadline for paper submission * Jun 23th: Acceptance notification * Jun 30th: Camera-ready submission deadline * Sep, TBD: Publication of proceedings * Sep, TBD: Workshop with SEPLN 2026 ------------------------------- ****Organizing team**** ------------------------------- * Luis J. Arellano INAOE, Mexico * Carlos Olachea INAOE, Mexico * John Piette, University of Michigan, USA * Hugo Jair Escalante, INAOE, Mexico * Delia Irazú Hernández, INAOE, Mexico * Luis Villaseñor, INAOE, Mexico * Manuel Montes, INAOE, Mexico Contact: Hugo Jair Escalante (hugo.jair(a)gmail.com) ********* AVISO DE CONFIDENCIALIDAD: Este correo electrónico, incluyendo en su caso, los archivos adjuntos al mismo pueden contener información de carácter confidencial y/o privilegiada, y se envían a la atención única y exclusivamente de la persona y/o entidad a quien va dirigido. La copia, revisión, uso, revelación y/o distribución de dicha información confidencial sin la autorización por escrito del Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE) está prohibida. Si usted no es el destinatario a quien se dirige el presente correo, favor de contactar al remitente respondiendo al presente correo y eliminar el correo original incluyendo sus archivos, así como cualquiera copia de este. 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Call for Participation for the LREC NLE 2026 Workshop on Learning Non-Literal Expressions with Small Data
by Valia Kordoni 04 May '26

04 May '26

Call for Participation Workshop on Learning Non-Literal Expressions with Small Data (NLE 2026) To be held in conjunction with LREC 2026 on 11 May 2026, https://www.elra.info/lrec2026 Conference venue: Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma de Mallorca (Spain) Website: https://sites.google.com/view/nle2026/home Overview Non-Literal Expressions (NLEs) in natural language are a reflection of fundamental cognitive processes such as analogical reasoning and categorisation, and are deeply rooted in everyday communication. NLEs understanding is therefore an essential task for language modeling. This task is especially challenging because it cannot be tackled by falling back on individual word meanings, but requires taking into account larger chunks of surrounding text or even contextual information. At the same time, it is important because the reliable processing of NLEs is relevant for optimizing downstream tasks like translation and summarization. This workshop focuses on understanding of Non-Literal Expressions. While most of the earlier work on NLEs had been devoted to metaphor and metonymy, recent activities target other forms of NLEs as well, e.g., hyperbole (deliberate exaggeration), litotes (understatement), rhetorical questions, and irony. Humanly annotated corpora for NLEs have very recently started becoming available to the research community and may serve as the basis for data-driven approaches to NLEs processing, with the interrelated goals of first identifying and then interpreting such expressions. Such data is mostly of high linguistic quality, but still very limited in size. Thus, the workshop's focus is on adaptation of Language Models (LMs) and Deep Learning (DL) for processing of Non-Literal Expressions with limited high-quality data, since such constructs still pose big identification and processing challenges in natural language analysis tasks. The workshop focuses on the use of techniques like self-training for leveraging unlabelled data, as well as in work that focuses on the incorporation of external linguistic resources and knowledge injection to enrich features, and also in research that describes work on utilisation of multitask learning with the aim to benefit from related tasks. The workshop highlights the necessity of high-quality data, as well as cross-lingual datasets. Invited Speaker - Debanjan Ghosh, Princeton, USA Workshop Program Monday, May 11, 2026 9:00–13:00 Learning Non-Literal Expressions with Small Data Room: 4 Chair: Valia Kordoni 9:00–9:10 Introduction Oral Session 1 9:10–9:50 Challenges in Japanese Euphemism Classification: An Analysis of Pretrained Japanese and Multilingual Models Noriko Takahashi, Whitney Poh, Libby Barak, JIng Peng and Anna Feldman 9:50–10:10 Steering Pragmatic Interpretation in LLMs: A Diagnostic Evaluation of Few- Shot and Reasoning-Based Prompting for Indirect Speech Acts. Massimiliano Orsini and Dominique Brunato 10:10–10:30 Injecting Structured Lexicographic Knowledge into LLMs for Non-Literal Expression Disambiguation: A Controlled Study on Croatian Slobodan Beliga, Ivana Filipovic Petrović and Ana Meštrović 10:30–11:00 Coffee break 11:00–11:40 Poster session - Metaphor Identification in Spanish Oncological Discourse: The Role of Explicit Meaning in Low-Resource Settings Lucia Pitarch, Jordi Bernad and Gemma Bel-Enguix - Exploring Detection of Complex, Non-Literal Expressions of Cultural Motifs Ibrahim H. Alyami and Mark A. Finlayson - Artful Writing, Authentic Emotions: Distinguishing Human-Written from LLM-Generated Metaphors by Annotation and Classification Michaela Regneri, Nooshin Aghajari and Thomas Kroedel - Creation and Validation of a Monolingual Spanish NLI Dataset for MetaphorInterpretation via Model-in-the-Loop Alec Sanchez-Montero, Gemma Bel-Enguix and SERGIO LUIS OJEDA TRUEBA - A Hybrid Architecture for Metonymy Detection in Marathi Pratibha Dongare - Contextualising (Im)plausible Events Triggers Figurative Language Annerose Eichel, Tonmoy Rakshit and Sabine Schulte im Walde Oral Session 2 11:40–12:00 A Novel Dataset and Three Ways to Approach Automatic Metaphor Detection in German Religious Online Forums Sebastian Reimann and Tatjana Scheffler 12:00–12:20 Decomposing Creativity: Two Small Datasets Combining Originality Ratings and Metaphor Annotations Emilie Sitter, Sina Zarrieß, Omar Momen and Berenike Herrmann Invited Talk 12:20–13:00 Unveiling Reasoning in Small Language Models: Insights into Literal and Non-Literal Understanding Debanjan Gosh Endorsements The workshop is endorsed by: Collaborative Research Centre 1412 "REGISTER" funded by the DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) Programme Committee - Beata Beigman Klebanov, ETS, USA - Maria Berger, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany - Yuri Bizzoni, Aarhus University, Denmark - Kenneth Church, VecML Inc., USA - Stefanie Dipper, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany - Markus Egg, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany - Anna Feldman, Montclair State University, USA - Debanjan Ghosh, Princeton, USA - Valia Kordoni, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany - Emmy Liu, CMU, USA - Petya Osenova, Sofia University "St. Kl. Ohridski", Bulgaria - Sebastian Padó, IMS Stuttgart, Germany - Gudrun Reijnierse, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Sebastian Reimann, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany - Adam Roussel, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany - Tatjana Scheffler, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany - Sabine Schulte im Walde, Universität Stuttgart - Vered Shwartz, The University of British Columbia, Canada - Caroline Sporleder, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany - Egon Stemle, EURAC, Italy Organizers • Markus Egg — Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany • Valia Kordoni - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany Contact: kordonie at rz.hu-berlin.de

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Call for Participation: AthensNLP 2026 summer school (deadline May 31)
by GEORGIOS MOSCHOVIS 03 May '26

03 May '26

Call for Participation AthNLP 2026 - 4th ATHENS NLP SUMMER SCHOOL ============================================ ** Preliminary schedule of Speakers, Labs, Events: https://athnlp.github.io/2026/schedule.html ** Info for sponsors: see here<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J3AC6Yat2sfov0hpRXsCDXnnWLjdm9FI/view> We invite everyone interested in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to participate in the 4th Athens Natural Language Processing Summer School taking place in Athens, Greece at NCSR Demokritos Campus between 2-8 September 2026: https://athnlp.github.io/2026/ Important Dates -------------------------- * Application Deadline: May 31, 2026 * Decision Announcement: June 10, 2026 * Registration: June 30, 2026 * Summer School: September 2-8, 2026 Description ------------------ Following successful AthNLP editions in 2019, 2024, and 2025, AthNLP 2026 returns to the campus of NCSR Demokritos in Athens. The summer school is organised by NCSR Demokritos, the Athens University of Economics and Business, RC ATHENA, and Heriot-Watt University, in close collaboration with LxMLS (Lisbon, 20–25 July 2026). The school focuses on Machine Learning methods for NLP, especially Deep Learning and Large Language Models (LLMs), offering: Morning lectures on theory, afternoon hands-on lab sessions, evening research talks, poster sessions, and demos. Our target audience is: * Students and researchers in NLP/Computational Linguistics and Machine Learning; * Computer scientists with interest in NLP and ML; * Industry professionals seeking deeper understanding of these fields. While previous experience with the topics will be helpful, the school assumes no previous knowledge of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. The only background assumed is basic mathematics and Python programming. Features of AthNLP: * Attendance at the Social Event, daily lunch as well as morning and afternoon coffee breaks are included in the registration ee. * Lecturers are leading researchers in Machine Learning and NLP. * Students will be able to (optionally) show their current work in poster sessions during coffee breaks. Confirmed Speakers --------------------------------- * Antonis Anastasopoulos, George Mason Computer Science * Isabelle Augenstein, University of Copenhagen * Desmond Elliott, University of Copenhagen * Nizar Habash, NYU Abu Dhabi * Lingpeng Kong, University of Hong Kong * Julia Kreutzer, Cohere * Ryan McDonald * Dong Nguyen, Utrecht University * Anna Rogers, IT University of Copenhagen * Emine Yilmaz, University College London Participation --------------------- To apply, please fill this<https://ijerm0co.forms.app/athens-nlp-2026-summer-school-final> form. The fees are the following: * 300 EUR for students * 400 EUR for university professors or researchers at a public institute * 500 EUR for everyone else AthNLP Summer School Scholarship --------------------- Applicants can apply for the scholarship through the main application form<https://ijerm0co.forms.app/athens-nlp-2026-summer-school-final>. Scholarship recipients will be selected by the Admissions Committee and notified of the outcome after the acceptance decisions have been finalized. The scholarship provided covers only the registration fee for the AthNLP Summer School. Please note that accommodation, travel expenses, and visa costs are not included and remain the responsibility of the scholarship recipients. Any questions should be directed to: athnlp(a)athenarc.gr<mailto:athnlp@athenarc.gr> We are looking forward to your participation! -- The organizers of AthNLP 2026

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2026 NARNiHS Research Incubator -- program and registration details
by Lauersdorf, Mark R. 02 May '26

02 May '26

***** The 2026 NARNiHS Research Incubator is here! ***** Join us this coming week for the 2026 Research Incubator of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics! ==> 07-09 May 2026 <== Consult the program for the largest and most thematically-rich Incubator line-up ever: https://narnihs.org/?page_id=3420 Thirteen (13 !!!) exciting international projects in Historical Sociolinguistics across four sessions, plus our annual Meta-Discussion panel! The event is **fully online and free** for NARNiHS members. Not yet a NARNiHS member? Membership is free: https://narnihs.org/?page_id=2 Information concerning access to the online venue will be distributed through the NARNiHS member listserv a few days before the event. We look forward to seeing you there! The 2026 NARNiHS Research Incubator organizing committee

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[Deadline extension] NALOMA@ESSLLI: Natural Language Meets Logic and Machine Learning
by Abzianidze, L. (Lasha) 01 May '26

01 May '26

[Apologies for cross-posting] TL;DR The deadline for paper & abstract submission has been extended to May 6th. Time & place: 3-7 August, ESSLLI in Prague, Czech Republic Submission types: ACL Anthology archival (short/long/demo) and non-archival (extended abstract) Website: https://naloma.github.io The 6th iteration of the NALOMA (Natural Language Meets Logic and Machine Learning) workshop invites submissions on any (theoretical or computational) aspect of hybrid methods concerning Natural Language Understanding and Reasoning (NLU&R). The topics include but are not limited to: - Hybrid NLU&R systems that integrate logic-based/symbolic methods with neural networks - Explainable NLU&R (with structured explanations) - Opening the black-box of deep learning in NLU&R - Downstream applications of hybrid NLU&R systems - Probabilistic semantics for NLU&R - Comparison and contrast between symbolic and deep learning work on NLU&R - Creation, criticism, refinement, and augmentation of NLU&R datasets - (Dis)Alignment of humans and machines on NLU&R tasks - Addressing inherent human disagreements in NLU&R tasks - Generalization of NLU&R systems - Fine-grained evaluation of NLU&R systems NALOMA accepts archival papers (long, short, and demo) to appear in the ACL anthology proceedings and non-archival extended abstracts. The workshop is co-located with ESSLLI (https://2026.esslli.eu), 3-7 August, Prague, Czech Republic. The submission deadline is 6 May. Please visit https://naloma.github.io for more details about the call. NALOMA PC chairs, Lasha Abzianidze and Hitomi Yanaka Lasha Abzianidze Assistant professor Institute for Language Sciences, Utrecht University

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37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026): Third Call for Papers (Industry Track)
by Announce 01 May '26

01 May '26

*** Third Call for Papers (Industry Track) *** 37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026) October 20-23, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/ The ISSRE Industry Track gathers industry representatives as well as researchers from, within or in collaboration with industry to discuss software reliability, quality assurance as well as experiences and lessons learned. This year we will bring experiences from self- made tools, usage of AI, generative AI and machine learning in relation to software reliability. Industry track papers are expected to be of interest to software development professionals, as well as to anyone researching or working in the area of software reliability, software quality, and process improvement groups, with concrete relevance to industrial problems and practical applications. All presenters of accepted papers will be required to attend the conference in person. Participating in the conference would give a chance to meet and discuss with a wide selection of researchers and other industry experts in the area. Topics of Interest Topics of interest include development, analysis methods and models throughout the software development lifecycle, from an industrial and practitioner-oriented perspective. Ask yourself this: Is the work grounded in real-world systems, operational experience, or industrial practice, and does it address reliability or dependability concerns? If it is, you have found the right conference track. For a more detailed list check out the detailed topics list for the research track on this site. • Use cases, practical experiences, lessons learned, improvement programs in reliability or dependability. • Foundations of reliability and dependability, including process, technology, methods, metrics and lessons learned. • Design for reliability or dependability, failure and incident case studies, including experiences in security, testing, verification, and related practices in the field. • Reliability in AI-driven and autonomic systems or AI techniques used for Reliability Engineering. • Software reliability in any system domain. • Trustworthiness, security, and Responsible Software Engineering. • Human-centric focus on reliability and dependability. • Adoption of reliability standards, measurements and similar experiences. We look for papers with good evaluation, honest data, new insights and practical experiences that can be used to help others. We also encourage submissions reporting negative results, unexpected outcomes, and lessons learned from real-world practice. Submission Guidelines and Instructions We invite three kinds of submissions to the Industry Track: • Enlightening Talk or Tool Demo: 1-2 page abstract (OR a Power Point presentation OR a video for a tool demo). • Short paper: 4-pages (including references). • Full paper: 6-pages (including references). All the submissions will be reviewed by members of the Industry Track Program Committee. Accepted papers (with an abstract) will be included in the ISSRE Supplemental Proceedings and submitted for publication to IEEE Xplore. Papers are submitted via Easy Chair https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=issre2026 . Submissions must adhere to the IEEE Computer Society Format Guidelines (for more Information, please refer to the relevant part on the conference website: https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/industry-track/). Note that: • A paper must include the title, the name and affiliation of each author, an abstract of up to 150 words, and up to 4 keywords. Thus, submissions are not anonymous. • Reviewers will use the abstract during the bidding process for peer-review. Thus, the abstract should state the paper goals clearly, along with the means used to achieve them. • The first page is not a separate page, but is a part of the paper (i.e., it has technical material in it). Thus, this page counts toward the total page budget for the paper. • Symbols and labels used in the graphs should be readable as printed, without requiring on-screen magnification. • Limit the file size to less than 15 MB (for Video’s – provide a live link). Papers that exceed the page limits specified, on topics not in the scope of ISSRE, or that do not follow the formatting guidelines will be rejected without review. Authors of accepted papers will have the chance to present their work at ISSRE 2026. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register for the conference and to give the talk, if the paper is accepted. Best Paper Awards The Industry Program Chair will select three candidates among top-ranked papers presenting and motivating novel and disruptive ideas that address problems relevant for industry. Selection will be based on the reviewers’ feedback, novelty and potential impact of the results. The final selection of the best paper will be done by the audience attending the presentation of the candidate papers. Eligible papers must be (1) full papers accepted to the industry track, and (2) co-authored by at least one author whose primary affiliation is in Industry. Important Dates (AoE) • Abstract Submission Deadline: June 28, 2026 & July 3, 2026 • Paper Submission Deadline: July 5, 2026 & July 12, 2026 • Notification to Authors: August 12, 2026 • Camera Ready Papers: August 19, 2026 • Enlightening Talks or Tool Demos (without abstract; not to appear in the proceedings): August 15, 2026 • Author Registration Deadline (Industry Track): August 19, 2026 Organisation General Chairs • Leonardo Mariani, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Coordinator • Roberto Natella, GSSI, Italy Research Program Committee Chairs • Domenico Cotroneo, UNC Charlotte, USA • Jie M. Zhang, King's College London, UK Industry Program Chairs • Jinyang Liu, Bytedance, USA • Sigrid Eldh, Ericsson AB, Sweden Workshop Chairs • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • August Shi, The University of Texas at Austin, USA Doctoral Symposium Chairs • Stefan Winter, LMU Munich, Germany • Lili Wei, McGill University, Canada Fast Abstract Chairs • Luigi Lavazza, University of Insubria, Italy • Yintong Huo, SMU, Singapore JIC2 Chair • Helene Waeselynck, LAAS-CNRS, France Publicity Chairs • Allison K. Sulivan, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA • Jose D'Abruzzo Pereira, University of Coimbra, Portugal Publication Chairs • Sherlock Licorish, Otago Business School, New Zealand • Maria Teresa Rossi, GSSI, Italy Artifact Evaluation Chairs • Naghmeh Ivaki, University of Coimbra, Portugal • Fumio Machida, University of Tsukuba, Japan Diversity and Inclusion Chair • Eleni Constantinou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Financial Chair • Costas Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Web Chairs • Michalis Ioannides, Easy Conferences LTD • Elena Masserini, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy Registration Chair • Easy Conferences LTD

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CFP: 47th Translating and the Computer Conference (TC47)
by Amal Haddad 30 Apr '26

30 Apr '26

Call for Presentations and papers 47th Translating and the Computer Conference (TC47) Luxembourg, 8 to 10 December 2026 https://asling.org/tc47/ [1] AI-assisted or AI-eclipsed? Language services between promise and pressure AsLing invites submissions for the 47th edition of the Translating and the Computer Conference (TC47), to be held from 8 to 10 December 2026 in Luxembourg. The TC conference series brings together professionals, researchers, developers and decision-makers from the language industry, academia and public institutions. TC47 will explore how technological innovation - particularly AI - is reshaping multilingual communication, raising new questions about human agency, professional ethics, and sustainable practices in the language services sector. Conference theme _AI-assisted or AI-eclipsed? Language Services between Promise and Pressure_ _ _ From Machine Translation and LLMs applied to translation, language professionals face unprecedented change. TC47 invites reflection on how to navigate this evolving landscape - to ensure that technology empowers rather than eclipses, and that multilingual communication remains inclusive, trusted and professionally grounded. We especially welcome contributions exploring: * Synergy between human expertise and AI-powered tools * The role of AI in promoting or undermining inclusion and equity * Strategies for sustainable and ethical language services * Cross-sector collaboration between academia, industry, and institutions Submissions not focused on AI are equally welcome, particularly those addressing broader trends in multilingual communication, training, translation workflows, and evolving professional practices. We also welcome critical reviews and discussions on: * The broader impact of AI and automation on the language industry * Implications for training, education and career development of language professionals * Coexistence of AI and traditional practices * Impact of AI on language professionals * Adoption barriers and risks for LSPs new to AI * Future trends in translation, interpreting, and localisation - with or without AI * Responsible and sustainable development in language technologies (environmental, social, professional) Key areas of interest Include, but are not limited to: * Multilingual NLP and large language models * Human-in-control systems vs. human-in-the-loop AI * Terminology management and controlled language * AI readiness and digital transformation in LSPs * NLP, semantic technologies and linked data * Collaborative translation tools and environments * Quality assurance, benchmarking and evaluation * Training, professional development and digital upskilling * Inclusive and culturally aware AI systems * Sustainable practices across the language lifecycle * Language policy and digital language equality * FAIR data, corpora and infrastructure * Ethical implications and human oversight * Empowering language professionals to shape - not just use - AI tools * Non-AI innovations and evolutions in translation, interpreting, localisation or terminology work We invite: * Innovative research: studies that expand the boundaries of language technologies, multilingual NLP, or AI ethics. * Practical applications: case studies from public or private sector stakeholders showcasing language technology use and development. * Workshops and panels: interactive formats encouraging dialogue on timely, challenging or divisive issues in AI and language work. * Critical reflections: well-argued contributions questioning current uses of AI and proposing alternative, human-centred approaches. * Posters and short talks: snapshots of emerging projects, tools, or preliminary research. Submission tracks All submissions are for talks, within the following categories: * Research track (Academic) * 20-minute talk * Followed by a paper (max. 5,000 words) presenting original, unpublished research * User experience track (Non-academic) * 20-minute talk * Optional post-facto paper (max. 5,000 words) detailing workflows, tools or implementation cases * Posters / Short talks * 7-8-minute talk * Followed by a paper (max. 2,000 words) outlining a project, experiment, or tool * Workshops and panels * Interactive sessions with multiple speakers * Moderators may submit an optional post-facto paper summarising key takeaways Submission instructions Submissions must be made via the START conference submission system: https://www.softconf.com/p/tc2026 [2] Important dates * Deadline for research/user experience talks: 30 June 2026 ➤ Notification of acceptance: 31 August 2026 * Deadline for workshops and panels: 31 July 2026 ➤ Notification of acceptance: 15 September 2026 * Deadline for posters and short talks: 15 September 2026 ➤ Notification of acceptance: 30 September 2026 * Final paper submission (except post facto workshop and panel papers): 31 October 2026 * Conference dates: 8-10 December 2026 Submission guidelines Detailed submission guidelines, including templates and formatting instructions, will be available on the TC47 conference website. We look forward to your contributions that will help shape the future of language services through innovation, collaboration, and inclusivity. Why submit to TC47? TC47 offers a unique opportunity to engage in a multi-stakeholder dialogue that bridges research, practice and policy. It is a space for shared reflection on what language professionals need, what tools actually deliver and how we co-create a future where humans and AI work better together. For any questions, reporting of problems concerning submissions or the Conference at least, please email tc47-info(a)asling.org. Let's explore, challenge and shape the future of multilingual communication together! -- Amal Haddad Haddad (She/her) Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación Universidad de Granada |https://www.ugr.es/personal/amal-haddad-haddad Lexicon Research Group |http://lexicon.ugr.es/haddad Co-Convenor, BAAL SIG 'Humans, Machines, Language'|https://r.jyu.fi/humala Event Coordinator, BAAL SIG 'Language, Learning and Teaching' =============== Cláusula de Confidencialidad: "Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario y puede contener información privilegiada o confidencial. Si no es Ud. el destinatario indicado, queda notificado de que la utilización, divulgación o copia sin autorización está prohibida en virtud de la legislación vigente. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, se ruega lo comunique inmediatamente por esta misma vía y proceda a su destrucción. 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[CFP] [Auxiliary Papers] Special Session on Games+Spatial Intelligence at IEEE CoG 2026
by Jayannavar, Prashant Arun 29 Apr '26

29 Apr '26

*Apologies for cross-posting* IEEE Conference on Games (CoG) 2026 Madrid, September 1–4, 2026 Special session: Evaluating and Advancing Spatial Intelligence through Games CFP for auxiliary papers: https://cog2026.fdi.ucm.es/cfp-spatial Submission deadline: 14 May 2026 LinkedIn announcement: here<https://www.linkedin.com/posts/prashantjayannavar_cog2026-ieee-spatialintel…> X announcement: here<https://x.com/p_jayannavar/status/2045141231517192584?s=20> Organizing committee * Prashant Jayannavar — University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, US (paj3(a)illinois.edu) * Alessandro Suglia — University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (asuglia(a)ed.ac.uk) * Sina Zarrieß — University of Bielefeld, Germany * Massimo Poesio — Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom Scope Spatial intelligence, the ability to perceive, reason about, and manipulate spatial relationships, is fundamental to human cognition and essential for artificial intelligence systems operating in both physical and virtual environments. Games provide rich, controlled, and interactive testbeds for evaluating and advancing spatial intelligence in AI, offering diverse scenarios that require understanding spatial configurations, navigation, object manipulation, and communication about spatial concepts. This special session seeks contributions that use games as diagnostic tools or environments for developing and evaluating spatial intelligence in AI systems. We welcome research spanning both embodied and unembodied games, as well as multimodal and unimodal settings. Of particular interest are collaborative and interactive scenarios where spatial intelligence enables AI agents to serve as instruction followers or instruction givers, playing alongside or assisting humans in open-ended gameplay or task-specific applications such as navigation, construction/assembly, object manipulation, etc. Further, reward modeling in such domains also inherently requires spatial understanding, and we encourage work that studies this. The session is in part motivated by prior workshops such as the 4th Workshop on Spatial Language Understanding and Grounded Communication for Robotics (SpLU-RoboNLP 2024), When Language meets Games Workshop (Wordplay 2025), with particular inspiration drawn from the Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop Human in the Loop Learning through Grounded Interaction in Games (https://www.dagstuhl.de/seminars/seminar-calendar/seminar-details/24492). Topics of Interest We are seeking papers that present methodological contributions to relevant tasks as follows. Relevant Tasks Including, but not limited to: * Core instruction following and giving tasks (dialogue-based or single-turn) * Related sub-problems, e.g., referring expression comprehension/generation, clarification question generation, planning * Reward modeling * Novel task formulations to evaluate spatial intelligence capabilities Methodological Contributions For the above tasks, we invite contributions including, but not limited to: Data and Resources * Data collection, synthetic data generation, and simulation frameworks * Data scarcity in embodied or interactive settings * Inverse Dynamics Models and related approaches for pseudo-labeling, enabling scalable dataset creation from abundant unlabeled sources * Resources and environments for interactive/online learning Modeling Approaches * LLMs, VLMs, VLAs, agentic frameworks * Reinforcement Learning * Model design, fine-tuning strategies, in-context learning, parameter-efficient methods, and specific techniques for spatial reasoning or spatio-temporal memory representations Evaluation and Analysis * Automated metrics, human evaluation studies, and benchmark design * Games as diagnostic environments for behavioral analysis (manual or automatic) of models to uncover their strengths and limitations * Evaluating reward modeling ability itself as an effective proxy for spatial reasoning ability Program Committee members * Julia Hockenmaier — University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign * Marc-Alexandre Cote — Microsoft Research – Montreal * Raffaella Bernardi — Free University of Bozen-Bolzano * David Schlangen — University of Potsdam * Manling Li — Northwestern University * Parisa Kordjamshidi — Michigan State University * Simon Dobnik — University of Gothenburg * Nikolai Ilinykh — University of Gothenburg * Vardhan Dongre — University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign * Ruiyi Wang — University of California San Diego * Sandro Pezzelle - University of Amsterdam Submission Instructions This is a call for auxiliary papers. We invite the submission of short, competition and vision papers: * Short papers (4 pages page limit) describe work in progress, smaller projects that are not yet ready to be published as a full paper, or new progress on projects that have been reported elsewhere. * Competition papers (8 pages page limit) describe research related to one of the competitions in the Games community, including the design of new competitions and in particular submissions to existing competitions. * Vision papers (8 pages page limit) describe a vision for the future of the Games field or some part of it, be based on extensive research, and include a comprehensive bibliography. Please notice that the standards for vision papers are high: literature reviews and opinion papers with speculations not grounded in research are immediately rejected. All page limits include references and appendices. All accepted auxiliary papers will be included in the proceedings of the conference. NONE OF THE SUBMISSION DEADLINES WILL BE EXTENDED. All deadlines are Anytime on Earth (AoE). Relevant dates for this call are as follows: * Submission of auxiliary papers: 14th May 2026 * Notification of acceptance of auxiliary papers: 10th June 2026 * Submission of the camera-ready version of auxiliary papers: 24th June 2006 * Conference dates: 1st – 4th September 2026 Papers must be submitted through the conference submission system available at the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=ieeecog2026 All paper submissions should follow the recommended IEEE conference author guidelines. MS Word and LaTeX templates can be found at https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates All submitted papers will be fully peer-reviewed, and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and on IEEE Xplore. CoG will use a *double-anonymous review process*. Authors must omit their names and affiliations from their submissions, avoiding obvious identifying statements. Submissions not abiding by anonymity requirements will be desk rejected. Papers might be allocated to either poster presentations or oral presentations.

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The Paradigm Shift: From Rules to Models in Natural Language Processing
by Amal Haddad 29 Apr '26

29 Apr '26

The Paradigm Shift: From Rules to Models in Natural Language Processing International Summer School Alicante, Spain, 15, 16 and 17 June 2026 https://summer-school.gplsi.es Third Call for Participation Natural Language Processing (NLP) has witnessed a clear paradigm shift: the transition from rule-based approaches to data-driven language models. While rule-based approaches dominated NLP for many years, during the 1990s and early 2000s they gradually gave way to statistical and machine-learning methods. It would be fair to say that data-driven models--and, most prominently, Deep Learning (DL), including more recently Large Language Models (LLMs)--have taken the world by storm. Deep Learning models are now used almost everywhere, across nearly every discipline, and Natural Language Processing is no exception. DL has proved highly promising so far, delivering improvements for almost every NLP task and application. However, as observed on numerous occasions, the outputs of DL models are not always ideal, with some studies reporting cases in which machine-learning approaches do not necessarily outperform the 'old-fashioned' rule-based ones. The overarching theme of the summer school will be this paradigm shift, with lectures and practical sessions reflecting the latest trends at both theoretical and practical levels. More specifically, the programme will combine lectures focusing on theoretical foundations with hands-on practical sessions. See the confirmed lectures below. The summer school will be ideal for both newcomers and experienced professionals in NLP, computer science, data science, cybersecurity, corpus linguistics, language technologies, and related disciplines, offering a unique opportunity to deepen expertise and engage with the rapidly evolving world of LLMs. Keynote speech: Roberto Navigli, 'Is Lexical Semantics Dead in the LLM Era?' We are delighted to announce Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome) as keynote speaker of the summer school who will deliver a keynote speech 'Is Lexical Semantics Dead in the LLM Era?' Summer school programme The summer school programme will feature the following lectures: Invited lecture 'Quantum Natural Language Processing: Foundations, Challenges, and Insights' Ellena Lloret (University of Alicante) 'Explainable AI in Natural Language Processing' Salima Lamsiyah (University of Luxembourg) 'Quality Estimation for Machine Translation' Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University) 'Understanding Language Models' Hansi Hettiarachchi (Lancaster University) 'LLMs for low-resource languages' Robiert Sepúlveda Torres and Iván Martínez (University of Alicante) 'Fairness in Machine Learning: Evaluating Gender Bias in LLMs' Juan Pablo Consuegra-Ayala (University of Alicante) 'Gaze data for NLP research: recording methods and analysis' Cengiz Acarturk (Jagiellonian University) 'Beyond the Single Text: NLP Reading in Digital Humanities' Isuri Anuradha (Lancaster University) 'Automatic hyperparameter optimisation and model selection for NLP pipelines' Ernesto Luis Estevanell (University of Alicante) 'Legal NLP in the LLM era' Damith Premasiri (Lancaster University) 'Machine Translation for Low-Resource Languages' Alicia Picazo-Izquierdo (University of Alicante) 'Sentiment analysis: from rule-based methods to Large Language Models' Maram Alharbi (Lancaster University) Panel discussion A panel discussion 'The future of NLP methods and language models' is scheduled as part of the summer school (https://summer-school.gplsi.es/panel/). The panel will be hosted/moderated by Ruslan Mitkov (Lancaster University and University of Alicante) and will include contributions from Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome) Elena Lloret (University of Alicante) Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University) Salima Lamsiyah (University of Luxembourg) Nasredine Semar (CEA) Yoan Gutiérrez Vázquez (University of Alicante) Gražina Korvel (Vilnius University) Venue, dates and accommodation The summer school will take place at the Research Institute of Informatics of the University of Alicante and will take place on 15, 16 and 17 June 2026. See the summer school website for recommended accommodation options (prospective participants are advised to book accommodation at their earliest convenience, as availability is limited) or more details in general. Summer School Directors Tharindu Ranasinghe (University of Lancaster) Salima Lamsiyah (University of Luxembourg) Summer School Chair Ruslan Mitkov (University of Alicante) Advisory Committee Manuel Palomar Sanz (University of Alicante) Rafael Muñoz Guillena (University of Alicante) Andrés Montoyo Guijarro (University of Alicante) Organising Committee Raúl García Cerdá (University of Alicante) Alicia Picazo Izquierdo (University of Alicante) Ernesto Luis Estevanell (University of Alicante) Maram Alharbi (Lancaster University) Registration Registration can be completed at https://summer-school.gplsi.es/registration/. Kindly note that early-bird registration closes on 25 May 2026. Related events The summer school will follow the second international conference _Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence_ (NLPAICS'2026) which will take place in Alicante on 11 and 12 June 2026 (https://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es). Those who register for both events will benefit from a discounted registration fee. Further information The summer school website is updated on regular basis. Alternatively, interested parties can email summer-school(a)dlsi.ua.es for more information. -- Amal Haddad Haddad (She/her) Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación Universidad de Granada |https://www.ugr.es/personal/amal-haddad-haddad Lexicon Research Group |http://lexicon.ugr.es/haddad Co-Convenor, BAAL SIG 'Humans, Machines, Language'|https://r.jyu.fi/humala Event Coordinator, BAAL SIG 'Language, Learning and Teaching' =============== Cláusula de Confidencialidad: "Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario y puede contener información privilegiada o confidencial. Si no es Ud. el destinatario indicado, queda notificado de que la utilización, divulgación o copia sin autorización está prohibida en virtud de la legislación vigente. 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WoLaLa 2026: Second call for papers
by Héja Enikő 29 Apr '26

29 Apr '26

2nd Call for Papers 2nd International Workshop on Language and Language Models (WoLaLa) Dubrovnik, Croatia | October 12-13 The ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics, the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Croatian Language Technologies Society invite submissions to the 2nd International Workshop on Language and Language Models. This workshop is designed as a dedicated forum for scholars and practitioners in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) to discuss and evaluate large language models from an SSH perspective, and to share best practices that can advance research and applications within these fields. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas: General language models: Critical and comparative analyses of state-of-the-art language models, including their linguistic competence, performance, and limitations. Cultural and linguistic perspectives: Investigations into the cultural, cognitive, and scientific aspects of language processing, including the unexplored territories of model behavior and linguistic capability. Applications and best practices: Case studies and best practices in applying AI to language research, highlighting the potential for cross-disciplinary innovation within SSH. Bridging disciplines: Contributions that examine the role of language models in reshaping traditional SSH methodologies, and proposals on integrating AI insights into linguistic inquiry. IMPORTANT DATES 20 May 2026: Submission deadline 08 August 2026: Notification of acceptance 12 October – 13 October 2026: Workshop in Dubrovnik 15 December 2026: Full paper submission deadline Submissions We expect submissions in the form of extended abstracts (length: 3 to 4 pages including references) in PDF format, in accordance with the template (https://www.overleaf.com/read/sbmczvkpxpzz#4a94e3). Please ensure your submission clearly outlines your research question, methodology, and preliminary findings. Extended abstracts must be submitted through the EasyChair submission system <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wolala2026> and will be reviewed by the Programme Committee. All proposals will be reviewed on the basis of the following criteria: Appropriateness: The contribution must pertain to the topics listed above Soundness and correctness: The content must be technically and factually correct; methods must be scientifically sound, according to best practice, and preferably evaluated. Meaningful comparison: The abstract must indicate that the author is aware of alternative approaches, if any, and highlight relevant differences. Substance: Concrete work and experiences will be given preference over ideas and plans. Impact: Contributions with a higher impact on the research community and society more broadly will be given preference over papers with lower impact. Clarity: The abstract should be clearly written and well structured. Timeliness and novelty: The work must convey relevant new knowledge to the audience at this event. Programme Committee The Programme Committee for the conference consists of the following members: Marko Tadić, University of Zagreb, Croatia (chair) António Branco, University of Lisbon, Portugal Eva Hajičová, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic Erhard Hinrichs, University of Tubingen, Germany András Kornai, HUN-REN Institute for Computer Science and Control, Hungary Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa Csaba Pléh, Central European University, Austria Gábor Prószéky, ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics & Pázmány Péter Catholic University Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, United Kingdom Frédérique Segond, National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology, France Dan Tufiș, Romanian Academy, Romania Hans Uszkoreit, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany Tamás Váradi, HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Hungary Martin Wynne, University of Oxford, United Kingdom LINKS 2nd International Workshop on Language and Language Models website: https://wolala.nytud.hu <https://wolala.nytud.hu/> EasyChair submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wolala2026 Template for submissions: ZIP-archive: https://wolala.nytud.hu/templates/WoLaLa2026.zip <https://wolala.nytud.hu/templates/WoLaLa2025.zip> Overleaf template: <https://www.overleaf.com/read/xsvjrhvjyfmj#f3362f>https://www.overleaf.com/read/prvhqbxdgmxq#374f7b Contact for any questions regarding the conference: info(a)wolala.nytud.hu

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