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LCR 2026 Prague (registration is open)
by tomas.graf＠ff.cuni.cz 12 Apr '26

12 Apr '26

Learner Corpus Research Conference (LCR 2026) – Prague, September 16–19 2026 Registration now open for LCR 2026 We are pleased to announce that registration for the Learner Corpus Research (LCR) 2026 conference is now open. You can find all details and register here: https://lcr2026.ff.cuni.cz/registration/ Please feel free to share this information with colleagues who might be interested. We look forward to seeing you there! Tomáš Gráf

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Call for Track proposals - Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation 2026 - fire.irsi.org.in
by Thomas Mandl 10 Apr '26

10 Apr '26

Dear Colleagues, Call for Evaluation and Benchmarking Track 2026 is out now. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We invite proposals for the Evaluation and Benchmarking Track at FIRE 2026. FIRE 2026 is the 18th edition of the annual meeting of Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (fire.irsi.org.in <https://fire.irsi.org.in>). Since its inception in 2008, FIRE had a strong focus on shared tasks similar to those offered at Evaluation forums like TREC, CLEF, and NTCIR. The shared tasks should focus on solving specific problems in the area of information access and, more importantly, on generating high quality evaluation datasets for the research community. In line with this objective, this year the FIRE tracks emphasize selecting tasks that either introduce a new paradigm in the field or generate a substantial amount of valuable benchmark data that can support future research and experimentation. It is not required for the tasks to focus on a specific language, and they can broadly cover any problem in the fields related (but not limited) to IR, NLP, multi-modal information access, and ML. However, the organizers especially encourage proposals for tracks related to South Asian, African, and Middle Eastern languages. In the past, FIRE has hosted tracks from Arabic, Persian, German, Russian, and Urdu languages besides several Indian languages. We aim to continue these efforts and include more language groups from these regions. For knowing more about tracks in past FIRE meetings, you can visit fire.irsi.org.in <https://fire.irsi.org.in> Informal inquiries can also be sent to the track chairs. Please include the following details in your proposal: 1. Track name 2. Track description 3. Use case/s 4. Target Audience and number of expected submissions 5. Data(*) (Fair Details) 6. Evaluation plan 7. Timeline: Please try to align with the FIRE conference dates as given below 8. Organizer/s Details 9. Prior experience in organizing shared task/workshop at relevant venues *Tentative Timeline* *5th April, 2026* Track proposals due *24th April, 2026* Track acceptance notification *15th May, 2026* Open track websites and release of training data *15th June, 2026* Test data release *30th June, 2026* Run submission deadline *15th July, 2026* Track results declaration *30th August, 2026* Working notes due *30th September, 2026* Camera-ready copies of working notes and overview paper due *December, 2026 - Dates TBD* FIRE 2026 Conference Please send these details in a pdf format to clia(a)isical.ac.in with a copy to majumdar.srijoni(a)gmail.com <mailto:majumbdar.srijoni@gmail.com>, kripa.ghosh(a)gmail.com and mandl(a)uni-hildesheim.de (*) We require that after FIRE, the data should be made publicly available through Information Retrieval Society of India. In case, data can not be distributed publicly (e.g., Twitter data), a unique identifier that can be used to recreate the original corpus can be provided (e.g., tweet ids in case of Twitter data). This disbursal will be governed by a copyright form, which the users have to sign before getting the data. A sample form is available at ( fire.irsi.org.in/fire/static/data <https://fire.irsi.org.in/fire/static/data> ). In case, it is not preferable/possible for the track organizers to share the data, please mention this in the proposal with specific concerns. Exceptions can be made for tracks where data from industry is used or in case of other serious legal or ethical concerns. The aim of organizing these tracks at FIRE is to have debates and discussions on focused topics and give feedback to participants. As a result, at least one of the track organizers from each track is expected to attend FIRE and present the overview of track in person. In case of non-attendance of any of the organizers, the team will not be allowed to offer a track next year. We will try to provide student volunteers for support in the proposed tracks. They will basically be undergraduate students interested in IR and related fields and can help with corpus creation, evaluation, correspondence with participants, etc. If you require any such support, kindly mention that in the track proposals along with the number of students required. Hoping to have an enthusiastic response from your end. *Overall Track Coordinators, FIRE 2026* Thomas Mandl (Universitat Hildesheim, Germany) Kripabandhu Ghosh (IISER Kolkata, India) Srijoni Majumdar (University of Leeds, UK)

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PROFE 2026 @ IberLEF 2026 - Call for Participation and release of development data
by ALVARO RODRIGO YUSTE 10 Apr '26

10 Apr '26

<Apologies for cross-postings> ------------------------------------------------ Call for Participation PROFE 2026: Language Proficiency Evaluation IberLEF 2026 Shared Task https://sites.google.com/view/profe2026 PROFE 2026 reuses the exams for Spanish proficiency evaluation developed by Instituto Cervantes along many years to evaluate human students. Therefore, automatic systems will be evaluated under the same conditions as humans were. Systems will receive a set of exercises with their corresponding instructions without specific training material. In this way we expect Transfer Learning approaches or the use of Generative Large Language Models. The previous edition proposed exams based only on text. In this new edition, we will include exams with images, which sometimes require interpretation to answer the exercise correctly. We propose evaluating systems on their ability to perform multimodal reasoning, moving beyond text-only comprehension. We will provide a limited set of new image-based exercises while retaining the dataset from the previous edition. This setup encourages participants to develop strategies for handling the scarcity of specific training data. Subtasks PROFE 2026 has three subtasks, one per exercise type. Teams can participate in any combination of them. Each subtask contains several exercises of the same type. The subtasks are: 1. Multiple choice subtask: each exercise includes a text and a set of multiple-choice questions about the text where only one answer is correct. Given a multiple-choice question, systems must select the correct answer among the candidates. 2. Matching subtask: each exercise contains two sets of texts. Systems must find the text in the second set that best matches the first set. There is only one possible matching per text, but the first set can contain extra unnecessary texts. 3. Filling the gap subtask: each exercise contains a text with several gaps corresponding to textual fragments that have been removed and presented disorderly as options. Systems must determine the correct position for each fragment. There is only one correct text per gap, but there could be more candidates than gaps. The different exercises open research on how to approach them, adapting different prompts when using generative models. As the main novelty in this edition, some exercises will contain images. While some of these images will be the candidate answers (rather than text excerpts), others might provide visual information needed to answer the exercise correctly. Conversely, some images will not provide essential information. Consequently, systems participating in this edition must adopt a multimodal approach, capable of discerning when to integrate visual cues and when to disregard them. This necessity to filter visual relevance introduces significant new challenges compared to the previous edition. Dataset We will use the IC-UNED-RC-ES dataset created from real examinations at Instituto Cervantes. These exams were created by human experts to assess language proficiency in Spanish. We have already collected the exams and converted them to a digital format, which is ready to be used in the task. The dataset contains exams at different levels (from A1 to C2). The description of the full dataset was published in the following paper: * Anselmo Peñas, Álvaro Rodrigo, Javier Fruns-Jiménez, Inés Soria-Pastor, Sergio Moreno-Álvarez, Alberto Pérez García-Plaza, and Julio Reyes-Montesinos. A Spanish Language Proficiency Dataset for AI Evaluation<https://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/17/2/159>. Information 17, no. 2: 159. DOI: 10.3390/info17020159<https://doi.org/10.3390/info17020159>. 2026. The complete dataset contains 282 exams with 855 exercises. The total number of evaluation points are 6146 (among 16570 options) distributed by exercise type as: multiple-choice: 3544 responses matching: 2309 responses fill-the-gap: 293 responses In PROFE 2026, we plan to use around 50% of the exams; the other 50% was already used for the PROFE 2025 edition. We intend not to distribute the gold standard to prevent overfitting in post-campaign experiments and data contamination in LLMs. Evaluation measures and baseline We will use traditional accuracy (proportion of correct answers) as the main evaluation measure. Systems will receive evaluation scores from two different perspectives: * At the question level, where correct answers are counted individually without grouping them. * At the exam level, where scores for each exam are considered. Each exam contains several exercises of different types. An exam is considered to be passed if an accuracy score (accounted as the proportion of correct answers) above 0.5 is reached. Then, the proportion of passed exams is given as a global score. This perspective will only apply to those teams participating in the three subtasks. More in detail, the exact evaluation per subtask is as follows: * Multiple choice subtask: we will measure accuracy as the proportion of questions correctly answered * Matching subtask: we will measure accuracy as the proportion of correct texts matched. * Fill in the gap subtask: We will measure accuracy as the proportion of correctly filled gaps. We will use accuracy as the evaluation measure because there is only one correct option among candidates and because it is the measure applied to humans doing the same exams. Thus, we can compare the performance of automatic systems and humans under the same conditions A preliminary baseline using ChatGPT obtains the following results for each exercise type (provided that different prompting can produce slightly different results): * Multiple choice accuracy: 0.64 * Filling the gap accuracy: 0.43 * Matching accuracy: 0.51 Schedule April April 10, 2026 Development data released April 27, 2026 Test set release May May 11, 2026 Deadline for submitting runs May 18, 2026 Release of evaluation results June June 3, 2026 Paper submission deadline Organizers Alvaro Rodrigo<https://www.uned.es/universidad/docentes/informatica/alvaro-rodrigo-yuste.h…>, UNED NLP & IR Group (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) Anselmo Peñas<https://www.uned.es/universidad/docentes/informatica/anselmo-penas-padilla.…>, UNED NLP & IR Group (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) Alberto Pérez<https://www.uned.es/universidad/docentes/informatica/alberto-perez-garcia-p…>, UNED NLP & IR Group (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) Sergio Moreno<https://www.uned.es/universidad/docentes/en/informatica/sergio-moreno-alvar…>, UNED NLP & IR Group (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) Javier Fruns, Instituto Cervantes Inés Soria, Instituto Cervantes Rodrigo Agerri<https://ragerri.github.io/>, HiTz (Universidad del País Vasco, UPV/EHU) AVISO LEGAL. 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Call for Participation in iKAT 2026 as Part of SCAI@SIGIR 2026
by Marcel Ewald Gohsen 10 Apr '26

10 Apr '26

We invite participation to the 4th shared task on interactive (personalized) knowledge assistance (iKAT 2026), which will be hosted as part of the 10th Workshop on Search-Oriented Conversational AI (SCAI)<https://scai.info/scai-2026/> , colocated with SIGIR 2026 in Melbourne, Australia. * Name: Interactive Knowledge Assistance Track (iKAT) * Organizers: Marcel Gohsen<https://www.uni-weimar.de/en/media/chairs/computer-science-department/webis…>, Mohammad Aliannejadi<https://aliannejadi.com/>, Simon Lupart<https://simonlupart.github.io/>, Zahra Abbasiantaeb<https://zahraabbasiantaeb.github.io/>, Nailia Mirzakhmedova<https://www.uni-weimar.de/en/media/chairs/computer-science-department/webis…>, Johannes Kiesel<https://kiesels.de/johannes>, Jeff Dalton<https://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~jeff/> * Preliminary timeline (exact dates might still be subject of change): * Registration deadline: May 27, 2026 * System submission opens: May 27, 2026 * System submission deadline: June 10, 2026 * Report submission deadline: July 17, 2026 * SCAI Workshop: July 24, 2026 * Website: https://www.trecikat.com/ * Registration: https://form.jotform.com/260753949743066 Motivation While the conversational interaction paradigm becomes more and more prevalent for search, the challenge of adapting system responses to individual users (i.e., personalization) still remains a challenge for conversational retrieval systems. Since answer relevance is highly subjective, personalization is necessary to build effective user-centric retrieval systems. From the beginning, personalization of conversational search is the central goal of the Interactive Knowledge Assistance Track (iKAT). The iKAT shared task can look back on four years under former name, Conversational Assistance Track (CAsT), and three years under the current name, iKAT, hosted at TREC. In 2026, iKAT will be organized in collaboration with the SCAI workshop that will take place at SIGIR 2026 in Melbourne, Australia. Task Overview Participants of iKAT will receive the following resources to provide their run submissions. 1. Test dataset that contains the following information: a) Topics b) Example conversations c) Personal Text Knowledge Bases (PTKB) of the users 2. Passage collection (iKAT subset of ClueWeb22-B) 3. Access to the user simulation API (Sim.API<https://github.com/marcel-gohsen/user-simulation-api>) and documentation. Participants submit conversational search systems that, for each real-time simulated user turn, retrieves and ranks relevant passages from the passage collection. Then, the system use the ranked passages to generate a personalized response based on the user’s PTKB, utterance, and context. This response will be passed back to the simulated user, which again produces an utterance. This process will be repeated until the user terminates the conversation. The systems have to provide the generated text response, the ranked list of passages (citations), and the PTKB statements that were deemed relevant for each produced turn. Submission Participants submit their runs via an API and submit a report to describe their approaches. Every participating team will be invited to present their approaches during the SCAI workshop and the reports will be released as part of our proceedings. Further Details For more information and updates on the task please keep an eye on our guidelines and on our iKAT website<https://www.trecikat.com/>.

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[Jobs@ELDA] Offre de missions de traduction en anglais, français, allemand et russe (H/F) / English, French, German and Russian Translators (F/M)
by info＠elda.org 10 Apr '26

10 Apr '26

[Apologies for multiple postings] English, French, German and Russian translators (F/M) (English version below) Context: In order to create high-quality linguistic resources, ELDA (Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency) is hiring translators to work in the following language pairs: • French to English • German to French • English to German • Russian to English Mission details: • Document type: political newspaper articles (defense-oriented); • Volume: 15.000 words ; • Modality: full translation (target text to be created from scratch); • Technical terminology: journalistic discourse - may contain political, judicial or military jargon; • Start date: as soon as possible; • End date: May 22nd, 2026; • Location: ELDA main office (Paris, 13th district). Remote work allowed; • Contract type: freelance (possible fixed-term contract upon request); • Send estimate to: <menel(a)elda.org> Additional job specificities: • Knowledge of annotation softwares (Label Studio) is a great-to-have. • You are able to quickly understand and apply complex annotation guidelines. How to apply : • Send your resume to <menel(a)elda.org>. ------------------------------------------------------- Offre de missions de traduction - anglais, français, allemand et russe (H/F) Contexte : Dans le cadre de ses activités de production de ressources linguistiques, ELDA (Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency) recherche des traducteurs (F/H) amenés à travailler dans les paires de langues suivantes : • Français vers anglais • Allemand vers français • Anglais vers allemand • Russe vers anglais Détails de la mission : • Documents : articles politiques contemporains (axés défense) ; • Volume : 15 000 mots ; • Modalité : traduction complète (production du texte cible) ; • Langage technique : discours journalistique, avec jargons politique, juridique et/ou militaire occasionnels ; • Date d’embauche prévue : Dès que possible ; • Date de fin de mission : 22 mai 2026 ; • Lieu : Locaux d’ELDA (Paris 13ème arrondissement), télétravail possible ; • Type de contrat : freelance (CDD envisageable sur demande) ; • Envoi de devis : <menel(a)elda.org> Autres spécificités du poste : • La connaissance du logiciel d’annotation Label Studio est très appréciée. • Capacité à intégrer et appliquer rapidement des règles d’annotation complexes. Candidature : • Envoyer un CV à <menel(a)elda.org>

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[Jobs@ELDA] Annotateurs (H/F) en allemand, anglais et russe / Annotators (M/F) in German, English and Russian
by info＠elda.org 10 Apr '26

10 Apr '26

[Apologies for multiple postings] Contexte : ELDA (Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency) recherche, dans le cadre de ses activités de production de ressources linguistiques, des annotateurs (F/H) pour une mission de deux semaines (renouvelable) à temps plein. Langues concernées : • Allemand • Anglais • Russe Mission : Dans le cadre d’un projet européen, nous constituons des corpus d’évaluation des technologies langagières. L’annotateur sera amené à travailler sur les tâches suivantes : • Entités nommées (NER), • Reconnaissance de la parole (ASR), • Reconnaissance automatique de caractères (OCR). La mission aura lieu dans les locaux d'ELDA (Paris 13e) et peut démarrer dès que possible. Profil recherché : • Locuteur natif (ou niveau C2 minimum) d’une des langues concernées ; • Connaissances dans le domaine des langues et/ou de la linguistique afin de comprendre et mobiliser des concepts fins (sémantique, phonétique) ; • Connaissances en traitement automatique des langues ou humanités numériques très appréciées ; • Capacité à travailler sur les types de textes suivants : presse politique, documentation technique en lien avec la défense, données de défense européenne ; • Capacité à travailler avec les formats de données suivants : images, audio, texte ; • Bonne maîtrise de l’outil informatique ; la connaissance de logiciels d'annotation (Label Studio, Praat en particulier) est très appréciée ; • Capacité à intégrer rapidement et suivre des règles d’annotation complexes ; • Curiosité, minutie, attention au détail, rigueur. Modalités du contrat : • Rémunération SMIC +20% soit 2162,16€ brut mensuel ; • Premiers jours de formation sur site, télétravail possible par la suite ; • CDD de 2 semaines renouvelable. Candidature : • Envoyer un CV à <menel(a)elda.org>. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Context: In order to create high-quality language resources, ELDA (Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency) is hiring full-time annotators. Targeted Languages: • German • English • Russian Mission : Currently taking part in a European-funded project, ELDA is developing evaluation datasets for language technologies. The annotators will work on the following tasks: • Named Entity Recognition (NER), • Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), • Optical Character Recognition (OCR). The position will be based at the ELDA main office (Paris, 13th district) and can start as soon as possible. Requirements and qualifications : • You are a native (or at least C2 level) speaker in one of the targeted languages; • You have extensive knowledge in language sciences and/or linguistics. This will be necessary to discuss advanced concepts such as semantics or phonetics; • Ideally, you have knowledge in Natural Language Processing (NLP) or in Digital Humanities (DH); • You can handle the following textual types: political news, technical documentation on the defense domain, European defense data; • You can handle the following data types: image, audio and text; • You have solid computer skills; knowing annotation software (esp. Label Studio and Praat) is a great-to-have; • You are able to quickly understand and apply complex annotation guidelines; • You are curious, meticulous and detail-oriented. Contract specifications: • Compensation: French minimum wage (SMIC) +20%, amounting to €2162.16 (gross monthly salary); • Location: on-site for the first days of training, then remote work is allowed for the remaining days; • Duration: 2-week renewable fixed-term contract (CDD). How to apply : • Send your resume to <menel(a)elda.org>.

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[2nd CFP] NALOMA: Natural Language Meets Logic and Machine Learning
by Abzianidze, L. (Lasha) 09 Apr '26

09 Apr '26

[Apologies for cross-posting] TL;DR Time & place: 3-7 August, ESSLLI in Prague, Czech Republic Submission types: ACL Anthology archival (short/long/demo) and non-archival (extended abstract) Deadline: 30 April 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 30 April. 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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Summer Corpus Intensive
by Daniel HENKEL 09 Apr '26

09 Apr '26

(Texte en français ci-dessous) Paris 8 University is pleased to announce their upcoming Summer Intensive Program "*Corpus Methods in Linguistics--compilation, annotation, and quantitative analysis*", to be held 26-29 May 2026. This will be a 30h week-long course consisting of: --morning sessions devoted to data collection, extraction and organization, as well as DIY corpus building --afternoon sessions focusing on statistical analysis of the data produced during the morning sessions --several half-day sessions on automatic annotation and manual annotation methods Participants will learn how to: --formulate advanced search queries in a concordancer (e.g. TextSTAT, AntConc) --compile a text corpus with BootCaT --automatically annotate a text corpus in TreeTagger --measure keyword specificity and collocation strength using AntConc --perform statistical analyses of categorical variables in R This program is intended primarily for researchers and upper-level students (Masters or Doctorate). Tuition will be 90€. To participate*, or request further information, please send an email to the organizers indicating name, status (e.g. Doctoral student, Post-doctoral researcher, Faculty) and 5 keywords describing your research interests using this link <mailto:daniel.henkel@univ-paris8.fr?subject=Summer%20Corpus%20Intensive&body=Name:%0D%0A%0D%0AStatus%2FAffiliation:%0D%0A%0D%0AKeywords:%0D%0A%0D%0AHow%2FWhere%20did%20you%20learn%20about%20the%20Paris%208%20Summer%20Corpus%20Intensive%3F:%0D%0A%0D%0AMessage:%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0ANB.%20Please%20leave%20the%20subject%20line%20%22Summer%20Corpus%20Intensive%22%20unchanged.%0D%0AVeuillez%20ne%20pas%20modifier%20la%20ligne%20objet%20%22Summer%20Corpus%20Intensive%22.&cc=dsg.up8@gmail.com,summer.school.paris8@gmail.com>. Please note that this is an international Summer School and that we will work with corpora in English, French and possibly other languages. Knowledge of French is thus an advantage but is not strictly necessary. /*Pending confirmation/ *** Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer l'ouverture prochaine du Séminaire Intensif « *Méthodes en Linguistique de Corpus--compilation, annotation et analyse quantitative* », de l'Université Paris 8 qui aura lieu du 26 au 29 mai 2026. Ce programme, d'une durée d'une semaine, comprend 30h de cours répartis de la manière suivante : --le matin, des séances consacrées à la récolte et à la préparation des données --l'après-midi, des cours dédiés à l'analyse statistique des données récoltées lors des séances du matin --plusieurs demi-journées d'entraînement à l'annotation automatique et manuelle. Les participants apprendront à : --concevoir des formules de recherche complexes dans un concordancier (p.ex. TextSTAT, AntConc) --rassembler un corpus thématique avec BootCaT --étiqueter un corpus de texte automatiquement avec TreeTagger --mesurer la spécificité des mots clefs et la force des collocations dans AntConc --réaliser des analyses statistiques de variables catégoriques dans R Ce programme s'adresse principalement à des enseignants-chercheurs et étudiants de deuxième ou troisième cycle (Master, Doctorat). Les frais de participation seront de 90€. Pour y participer*, ou pour tout complément d'information, envoyez un courriel aux organisateurs indiquant votre nom, statut (p.ex. Doctorant, Post-doc, Enseignant-chercheur) et 5 mots clefs décrivant vos intérêts de recherche en cliquant ici <mailto:daniel.henkel@univ-paris8.fr?subject=Summer%20Corpus%20Intensive&body=Name:%0D%0A%0D%0AStatus%2FAffiliation:%0D%0A%0D%0AKeywords:%0D%0A%0D%0AHow%2FWhere%20did%20you%20learn%20about%20the%20Paris%208%20Summer%20Corpus%20Intensive%3F:%0D%0A%0D%0AMessage:%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0ANB.%20Please%20leave%20the%20subject%20line%20%22Summer%20Corpus%20Intensive%22%20unchanged.%0D%0AVeuillez%20ne%20pas%20modifier%20la%20ligne%20objet%20%22Summer%20Corpus%20Intensive%22.&cc=dsg.up8@gmail.com,summer.school.paris8@gmail.com>. /*Sous réserve de confirmation/

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ACM ICMI 2026 Call for Tutorials
by Gualtiero Volpe 09 Apr '26

09 Apr '26

ICMI 2026 CALL FOR TUTORIALS ============================================ 5-9 October 2026, Napoli - Italy https://icmi.acm.org/2026/ ============================================ ACM ICMI 2026 seeks half-day tutorial proposals addressing current and emerging topics within the scope of context and cultural awareness for multimodal interaction. Tutorials are designed to offer a high-quality learning experience to participants with diverse backgrounds. It is expected that tutorials are self-contained. Prospective organizers should submit a 4-page (maximum) proposal containing the following information: 1. Title. 2. Abstract, appropriate for possible Web promotion of the tutorial. 3. A short list of the distinctive topics to be addressed. 4. Learning objectives (specific and measurable objectives). 5. The targeted audience (student / early stage / advanced researchers, pre-requisite knowledge, field of study). 6. Detailed description of the tutorial and its relevance to multimodal interaction. 7. Outline of the tutorial content with a tentative schedule and its duration. 8. Description of the presentation format (number of presenters, interactive sessions, practical aspects). 9. Accompanying material (repository, references) and equipment, emphasizing any required material from the organization committee (subject to approval). 10. Short biography of the organizers (preferably from multiple institutions) together with their contact information and a list of 1-2 key publications related to the tutorial topic. 11. Previous editions: If the tutorial was given before, describe when and where it was delivered. Proposals will be evaluated using the following criteria: - Importance of the topic and the relevance to ACM ICMI 2026. - Presenters’ experience. - Adequacy of the presentation format to the topic. - Targeted audience interest and impact. - Accessibility and quality of accompanying materials (open access). Proposals that focus exclusively on the presenters’ own work or commercial presentations are not acceptable. However, we encourage non-academic researchers to propose tutorials. Contact Details Proposals should be emailed to the ICMI 2026 Tutorial Chairs, Prof. Marco Cristani and Prof. Tsvi Kuflik at: icmi2026-tutorials-chairs(a)acm.org Prospective organizers are also encouraged to contact the co-chairs if they have any questions. Important Dates Tutorial proposal deadline: April 30th, 2026 Tutorial acceptance notification: May 23th, 2026 Camera-ready version of the tutorial abstract: August 2nd, 2026 Tutorial date: October 5th or October 9th 2026 ICMI organization will provide rooms, coffee, and lunch for participants, and one free registration for a speaker or organizer for each tutorial.

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Post-doc position in archive digital valorization (computer science & digital humanities)
by Antonin Descampe 09 Apr '26

09 Apr '26

[Version française ci-dessous, apologies for cross-posting, mes excuses en cas d’envoi multiple] Job offer summary In the context of the BELSPO FED-tWIN<https://www.belspo.be/belspo/research/FEDtWIN_en.stm> research program (ARKEY funded proposal), the MiiL<https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/miil> (Media Innovation and Intelligibility Lab from UCLouvain<https://uclouvain.be/en/index.html>, Belgium) and the States Archives of Belgium<https://www.arch.be/index.php?l=en> (SAB) are looking for a post-doc researcher in computer science or digital humanities, with a significant experience in the automatic processing of digital documents involving both text and images. The proposed contract is an open-ended FTE contract (50% UCLouvain, 50% SAB). The funding is guaranteed over a period of 7.5 years, with the intention of securing the position. The main objective of this ARKEY research profile will be to improve the digital valorization of archive collections through long-term tools and recent advances in artificial intelligence. It involves (1) the research and development of an enhanced access key to digitized content (through text and layout recognition, and enriched digital archival representation), and (2) the improvement of the navigation experience within archive collections, through semantic search and conversational interfaces. It builds on the expertise of a multidisciplinary team from SAB and from several research groups within UCLouvain (MiiL<https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/miil>, Cental<https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/ilc/cental>, ARCH<https://uclouvain.be/fr/decouvrir/archives>, and GEMCA<https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/incal/gemca>). ARKEY aims to bring added value for society and public service, by improving the accessibility and intelligibility of archives: a priority for many researchers and a foundation of democratic states. The complete offer is available here<https://www.uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/miil/jobs>. Application should be sent to Antonin Descampe (antonin.descampe(a)uclouvain.be<mailto:antonin.descampe@uclouvain.be>) and Johan Van Der Eycken (johan.vandereycken(a)arch.be<mailto:johan.vandereycken@arch.be>) as soon as possible and no later than May 10, 2026. Résumé de l’offre Dans le cadre du programme de recherche BELSPO FED-tWIN<https://www.belspo.be/belspo/research/FEDtWIN_fr.stm> (proposition financée « ARKEY »), le MiiL<https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/ilc/miil> (Media Innovation and Intelligibility Lab de l'UCLouvain<https://uclouvain.be/fr/index.html>, Belgique) et les Archives de l’Etat en Belgique<https://www.arch.be/index.php?l=fr> (AGR) recherchent un post-doctorant en informatique ou en humanités numériques, avec une expérience importante dans le le traitement automatique de documents numériques impliquant à la fois du texte et des images. Le contrat proposé est un contrat à temps plein à durée indéterminée (50% UCLouvain, 50% AGR). Le financement est garanti sur 7,5 ans, avec une intention de pérennisation du poste. L'objectif principal de ce profil de recherche ARKEY sera d’optimiser la valorisation numérique des collections d'archives grâce à des outils informatiques pérennes et aux avancées récentes en intelligence artificielle. Il propose (1) la recherche et le développement de moyens d'accès enrichis au contenu numérisé (grâce à la reconnaissance de texte et de structure, ainsi qu’à une représentation enrichie des archives), et (2) l'amélioration de l'expérience de navigation au sein des collections d’archives, notamment via des interfaces de recherche sémantique et conversationnelle. Il s'appuie sur l'expertise d'une équipe pluridisciplinaire des AGR et de plusieurs groupes de recherche au sein de l'UCLouvain (MiiL<https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/ilc/miil>, Cental<https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/ilc/cental>, ARCH<https://uclouvain.be/fr/decouvrir/archives> et GEMCA<https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/incal/gemca>). ARKEY vise à apporter une valeur ajoutée pour la société et le service public en améliorant l'accessibilité et l'intelligibilité des archives : une priorité pour de nombreux chercheurs et chercheuses, et un fondement des États démocratiques. L'offre complète est également disponible ici<https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/ilc/miil/offres-d-emploi.html>. Les candidatures doivent être envoyées à Antonin Descampe (antonin.descampe(a)uclouvain.be<mailto:antonin.descampe@uclouvain.be>) et Johan Van Der Eycken (johan.vandereycken(a)arch.be<mailto:johan.vandereycken@arch.be>) dès que possible et au plus tard le 10 mai 2026. Antonin Descampe - PhD Assistant Professor @ UCLouvain<https://www.uclouvain.be/> (personal page<https://www.uclouvain.be/people/antonin.descampe>) Teacher @ Louvain School of Communication and Journalism (COMU<https://www.uclouvain.be/fr/facultes/espo/comu>/EjL<https://uclouvain.be/fr/facultes/espo/comu/master-en-journalisme.html>) Researcher @ Observatory for Research on Media and journalism (ILC<https://www.uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/ilc>/ORM<https://www.uclouvain.be/orm>) Academic Supervisor @ Media Innovation and Intelligibility Lab (MiiL<https://www.uclouvain.be/miil>) Special Advisor to the Rector for Digital Communication Place de l'Université, 16, bur. b.405 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) Tel. +32 (0)10 47 27 87 antonin.descampe(a)uclouvain.be<mailto:antonin.descampe@uclouvain.be>

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