*** First Call for Posters and Demos
The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026)
March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus
https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…>
The ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) is the leading annual venue
for researchers and practitioners to explore advancements at the intersection of Artificial
Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). IUI submissions should address
HCI challenges using machine intelligence and consider both computational and human-
centric aspects. As AI becomes more integrated into everyday technology, understanding
its role in meeting human needs is vital for developing effective and responsible systems.
This conference fosters collaboration among experts from diverse fields to tackle
significant issues in AI and HCI through discussions, workshops, and networking
sessions.
Posters
Posters provide an opportunity for sharing valuable last-minute ideas, eliciting useful
feedback on early-stage work and fostering discussions and collaborations among
colleagues. We invite submissions relevant to all conference topics. All submissions
should convey a scientific result or work in progress that is not yet ready to be published
as a full-length research paper at a refereed conference.
The page limit for poster papers is 4 pages (references do not count toward the page
limit). Submitting a draft poster along with your submission is not required, but is
recommended. Accepted poster papers will appear in the companion proceedings of the
conference. Each accepted contribution is expected to be presented in person during the
poster session.
Demos
The demonstration track complements the overall program of the conference.
Demonstrations show implementations of novel, interesting, and important intelligent
user interface concepts or systems. We invite submissions relevant to intelligent user
interfaces and which address, but are not limited to, the topics of the conference. All
submissions are intended to convey a scientific result or work in progress and should
not be advertisements for commercial software packages.
The page limit for demo papers is 4 pages (references do not count toward the page
limit). Authors further need to submit a video (max. 5 mins) along with their demo paper
to showcase their work. Accepted demo papers will be presented as interactive
demonstrations at IUI and published in the companion proceedings of the conference.
Each accepted contribution is expected to be presented in person during the demo sessions.
Important Dates (AoE)
• Full paper: December 21, 2025
• Decision notification: January 26, 2026
• Camera-ready submission: February 6, 2026
Topics
The topics for the Posters and Demos are the same as for the main track.
Submission Instructions
Papers must be up to 4 pages (references do not count towards the page limit). Demo
and poster submissions do not need to be anonymized. Submissions should follow the
ACM Master Article Templates in a single-column format.
We adopt the ACM TAPS Workflow.
Please prepare your submission for review in a single column format, using the latest
templates: Word Submission Template, or the LaTeX template using
\documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for the LaTeX template.
Authors are required to include a proper classification for the paper according to the
ACM Classification System (CCS). Additional information on how to use it is available at:
https://dl.acm.org/ccs<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> .
A video (up to 5 mins) is required for demo submissions. The video should showcase the
system that will be demonstrated during the conference. Please follow the SIGCHI
Technical Requirements and Guidelines for Videos
(https://sigchi.org/resources/guides-for-authors/videos/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…>).
Please submit your demos and posters electronically to the Precision Conference
Submission (PCS) Portal (https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…>) by the paper
deadlines.
In PCS, first click “Submissions” at the top of the page, from the dropdown menus for
Society, Conference, and Track, please select “SIGCHI”, “IUI 2026”, and “IUI 2026 Posters”
or “IUI 2026 Demos”, respectively, and then press “Go”.
Note: If the corresponding author (the individual who submits the paper, not necessarily
the first author) is affiliated with a participating institution that has an open access
agreement with ACM, the Article Processing Charges (APCs) will be waived for publishing
the paper. Details are under “Publication and Open Access”.
Accessibility
Authors are asked to make their paper submissions accessible (so that reviewers with
vision impairments can access them, for example). The authors of accepted papers will
be required to make their final PDFs accessible. Please use the SIGCHI Guide to an
Accessible Submission for detailed instructions.
If you are submitting a video as supplemental material, please provide captions, as
described in Technical Requirements and Guidelines for Videos.
Please refer to the Accessibility page of the conference site for further details and
guidelines.
Usage of Generative AI
All submissions must comply with the ACM policy on the usage of GenAI: the April 2023
ACM Policy on Authorship and Frequently Asked Questions. Text generated from a
large-scale language model (LLM), such as ChatGPT, must be clearly marked where such
tools are used for purposes beyond editing the author’s own text. Authors should include
a “GenAI Usage Disclosure” section, right before the references, to provide full disclosure
of all use of GenAI tools in all stages of the research (including the code and data) and
the writing. This section, together with the references, will not be counted toward the
word limit.
While we do not anticipate using tools on a large scale to detect LLM-generated text, we
will investigate submissions brought to our attention and desk reject papers where LLM
use is not clearly marked.
Publication and Open Access
The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM
Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference.
The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to
published work.
Starting January 1, 2026, ACM will fully transition to Open Access. All ACM publications,
including those from ACM-sponsored conferences, will be 100% Open Access. Authors
will have two primary options for publishing Open Access articles with ACM: the ACM
Open institutional model or by paying Article Processing Charges (APCs). With over 1,800
institutions already part of ACM Open, the majority of ACM-sponsored conference
papers will not require APCs from authors or conferences (currently, around 70-75%).
Authors from institutions not participating in ACM Open will need to pay an APC to
publish their papers, unless they qualify for a financial or discretionary waiver. To find
out whether an APC applies to your article, please consult the list of participating
institutions in ACM Open and review the APC Waivers and Discounts Policy. Keep in mind
that waivers are rare and are granted based on specific criteria set by ACM.
Understanding that this change could present financial challenges, ACM has approved a
temporary subsidy for 2026 to ease the transition and allow more time for institutions to
join ACM Open. The subsidy will offer:
• $250 APC for ACM/SIG members
• $350 for non-members
This represents a 65% discount, funded directly by ACM. Authors are encouraged to help
advocate for their institutions to join ACM Open during this transition period.
This temporary subsidized pricing will apply to all conferences scheduled for 2026.
Dear colleagues,
This is the Final Call for FULL Papers for the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2026), one of the leading conferences in the field of Information Retrieval, covering topics at the intersection of IR, NLP, recommender systems, conversational search, and generative AI.
📌 Important Dates
Full Paper Abstract Submission Deadline: September 25, 2025, 11:59pm (AoE)
Full paper submission: October 2, 2025, 11:59pm (AoE)
Notification of Acceptance: December 16, 2025
Conference Dates: Delft, The Netherlands
🌟 Why submit to ECIR?
A premier forum for presenting cutting-edge research in Information Retrieval and related fields.
Opportunity to connect with an international community of researchers and practitioners.
🔗 Conference Website: https://ecir2026.eu/
We warmly invite you to submit your latest research and join us at ECIR 2026. Please feel free to share this call with colleagues and students who may be interested.
Looking forward to your contributions!
Best regards,
ECIR 2026 Organizing Committee
[Apologies for multiple postings]
We are pleased to announce that the *Third Call for Papers* for LREC
2026 has just been published. The Author’s Kit and the templates have
been updated.
* LREC 2026 Third Call for Papers
<https://lrec2026.info/third-call-for-papers/>
* Author's Kit <https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/>, including the
downloadable templates
* Check the FAQ <https://lrec2026.info/faq/>
*Important dates*
**Oral and poster (or poster+demo) paper submission: 17 October 2025
* Notification of acceptance: 13 February 2026
* Camera Ready due: 6 March 2026
* LREC 2026 conference: 11-16 May 2026
All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”)
*
*
Best regards,
Management and Programme Chairs
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*More information* on LREC 2026: https://lrec2026.info/
*Contact the Programme Chairs*: lrec2026-pcs(a)googlegroups.com
*General LREC 2026 contact:* info(a)lrec2026.info
TL;DR
[ https://helsinki-nlp.github.io/shroom/2025a | SHROOM-CAP ] is an Indic-centric shared task co-located with [ https://chomps2025.github.io/ | CHOMPS-2025 ] to advance the SOTA in hallucination detection for scientific content generated with LLMs. We have annotated hallucinated content in 5 high-resource languages and surprisal 4 low-resource Indic languages using top-tier LLMs. Participate in as many languages as you like by accurately detecting the presence of hallucinated content.
Stay informed by joining our [ https://groups.google.com/g/shroomcap | Google group ] !
Full Invitation
We are excited to announce the SHROOM-CAP shared task on cross-lingual hallucination detection for scientific publication (link to [ https://helsinki-nlp.github.io/shroom/2025a | website ] ). We invite participants to detect whether or not there is hallucination in the outputs of instruction-tuned LLMs within a cross-lingual scientific context.
About
This shared task builds upon our previous iteration, [ https://helsinki-nlp.github.io/shroom/2024 | SHROOM ] , with three key highlights: LLM-centered, cross-lingual annotations & hallucination and fluency prediction.
LLMs frequently produce "hallucinations," where models generate plausible but incorrect outputs, while the existing metrics prioritize fluency over correctness. This results in an issue of growing concern as these models are increasingly adopted by the public.
With SHROOM-CAP, we want to advance the state-of-the-art in detecting hallucinated scientific content. This new iteration of the shared task is held in a cross-lingual and multimodel context: we provide data produced by a variety of open-weights LLMs in 5+4 different high and low resource languages (English, French, Spanish, Hindi, Italian, and to-be-later-revealed Indic languages).
Participants are invited to participate in any of the languages available and are expected to develop systems that can accurately identify hallucinations in generated scientific content.
Additionally, participants will also be invited to submit system description papers, with the option to present them in oral/poster format during the CHOMPS workshop (collocated with [ https://2025.aaclnet.org/ | IJCNLP-AACL 2025, Mumbai, India ] ). Participants that elect to write a system description paper will be asked to review their peers’ submissions (max 2 papers per author).
Key Dates:
All deadlines are “anywhere on Earth” (23:59 UTC-12).
*
Train set available by: 31.07.2025
* Validation set available by: 05.09.2025
*
Test set available by: 05.10.2025
*
Test phase ends: 12.10.2025
* Leaderboard release: 15.10.2025
*
System description papers due: 25.10.2025
*
Notification of acceptance: 05.11.2025
*
Camera-ready due: 11.11.2025
* Proceedings due: 01.12.2025
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CHOMPS workshop: 23/ [ https://mail.ufal.mff.cuni.cz/calendar/day/1766568272945 | 24th December 2025 ] (co-located with IJCNLP-AACL 2025)
Evaluation Metrics:
Participants will be ranked along two criteria:
1. factuality mistakes measured via macro-F1 gold reference vs. predicted;
2. fluency mistakes measured via macro-F1 gold reference vs. predicted based on our annotations.
Rankings and submissions will be done separately per language: you are welcome to focus only on the languages you are interested in!
How to Participate:
*
Register: Please register your team [ https://forms.gle/hWR9jwTBjZQmFKAE7 | https://forms.gle/hWR9jwTBjZQmFKAE7 ] and join our google group: [ https://groups.google.com/g/shroomcap | https://groups.google.com/g/shroomcap ]
*
Submit results: use our platform to submit your results before 12.10.2025. The submission platform is now available at: [ https://shroomcap.pythonanywhere.com/submission/ | https://shroomcap.pythonanywhere.com/submission/ ]
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Submit your system description: system description papers should be submitted by 25.10.2025.
Want to be kept in the loop?
Join our [ https://groups.google.com/g/shroomcap | Google group mailing list ] ! We look forward to your participation and to the exciting research that will emerge from this task.
Best regards,
SHROOM-CAP organizers
Postdoc opportunity at the IT University of Copenhagen in an exciting project on improving citizens’ experience in emergency triage
https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=119&ProjectId=181…
Application deadline: 24 September 2025
We are looking to hire a postdoc in data science/natural language processing to contribute to an innovative research project aimed at streamlining citizens’ encounters with emergency medical services using AI technology. The project stands out by using public data for public good with access to one of the largest real-world healthcare dialogue datasets in Europe and by exploring novel approaches to human-AI alignment, where both citizens and AI systems adapt to each other through dynamic interaction.
As part of an interdisciplinary team, you will be a part of the NLPnorth natural language processing group at the IT University of Copenhagen, and work closely with human-computer interaction experts at the University of Copenhagen and the Emergency Medical Services of the Capital Region of Denmark. Your primary role in the project will involve:
* Research on exploiting large language models to facilitate effective communication with citizens in medical emergency scenarios, leading to academic publications in top-tier venues.
* Research on countering and mitigating LLM uncertainty and overconfidence to achieve human-AI alignment in emergency care.
* Deploying and evaluating automatic speech recognition models to transcribe emergency hotline calls in Danish with high accuracy.
* Implementing RAG-based LLM solutions for reliable and factual interaction with citizens in emergency situations.
The postdoc will be a part of the NLPnorth research group at the IT University of Copenhagen (https://nlpnorth.github.io/).
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Christian Hardmeier
Associate Professor, IT University of Copenhagen
https://christianhardmeier.rax.ch/
Call for Papers
IVACS 2026 – Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies Conference
1–3 July 2026 | University of Malta, Valletta, Malta
https://www.um.edu.mt/events/ivacs2026/
The IVACS Association is pleased to announce that the 12th Biennial IVACS Conference will be hosted by the University of Malta, Valletta Campus, from 1–3 July 2026.
The IVACS Conference series is a leading international forum for corpus-based research into linguistic varieties and applications of corpus linguistics in professional, pedagogical, and social contexts. Following the successful series of conferences, IVACS 2026 will continue to build on this tradition of collaboration and innovation.
We are excited to announce our plenary speakers<https://www.um.edu.mt/events/ivacs2026/speakers/>:
Dr Niall Curry, Manchester Metropolitan University
Prof. Phil Durrant, University of Exeter
Dr Tove Larsson, Northern Arizona University
We welcome proposals related to (but not limited to):
* Corpus Design & Methodology: compilation, annotation, and representativeness
* Applied Contexts: workplace and professional discourse, minority and endangered languages, translation, interpreting, multilingual communication, stylistics
* Innovations & Emerging Directions: GenAI tools and platforms, multimodal corpora
* Teaching & Learning: corpus applications in pedagogy, data-driven learning, assessment, teacher education, learner corpora, genre-based approaches
* Corpus-Informed Materials: pedagogic grammars, textbooks, syllabi design
* Theoretical Perspectives: sociolinguistics, pragmatics, critical discourse studies, intercultural communication
* Corpus Linguistics and Ethical Practice: Ethical, transparent, and inclusive methods in corpus-based research
Submission Details
* Individual Papers: 20 minutes presentation + 10 minutes discussion
* Colloquia: 90 minutes, consisting of 3 thematically linked papers
* Posters: especially suitable for work-in-progress or early-stage projects
* Paper, colloquia and poster abstracts should be submitted to ivacs2026(a)um.edu.mt<mailto:ivacs2026@um.edu.mt>.
The language of the conference is English. We encourage submission of abstracts from early-career researchers, including postgraduate research students and postdoctoral researchers.
Abstract specifications for Individual Papers and Posters:
* 250 – 350 words in length (including references, if any)
* Written in Times New Roman font and saved as a docs file
* Page 1 will include: Title; Presenter(s); Affiliation(s); Email address(es), plus abstract
* Page 2 will be anonymised and will include: Title and abstract only
Abstract specifications for Colloquia:
* A maximum of 1,000 words in length (not including list of references)
* A single abstract on behalf of all speakers on the panel, detailing the overall motivation for the panel, individual contributions, and the proposed panel structure
* Written in Times New Roman font and saved as a docs file
* Page 1 will include: Theme for the panel; Title of each contribution; Presenters; Affiliations; Email addresses, plus abstracts
* Page 2 will be anonymised and will include: Titles and abstracts only
Important Dates
* Abstract submission opens: 1 October 2025
* Abstract submission deadline: 9 January 2026 (23:59 UTC)
* Notification of acceptance: Early March 2026
* Early-bird registration deadline: April 2026
* Conference dates: 1–3 July 2026
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*** First Call for Nominations: 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award ***
The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent
Systems (AAMAS 2026)
May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus
https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…>
IFAAMAS, the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, is pleased to announce the call for the 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award.
The award is named after Professor Victor Lesser, a long-standing member of the AAMAS community who has supervised a large number of outstanding PhD students in the area. It is awarded for dissertations written as part of a PhD, defended in the specified period, and nominated by the supervisor (with supporting references), which show originality, significance, and impact, and are supported by high quality publications.
Nominations are invited for the award which is sponsored by IFAAMAS and will be presented at AAMAS 2026. The award includes a certificate and a 1500 EUR payment.
Eligibility: Eligible doctoral dissertations are those defended between October 1, 2024 and September 30, 2025 (both endpoints included) in the area of Autonomous Agents or Multiagent Systems.
Submission link: https://forms.gle/xzfax1VCTVimTypu5<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…>
Submission deadline: October 31, 2025 (anywhere on earth)
Selection procedure:
The selection of the dissertation will be based on the originality, significance, and impact of the work. Evidence of such impact includes publications at highly selective conferences and journals in the field, with due importance given to the AAMAS conference series and JAAMAS. Research output that resulted primarily from the student’s initiative will be considered more favorably.
The selection committee will be the final arbiter in the decision process. The selection committee might also decide to consult external assessors, and reserves the right to not award the prize if the nominations do not meet the expected quality level.
Every submitted dissertation must be nominated by the thesis supervisor and must be supported by the following 4 (four) documents, all of which should be delivered via the Google Form link above by October 31, 2025:
a) A link to a PDF file of the dissertation. If the dissertation is not written in English, the nomination must include an accessible link to a substantial manuscript in English, with the nominee as the first author, published in a peer-reviewed journal or conference.
b) A PDF that contains a list of publications that have arisen from the dissertation, with links to the published papers.
c) A recommendation from the dissertation supervisor, on departmental letterhead, nominating the dissertation for the 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award. The recommendation should explain the contribution of the dissertation to the field of autonomous agents and multiagent systems, argue the merit and possible future impact of the work, and highlight, where relevant, how the work resulted from the initiative of the student. Finally, this document should certify the eligibility of the PhD by asserting that the PhD was successfully defended between October 1, 2024 and September 30, 2025.
d) A PDF with the names, email addresses, and affiliations of at least one and at most three referees, familiar with the research of the candidate and experts in the pertinent research area, who will directly email their recommendations for the candidate to the chair of the selection committee (Gauthier Picard, gauthier.picard(a)onera.fr). A reference letter should be no more than 500 words in length, should be on an official letterhead, signed and emailed as a PDF file, and received by the same deadline of October 31, 2025. To ease the recovery of these emails, it is recommended that the subject of the recommendation letter email be “2025 Victor Lesser Award: Recommendation: ”
Note: It is the responsibility of the dissertation supervisor to contact the referees and ensure that their letters (max 500 words, signed, and on letterhead) are submitted by the deadline.
Though the nomination is to be submitted by the nominee’s dissertation supervisor, it is required that the nominee has consented that the dissertation be considered for this award and, if selected for the award, commits to attending the AAMAS 2026 conference, where they will receive the award and will give a presentation on the work contained in the dissertation at a special session of the conference. The cost of attending the conference is not covered by the award.
For questions, please contact the chair of the selection committee, Gauthier Picard, at gauthier.picard(a)onera.fr.
First Call for Papers - International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Interpreting Technology’ (NeTTIT’2026)
The third edition of the International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Interpreting Technology’ (NeTTIT’2026) will take place in Dubrovnik, Croatia, from 24 to 27 June 2026.
The objective of the conference is (i) to bridge the gap between academia and industry in the field of translation and interpreting by bringing together academics in linguistics, translation and interpreting studies, machine translation and natural language processing, developers, practitioners, language service providers and vendors who work on or are interested in different aspects of technology for translation and interpreting, and (ii) to be a distinctive event for discussing the latest developments and practices. NeTTIT’2026 invites all professionals who would like to learn about the new trends, present the latest work and/or share their experience in the field, and who would like to establish business and research contacts, collaborations and new ventures.
The conference will include plenary presentations (research and user presentations, keynote speeches), poster sessions and panel discussions. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by experts, and the accepted papers will be published as open-access conference e-proceedings, which will be available at the time of the conference.
Conference Topics
Contributions are invited on any topic related to the latest technology and practices in translation, subtitling, localisation, interpreting, machine translation and Large Language Models used in translation and interpreting. NeTTIT’2026 will feature a Special Theme Track "Future of Translation and Interpreting Technologies in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI".
The conference topics include, but are not limited to (see also the special conference theme below):
>> CAT tools
- Translation Memory (TM) systems
- NLP and MT for translation memory systems
- Terminology extraction tools
- Localisation tools
>> Machine Translation
- Latest developments in Neural Machine Translation
- MT for under-resourced languages
- MT with low computing resources
- Multimodal MT
- Integration of MT in TM systems
- Resources for MT
>> Technologies for MT deployment
- MT evaluation techniques, metrics and evaluation results
- Human evaluations of MT output
- Evaluating MT in a real-world setting
- Quality estimation for MT
- Domain adaptation
>> Translation Studies
- Corpus-based studies applied to translation
- Corpora and resources for translation
- Translationese
- Cognitive effort and eye-tracking experiments in translation
>> Interpreting studies
- Corpus-based studies applied to interpreting
- Corpora and resources for interpreting
- Interpretese
- Resources for interpreting and interpreting technology applications
- Cognitive effort and eye-tracking experiments in interpreting
>> Interpreting technology
- Machine interpreting
- Computer-aided interpreting
- NLP for dialogue interpreting
- Development of NLP-based applications for communication in public service settings (healthcare, education, law, emergency services)
>> Emerging Areas in Translation and Interpreting
- MT and translation tools for literary texts and creative texts
- MT for social media and real-time conversations
- Sign language recognition and translation
>> Subtitling
- NLP and MT for subtitling
- Latest technology for subtitling
>> User needs
- Analysis of translators’ and interpreters’ needs in terms of translation and interpreting technology
- User requirements for interpreting and translation tools
- Incorporating human knowledge into translation and interpreting technology
- What existing translators’ (including subtitlers’) and interpreters’ tools do not offer
- User requirements for electronic resources for translators and interpreters
- Translation and interpreting workflows in larger organisations and the tools for translation and interpreting employed
>> The business of translation and interpreting
- Translation workflow and management
- Technology adoption by translators and industry
- Setting up translation / interpreting / language provider company
>> Teaching translation and interpreting
- Teaching Machine Translation
- Teaching translation technology
- Teaching interpreting technology
- Latest AI developments in the syllabi of translation and interpreting curricula
>> Ethical issues in translation and technology
- Bias and fairness in MT
- Privacy and security in cloud MT systems
- Transparency and explainability of MT systems
- Environmental impact on MT systems
>> Special Theme Track - Future of Translation and Interpreting Technologies in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI
We are excited to share that NeTTIT’2026 will have a special theme with the goal of stimulating discussion around Large Language Models, Generative AI and the Future of Translation and Interpreting Technologies. While the new generation of Large Language Models such as CHATGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek and LLAMA showcase remarkable advancements in language generation and understanding, we find ourselves in uncharted territory when it comes to their performance on various Translation and Interpreting Technology tasks with regards to fairness, interpretability, ethics and transparency.
The theme track invites studies on how LLMs perform on Translation and Interpreting Technology tasks and applications, and what this means for the future of the field. The possible topics of discussion include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Changes in (and the impact on) the translators and interpreters’ professions in the new AI era, especially as a result of the latest developments in LLMs and Generative AI
- Generative AI and translation
- Generative AI and interpreting
- Augmenting machine translation systems with generative AI
- Domain and terminology adaptation with Large Language Models
- Literary translation with Large Language Models
- Translation for low-resourced and minority languages with LLMs
- Improving Machine Translation Quality with Contextual Prompts in Large Language Models
- Prompt engineering for translation
- Generative AI for professional translation
- Generative AI for professional interpreting
Submissions and Publication
NeTTIT’2026 invites the following types of submissions in English:
>> Academic papers
* Regular long papers: These can be up to eight (8) pages long, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work.
* Short papers: These can be up to four (4) pages long and are suitable for describing small, focused contributions, work-in-progress, negative results, system demonstrations, etc.
>> User papers – for industry and practitioners. References to related work are optional. Allowed paper length: between 2 and 4 pages.
The conference will not consider and evaluate abstracts only.
Further details on the submission procedure will be made available in the Second Call for Papers due in October 2025.
The accepted papers will be published in the conference e-proceedings with assigned ISBN and DOI and made available online on the conference website at the time of the conference.
Important Dates
* Submissions due: 23 March 2026
* Reviewing process: 25 March – 25 April 2026
* Notification of acceptance: 28 April 2026
* Camera-ready due: 25 May 2026
* Conference camera-ready proceedings ready 15 June 2026
* Conference: 24-27 June 2026
Conference Chairs
Gloria Corpas Pastor (University of Malaga)
Ruslan Mitkov (Lancaster University and University of Alicante)
Marko Tadic (University of Zagreb)
Programme Committee Chairs
Constantin Orasan (University of Surrey)
Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University)
Publicity and Sponsorship Chair
Vilelmini Sosoni (Ionian University)
Venue
The conference will take place at the Centre for Advanced Academic Studies (CAAS) of the University of Zagreb (http://www.caas.unizg.hr/) in Dubrovnik.
Further information and contact details
The conference website (https://nettt-conference.com/) will be updated on a regular basis. For further information, please email nettit2026(a)nettt-conference.com<mailto:nettit2026@nettt-conference.com>. You can also follow us on social media for updates and announcements.
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/nettit2026/
Twitter/X - https://x.com/NeTTIT2026
Best Regards
Tharindu Ranasinghe
*Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track @ ACM-SAC*
Aim of the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing (KNLP) track at ACM
SAC is to investigate techniques and application of knowledge engineering
and natural language processing, focusing in particular on approaches
combining them. This is an extremely interdisciplinary emerging research
area, at the core of Artificial Intelligence, combining and complementing
the scientific results from Natural Language Processing and Knowledge
Representation and Reasoning.
Topics of interest
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Natural Language Processing
- NLP tasks for Knowledge Extraction
- NLP for Ontology Population and Learning
- Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining for Knowledge Applications
- Interplay between Language and Ontologies
- NLP for Explainable Knowledge
- Machine Translation techniques for Multilingual Knowledge
- NLP for the Web
- Bias detection and mitigation in small/large LM
- (Small/Large) LM and Knowledge
- Knowledge
- Knowledge to improve NLP tasks
- Knowledge for Information Retrieval
- Knowledge-based Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
- Combining Knowledge and Deep Learning for NLP
- Knowledge for Text Summarization and Generation
- Knowledge for Persuasion
- Knowledge-based Machine Translation
- Knowledge for the Web
- Linked Data for NLP
- Knowledge-based NL Explainability
- LM-enhanced ontology and knowledge engineering methodologies and
tools
- LM-based agent for knowledge extraction, reasoning, and management
- Ontology evaluation via small/large LMs
- (Ontological) knowledge memorization in LMs
- Knowledge-based techniques for LMs (Retrieval Augmented Generation
based approaches, fact-checking, and bias mitigation)
- Question answering over knowledge graphs via small/large LMs
- Real-world applications that exploit Knowledge and NLP
- Real-world applications that exploit Knowledge and NLP
- Knowledge and NLP Systems for Big Data scenarios
- Knowledge and NLP technology for a diverse, equitable, and
inclusive society
- Deployment of Knowledge and NLP Systems in specific domains, such
as:
- Digital Humanities and Social Sciences
- eGovernment and public administration
- Life sciences, health, and medicine
- News and Data Streaming
Paper Submission
Submissions must not have been published or be concurrently considered for
publication elsewhere. Papers should be submitted in PDF using the ACM-SAC
proceedings format <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2026/authorkit.php>.
Authors' names and affiliations should be entered separately at the
submission site and not appear in the submitted papers. Each submission
will be reviewed in *a DOUBLE-BLIND *process according to the ACM-SAC
Regulations. Student Research Competition (SRC) submissions are welcome
(see SAC 2026 SRC page for details
<https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2026/src_program.php>).
Initial Submission Policy
- All submissions must initially be submitted as regular papers. There
is no separate submission track for poster papers.
- Paper selection is based on originality, technical contribution,
presentation quality, and relevance to the Knowledge and Natural Language
Processing Track.
- Based on the outcome of the review process, some submissions—although
technically sound—may not be accepted as regular papers due to overall
acceptance rate constraints, and could be accepted as posters
Minimum Length for Review Consideration
- While there is no formal minimum page requirement, submissions of
fewer than four (4) full pages that do not demonstrate substantial
contributions may be subject to desk rejection without external review.
Camera-ready Page Limits
- Regular Papers (accepted for publication):
- Up to eight (8) pages are included with standard registration.
Poster Papers (recommended for acceptance):
- Up to two (2) pages are included with standard registration.
*Important Dates (check SAC website
<https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2026/#important-dates> for up-to-date dates)*
September 26, 2025: Regular Paper & SRC Abstract Submission
For further information, please visit the Knowledge and Natural Language
Processing Track <https://knlp.fbk.eu/> and ACM-SAC 2026
<https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2026/> conference websites or feel free
to contact
the Track Co-Chairs <knlp(a)fbk.eu>.
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*First CFP for JAAMAS Special Issue: When Foundation Models Meet
Multi-Agent Systems*
*Deadline:* February 28, 2026
*CFP link:* https://link.springer.com/journal/10458/updates/27805014
<https://apc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flink.spri…>
*Call for Papers*
The recent advancements in foundation models (FMs), including Large
Language Models and multimodal models, mark a significant milestone in the
field of Artificial Intelligence. Their capabilities in language
understanding, generation and reasoning open new avenues for addressing
long-standing challenges in Multi-Agent Systems (MASs). Conversely, the
theories, concepts, methodologies of MASs hold the potential to further
enhance FM capabilities, enabling multi-agent collaboration to solve
complex tasks beyond single-agent limits. However, integrating FMs into
MASs introduces new challenges such as managing the risks of
hallucinations, bias, unfair decisions and behaviour that is not aligned
with norms and ethical principles.
This special issue delves into the intersection of FMs and MASs. We invite
researchers from across the AI community to explore this exciting frontier.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- 1) FMs as solutions to MASs: How can FMs help address
coordination, cooperation, optimization, and learning within MASs? How can
they enhance the modelling and simulation of societies within MAS
frameworks? How can they expand the application of game theory and
mechanism design, and enable novel MAS applications?
- 2) MASs as solutions to FMs: How can theories, concepts,
architectures and methodologies of agents, MASs, and game theory contribute
to improving FM capabilities, particularly in planning, reasoning, and
decision-making? How can MASs help mitigate issues, like hallucination and
bias, within FMs, and improve accountability and transparency of FMs?
- 3) Societal implications: What are the potential societal impacts
of combining FMs with MAS technology? How can these impacts be rigorously
assessed, and what strategies can mitigate negative outcomes?
Authors are encouraged to submit original research papers, survey papers
and viewpoint papers that discuss an ongoing trend or spark interest in new
ideas or areas.
It is strongly encouraged that papers focus on the synergy between FMs and
MASs. Papers related to recent LLM developments based on agent concepts
(e.g. on “Agentic AI”) are expected to make explicit connections to
existing theory and practice in MASs. A cover letter explicitly stating
how the paper makes connections with prior work on autonomous agents and
multi-agent systems is required during the formal submission process.
The Guest Editors can be contacted (at fm-mas-special-issue(a)googlegroups.com)
for pre-submission inquiries (including brief descriptions—no full paper
required) to assess whether a manuscript is a good fit for this special
issue.
*Timeline *
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February 28, 2026: Submission deadline
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May 31, 2026: First round review notification
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July 31, 2026: Revised manuscript deadline
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August 30, 2026: Final decision notification
*Guest Editors*
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Stephen Cranefield, University of Otago, New Zealand
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Shuyue Hu, Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Lab, China
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Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu, University of Otago, New Zealand
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Surangika Ranathunga, Massey University, New Zealand
*Inquiries should be sent to* fm-mas-special-issue(a)googlegroups.com