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Second Call for Papers: The 1st Workshop on Computational Affective Science (CAS 2026), co-located with the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2026
by Roman Klinger 26 Jan '26

26 Jan '26

CALL FOR PAPERS: The 1st Workshop on Computational Affective Science ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Second Call for Papers: The 1st Workshop on Computational Affective Science (CAS 2026), co-located with the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2026 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, May 11-16. Website: https://casworkshop.github.io/ Contact: <cas-workshop(a)googlegroups.com> We invite submissions to the first Workshop on Computational Affective Science (CAS 2026), co-located with LREC 2026, on research related to the understanding of affect and emotions through language and computation. CAS 2026 will accept archival (long and short papers) as well as non-archival (extended abstracts) submissions. ------------ MOTIVATION ------------ Affect refers to the fundamental neural processes that generate and regulate emotions, moods, and feeling states. Affect and emotions are central to how we organize meaning, to our behavior, to our health and well-being, and to our very survival. Despite this, and even though most of us are intimately familiar with emotions in everyday life, there is much we do not know about how emotions work and how they impact our lives. Affective Science is a broad interdisciplinary field that explores these and related questions about affect and emotions. Since language is a powerful mechanism of emotion expression, there is a growing use of language data and advanced natural language processing (NLP) algorithms to shed light on fundamental questions about emotions. The Workshop on Computational Affective Science (CAS) aims to be a dedicated venue for work focused specifically on the link between NLP and affective science. Interdisciplinary Scope: The workshop takes an interdisciplinary approach to affective science and aims at bringing together NLP researchers, scientists, and theorists from many research areas, including psychology, sociology,, neuroscience, and philosophy. Although work in sentiment analysis is decades old, this work often proceeds separately and in different fields from research and theory in affective science. Meanwhile, affective scientists in psychology, sociology, neuroscience and philosophy increasingly seek to use linguistic tools to shed light on the nature of emotions, moods, and feeling states. CAS is therefore co-organized by an interdisciplinary group of researchers (spanning NLP and affective science) to foment collaboration at this exciting frontier of research. ------------ SUBMISSIONS ------------ We invite long and short archival paper submissions, as well as non-archival extended abstracts on a broad range of topics at the intersection of affective science and natural language processing, including but not limited to: 1. The Nature of Affect and Computational Modeling of Emotions Computational experiments that add to our understanding of affect and emotions, including findings relevant to: - theories and nature of emotion - the biology or neuroscience of emotions - appraisal models - dimensional models (valence / arousal / dominance) - models of constructed emotion - cognitive-affective architectures - emotion dynamics (emergence, intensification, decay, transitions) - emotion granularity - emotion regulation - affective embodiment - evolutionary and developmental affect - emotion–cognition interactions These areas are relevant not just to human affect, but may also apply to data animals and artificial agents. 2. Affective Data and Resources Work on compiling and annotating affect-related information in text, speech, facial and bodily expression, and physiological signals (ECG, EEG, GSR, multimodal biosensing), with a focus on text data (monolingual or multilingual) and multimodal data suitable for an NLP venue. Data from underserved languages is especially encouraged. 3. Emotion Recognition, Prediction, and Inference At the instance level: - emotion classification (discrete emotions, dimensional ratings) - emotion intensity estimation - emotion cause detection - context-aware affect inference (culture, situation, social setting) - structured emotion analysis At the aggregate level: - creating emotion arcs - determining broad trends in emotions over time or across locations - tracking emotional responses toward entities of interest (e.g., climate change) - document-level and cross-document emotion analysis - labeling social networks 4. Applications Including but not limited to: - Affect and health, psychopathology, and mental disorders - Affect and behavior/social science (e.g., interpersonal affect, empathy, group-level affect, affect contagion, computational emotion regulation) - Affect and education - Affect and literature/narratives/digital humanities - Affect and commerce 5. Explainability and Interpretability in Computational Affective Models Work aimed at improving the transparency and interpretability of affective systems. This includes understanding how models represent and infer emotions and identifying key cues driving predictions. 6. Ethics, Fairness, Theory Integration, Philosophical Implications - Bias and generalizability of affective systems across demographics - Privacy and ethics in affective data collection - Examining whether automatic NLP systems rely on current and valid theories of affect and emotion - The implications of machines modeling or simulating affect - Societal considerations surrounding affective artificial agents ------------ IMPORTANT DATES ------------ Submission deadline: 16 Feb 2026 Notification of acceptance: 16 March 2026 Camera Ready Paper due: 30 March 2026 Workshop date: 16 May 2026 ------------ SUBMISSION DETAILS ------------ We invite submissions for archival long and short papers, as well as non-archival extended abstracts. Archival Track: Long Paper: Consists of up to 8 pages of content, with additional pages for references, limitations, ethical considerations, and appendices. Short Paper: Consists of up to 4 pages of content, with additional pages for references, limitations, ethical considerations, and appendices. Non-Archival Track: Extended Abstract: Up to 2 pages. ------------ SUBMISSION FORMAT ------------ All submissions must use the LREC 2026 template and follow the guidelines found at: https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/ Mandatory Ethics Section: We ask all authors to include a section on Ethical Considerations in their submission, touching on the ethical concerns and broader societal impacts of the work. This discussion section will not count towards the page limit. ------------ SUBMISSION SITE ------------ All submissions must be made through the SoftConf portal: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/CAS ------------ ADDITIONAL DETAILS ------------ Website: https://casworkshop.github.io/ Attendance: The workshop will follow the attendance policy of the main conference (https://lrec2026.info/registration-policy/ ). ------------ ORGANIZERS ------------ Christopher Bagdon, University of Bamberg, Germany Krishnapriya Vishnubhotla, National Research Council Canada Kristen A. Lindquist, The Ohio State University, USA Lyle Ungar, University of Pennsylvania, USA Roman Klinger, University of Bamberg, Germany Saif M. Mohammad, National Research Council Canada ***Contact us at <cas-workshop(a)googlegroups.com> with any questions.***

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Call for papers and participation: the 9th Workshop on Event Extraction and Understanding: Challenges and Applications (EEUCA 2026) @ ACL 2026
by Ali Hurriyetoglu 26 Jan '26

26 Jan '26

The 9th Workshop on Event Extraction and Understanding: Challenges and Applications (EEUCA 2026) (formerly CASE) @ ACL 2026 Also, this year the EEUCA workshop continues the tradition of the eight previous editions of our workshop on challenges and applications of event extraction. Website: https://bit.ly/EEUCA2026 Submission page: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2026/Workshop/EEUCA Paper submission deadline: March 16, 2026 Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline: April 15, 2026 Notification of acceptance: April 28, 2026 Camera-ready paper due: May 12, 2026 Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline): June 4, 2026 Shared tasks and shared task papers: Start of the Competition: Dec 10, 2025 Eval Phase Start: Dec 10, 2025 Test Phase Start: Jan 15, 2026 Test Phase End: March 15, 2026 Paper Submission Deadline: March 28, 2026 Notification of acceptance: April 28, 2026 Camera-ready paper due: May 12, 2026 We invite work on all aspects of automated coding and analysis of events from mono- or multi-lingual text sources. This includes (but is not limited to) the following topics 1) Extracting events and their arguments in and beyond a sentence or document, event coreference resolution. 2) New datasets, training data collection and annotation for event information. 3) Event-event relations, e.g., subevents, main events, spatiotemporal relations, causal relations. 4) Event dataset evaluation in light of reliability and validity metrics. 5) Defining, populating, and facilitating event schemas and ontologies. 6) Automated tools and pipelines for event collection related tasks. 7) Lexical, syntactic, semantic, discursive, and pragmatic aspects of event manifestation. 8) Methodologies for development, evaluation, and analysis of event datasets. 9) Applications of event databases, e.g. early warning, conflict prediction, and policymaking. 10) Estimating what is missing in event datasets using internal and external information. 11) Detection of new event types, e.g. creative protests, cyber activism, COVID-19 related, terrorism, food safety, food security, climate change, extreme weather events, disasters. 12) Release of new event datasets, 13) Bias and fairness of the sources and event datasets. 14) Ethics, misinformation, privacy, and fairness concerns pertaining to event datasets. 15) Copyright issues on event dataset creation, dissemination, and sharing. 16) Cross-lingual, multilingual, and multimodal aspects in event analysis. 17) Exploiting LLMs in Event Extraction. 18) Generative AI and event reports: detecting AI-generated news, exploiting generative AI for creating event corpora, etc. Shared Task 1: Multimodal Identification of Vaccine Critical Content on Social Media This shared task focuses on detecting vaccine-critical stance in multimodal social media memes. Using the VaxMeme dataset of over 10,000 annotated memes, participants will develop models that jointly leverage visual and textual signals to classify a meme’s stance as pro-vaccine, vaccine-critical, or neutral. The task encourages research on cross-modal understanding, sarcasm, implicit messaging, and misinformation dynamics in public health discourse. External data and transfer learning are permitted, and submissions will be evaluated using macro-F1. All system description papers will be published in the ACL Anthology. Learn More: https://github.com/therealthapa/eeuca-vaccine Shared Task 2: Understanding Toxic Behavioral Intent in Gaming Chat Logs for Healthy Online Interaction This shared task tackles intent-level toxicity detection in online gaming communities using the GameTox dataset of 53,000 annotated chat utterances from World of Tanks. Participants will develop models that classify a player’s message into six fine-grained intent categories, including hate, threats, insults, extremism, and non-toxic communication. The challenge highlights contextual nuance, gaming slang, implicit aggression, and varied severity levels of toxicity. External datasets are allowed, and submissions are evaluated using macro-F1. All system description papers will be published in the ACL Anthology. Learn More: https://github.com/therealthapa/eeuca-toxicity Keep an eye on the workshop page that is being updated: https://bit.ly/EEUCA2026 and contact us for any inquiries (submission, collaboration, contribution, or just saying Hi! ). EEUCA Organization Committee

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The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026): Call for Participation
by Announce 24 Jan '26

24 Jan '26

*** Call for Participation *** The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026) 17-20 March, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/saner-2026 *** Early Registration Deadline: 13th February, 2026 (extended) *** The IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER) is the premier event on the theory and practice of recovering information from existing software and systems. The event explores innovative methods to extract the many kinds of information that can be recovered from software, software engineering documents, and systems artifacts, and examines innovative ways of using this information in system renewal and program understanding. INVITED SPEAKERS Nicole Novielli and Alexander Serebrenik are the keynote speakers of SANER 2026. More details: https://conf.researchr.org/info/saner-2026/keynotes REGISTRATION Registration is open. Please visit: https://conf.researchr.org/attending/saner-2026/registration+ *** Early registration till 13th February, 2026 (extended) *** If you have not yet registered, there is still time to register at the reduced rate. Special rates for IEEE members and for students. The conference organisation is able to provide visa support letters to attendees that require visa. VENUE SANER 2026 is taking place in Limassol, Cyprus. St. Raphael Resort is located on one of the most renowned beaches in Limassol, only a short coastal drive from the lively centre of town, approximately 10 minutes away. PROGRAM OVERVIEW SANER 2026 workshops take place on 17th March and the main conference between 18th and 20th of March. SANER 2026 features many tracks with talks in different areas of Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering. • Research Track (47 papers) • Industrial Track (19 papers) • Early Research Achievement Track (15 papers) • Short Papers and Posters Track (19 papers) • Reproducibility Studies and Negative Results Track (4 papers) • Tool Demo Track (13 papers) • Journal First Papers (18 papers) • Registered Report Track (5 papers) • Workshops (7 workshops) • Tutorials (1 tutorial) WORKSHOPS - SQA4AI – Software Quality Assurance for Artificial Intelligence Workshop https://sqa4ai-ws.github.io/ - Greenvolve – The Green Software Evolution Workshop https://greenvolve.github.io/ - Fairness 2026 – 2nd International Workshop on Fairness in Software Systems https://fairnessworkshop.github.io/ - F-TRANSFER – Facilitating Continuous Education and Training Through AI in SE https://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/~avescan/f-transfer-2026/ - IWBOSE 2026 – Ninth International Workshop on Blockchain Oriented Software Engineering https://www.agile-group.org/iwbose2026/ - VST 2026 – 9th Workshop on Validation, Analysis and Evolution of Software Tests https://vstworkshop.github.io/vst2026/ - MSR4P&S 2026 – 4th International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories Applications for Privacy and Security https://msr4ps.github.io/ ORGANISING COMMITTEE General Chair • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organizing Chair • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Eunjong Choi, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan • Matthias Galster, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Industrial Chairs • Anne Etien, University of Lille, France • Tushar Sharma, Dalhousie University, Canada ERA Chairs • Mairieli Wessel, Radboud University, Netherlands • Christoph Treude, Singapore Management University, Singapore Short Papers and Posters Chairs • Eleni Constantinou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Sandro Schulze, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Germany RENE Chairs • Apostolos Ampatzoglou, University of Macedonia, Greece • Sebastian Proksch, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Workshop/Tutorial Chairs • Marcelo De Almeida Maia, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil • Juri Di Rocco, University of L'Aquila, Italy Journal-First Chairs • Luigi Lavazza, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy • Yuxia Zhang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Registered Report Chairs • Sherlock A. Licorish, University of Otago, New Zealand • Sebastiano Panichella, Zurich University of Applied Science, Switzerland Tool Demo Chairs • Maliheh Izadi, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands • Roberto Verdecchia, University of Florence, Italy Diversity, Inclusion, and Newcomers Chairs • Catia Trubiani, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy • Aldeida Aleti, Monash University, Australia Proceedings Chair • Raula Gaikovina Kula, Osaka University, Japan Most Influential Paper Award Chairs • Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, University of Macedonia, Greece • Michele Lanza, Software Institute - USI, Lugano, Switzerland Sustainability Chair • Maria Papoutsoglou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Financial Chair • Constantinos Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Publicity and Social Media Chair • Erina Makihara, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

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Second CFP: Workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages @LREC 2026
by Kengatharaiyar Sarveswaran 24 Jan '26

24 Jan '26

===apologies for cross-postings=== *CHiPSAL: **Second Call For Papers* *Second Workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages* We are pleased to announce the *Second Workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL 2026)*, to be held in *hybrid mode on 16 May 2026*, co-located with *LREC 2026*. CHiPSAL 2026 invites *substantial, original, and unpublished research* on all areas of natural language processing, language resources, and evaluation—covering spoken, signed, and multimodal language—as well as system demonstrations. We welcome long and short papers addressing challenges, resources, tools, and innovations for *South Asian languages*. Topics include, but are not limited to: - Encoding and Unicode issues - Orthographic complexities - Morphology and generation - Dialectal variation and standardisation - Code-mixing and multilingualism - Building linguistic resources - Speech recognition and synthesis - Technology for linguistic heritage preservation - Benchmarking models - Large language models for South Asian languages ------------------------------ *Important Dates (AoE)* - Submission Deadline: *20 February 2026* - Notification of Acceptance: *20 March 2026* - Camera-ready Papers:* 30 March 2026* - Workshop (Hybrid): *16 May 2026* ------------------------------ *Submission Guidelines* CHiPSAL 2026 accepts *oral*, *poster*, and *poster+demo* papers. - Short papers: 4 pages - Long papers: 8 pages (Excluding ethics/limitations, references, acknowledgements, and data/code availability statements) All submissions must: - Follow the *LREC 2026 stylesheet*: https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/ - Be *fully anonymised* for double-blind review - Include required ethics/limitations and data/code availability statements - Be self-contained (no appendices or supplementary files at submission) - *Be relevant to South Asian language processing* Papers must report *original, unpublished work*. Concurrent submissions must be declared. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings. *Speakers* - *Monojit Choudhury*, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi - *Usman Naseem*, School of Computing at Macquarie University, Australia *More Information* Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/chipsal/ <https://sites.google.com/view/chipsal/> *Associated Shared Tasks* CHiPSAL 2026 also hosts two shared tasks: *Multimodal Hate and Sentiment Understanding in Low-Resource Memes* https://sites.google.com/view/chipsal/shared-tasks_1/shared-task-1 *Multilingual ASR for South Asian Languages* https://sites.google.com/view/chipsal/shared-tasks_1/shared-task-2 *Workshop Organising Committee* - Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran, University of Jaffna, Jaffna, Sri Lanka. - Ashwini Vaidya, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India. - Bal Krishna Bal, Kathmandu University, Kathmandu, Nepal. - Surendrabikram Thapa, Virginia Tech, USA. - Tafseer Ahmed, Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Karachi, Pakistan. Do not miss the opportunity to submit your work, strengthen the South Asian NLP community, and support the development of language technology in one of the world’s most populous and linguistically diverse regions. We look forward to your contributions. Best regards, *The CHiPSAL 2026 Organising Committee* -- *Dr Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran (Sarves)* Senior Lecturer (Grade-I) in Computer Science Department of Computer Science Faculty of Science University of Jaffna Sri Lanka sarves.github.io

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Second CfP: The 2nd Workshop on Language-driven Deliberation Technology (DELITE) at LREC 2026
by Neele Falk 23 Jan '26

23 Jan '26

----------------------------------------------------------- Second Call for Papers: DELITE 2026 The 2nd Workshop on Language-driven Deliberation Technology Co-located with LREC 2026, Palma, Mallorca (Spain) ----------------------------------------------------------- OVERVIEW -------- Deliberation is ubiquitous: from navigating divergent interests in everyday personal life to reaching consensus in the political decision making process, deliberation describes the communicative process by which a group of people exchange ideas, weigh different arguments, and ultimately reach mutual understanding. In recent years, deliberative processes have gained momentum and shown to improve everyday and political decision-making. For the first time, technological solutions are maturing to the point that they can be deployed to support deliberation. The DELITE workshop provides a forum for presenting new advances in technology around deliberation by addressing researchers in Natural Language Processing, human-computer interaction, corpus linguistics, political science and philosophy, as well as stakeholders and domain experts involved in integrating such technology into decision-making processes. The topic is particularly timely in the age of LLMs and collective intelligence, which has heightened the awareness of the public to the potentials and drawbacks of language technology. While LLMs are transforming the way that much AI research is carried out, it is becoming clear that handling natural argumentation, particularly the sort of discussion found in deliberative settings, presents deep challenges for LLMs that are not likely to be overcome soon. The complex pragmatic structure of such discussions, the subjectivity of the phenomena involved (emotions, storytelling), nuanced presentation, framing and reframing of ideas, and resolution of differences of opinion all lay many orders of magnitude beyond the current parameterization spaces of such models. We view deliberation as an exercise in Collective Intelligence—the enhanced capacity of groups to make decisions due to collaboration and structured interaction. AI systems should augment and never replace human deliberation, by supporting facilitators, providing discussion summaries, and amplify/enact diversity in group decision making processes. TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------ We welcome submissions that address the gaps facing this nascent field, including the scarcity of data on large-scale deliberation, the need for stakeholder requirements, and the need for technology that fosters trust. Topics include, but are not limited to: * Deliberation theory in NLP models * In-domain versus across domain resources * Integrating language systems into deliberation processes and interfaces * Technological solutions for online deliberation at scale * Argument mining for deliberation scenarios * Visualizing language systems results for human sensemaking * Empirical foundations for evaluation * Integrating and reflecting on recent advances in LLMs for deliberation scenarios * Collective Intelligence frameworks for deliberation at scale * Human-AI collaboration in group decision-making * Explainability, ethical questions, and addressing bias APPLICATION AREAS ----------------- We welcome submissions from all areas of application, including public policy making, democratic innovations, deliberative democracy, political decision making, citizen engagement and co-creation, intelligence services and military, conflict resolution/mitigation, case analysis in healthcare, legal decision making, and scholarly discourse. SUBMISSION ---------- DELITE 2026 introduces new submission formats to foster diversity and inclusion, specifically opening the venue to junior researchers and fields where conference papers are not standard (e.g., Social Sciences). * Standard Papers: Oral and poster presentations of long and short papers. * Extended Abstracts (non-archival): A new format designed to be inclusive of researchers from fields where conference papers are not standard (e.g., Social Sciences). * PhD Project Proposals: A non-archival submission option allowing doctoral students to collect feedback on their research plans without the pressure of a full-fledged publication. * Non-Archival Reports: Poster presentations of non-archival reports of ongoing projects to serve community building. Standard papers must describe original (completed or in progress) and unpublished work. These papers can be long (8 pages, excluding references) or short (4 pages, excluding references) and must be anonymized to support double-blind reviewing, i.e., they must not include authors’ names and affiliations and should avoid links to non-anonymized repositories. Standard papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Extended abstracts and non-archival papers must be at most 2 pages, excluding references and an additional page as an appendix for tables/figures. Submission of all papers is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system. Papers must follow the LREC 2026 two-column format, using the supplied official style files. The templates can be downloaded from the Style Files and Formatting page provided on the website. Please do not modify these style files, nor should you use templates designed for other conferences. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. Submission link:https://softconf.com/lrec2026/DELITE2026/ The LRE 2026 Map and the "Share your LRs!" initiative ------------------------------------------------------ When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e., also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones)". IMPORTANT DATES --------------------- * Archival paper submission: 19 February 2026 * Non-archival paper submission: 2 March 2026 * Notification of acceptance: 16 March 2026 * Camera-ready: 30 March 2026 * Workshop day: 16 May 2026 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS ------------------- * Lucas Anastasiou, The Open University, UK * Katarina Boland, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany * Anna De Liddo, The Open University, UK * Neele Falk, University of Stuttgart, Germany * Annette Hautli-Janisz, University of Passau, Germany * Gabriella Lapesa, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany & Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf, Germany * Julia Romberg, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany CONTACT --------------------- e-mail:lucas.anastasiou@open.ac.ukwebsite:https://idea.kmi.open.ac.uk/the-2nd-workshop-on-language-driven-deliberation-technology/ ---------------------

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2nd CfP: NLPerspectives – The 5th Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP
by Abercrombie, Gavin 22 Jan '26

22 Jan '26

2nd Call for papers: NLPerspectives – The 5th Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP Collocated with LREC in Palma de Mallorca https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/<https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/w/4th-workshop-on-perspectivist-approach…> Important Dates * February 27: Paper submission * March 20: Notification of acceptance * March 30: Camera-ready papers due * May 12, 2026: NLPerspectives workshop at LREC NLPerspectives Until recently, language resources supporting many tasks in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and other areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI) have been based on the assumption of a single ‘ground truth’ label sought via aggregation, adjudication, or statistical means. However, the field is increasingly focused on subjective and controversial tasks, such as quality estimation or abuse detection, in which multiple points of view may be equally valid (for a complete overview see Frenda et al., 2024). Data Perspectivism is a proposed solution to deal with subjectivity (Cabitza et al., 2023). Perspectivist approaches leverage human label variation (Plank, 2022; Sorensen et al., 2024) to better account for user diversity (Prabhakaran et al., 2021) and adopt evaluation strategies capable of embracing disagreement (Uma et al., 2021, Lo et al., 2025, Leonardelli et al., 2025). In the previous editions of the workshop, different aspects of perspectivist NLP were discussed, including ties to participatory design, personalisation, computer vision, and multimedia research and multicultural awareness in modelling. The fifth edition of the workshop will widen the discussed methodology to include not only current and ongoing work on collecting non-aggregated datasets, mining and modelling perspectives, but also approaches to evaluation of perspectivist models, looking in particular at their application in real-world scenarios. In addition, it will involve techniques from social science and Human-Computer Interaction, such as participatory approaches and how they can be implemented at all stages of the supervised learning pipeline. The NLPerspectives workshop will be co-located with the fifteenth biennial Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) held at the Palau de Congressos de Palma in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, on 11-16 May 2026. Submissions When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). In addition, authors will be required to adhere to ethical research policies on AI and should include an ethics statement in their papers. The papers should be submitted as a PDF document, conforming to the formatting guidelines provided in the call for papers of the LREC conference. Templates are provided here<https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/>. We accept three types of submissions: * Regular research papers; * Non-archival submissions: like research papers, but will not be included in the proceedings; * (Non-archival) research communications: 1-page abstracts summarising relevant research published elsewhere. NLPerspectives will also accept submissions that have been rejected from ACL rolling review, provided they are accompanied by their reviews, and they fit the topic of the workshop. Research papers (archival or non-archival) may consist of up to 8 pages of content. Research communications may consist of up to 1 pages of content. Please make submissions at https://softconf.com/lrec2026/NLPerspectives Topics We invite original research papers from a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: * Non-aggregated data collection and annotation frameworks * Descriptions of corpora collected under the perspectivist paradigm * Multi-perspective Modelling and Machine Learning * Evaluation of multi-perspective or disagreement aware models * Multi-perspective disagreement as applied to NLP evaluation * Fairness and inclusive modelling * Perspectivist approaches for social good * Applications of multi-perspective modelling * Computing with (dis)agreement * Perspectivist Natural Language Generation * Perspectivism in multimodal AI * Foundational aspects of perspectivism * Participatory approaches and human label variation * Opinion pieces and reviews on perspectivist approaches to NLP * Capabilities of Perspectivist Models in Real-World Systems Submissions are open to all, and are to be submitted anonymously (and must conform to the instructions for double-blind review). All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process by at least three reviewers, with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organisers. Scientific papers will be evaluated based on relevance, significance of contribution, impact, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation. Attendance The workshop will follow the attendance policy<https://lrec2026.info/registration-policy/> of the main conference. Workshop organisers: Gavin Abercrombie, Heriot-Watt University Valerio Basile, University of Turin Davide Bernardi, Amazon Alexa Shiran Dudy, Northeastern University Simona Frenda, Heriot-Watt University Elisa Leonardelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Contact us at g.abercrombie(a)hw.ac.uk if you have any questions. Website: https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/ ________________________________ Founded in 1821, Heriot-Watt is a leader in ideas and solutions. 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Second CfP: Social Context (SoCon) and Integrating NLP and Psychology to Study Social Interactions (NLPSI)
by Neele Falk 22 Jan '26

22 Jan '26

------------------------------------------------------------------- Joint Call for Papers Social Context (SoCon) and Integrating NLP and Psychology to Study Social Interactions (NLPSI) Co-located with LREC 2026, Palma, Mallorca (Spain) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop day: May 12, 2026 Deadline for paper submission: February 16, 2026 Website: https://socon-nlpsi.github.io Contact: socon-nlpsi-workshop-organizers.nlproc(a)uni-bamberg.de OVERVIEW ------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Language Processing has evolved significantly, enabling the modeling of high-level aspects of human communication. Relevant topics include pragmatics, social dynamics, and the integration of social context to better understand communicative intent. The SoCon and NLPSI workshops share a focus on the social dimensions of communication, while addressing distinct challenges. The Social Context Workshop explores how context shapes language use, seeking interdisciplinary collaboration across NLP, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, and Sociology. It aims to develop shared terminology and promote community-centered approaches as alternatives to traditional crowdsourcing. The NLPSI Workshop focuses on psychological processes shaping human communication, including how individuals perceive, process, and produce language. It welcomes interdisciplinary work from NLP, Social Psychology, and Affective Computing, with an emphasis on large-scale studies. TOPICS ------------------------------------------------------------------- This joint Call for Papers contains two tracks, SoCon and NLPSI. Authors should choose the track that best matches their contribution. SoCon Track "Towards Responsibly Infusing NLP with Social Context, Community Meanings, and Pragmatics Through Interdisciplinary NLP Efforts." Topics include, but are not limited to: * Interdisciplinary methods for modeling context, integrating NLP with pragmatics and social sciences * Studying social communities and how to engage with communities of practice and speech communities * Ethical challenges in resource creation, including participatory design involving relevant communities * Explaining behaviors in social interactions through models of social attitudes shaped by backgrounds, contexts, and triggering events Contact for SoCon track: social-context-workshop(a)googlegroups.com NLPSI Track "Bridging the gap between NLP and psychological insights to foster a deeper understanding of social interactions." Topics include, but are not limited to: *Psychological constructs (beliefs, motives, feelings, affect, personality) *Psychological studies, especially those focused on interaction *Communication patterns such as empathy, persuasion, and conflict resolution *The role of emotions in interpersonal communication, such as emotion contagion and interpersonal emotion regulation Contact for NLPSI track: nlpsi-workshop-organizers.nlproc(a)uni-bamberg.de SUBMISSION TYPES ------------------------------------------------------------------- * Long papers (up to 8 pages) presenting original research, from preliminary to established contributions * Short papers (up to 4 pages) presenting emerging ideas or early-stage research * Extended abstracts(non-archival, up to 2 pages): a new format designed to be inclusive of researchers from fields where conference papers are not standard (e.g., Social Sciences). Extended abstracts are not included in conference proceedings. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions will be double-blind reviewed. Papers must follow the LREC templates (LaTeX, Word, Open Office, Overleaf). Page limits apply only to the main content; limitations, ethics, acknowledgements, references, and appendices do not count. Submission via Softconf: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/SoConNLPSI/ Authors must indicate resources used or created (data, tools, technologies, evaluation kits). ELRA encourages sharing of language resources to support reuse and replicability. Authors must follow ethical AI research policies and include an ethics statement. WORKSHOP FORMAT ------------------------------------------------------------------- The workshop follows LREC’s attendance policy. It will be a full-day hybrid event with keynotes and paper presentations (oral and lightning talks). IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission deadline: February 16, 2026 Notification of acceptance: March 23, 2026 Camera-ready deadline: March 30, 2026 Workshop day: May 12, 2026 ORGANIZERS ------------------------------------------------------------------- SoCon Marco Antonio Stranisci, Turin University Soda Marem Lo, Turin University Sabine Weber, Bamberg University Rossana Damiano, Turin University Simona Frenda, Heriot-Watt University Roman Klinger, University of Bamberg Viviana Patti, Turin University Marteen Sap, Carnegie Mellon University Seid Muhie Yimam, University of Hamburg NLPSI Aswathy Velutharambath, University of Bamberg Sofie Labat, Ghent University Neele Falk, University of Stuttgart Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Bocconi University Roman Klinger, University of Bamberg Véronique Hoste, Ghent University Bennett Kleinberg, Tilburg University

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2nd Call for Papers: LREC Workshop: Leveraging Derived Text Formats to Unlock Copyrighted Collections for Open Science
by Thorsten Trippel 22 Jan '26

22 Jan '26

LREC Workshop: Leveraging Derived Text Formats to Unlock Copyrighted Collections for Open Science Palma de Mallorca 2nd Call for Papers The workshop Leveraging Derived Text Formats to Unlock Copyrighted Collections for Open Science will be held at the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026). Derived Text Formats (DTF), also known as extracted features, offer a promising solution for enabling research on textual data that cannot be shared in its original form due to copyright or privacy restrictions. This workshop brings together researchers, legal experts, and infrastructure providers to explore the creation, standardization, legal framing, and scientific use of derived data in linguistics, digital humanities, and language technology. We invite contributions from the community that address practical experiences, challenges, and solutions related to: * The creation and processing of DTF * Legal and ethical considerations in publishing derived data * Use cases from digital humanities, linguistic research, corpus linguistics, or NLP * Infrastructure and tools supporting DTF flows * Standardization efforts (e.g., TEI, SynAF, MAF, ISO standards) The workshop will be held as a hybrid event. The exact workshop date will be communicated in due time. Submission Format Submissions should be 4 to 8 pages in length (excluding references and potential Ethics Statements). Submissions should follow the LREC stylesheet, available on the conference website on theAuthor’s kit page <https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/> at https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/. Submissions will be reviewed by the workshop organizers and the programme committee. Important Dates * Submission Deadline: 20 February 2026 * Reviewing period: 21 February 2026 – 10 March 2026 * Notification of Acceptance: 11 March 2026 * Camera Ready paper submission Deadline: 30 March 2026 * Workshop Date: 11, 12 or 16 May, 2026 Submission Submissions will be handled via the submission system Softconf <https://softconf.com/lrec2026/DTF> at https://softconf.com/lrec2026/DTF. When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones) Workshop Organisers * Florian Barth, Göttingen State and University Library * Keli Du, University of Trier * José Calvo Tello, Göttingen State and University Library * Philippe Genêt, German National Library * Piroska Lendvai, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities * Christof Schöch University of Trier * Thorsten Trippel, University of Tübingen and Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache Programme Committee tba Contact For questions, please contact:dtf-at-lrec2026@googlegroups.com <mailto:dtf-at-lrec2026@googlegroups.com> Updates For updates, see https://text-plus.org/en/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/2026-05-12-lrec-dtf/

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NLDB 2026 Call for papers
by elena_cabrio 22 Jan '26

22 Jan '26

*Call for papers:* *NLDB 2026: 31st Annual International Conference on Natural Language & Information Systems* 17-19 June 2026 | Norwegian University of Science and Technology | Trondheim, Norway Website: https://www.ntnu.edu/nldb2026/ * /Objectives:/* Recent advances in AI have increased the expectations for users when it comes to information access systems. With powerful LLMs, users engage with information using natural language instead of artificial query languages. At the same time, this raises not only technical but also ethical concerns, such as sustainability, reliability, and privacy. NLDB has established itself as a venue to discuss precisely the intersection of natural language and information systems. We invite researchers and practitioners to contribute. /*Important Dates:*/ Paper Submission: 6 February 2026, Anywhere on Earth Author Notification: 20 March 2026 Camera-ready Deadline: 2 April 2026 /*Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to):*/ - Multimodality - AI safety and ethics - Interactivity and Natural Language Interfaces - Social Media and Web Data - eXplainable AI - Interpretability and Model Analysis in NLP - Generative models, Large Language Models - Information Retrieval and Text Mining - Discourse and Pragmatics, Sentiment Analysis, Argument Mining - Question Answering, Dialogue, and Interactive Systems - NLP Applications - Efficient/Low-resource methods in NLP - Big Data and Scalability * /Paper Submission/* Detailed instructions covering formatting, submission procedures, and all relevant requirements are available on the conference website. Submission system: Manuscripts must be submitted in PDF format via Microsoft CMT: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/NLDB2026/ Author guidelines: Authors should follow the LNCS format. Submissions that do not adhere to these requirements will be desk-rejected. Paper categories and length limits: - Full papers: up to 15 pages, including references and appendices - Short papers: up to 11 pages, including references and appendices - Demo papers: up to 6 pages, including references

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Call for registration: Social Media Access Days, March 17-19
by Tatjana Scheffler 22 Jan '26

22 Jan '26

Dear colleagues, The Social Media Access Days are concerned with sustainable archiving, indexing and access to social media data for research and infrastructure. Registration for the Social Media Access Days is now open: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/social-media-access-days-tickets-1973758115656… The conference, entitled ‘Social Media Data between Research and Infrastructure – Sustainable Archiving, Indexing and Provision’, will take place from 17 to 19 March 2026 at the German National Library in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Keynote: Prof Axel Bruns (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane) “Nearly a decade after the APIcalypse: Where are we now on social media access?" All information and the full program are available here: https://www.dnb.de/EN/smad We look forward to your participation. Warm regards on behalf of the programme committee Tatjana Scheffler --- Tatjana Scheffler (she/her) GB 5/157 Ruhr-Universität Bochum Digital Forensic Linguistics Fakultät für Philologie, Germanistisches Institut Universitätsstraße 150 44780 Bochum Germany Mail: tatjana.scheffler(a)rub.de Web: http://staff.germanistik.rub.de/digitale-forensische-linguistik/ Mastodon: https://fediscience.org/@tschfflr Tel.: +49 234 32-21471

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