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November 2025 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 17 Nov '25

17 Nov '25

In this newsletter: Join LDC for membership year 2026 Spring 2026 data scholarship application deadline New publications: AnnoDIFP CTS Audio and Transcripts<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S10> LORELEI Ilocano Incident Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T16> ________________________________ Join LDC for membership year 2026 It's time to renew your LDC membership for 2026. Any organization that joins the Consortium or renews their membership before March 2, 2026, will receive a 10% discount off the membership fee. In addition to accessing new publications, current LDC members enjoy the benefit of licensing at reduced fees older data from our Catalog of close to 1000 holdings. Current-year for-profit members may use most data for commercial applications. Plans for next year's publications are in progress. Among the expected releases are: * 2012 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation Test Set: 10,000+ hours of English conversational telephone speech following the Mixer collection protocol, used in NIST's 2012 speaker recognition evaluation * KAIROS schema learning corpus background data and Phase 1 evaluation datasets: multimodal English and Spanish source data and annotations for reasoning about complex real-world events * CALL MY NET 2: 800+ hours of Tunisian-Arabic conversational telephone speech from over 400 speakers to support text independent speaker recognition, used in the 2018 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation * Multi-language conversational telephone speech: multiple releases, hundreds of hours of speech from speakers of confusable linguistic varieties (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Slavic, Spanish) to support language identification * CALLHOME omnibus releases: combined speech and transcript datasets with updated directory structure, file formats and documentation, and lexicons (Chinese, English, German, Japanese, Spanish) * IARPA MATERIAL language packs: conversational telephone speech, transcripts, English translations, annotations and queries in multiple languages (e.g., Lithuanian, Pashto, Swahili, Tagalog) For full descriptions of all LDC data sets, browse our Catalog<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/>. Visit Join LDC<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/members/join-ldc> for details on membership, user accounts and payment. Spring 2026 data scholarship application deadline Applications are now being accepted through January 15, 2026 for the Spring 2026 LDC data scholarship program which provides university students with no-cost access to LDC data. Consult the LDC Data Scholarships<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/language-resources/data/data-scholarships> page for more information about program rules and submission requirements. ________________________________ New publications: AnnoDIFP (Annotated Data for the Investigation of Facets of Personality) CTS (Conversational Telephone Speech) Audio and Transcripts<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S10> was developed by LDC, the Florida Institute of Technology <https://www.fit.edu/> and the University of New Haven<https://www.newhaven.edu/index.php> to support algorithm development for predicting personality traits. It contains 242.52 hours of English telephone audio recordings and transcripts from 1,179 telephone calls involving 327 participants paired with scores from two self-reported personality assessments, HEXACO Personality Inventory (Revised) (HEXACO-PI-R) and Short Dark Triad (SD3). This corpus contains audio and transcripts for 277 participants and transcripts only for 50 participants. Telephone calls were collected using LDC's robot-operator platform<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/about/facilities/human-subjects-collection>. The operator called participants every 24 hours during their indicated availability and paired them with another participant to speak on a prompted topic for 10 minutes. Transcripts were produced automatically using the Rev.ai<https://www.rev.ai/> speech-to-text service. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * LORELEI Ilocano Incident Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T16> was developed by LDC and is comprised of 8.9 million words of Ilocano monolingual text, 3.3 million words of English monolingual text, 3.2 million words of parallel Ilocano-English text, and 3 million words annotated for entity discovery and linking and situation frames. It constitutes all of the text data, annotations, supplemental resources, and related software tools for the Ilocano language used in the DARPA LORELEI / LoReHLT 2019 Evaluation<https://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/mig/lorehlt-evaluations>. The LORELEI (Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents) program was concerned with building human language technology for low resource languages in the context of emergent situations. In the evaluation scenario, an unforeseen event triggered a need for humanitarian and logistical support in a region where the incident language had received little or no attention in NLP research. Evaluation participants provided NLP solutions, including information extraction and machine translation, with limited resources and limited development time. Data was collected from news, social network, weblog, newsgroup, discussion forum, and reference material. Entity discovery and linking annotation identified entities to be detected by systems for scoring purposes. Situation frame analysis was designed to extract basic information about needs and relevant issues for planning a disaster response effort. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. To unsubscribe from this newsletter, log in to your LDC account<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/login> and uncheck the box next to "Receive Newsletter" under Account Options or contact LDC for assistance. Membership Coordinator Linguistic Data Consortium<ldc.upenn.edu> University of Pennsylvania T: +1-215-573-1275 E: ldc(a)ldc.upenn.edu<mailto:ldc@ldc.upenn.edu> M: 3600 Market St. Suite 810 Philadelphia, PA 19104

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3-year PhD Position (E13 100%) on Lightweight Language Models and Agentic AI in the DFG Project *SocEnRep* at Ulm University, Germany
by Ansgar Scherp 17 Nov '25

17 Nov '25

Dear all, I am seeking a highly motivated PhD student to pursue her or his career in Data Science, with a focus on lightweight language models and agentic AI. ✨ *Motivation *Data Science deals with the content-driven identification and localization of digital objects such as semi-structured data on the web (e.g., Linked Open Data), documents, profiles, or communities — and with understanding the relationships among them. This includes designing innovative methodologies and algorithms as well as applying them to large and diverse data and document corpora. The work is inherently interdisciplinary and involves collaboration with fields such as the social sciences and economics. *About Us* Ulm University (UULM) is a research university with an excellent reputation for interdisciplinary research, innovation, and education. It plays a central role in the /Science City of Ulm/ — the region’s largest educational institution and a strong driver of R&D through its partnerships with non-university research institutes, maximum-care hospitals, and technology companies. UULM is ranked among the world’s top 200 universities in the Times Higher Education Ranking. 🌍 The city of Ulm was ranked Germany’s most livable and future-ready city in 2024. Located in the southeast on the Danube River, its roughly 130,000 residents enjoy a vibrant cultural heritage and beautiful natural surroundings. 🌿 *About the Position *The /Data Science and Big Data Analytics/ research group, led by Prof. Scherp, was established in 2020. It is a computer science group with a strong reputation in text and data mining — particularly deep learning methods on text, graph representation learning, and knowledge graphs. We have long-standing experience in Data Science and in interdisciplinary collaborations with researchers from, e.g., the social sciences and economics. In the DFG-funded project /SocEnRep/, we aim to develop lightweight language models and agentic AI approaches. These models will be applied to improve the reproducibility of research in economics and the social sciences. To this end, we analyze both research code and corresponding papers, and we match code executions with the results reported in publications. For the DFG-funded project /SocEnRep/, we seek: *1 Doctoral Researcher (PhD student, E13 100%)* The position is available immediately and is limited to 36 months in accordance with the German WissZeitVG (Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz). *Your Tasks* - Conduct research on lightweight language models and on developing and applying agentic AI approaches - Run experiments on large datasets following rigorous scientific procedures - Apply developed methods to improve scientific reproducibility by matching research papers with results from code re-executions 🔍 *Requirements* - Strong interest in conducting research and writing scientific papers - Very good problem-solving and programming skills - Master of Science in Computer Science *Interested?* Apply via email before /December 5th/. Please include a /motivation letter, CV, transcript of records, degree certificates, /and any /supporting materials such as letters of reference/. Screening starts immediately. We look forward to receiving your application. For questions about the position, please contact Prof. Dr. Ansgar Scherp (ansgar.scherp(a)uni-ulm.de).

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Learner Corpus Research Conference 2026 (LCR 2026, Prague) – Call for Papers
by tomas.graf＠ff.cuni.cz 16 Nov '25

16 Nov '25

Learner Corpus Research Conference 2026 – LCR 2026 The 8th Learner Corpus Research Conference to be held in Prague 16–19 September, 2026 First Call for Papers opens on 16 November 2025 Organizers: Tomáš Gráf, Barbora Bulantová, Kryštof Buchal, Alexandr Rosen, Radek Skarnitzl, Lanfen Huang, Kristián Centek, Daniela Marková Conference site: https://lcr2026.ff.cuni.cz Key dates: Submission deadline: 16 January 2026 Notification of acceptance: 16 March 2026 Conference dates: 17–19 September 2026 Pre-conference workshops and PhD programme: 16 September 2026 The Learner Corpus Research Conference 2026 (LCR 2026) will be held in the beautiful and historically rich city of Prague on 16–19 September 2026. Organized biennially under the auspices of the Learner Corpus Association, the upcoming conference is hosted by the Department of Linguistics at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. The event is co-organized by two of its constituent units: the Department of English Language and ELT Methodology and the Czech National Corpus. The conference, titled Forging the Future of Learner Corpus Research, reflects a dual awareness: of the field’s substantial legacy and of the pressing need to embrace emerging technological and methodological innovations. It also highlights the importance of identifying new directions and developing fresh perspectives in learner corpus studies. The conference theme resonates with the extensive experience and pioneering contributions of the Czech National Corpus, which has been shaping standards in corpus linguistics for over three decades. Moreover, the Faculty of Arts and its linguistics departments are deeply rooted in the tradition of the Prague Linguistic Circle, and they previously hosted the 38th ICAME conference in 2017. We warmly encourage all participants to contribute actively to discussions and to share their insights. We aim to foster a collegial and collaborative environment conducive to the advancement of learner corpus research. We look forward to welcoming you to Prague for a stimulating and inspiring gathering of researchers in the field. Call description We welcome all contributions related to learner corpus research and strongly encourage authors to explore new directions, challenge existing paradigms, or apply innovative approaches to learner corpus data. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: Language for Academic and Specific Purposes Language Teaching, Assessment, and Testing Learner Corpus-Based SLA Studies Corpora as Pedagogical Resources Multimodal Learner Corpora Software Tools for Learner Corpus Analysis Corpus-Based Translation Studies English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) Data Mining and Exploratory Methods Statistical and Quantitative Approaches Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics NLP Applications in Learner Corpus Research Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency (CAF) Measures Presentation formats We invite submissions for the following formats: Full paper (20 minutes + 10 minutes discussion) Work in progress (WIP) report (10 minutes + 5 minutes discussion) Corpus/Software demonstration Poster presentation Insight session (Insight sessions are intended primarily for PhD students and/or early-career researchers. The format allows for a 10-minute presentation followed by a 10-minute expert feedback follow-up. ) The WIP reports and posters are intended to present research still at a preliminary stage and on which researchers would like to get feedback. The language of the conference is English. Abstract submission We invite submissions of abstracts in the range of 500 words (excluding references) for presentations in one of the categories listed above. Please indicate the category of your submission (Full paper / WiP Report / Corpus / software demonstration / Poster presentation) at the beginning of your abstract. Abstracts should include: A clearly articulated research question and an explanation of its relevance to learner corpus research A brief overview of the research approach, data, and methods used A summary of the main results and their interpretation Submissions must be made via OpenReview (registration necessary). https://openreview.net/group?id=learnercorpusassociation.org/LCR/2026/Confe… The working language of the conference is English. Please do not include author names or institutional affiliations in the submitted abstract. For co-authored submissions, one author should register and upload the abstract, but each co-author must register individually for the conference.

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Learner Corpus Research Conference 2026 (LCR 2026, Prague) – Call for Papers
by tomas.graf＠ff.cuni.cz 16 Nov '25

16 Nov '25

<h2 class="wp-block-heading has-text-align-left">Learner Corpus Research Conference 2026 – LCR 2026</h2> <h4><span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">The 8th Learner Corpus Research Conference to be held in Prague 16–19 September, 2026 </h4> <h5 class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; margin-bottom: 14.0pt; line-height: 15.0pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"> <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">First Call for Papers opens on 16 November 2025</h5> <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">Organizers: Tomáš Gráf, Barbora Bulantová, Kryštof Buchal, Alexandr Rosen, Radek Skarnitzl, Lanfen Huang, Kristián Centek, Daniela Marková <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">Conference site: <a href="https://lcr2026.ff.cuni.cz">https://lcr2026.ff.cuni.cz</a> <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">Key dates: Submission deadline: <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">16 January 2026<span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;"> Notification of acceptance: <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">16 March 2026 Conference dates: 17–19 September 2026 Pre-conference workshops and PhD programme: 16 September 2026<span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;"> <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">The Learner Corpus Research Conference 2026 (LCR 2026) will be held in the beautiful and historically rich city of <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; font-weight: bold; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">Prague <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">on <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; font-weight: bold; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">16–19 September 2026<span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">. Organized biennially under the auspices of the Learner Corpus Association, the upcoming conference is hosted by the Department of Linguistics at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. The event is co-organized by two of its constituent units: the Department of English Language and ELT Methodology and the Czech National Corpus. <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">The conference, titled <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">Forging the Future of Learner Corpus Research<span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">, reflects a dual awareness: of the field’s substantial legacy and of the pressing need to embrace emerging technological and methodological innovations. It also highlights the importance of identifying new directions and developing fresh perspectives in learner corpus studies. <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">The conference theme resonates with the extensive experience and pioneering contributions of the Czech National Corpus, which has been shaping standards in corpus linguistics for over three decades. Moreover, the Faculty of Arts and its linguistics departments are deeply rooted in the tradition of the Prague Linguistic Circle, and they previously hosted the 38th ICAME conference in 2017. <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">We warmly encourage all participants to contribute actively to discussions and to share their insights. We aim to foster a collegial and collaborative environment conducive to the advancement of learner corpus research. We look forward to welcoming you to Prague for a stimulating and inspiring gathering of researchers in the field. <h2 class="wp-block-heading has-text-align-left">Call description </h2> We welcome all contributions related to learner corpus research and strongly encourage authors to explore new directions, challenge existing paradigms, or apply innovative approaches to learner corpus data. 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Universal Dependencies, release 2.17
by Dan Zeman 15 Nov '25

15 Nov '25

We are very happy to announce the twenty-third release of annotated treebanks in Universal Dependencies, v2.17, available at https://universaldependencies.org/. Universal Dependencies is a project that seeks to develop cross-linguistically consistent treebank annotation for many languages with the goal of facilitating multilingual parser development, cross-lingual learning, and parsing research from a language typology perspective (de Marneffe et al., 2021; Nivre et al., 2020). The annotation scheme is based on (universal) Stanford dependencies (de Marneffe et al., 2006, 2008, 2014), Google universal part-of-speech tags (Petrov et al., 2012), and the Interset interlingua for morphosyntactic tagsets (Zeman, 2008). The general philosophy is to provide a universal inventory of categories and guidelines to facilitate consistent annotation of similar constructions across languages, while allowing language-specific extensions when necessary. The *339* treebanks in v2.17 are annotated according to version 2 of the UD guidelines and represent the following *186* languages: Abaza, Abkhaz, Afrikaans, Akkadian, Akuntsu, Albanian, Alemannic, Amharic, Ancient Greek, Ancient Hebrew, Apurina, Arabic, Armenian, Assyrian, Azerbaijani, Bambara, Basque, Bavarian, Beja, Belarusian, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Bokota, Bororo, Breton, Bulgarian, Buryat, Cantonese, Cappadocian, Catalan, Cebuano, Central Kurdish, Chinese, Chintang, Chukchi, Classical Armenian, Classical Chinese, Coptic, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Egyptian, English, Erzya, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Frisian Dutch, Galician, Georgian, German, Gheg, Gothic, Greek, Guajajara, Guarani, Gujarati, Gwichin, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hebrew, Highland Puebla Nahuatl, Hindi, Hittite, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ika, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kaapor, Kangri, Karelian, Karo, Kazakh, Khoekhoe, Khunsari, Kiche, Komi Permyak, Komi Zyrian, Korean, Kyrgyz, Latgalian, Latin, Latvian, Ligurian, Lithuanian, Livvi, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Madi, Maghrebi Arabic French, Makurap, Malayalam, Maltese, Manx, Marathi, Mbya Guarani, Middle French, Moksha, Munduruku, Naga, Naija, Nayini, Neapolitan, Nenets, Nheengatu, North Sami, Northern Kurdish, Northwest Gbaya, Norwegian, Occitan, Odia, Old Church Slavonic, Old East Slavic, Old English, Old French, Old Irish, Old Occitan, Old Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Pashto, Paumari, Persian, Pesh, Phrygian, Polish, Pomak, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sanskrit, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Shanghainese, Sicilian, Sindhi, Sinhala, Skolt Sami, Slovak, Slovenian, Soi, South Levantine Arabic, Southern Kurdish, Spanish, Spanish Sign Language, Swedish, Swedish Sign Language, Tagalog, Tamil, Tatar, Teko, Telugu, Telugu English, Thai, Tswana, Tupinamba, Turkish, Turkish English, Turkish German, Ukrainian, Umbrian, Upper Sorbian, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek, Veps, Vietnamese, Warlpiri, Welsh, Western Armenian, Western Sierra Puebla Nahuatl, Wolof, Xavante, Xibe, Yakut, Yiddish, Yoruba, Yupik and Zaar. The 186 languages belong to *35* families: Afro-Asiatic, Arawakan, Arawan, Austro-Asiatic, Austronesian, Basque, Bororoan, Chibchan, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Code switching, Constructed, Creole, Dravidian, Eskimo-Aleut, Indo-European, Japanese, Kartvelian, Khoe-Kwadi, Korean, Macro-Je, Mande, Mayan, Mongolic, Na-Dene, Niger-Congo, Northwest Caucasian, Pama-Nyungan, Sign Language, Sino-Tibetan, Tai-Kadai, Tungusic, Tupian, Turkic, Uralic and Uto-Aztecan. Depending on the language, the treebanks range in size from less than 1,000 tokens to over 3 million tokens. We expect the next release to be available in May 2026. The size of the following 44 treebanks changed significantly since the last release (note that UD_Occitan-CorAG has been recategorized under another language code as UD_Old_Occitan-CorAG; also, the Kurmanji language has been renamed to Northern Kurdish, and UD_Northern_Kurdish-Kurmanji is just a new name for UD_Kurmanji-MG): Alemannic DIVITAL : 0 → 19743 Ancient Hebrew PTNK : 90770 → 145866 Armenian ArmTDP : 52585 → 104293 Armenian BSUT : 41805 → 46168 Central Kurdish Mukri : 0 → 765 Chintang CTNTB : 0 → 14631 Egyptian UJaen : 21927 → 24375 English CHILDES : 226470 → 302740 English LittlePrince : 0 → 6852 Esperanto Prago : 839 → 3165 French ALTS : 43832 → 68088 French PoitevinDIVITAL : 0 → 5484 Georgian GNC : 18747 → 22547 Greek Lesbian : 3333 → 5926 Greek Messinian : 0 → 899 Hausa WesternAutogramm : 0 → 13888 Ika ChibErgIS : 3706 → 5307 Italian KIParlaForest : 0 → 9348 Korean KSL : 108072 → 137122 Middle French ALTM : 0 → 7084 Middle French PROFITEROLE: 68454 → 89809 Nenets Tundra : 651 → 1272 Nheengatu CompLin : 21813 → 26033 Northern Kurdish Kurmanji: 0 → 10259 Occitan CorAG : 37585 → 0 Old East Slavic Ruthenian: 111502 → 137333 Old French ALTM : 0 → 15285 Old Occitan CorAG : 0 → 45389 Ottoman Turkish DUDU : 10287 → 17125 Pashto Sikaram : 2515 → 4067 Polish MPDT : 0 → 47273 Romanian MolDoRo : 0 → 241 Shanghainese ShUD : 0 → 8584 Sicilian STB : 0 → 11204 Sindhi Isra : 15741 → 95227 Southern Kurdish Garrusi : 0 → 1685 Swedish Old : 0 → 507 Swedish SweLL : 0 → 8644 Thai TUD : 0 → 77215 Ukrainian ParlaMint : 84189 → 109166 Umbrian IKUVINA : 786 → 1162 Uzbek UzUDT : 0 → 7542 Yiddish YiTB : 0 → 27879 Zaar Autogramm : 17682 → 20758 In total, the new release contains 2313529 sentences, 37133071 surface tokens and 37877213 syntactic words. Daniel Zeman, Joakim Nivre, Mitchell Abrams, Elia Ackermann, Jephtey Adolphe, Noëmi Aepli, Hamid Aghaei, Željko Agić, Amir Ahmadi, Lars Ahrenberg, Chika Kennedy Ajede, Arofat Akhundjanova, Furkan Akkurt, Gabrielė Aleksandravičiūtė, Ika Alfina, Avner Algom, Khalid Alnajjar, Chiara Alzetta, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Erik Andersen, Kirk Andrews, Matthew Andrews, Lene Antonsen, Tatsuya Aoyama, Katya Aplonova, Angelina Aquino, Carolina Aragon, Glyd Aranes, Maria Jesus Aranzabe, Bilge Nas Arıcan, Þórunn Arnardóttir, Wirote Aroonmanakun, Gashaw Arutie, Jessica Naraiswari Arwidarasti, Hiwa Asadpour, Masayuki Asahara, Katla Ásgeirsdóttir, Deniz Baran Aslan, Cengiz Asmazoğlu, Luma Ateyah, Furkan Atmaca, Mohammed Attia, Aitziber Atutxa, Liesbeth Augustinus, Mariana Avelãs, Elena Badmaeva, Jana Bajorat, Keerthana Balasubramani, Miguel Ballesteros, Esha Banerjee, Sebastian Bank, Bryan Khelven da Silva Barbosa, Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Starkaður Barkarson, Rodolfo Basile, Victoria Basmov, Colin Batchelor, John Bauer, Seyyit Talha Bedir, Shabnam Behzad, Nathanaël Beiner, Juan Belieni, Alevtina Bémová, Kepa Bengoetxea, İbrahim Benli, Yifat Ben Moshe, Marie Benzerrak, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Ansu Berg, Gözde Berk, Delphine Bernhard, Astrid Berntsson Ingelstam, Riyaz Ahmad Bhat, Erica Biagetti, Eckhard Bick, Agnė Bielinskienė, Esma Fatıma Bilgin Taşdemir, Helin Binici, Kristín Bjarnadóttir, Verena Blaschke, Rogier Blokland, Nina Böbel, Victoria Bobicev, Loïc Boizou, Stavros Bompolas, Johnatan Bonilla, Emanuel Borges Völker, Lars Borin, Carl Börstell, Cristina Bosco, Gosse Bouma, Sam Bowman, Adriane Boyd, Anouck Braggaar, António Branco, Myriam Bras, Théo Brillet, Kristina Brokaitė, Lanni Bu, Eva Buráňová, Aljoscha Burchardt, Carmen Cabeza, Natalia Cáceres Arandia, Olesea Caftanatov, Marisa Campos, Marie Candito, Caterina Maria Cappello, Bernard Caron, Gauthier Caron, Catarina Carvalheiro, Rita Carvalho, Lauren Cassidy, Maria Clara Castro, Sérgio Castro, Tatiana Cavalcanti, Gülşen Cebiroğlu Eryiğit, Flavio Massimiliano Cecchini, Giuseppe G. A. Celano, Anila Çepani, Slavomír Čéplö, Neslihan Cesur, Savas Cetin, Özlem Çetinoğlu, Fabricio Chalub, Liyanage Chamila, Claudine Chamoreau, Shweta Chauhan, Yifei Chen, Ethan Chi, Taishi Chika, Yongseok Cho, Jinho Choi, Bermet Chontaeva, Jayeol Chun, Juyeon Chung, Alessandra T. Cignarella, Silvie Cinková, Esther Cocco, Aurélie Collomb, Çağrı Çöltekin, Miriam Connor, Claudia Corbetta, Daniela Corbetta, Francisco Costa, Marine Courtin, Benoît Crabbé, Mihaela Cristescu, Vladimir Cvetkoski, Netanel Dahan, Ingerid Løyning Dale, Sabrina D'Alì, Philemon Daniel, Khensa Daoudi, Bijayalaxmi Dash, Satya Ranjan Dash, Elizabeth Davidson, Leonel Figueiredo de Alencar, Mathieu Dehouck, Martina de Laurentiis, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Ahmet Demir, Valeria de Paiva, Mehmet Oguz Derin, Elvis de Souza, Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza, Roberto Antonio Díaz Hernández, Carly Dickerson, Ariani Di Felippo, Arawinda Dinakaramani, Elisa Di Nuovo, Bamba Dione, Peter Dirix, Hoa Do, Kaja Dobrovoljc, Caroline Döhmer, Adrian Doyle, Timothy Dozat, Kira Droganova, Magali Sanches Duran, Puneet Dwivedi, Christian Ebert, Hanne Eckhoff, Masaki Eguchi, Sandra Eiche, Roald Eiselen, Marhaba Eli, Ali Elkahky, Binyam Ephrem, Olga Erina, Tomaž Erjavec, Louise Esher, Soudabeh Eslami, Farah Essaidi, Aline Etienne, Wograine Evelyn, Sidney Facundes, Richárd Farkas, Ján Faryad, Federica Favero, Jannatul Ferdaousi, Marília Fernanda, Hector Fernandez Alcalde, Amal Fethi, Jennifer Foster, Barbara Francioni, Theodorus Fransen, Cláudia Freitas, Kazunori Fujita, Katarína Gajdošová, Daniel Galbraith, Edith Galy, Federica Gamba, Marcos Garcia, José María García-Miguel, Moa Gärdenfors, Tanja Gaustad, Efe Eren Genç, Fabrício Ferraz Gerardi, Kim Gerdes, Luke Gessler, Filip Ginter, Gustavo Godoy, Iakes Goenaga, Koldo Gojenola, Memduh Gökırmak, Yoav Goldberg, Gili Goldin, Xavier Gómez Guinovart, Berta González Saavedra, Mathieu Goux, Bernadeta Griciūtė, Matias Grioni, Loïc Grobol, Normunds Grūzītis, Mario Guglielmetti, Bruno Guillaume, Kirian Guiller, Céline Guillot-Barbance, Tunga Güngör, Vladimir Gurevich, Nizar Habash, Hinrik Hafsteinsson, Michael Hahn, Jan Hajič, Jan Hajič jr., Eva Hajičová, Mika Hämäläinen, Linh Hà Mỹ, Na-Rae Han, Muhammad Yudistira Hanifmuti, Takahiro Harada, Sam Hardwick, Kim Harris, Naïma Hassert, Dag Haug, Jiří Havelka, Johannes Heinecke, Oliver Hellwig, Felix Hennig, Barbora Hladká, Jaroslava Hlaváčová, Florinel Hociung, Diana Hoefels, Barbara Hoff, Petter Hohle, Nick Howell, Yidi Huang, Marivel Huerta Mendez, Jena Hwang, Takumi Ikeda, Inessa Iliadou, Anton Karl Ingason, Radu Ion, Elena Irimia, Ọlájídé Ishola, Artan Islamaj, Kaoru Ito, Federica Iurescia, Jessica K. Ivani, Sandra Jagodzińska, Siratun Jannat, Tomáš Jelínek, Apoorva Jha, Ratanon Jiamsundutsadee, Katharine Jiang, Sylvanus Job, Mayank Jobanputra, Anders Johannsen, Hildur Jónsdóttir, Fredrik Jørgensen, Zhuoxuan Ju, Markus Juutinen, Hüner Kaşıkara, Nadezhda Kabaeva, Sylvain Kahane, Hiroshi Kanayama, Jenna Kanerva, Neslihan Kara, Ritván Karahóǧa, Jiří Kárník, Andre Kåsen, Tolga Kayadelen, Sarveswaran Kengatharaiyer, Václava Kettnerová, Lilit Kharatyan, Jesse Kirchner, Elena Klementieva, Elena Klyachko, Petr Kocharov, Arne Köhn, Abdullatif Köksal, Veronika Kolářová, Kamil Kopacewicz, Timo Korkiakangas, Mehmet Köse, Alexey Koshevoy, Nelda Kote, Natalia Kotsyba, Barbara Kovačić, Jolanta Kovalevskaitė, Emmanuelle Kowner, Simon Krek, Parameswari Krishnamurthy, Sandra Kübler, Lucie Kučová, Adrian Kuqi, Elmurod Kuriyozov, Oğuzhan Kuyrukçu, Aslı Kuzgun, Sookyoung Kwak, Kris Kyle, Käbi Laan, Veronika Laippala, Lorenzo Lambertino, Israel Landau, Tatiana Lando, Septina Dian Larasati, Pierre Larrivée, Kusum Lata, Alexei Lavrentiev, John Lee, Phương Lê Hồng, Alessandro Lenci, Wei Qi Leong, Saran Lertpradit, Herman Leung, Lori Levin, Maria Levina, Lauren Levine, Cheuk Ying Li, Josie Li, Keying Li, Yixuan Li, Yuan Li, KyungTae Lim, Bruna Lima Padovani, Yi-Ju Jessica Lin, Krister Lindén, Yang Janet Liu, Zoey Liu, Nikola Ljubešić, Irina Lobzhanidze, Olga Loginova, Markéta Lopatková, Lucelene Lopes, Edita Luftiu, Arsenii Lukashevskyi, Stefano Lusito, Anne-Marie Lutgen, Andry Luthfi, Mikko Luukko, Olga Lyashevskaya, Teresa Lynn, Vivien Macketanz, Menel Mahamdi, Jean Maillard, Punyanuch Maitreenukul, Ilya Makarchuk, Aibek Makazhanov, Francesco Mambrini, Michael Mandl, Christopher Manning, Ruli Manurung, Büşra Marşan, Cătălina Mărănduc, David Mareček, Katrin Marheinecke, Stella Markantonatou, Héctor Martínez Alonso, Lorena Martín Rodríguez, André Martins, Cláudia Martins, Arianna Masciolini, Jan Mašek, Sanatbek Matlatipov, Hiroshi Matsuda, Yuji Matsumoto, Caterina Mauri, Alessandro Mazzei, Ryan McDonald, Sarah McGuinness, Maitrey Mehta, Pierre André Ménard, Gustavo Mendonça, Hilla Merhav, Tatiana Merzhevich, Paul Meurer, Niko Miekka, Marie Mikulová, Emilia Milano, Aleksandra Miletić, Aaron Miller, Junghyun Min, Yael Minerbi, Jiří Mírovský, Karina Mischenkova, Anna Missilä, Cătălin Mititelu, Maria Mitrofan, Yusuke Miyao, Biswakalpita Mohapatra, AmirHossein Mojiri Foroushani, Judit Molnár, Amirsaeid Moloodi, Simonetta Montemagni, Amir More, Laura Moreno Romero, Giovanni Moretti, Shinsuke Mori, Tomohiko Morioka, Shigeki Moro, Bjartur Mortensen, Bohdan Moskalevskyi, Katerina Mouzou, Kadri Muischnek, Robert Munro, Yugo Murawaki, Nikolett Mus, Kaili Müürisep, Pinkey Nainwani, Mariam Nakhlé, Minoo Nassajian, Juan Ignacio Navarro Horñiacek, Anna Nedoluzhko, Gunta Nešpore-Bērzkalne, Manuela Nevaci, Lương Nguyễn Thị, Huyền Nguyễn Thị Minh, Yoshihiro Nikaido, Vitaly Nikolaev, Rattima Nitisaroj, Victor Norrman, Alireza Nourian, Michal Novák, Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes, Hanna Nurmi, Stina Ojala, Atul Kr. Ojha, Hulda Óladóttir, Adédayọ̀ Olúòkun, Mai Omura, Emeka Onwuegbuzia, Noam Ordan, Petya Osenova, Robert Östling, Annika Ott, Lilja Øvrelid, Masanori Oya, Şaziye Betül Özateş, Merve Özçelik, Arzucan Özgür, Balkız Öztürk Başaran, Teresa Paccosi, Petr Pajas, Thomas Palakapilly, Alessio Palmero Aprosio, Jarmila Panevová, Ludovica Pannitto, Anastasia Panova, Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo, Shantipriya Parida, Hyunji Hayley Park, Niko Partanen, Elena Pascual, Marco Passarotti, Agnieszka Patejuk, Guilherme Paulino-Passos, Giulia Pedonese, Oggi Peeters, Angelika Peljak-Łapińska, Siyao Peng, Siyao Logan Peng, Rita Pereira, Sílvia Pereira, Cenel-Augusto Perez, Natalia Perkova, Guy Perrier, Slav Petrov, Daria Petrova, Eva Pettersson, Andrea Peverelli, Jason Phelan, Claudel Pierre-Louis, Jussi Piitulainen, Yuval Pinter, Clara Pinto, Rodrigo Pintucci, Tommi A Pirinen, Emily Pitler, Magdalena Plamada, Barbara Plank, Alistair Plum, Thierry Poibeau, Charin Polpanumas, Larisa Ponomareva, Martin Popel, Clamença Poujade, Rangga Prangwedana Prangwedana, Lauma Pretkalniņa, Rigardt Pretorius, Sophie Prévost, Prokopis Prokopidis, Adam Przepiórkowski, Robert Pugh, Tiina Puolakainen, Christoph Purschke, Sampo Pyysalo, Peng Qi, Andreia Querido, Andriela Rääbis, Ella Rabinovich, Alexandre Rademaker, Mutee-u Rahman, Mizanur Rahoman, Taraka Rama, Loganathan Ramasamy, Carlos Ramisch, Joana Ramos, Fam Rashel, Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli, Vinit Ravishankar, Livy Real, Petru Rebeja, Siva Reddy, Mathilde Regnault, Georg Rehm, Arij Riabi, Ivan Riabov, Michael Rießler, Erika Rimkutė, Larissa Rinaldi, Laura Rituma, Putri Rizqiyah, Luisa Rocha, Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson, Ivan Roksandic, Norton Trevisan Roman, Mykhailo Romanenko, Natalia Romanova, Rudolf Rosa, Valentin Roșca, Paulette Roulon, Davide Rovati, Ben Rozonoyer, Olga Rudina, Jack Rueter, Paolo Ruffolo, Kristján Rúnarsson, Rozana Rushiti, Attapol T. Rutherford, Shoval Sadde, Pegah Safari, Aleksi Sahala, Kalyanamalini Sahoo, Saraswati Sahoo, Shadi Saleh, Alessio Salomoni, Tanja Samardžić, Konstantinos Sampanis, Stephanie Samson, Xulia Sánchez-Rodríguez, Manuela Sanguinetti, Ezgi Sanıyar, Dage Särg, Marta Sartor, Albina Sarymsakova, Mitsuya Sasaki, Baiba Saulīte, Agata Savary, Yanin Sawanakunanon, Shefali Saxena, Kevin Scannell, Salvatore Scarlata, Emmanuel Schang, Robert Schikowski, Nathan Schneider, Sebastian Schuster, Lane Schwartz, Djamé Seddah, Wolfgang Seeker, Sven Sellmer, Mojgan Seraji, Magda Ševčíková, Petr Sgall, Syeda Shahzadi, Mo Shen, Atsuko Shimada, Gyu-Ho Shin, Hiroyuki Shirasu, Yana Shishkina, Muh Shohibussirri, Maria Shvedova, Jean Sibille, Janine Siewert, Einar Freyr Sigurðsson, João Silva, Aline Silveira, Natalia Silveira, Sara Silveira, Maria Simi, Radu Simionescu, Katalin Simkó, Mária Šimková, Haukur Barri Símonarson, Kiril Simov, Dmitri Sitchinava, Ted Sither, Aaron Smith, Isabela Soares-Bastos, Per Erik Solberg, Dolores Sollberger, Barbara Sonnenhauser, Shafi Sourov, Nina Speransky, Rachele Sprugnoli, Panyut Sriwirote, Vivian Stamou, Steinþór Steingrímsson, Antonio Stella, Jan Štěpánek, Barbora Štěpánková, Abishek Stephen, Milan Straka, Omer Strass, Emmett Strickland, Jana Strnadová, Sara Stymne, Alane Suhr, Yogi Lesmana Sulestio, Umut Sulubacak, Jack Sun, Hakyung Sung, Shingo Suzuki, Daniel Swanson, Zsolt Szántó, Maria Irena Szawerna, Chihiro Taguchi, Dima Taji, Luigi Talamo, Fabio Tamburini, Mary Ann C. Tan, Takaaki Tanaka, Dipta Tanaya, Mirko Tavoni, Nursena Teker, Samson Tella, Isabelle Tellier, Marinella Testori, Santhawat Thanyawong, Guillaume Thomas, Tarık Emre Tıraş, William Chandra Tjhi, Thea Tollersrud, Kamil Tomaszek, Sara Tonelli, Liisi Torga, Lucas Toribio, Marsida Toska, Trond Trosterud, Anna Trukhina, Reut Tsarfaty, Kira Tulchynska, Utku Türk, Francis Tyers, Sveinbjörn Þórðarson, Vilhjálmur Þorsteinsson, Sumire Uematsu, Roman Untilov, Zdeňka Urešová, Larraitz Uria, Hans Uszkoreit, Andrius Utka, Elena Vagnoni, Sowmya Vajjala, Socrates Vak, Socrates Vakirtzian, Rob van der Goot, Martine Vanhove, Daniel van Niekerk, Gertjan van Noord, Viktor Varga, Helena Vaz, Uliana Vedenina, Giulia Venturi, Marianne Vergez-Couret, Annemarie Verkerk, Barbora Vidová Hladká, Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie, Veronika Vincze, Anishka Vissamsetty, Natalia Vlasova, Eleni Vligouridou, Aya Wakasa, Joel C. 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D&I Subsidies + Mentorship for IJCNLP-AACL 2025: Application deadline extended to Nov 20
by Tirthankar Ghosal 15 Nov '25

15 Nov '25

Hello all, The application deadline for Diversity and Inclusion subsidies to attend IJCNLP-AACL 2025 is extended until November 20, 2025. https://2025.aaclnet.org/calls/subsidies/ Thank you. Best regards, Tirthankar Ghosal (D&I Co-chair, IJCNLP-AACL 2025) -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr. Tirthankar Ghosal <https://www.tirthankarghosal.com/> Scientist (NLP/AI and HPC) <https://www.ornl.gov/staff-profile/tirthankar-ghosal> National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States & Affiliate Faculty (NLP/AI) <https://bredesencenter.utk.edu/faculty/tirthankar-ghosal/> University of Tennessee Knoxville United States ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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Phrasenet Database Toolbox
by JLDLME 15 Nov '25

15 Nov '25

We are glad to announce the release and availability of the PhraseNET Database Toolbox v3, a web app for mobile phones & tablets with an icon menu with 29 resources. PhraseNET Database Toolbox for Mobile Devices (https://www.phrasenet.com/webapp/index.html) is part of an integrated cross-platform package that works across all Windows and Android environments. However, here the focus is only on the reduced version, which has an icon menu for mobile devices and allows desktop use. The user interface contains open dialogues related to the extraction and loading of n-grams, collocations, phraseology, phrasal verbs, keywords, and storage of corpus in databases and concordancers based on web corpus and database corpus, which line up a list of words to the right and left that can vary on either side, providing an easily identifiable view of the keywords that are in the center, representing a small sample of the context in which they are found or of the complete sentence. The CHADES (Corpus Hispanoamericano del Español) is integrated into PhraseNET in such a way that it allows the extraction of phraseological units, searching by keywords. And the linear text is available online at https://chades.com.br/chades/chades.html. Without hypertextualization, the same corpus with hypertextualization is available at http://dhytex.com/dhytex.html in a non-linear way. It’s a set of compiled texts, written by native speakers of Spanish in many varieties, extracted from literature and newspapers, and based on both printed and digital sources. Sincerely, J. L. De LUCCA Universidad Politècnica de Valencia, PhD, 2011 Sao Paulo University, PhD, 2001

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Call for Participation for MWAHAHA at SemEval 2026 (Task 1)
by ACL Announcements 15 Nov '25

15 Nov '25

*** Call for Participation for MWAHAHA at SemEval 2026 (Task 1) *** Can computers be funny? MWAHAHA - Models Write Automatic Humor And Humans Annotate at SemEval 2026 (Task 1) https://pln-fing-udelar.github.io/semeval-2026-humor-gen/ While Humor Understanding has been the focus of many shared tasks, Humor Generation remains an even more challenging and largely unexplored frontier. MWAHAHA, which stands for Models Write Automatic Humor And Humans Annotate, is SemEval 2026's Task 1 [1] and is the first task dedicated to advancing the state of the art in Computational Humor Generation. We invite participants to develop systems capable of generating genuinely humorous content under various constraints. Our goal is to push models beyond memorization and towards true humorous creativity. By using carefully designed constraints, we aim to ensure fairness in evaluation and encourage the generation of novel jokes. This task has significant implications for more engaging conversational AI, creative writing tools, and a deeper understanding of the complex nature of humor itself. The task is organized into two subtasks: * Subtask A: Text-based Humor Generation Systems must generate jokes following constraints (related to a news headline, or containing certain words). This subtask is in English, Spanish, and Chinese. * Subtask B: Image-Based Caption Generation Systems must generate a free-form humorous caption given a GIF image that enhances its comedic effect. This subtask is in English only. The participating systems will be evaluated based on human preferences on 1-on-1 arena-style battles. To participate in this task, please join our CodaBench competition: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/9719/ Important Dates: * Development data release: September 1, 2025 * Evaluation trial phase starts: October 1, 2025 * Evaluation trial phase ends: December 15, 2025 * Evaluation period starts: January 10, 2026 * Evaluation period ends: January 31, 2026 * System description paper submission: February 28, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2026 * Camera-ready papers due: April 30, 2026 * SemEval 2026 Workshop: July 2026 Links: ------ [1] https://semeval.github.io/SemEval2026/

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PROPOR 2026: Deadline extended
by Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira 15 Nov '25

15 Nov '25

We gladly inform that *PROPOR 2026*, the17th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese Salvador - Bahia April 13th to 16th 2026 has extended the submission date to *7 December 2025*. Check the website for more details: https://propor2026.ufba.br/#cfp Larissa Freitas and Diana Santos, Program Chairs

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The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): Second Combo Call for Workshop Papers
by Announce 15 Nov '25

15 Nov '25

*** Second Combo Call for Workshop Papers *** 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 2026 attracted a record number of submissions for the main conference (561 full paper submissions after an initial submission of 697 abstracts). Although the submission deadline for the main conference is now over, we welcome the submission of papers to a number of workshops that will be held as part of IUI 2026. A list of these workshops, with a short description and the workshops' websites for further information, follows below. AgentCraft: Workshop on Agentic AI Systems Development (full-day workshop) Organizers: Karthik Dinakar (Pienso), Justin D. Weisz (IBM Research), Henry Lieberman (MIT CSAIL), Werner Geyer (IBM Research) URL: https://agentcraft-iui.github.io/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> Ambitious efforts are underway to build AI agents powered by large language models across many domains. Despite emerging frameworks, key challenges remain: autonomy, reasoning, unpredictable behavior, and consequential actions. Developers struggle to comprehend and debug agent behaviors, as well as determine when human oversight is needed. Intelligent interfaces that enable meaningful oversight of agentic plans, decisions, and actions are needed to foster transparency, build trust, and manage complexity. We will explore interfaces for mixed-initiative collaboration during agent development and deployment, design patterns for debugging agent behaviors, strategies for determining developer control and oversight, and evaluation methods grounding agent performance in real-world impact. AI CHAOS! 1st Workshop on the Challenges for Human Oversight of AI Systems (full-day workshop) Organizers: Tim Schrills (University of Lübeck), Patricia Kahr (University of Zurich), Markus Langer (University of Freiburg), Harmanpreet Kaur (University of Minnesota), Ujwal Gadiraju (Delft University of Technology) URL: https://sites.google.com/view/aichaos/iui-2026?authuser=0<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> As AI permeates high-stakes domains—healthcare, autonomous driving, criminal justice —failures can endanger safety and rights. Human oversight is vital to mitigate harm, yet methods and concepts remain unclear despite regulatory mandates. Poorly designed oversight risks false safety and blurred accountability. This interdisciplinary workshop unites AI, HCI, psychology, and regulation research to close this gap. Central questions are: How can systems enable meaningful oversight? Which methods convey system states and risks? How can interventions scale? Through papers, talks, and interactive discussions, participants will map challenges, define stakeholder roles, survey tools, methods, and regulations, and set a collaborative research agenda. CURE 2026: Communicating Uncertainty to foster Realistic Expectations via Human- Centered Design (half-day workshop) Organizers: Jasmina Gajcin (IBM Research), Jovan Jeromela (Trinity College Dublin), Joel Wester (Aalborg University), Sarah Schömbs (University of Melbourne), Styliani Kleanthous (Open University of Cyprus), Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy (IBM Research), Hanna Hauptmann (Utrecht University), Rifat Mehreen Amin (LMU Munich) URL: https://cureworkshop.github.io/cure-2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> Communicating system uncertainty is essential for achieving transparency and can help users calibrate their trust in, reliance on, and expectations from an AI system. However, uncertainty communication is plagued by challenges such as cognitive biases, numeracy skills, calibrating risk perception, and increased cognitive load, with research finding that lay users can struggle to interpret probabilities and uncertainty visualizations. HealthIUI 2026: Workshop on Intelligent and Interactive Health User Interfaces (half-day workshop) Organizers: Peter Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburgh), Behnam Rahdari (Stanford University), Shriti Raj (Stanford University), Helma Torkamaan (TU Delft) URL: https://healthiui.github.io/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> As AI transforms health and care, integrating Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) in wellness applications offers substantial opportunities and challenges. This workshop brings together experts from HCI, AI, healthcare, and related fields to explore how IUIs can enhance long-term engagement, personalization, and trust in health systems. Emphasis is on interdisciplinary approaches to create systems that are advanced, responsive to user needs, mindful of context, ethics, and privacy. Through presentations, discussions, and collaborative sessions, participants will address key challenges and propose solutions to drive health IUI innovation. MIRAGE: Misleading Impacts Resulting from AI-Generated Explanations (full-day workshop) Organizers: Simone Stumpf (University of Glasgow), Upol Ehsan (Northeastern University), Elizabeth M. Daly (IBM Research), Daniele Quercia (Nokia Bell Labs) URL: https://mirage-workshop.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> Explanations from AI systems can illuminate, yet they can misguide. MIRAGE at IUI tackles pitfalls and dark patterns in AI explanations. Evidence now shows that explanations may inflate unwarranted trust, warp mental models, and obscure power asymmetries—even when designers intend no harm. We classify XAI harms as Dark Patterns (intentional, e.g., trust-boosting placebos) and Explainability Pitfalls (unintended effects without manipulative intent). These harms include error propagation (model risks), over-reliance (interaction risks), and false security (systemic risks). We convene an interdisciplinary group to define, detect, and mitigate these risks. MIRAGE shifts focus to safe explanations, advancing accountable, human-centered AI. PARTICIPATE-AI: Exploring the Participatory Turn in Citizen-Centred AI (half-day workshop) Organizers: Pam Briggs (Northumbria University), Cristina Conati (University of British Columbia), Shaun Lawson (Northumbria University), Kyle Montague (Northumbria University), Hugo Nicolau (University of Lisbon), Ana Cristina Pires (University of Lisbon), Sebastien Stein (University of Southampton), John Vines (University of Edinburgh) URL: https://sites.google.com/view/participate-ai/workshop<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> This workshop explores value alignment for participatory AI, focusing on interfaces and tools that bridge citizen participation and technical development. As AI systems increasingly impact society, meaningful and actionable citizen input in their development becomes critical. However, current participatory approaches often fail to influence actual AI systems, with citizen values becoming trivialized. This workshop will address challenges such as risk articulation, value evolution, democratic legitimacy, and the translation gap between community input and system implementation. Topics include value elicitation within different communities, critical analysis of failed participatory attempts, and methods for making citizen concerns actionable for developers. SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR (full-day workshop) Organizers: Giuseppe Caggianese (National Research Council of Italy, Institute for High- Performance Computing and Networking Napoli), Marta Mondellini (National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Intelligent Industrial Systems and Technologies for Advanced Manufacturing, Lecco), Nicola Capece (University of Basilicata), Mario Covarrubias (Politecnico di Milano), Gilda Manfredi (University of Basilicata) URL: https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> This workshop explores how eXtended Reality (XR) can serve as a multimodal interface for AI systems, including LLMs and conversational agents. It focuses on designing adaptive, human-centered XR environments that incorporate speech, gesture, gaze, and haptics for seamless interaction. Main topics include personalization, accessibility, cognitive load, trust, and ethics in AI-driven XR experiences. Through presentations, discussions, and collaborative sessions, the workshop aims to establish a subcommunity within IUI to develop a roadmap that includes design principles and methodologies for inclusive and adaptive intelligent interfaces, enhancing human capabilities across various domains, such as healthcare, education, and collaborative environments. TRUST-CUA: Trustworthy Computer-Using Generalist Agents for Intelligent User Interfaces (full-day workshop) Organizers: Toby Jia-Jun Li (University of Notre Dame), Segev Shlomov (IBM Research), Xiang Deng (Scale AI), Ronen Brafman (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), Avi Yaeli (IBM Research) Zora (Zhiruo) Wang (Carnegie Mellon University) URL: https://sites.google.com/view/trust-cuaiui26/home<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> Computer-Using Agents (CUAs) are moving from point automations to generalist agents acting across GUIs, browsers, APIs, and CLIs—raising core IUI questions of trust, predictability, and control. This workshop advances trustworthy-by-design CUAs through human-centered methods: mixed-initiative interaction, explanation and sensemaking, risk/uncertainty communication, and recovery/rollback UX. Outcomes include (1) a practical TRUST-CUA checklist for oversight, consent, and auditing, (2) a user-centered evaluation profile (“CUBench-IUI,” e.g., predictability, oversight effort, time-to-recovery, policy-aligned success), and (3) curated design patterns and open challenges for deployable, accountable agentic interfaces. Important Dates • Paper Submission: December 19, 2025 • Notification: February 2, 2026 All dates are 23:59h AoE (anywhere on Earth). Organisation General Chairs • Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel • Styliani Kleanthous, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshop and Tutorial Chairs • Karthik Dinakar, Pienso Inc, USA • Werner Geyer, IBM Research, USA • Patricia Kahr, University of Zurich, Switzerland • Antonela Tommasel, ISISTAN, CONICET-UNCPBA, JKU, Argentina, Austria

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