LREC 2026 - FIRST CALL FOR WORKSHOPS

Organized by the ELRA Language Resources Association 

Palma, Mallorca, Spain

11-16 May 2026

The Organisers of LREC 2026 invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the main conference at Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma de Mallorca (Spain).
We solicit proposals in all areas of language resources, language technology, and evaluation of the underlying technologies, broadly conceived to also include related disciplines such as linguistics, language documentation, natural language processing, speech and multimodal processing, computational social science, and the digital humanities.

The workshops will be held at LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca (Spain) on 11, 12 and 16 May 2026.

IMPORTANT DATES

(All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”)

• 17 October 2025: Proposal submission deadline
• 17 November 2025: Notification of acceptance
• 11-16 May 2026: LREC2026 conference

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Proposals should be submitted as PDF documents using the START system (URL will soon be available on the conference website).  Note that submissions should essentially be ready to be turned into a Call for Workshop Papers within one week of notification of acceptance (see Important dates above).

The proposals should be at most two pages for the main proposal + at most two additional pages for information about organisers, program committee, and references. Thus, the whole proposal should not be more than FOUR pages long, excluding references.

The two pages for the main proposal must include:

• A title and a brief description of the workshop topic and content.
• Workshops can be half-day (morning 9:00 to 13:00 or afternoon 14:00 to 18:00) or full-day (9:00 to 18:00) and must follow fixed hours for breaks (morning coffee break 10.30-11.00, lunch break: 13:00-14:00, afternoon coffee break: 16.00-16.30).
• A list of invited speakers, if applicable, with an indication of which ones have already agreed and which are tentative, and sources of funding for the speakers, if needed.
• An estimate of the number of attendees.
• A description of any shared tasks associated with the workshop, and estimate of the number of participants. Note that any shared task will also need to be reviewed by the workshop committee for ethical concerns.
• A description of special requirements and technical needs, where relevant.
• If the workshop has been held before, a note specifying where previous iterations of the workshops were held, how many submissions the workshop received, how many papers were accepted (also specify if they were not regular papers, e.g., shared task system description papers, non-archival papers), and how many attendees the workshop attracted.

The two pages for information about the workshop, the organisers and the program committee must include:

• A very brief advertisement or tagline for the workshop, up to 140 characters, that highlights any key information you wish prospective attendees to know, and which would be suitable to be put onto a web-based survey (see below).
• The names, affiliations, and email addresses of the organisers, with one-paragraph statements of their research interests, areas of expertise, and experience in organising workshops and related events.
• A list of Program Committee members, with an indication of which members have already agreed. Organisers should do their best to estimate the number of submissions (especially for recurring workshops) in order to (a) ensure a sufficient number of reviewers so that each paper receives 3 reviews, and (b) anticipate that no one is committed to reviewing more than 3 papers. This practice is likely to ensure on-time, and more thorough and thoughtful reviews.

EVALUATION CRITERIA

The workshop proposals will be evaluated according to their originality and impact, the expected interest level of participants, as well as the quality of the organising team and Program Committee, and their contribution to the diversity of the conference.

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

We particularly encourage submissions of underrepresented groups in language resources and language technology, including researchers from any demographic or geographic minority, with disabilities, or others. In the evaluation of the proposal, we will take these aspects into account to create a varied and balanced set of workshops.

Workshop proposals are evaluated on a range of aspects, including diversity, such as (1) how the topic of the workshop contributes to improved diversity and increased fairness in the field, (2) if the topic is particularly relevant for a specific underrepresented group of potential participants, (3), if the presenters are from an underrepresented group.

WORKSHOP ORGANISER RESPONSIBILITIES

At least one of the accepted organisers must attend the workshop in person. The organisers of the accepted proposals are responsible for publicizing and running the workshop, including reviewing submissions, producing the workshop program and the camera-ready workshop proceedings according to LREC requirements, organising the meeting days, and playing their part to ensure that all participants are aware of LREC’s anti-harassment policy and code of conduct (see https://lrec2026.info/lrec-2026-code-of-conduct/ ). It is crucial that organisers commit to all deadlines. In particular, failure to produce the camera-ready proceedings in the correct format on time will lead to the exclusion of the workshop from the unified proceedings and author indexes. 

Workshop organisers cannot accept submissions for publication that will be (or have been) published elsewhere, although they are free to set their own policies on simultaneous submission and review, as well as to accept additional non-archival presentations

CONTACT

• Workshop Chairs: lrec2026-workshop-chairs@googlegroups.com
• General contact: mailto:info@lrec2026.info
• More information on LREC 2026: https://lrec2026.info/