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Call for Industry Day @ LREC 2026

LREC 2026 invites presentation proposals for its signature Industry Day.

The Industry Day will take place on 14th May, 2026 in Palma, Mallorca (Spain).

The objective of the Industry Day is to:

*     provide a unique forum for researchers, industry players, and funding agencies from across a wide spectrum of areas to discuss challenges, achievements and synergies, *     bridge the gap between academic research and real-world industry practices, including resource development and evaluation methodologies, *     provide a networking platform for conference participants, experts, and professionals to foster international collaborations, *     connect researchers and industry leaders in order to identify employment or internship opportunities.

The events of the day will include:

*     presentations by industry participants on their applications and innovation in the field of AI, NLP, and Speech processing, *     a panel session where participants will gain insights on both challenges and initiatives that relate to today’s AI advancements, *     a networking lunch with a student poster session.

Topics of interest include:

Language Resource Development

Methods and tools for mono- and multi-lingual language resource development and annotation     Knowledge discovery/representation (knowledge graphs, linked data, terminologies, lexicons, ontologies, etc.)     Resource development for less-resourced/endangered languages     Guidelines, standards, best practices, and models for interoperability

Language Resource Use

Use of language resources in systems and applications for any area of language and speech processing     Use of language resources in assistive technologies, support for accessibility     Efficient/low-resource methods for language and speech processing

Evaluation

Methodologies and protocols for evaluation and benchmarking of language technologies     Measures for validation of language resources and quality assurance     Usability of user interfaces and dialogue systems     Bias, safety, and user satisfaction metrics     Interpretability/explainability of language models and language and speech processing tools

Language Resources and Large Language Models

Language resource development for LLMs (monolingual, multilingual, multimodal)     (Semi-)automatic generation of training data     Training, fine-tuning, adaptation, alignment, and representation learning     Guardrails, filters, and modules for generative AI models

Policy and Organizational Considerations

International and national activities, projects, initiatives, and policies     Language coverage and diversity     Replicability and reproducibility     Organisational, economic, ethical, climate, and legal issues

Proposal Format

Only an abstract submission is required for a presentation proposal (not a full paper) and it will not be included in the conference proceedings or ACL Anthology. We also welcome abstracts based on previously published work, or papers submitted to LREC’s main conference or workshops.

Please submit your abstract proposal via the following form

https://forms.gle/CQTBLcMxuL1cjmUf7 https://forms.gle/CQTBLcMxuL1cjmUf7

Applications require an abstract of 150-200 words along with a short bio.

Submission Deadline: February 16, 2024 Notification of acceptance: March 13, 2024

For more information, please send an email to lrec2026-industry-track-chairs@googlegroups.com referring to LREC 2026 Industry Day in the subject line.

Industry Chairs

Natalie Schluter, Apple and IT University of Copenhagen     Teresa Lynn, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence