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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

LREC 2026

Organized by the ELRA Language Resources Association

Palma, Mallorca, Spain

11-16 May 2026

The Fifteenth biennial Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) will be held at the Palau de Congressos de Palma in Palma, Mallorca, Spain, on 11-16 May 2026. LREC serves as the primary forum for presentations describing the development, dissemination, and use of language resources involving both traditional and recently developed approaches.

The scientific program will include invited talks, oral presentations, and poster and demo presentations, as well as a keynote address by the winner of the Antonio Zampolli Prize.  Submissions describing all aspects of language resource development and use are invited, including, but not limited to, the following:

Language Resource Development

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Methods and tools for mono- and multi-lingual language resource development and annotation

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Knowledge discovery/representation (knowledge graphs, linked data, terminologies, lexicons, ontologies, etc.)

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Resource development for less-resourced/endangered languages

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Guidelines, standards, best practices, and models for interoperability

Language Resource Use

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Use of language resources in systems and applications for any area of language and speech processing

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Use of language resources in assistive technologies, support for accessibility

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Efficient/low-resource methods for language and speech processing

Evaluation

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Methodologies and protocols for evaluation and benchmarking of language technologies

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Measures for validation of language resources and quality assurance

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Usability of user interfaces and dialogue systems

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Bias, safety, and user satisfaction metrics

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Interpretability/explainability of language models and language and speech processing tools

Language Resources and Large Language Models

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Language resource development for LLMs (monolingual, multilingual, multimodal)

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(Semi-)automatic generation of training data

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Training, fine-tuning, adaptation, alignment, and representation learning

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Guardrails, filters, and modules for generative AI models

Policy and Organizational Considerations

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International and national activities, projects, initiatives, and policies

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Language coverage and diversity

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Replicability and reproducibility

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Organisational, economic, ethical, climate, and legal issues

Paper Theme Tracks

The above topics are organised in 27 main tracks:

* T01Applications Involving LRs and Evaluation for any area/domain of language and speech processing * T02Bias, Offensive and Non-inclusive Language; Guardrails, filters * T03Corpora, Treebanks and Annotation; Tools, Systems and Platforms * T04Dialogue, Conversational Systems, Chatbots, Human-Robot Interaction * T05Digital Humanities, Cultural Heritage and Computational Social Science * T06Discourse and Pragmatics * T07Document Classification, Information Retrieval and Cross-lingual Retrieval * T08Ethics, Research Reproducibility and Replicability, and Environmental Issues * T09Evaluation, Validation, Quality Assurance and Benchmarking Methodologies * T10Inference, Reasoning, Question Answering * T11Information Extraction and Text Mining * T12Interpretability/explainability of language models and language and speech processing tools * T13Knowledge discovery/representation (knowledge graphs, linked data, terminologies, lexicons, ontologies, etc.) * T14Language Modeling and LRs (including training, fine-tuning, representation learning, and generation of synthetic data) * T15Less-Resourced/Endangered/Less-studied Languages * T16Lexicon and Semantics * T17Machine Learning Methods and Techniques for Language and Speech Processing, including efficient/low-resource methods * T18Multilinguality, Machine Translation (including Speech-to-Speech) and Translation Aids * T19Multimodality, Cross-modality (including Sign Languages, Vision and Other Modalities), Multimodal Applications, Grounded Language Acquisition * T20Natural Language Generation and Summarization * T21Simplification, Plain Language and Assistive Technologies * T22Opinion & Argument Mining, Sentiment Analysis, Emotion Recognition/Generation * T23Parsing, Tagging, Chunking, Grammar, Syntax, Morphosyntax, Morphology * T24Policy and Legal Issues (including Language Resource Infrastructures, Interoperabillity, Standards for LRs, Metadata) * T25Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Linguistics and Linguistic Theories * T26Social Media Processing * T27Speech Resources and Processing (including Phonetic Databases, Phonology, Prosody, Speech Recognition, Synthesis and Spoken Language Understanding)

Separate calls have been issued for Workshops, Tutorials. We will also organise an Industry Track to report on state of the art within industry and commercial achievements, for which there will be a separate Call.

Paper Submission and Templates

Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system via the link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/main/

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 in Authors' Kit page https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/ and the overleaf link is here: https://www.overleaf.com/project/6887c0280bfaab6e3e8bd0bc

At the time of submission, authors are offered the opportunity to share related language resources with the community. All repository entries are linked to the LRE Map https://lremap.elra.info/, which provides metadata for the resource.

Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, which include both oral and poster papers in the same format. Determination of the presentation format (oral vs. poster) is based solely on an assessment of the optimal method of communication (more or less interactive), given the paper content.

Author Responsibilities

Papers must be of original, previously unpublished work. Papers must be anonymized to support double-blind reviewing. Submissions thus must not include authors’ names and affiliations. The submissions should also avoid links to non-anonymized repositories; the code should be either submitted as supplementary material in the final version of the paper, or as a link to an anonymized repository (e.g., Anonymous GitHub https://anonymous.4open.science/ or Anonym Share https://anonymfile.com/). Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review.

Papers that have been or will be under consideration for other venues at the same time must be declared at submission time. If a paper is accepted for publication at LREC 2026, it must be immediately withdrawn from other venues. If a paper under review at LREC 2026 is accepted elsewhere and authors intend to proceed there, the LREC 2026 Programme Committee must be notified immediately.

Ethics Statement

We encourage all authors submitting to LREC 2026 to include an explicit ethics statement on the broader impact of their work, or other ethical considerations after the conclusion but before the references. The ethics statement will not count toward the page limit.

Presentation Requirement

All papers accepted for the main conference track must be presented at the conference to appear in the proceedings, and at least one author must register for LREC 2026. Papers will be presented either orally or as posters. The specific presentation type of a paper will be decided based on its content, with no difference in quality implied. Papers that include a demonstration component will be presented as posters.

The conference will be hybrid, including both on-site and virtual presentations. For hybrid purposes, all authors of papers accepted to the main conference, whether oral or poster, will be required to upload a presentation video and a set of slides, plus the poster PDF, for the authors of an accepted paper as Poster on the Conference Catalysts platform.

This material will also be inserted in the LREC 2026 online proceedings.

Important dates

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

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Oral and poster (or poster+demo) paper submission: 17 October 2025

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Notification of acceptance: 13 February 2026

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Camera Ready due: 6 March 2026

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LREC 2026 conference: 11-16 May 2026

More informationon LREC 2026: https://lrec2026.info/ https://lrec2026.info/

Contact: lrec2026-pcs@googlegroups.com mailto:lrec2026-pcs@googlegroups.com