SIGUL November 2025

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Second CFP: LoResMT 2026 at EACL 2026
by Atul K. Ojha 19 Dec '25

19 Dec '25

Apologies for cross-posting --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *The Ninth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT 2026)* *https://www.loresmt.org/ <https://www.loresmt.org/>* *@ EACL 2026 (March 24-29, 2026)* *Rabat, Morocco* *SUBMISSION* ARR submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop/LoResMT *TIMELINE* - Submission deadline: December 19, 2025 (Anywhere on Earth) - Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026 - Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026 - Camera-ready paper due: February 3, 2026 (Anywhere on Earth) - Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline): February 24, 2026 - Workshop dates at EACL 2026: TBD - EACL 202 Main Conference: March 24-29, 2026 *SCOPE* Based on the success of past low-resource machine translation (MT) workshops at AMTA 2018, MT Summit 2019, AACL-IJCNLP 2020, AMTA 2021, COLING 2022, EACL 2023, ACL 2024, NAACL 2025, we introduce LoResMT 2026 workshop at EACL 2025. The workshop provides a discussion panel for researchers working on MT systems/methods for low-resource and under-represented languages in general. We would like to help review/overview the state of MT for low-resource languages and define the most important directions. Fundamental work on low-resource languages in MT and NLP is still crucial and unavoidable. We also solicit papers dedicated to supplementary natural language processing (NLP) tools that are used in any language and especially in low-resource languages. Overview papers of these NLP tools are very welcome. It will be beneficial if the evaluations of these tools in research papers include their impact on the quality of MT output. *TOPICS* We are highly interested in (1) original research papers, (2) review/opinion papers, and (3) online systems on the topics below; however, we welcome all novel ideas that cover research on low-resource languages. - Neural machine translation for low-resource languages - Work that presents online systems for practical use by native speakers - Word tokenizers/de-tokenizers for specific languages - Word/morpheme segmenters for specific languages - Alignment/Re-ordering tools for specific language pairs - Use of morphology analyzers and/or morpheme segmenters in MT - Multilingual/cross-lingual NLP tools for MT - Corpora creation and curation technologies for low-resource languages - COVID-related corpora, their translations and corresponding NLP/MT systems - Review of available parallel corpora for low-resource languages - Research and review papers of MT methods for low-resource languages - MT systems/methods (e.g. rule-based, SMT, NMT) for low-resource languages - Pivot MT for low-resource languages - Zero-shot MT for low-resource languages - Fast building of MT systems for low-resource languages - Re-usability of existing MT systems for low-resource languages - Machine translation for language preservation *SUBMISSION INFORMATION* We are soliciting two types of submissions: (1) research, review, and position papers and (2) system demonstration papers. For research, review and position papers, the length of each paper should be at least four (4) and not exceed eight (8) pages, plus unlimited pages for references. For system demonstration papers, the limit is four (4) pages. Submissions should be formatted according to the official ACL style templates (Overleaf). Please refer to the EACL submission guidelines for further information <https://2026.eacl.org/calls/papers/>. Accepted papers will be published online in the EACL 2026 proceedings and will be presented at the conference. Submissions must be anonymized and should be done using the provided submission system. Scientific papers that have been or will be submitted to other venues must be declared as such and must be withdrawn from the other venues if accepted and published at LoResMT. The review will be double-blind. Authors of an accepted paper should present their paper in person at EACL 2026. Papers should be submitted in PDF to the LoResMT Open Review. We would like to encourage authors to cite papers written in ANY language that are related to the topics, as long as both original bibliographic items and their corresponding English translations are provided. Registration is handled by the main conference ( https://2026.eacl.org/registration). *Shared Tasks: * We are going to have a machine translation competition for several low resource Turkic languages, namely, Chuvash, Bashkir, Tatar and Kazakh. The pairs you can evaluate your models are: Chuvash-English, Chuvash-Russian, Bashkir-English, Bashkir-Russian, Tatar-English, Kazakh-Russian. Unfortunately, we cannot provide you with training data for these language pairs, but nevertheless you can use any data you find useful or collect by yourself. We expect you to share your findings as a report. Best reports will be included in the LoResMT proceedings. for futher information please visit to LoResMT website. *ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (LISTED ALPHABETICALLY)* Atul Kr. Ojha Chao-Hong Liu Ekaterina Vylomova Flammie Pirinen Jonathan Washington Nathaniel Oco Xiaobing Zhao *CONTACT* Please email loresmt(a)googlegroups.com if you have any questions/comments/suggestions.

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Third Call for Papers, Participation and Demo - IWSLT 2025
by Atul K. Ojha 12 Dec '25

12 Dec '25

Apologies for cross-posting. ---------------------------------------- *The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation* *ACL – 22nd IWSLT 2025 – **Third** Call for Participation* *31 July-1 August 2025 - Vienna, Austria* http://iwslt.org The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) <https://iwslt.org/> is the premier annual conference for all aspects of Spoken Language Translation. Every year, the conference organises and sponsors open evaluation campaigns around key challenges in simultaneous and consecutive translation, under real-time/low latency or offline conditions and under low-resource or multilingual constraints. System descriptions and results from participants’ systems and scientific papers related to key algorithmic advances and best practices are presented. IWSLT is the venue of the SIGSLTs <https://iwslt.org/sigslt/>, the Special Interest Group on Spoken Language Translation <https://iwslt.org/sigslt/> of ACL <https://www.aclweb.org/portal/>, ISCA <https://www.isca-speech.org/> and ELRA <https://www.elra.info/>. With a track record of 21 years, IWSLT benchmarks and proceedings serve as reference for all researchers and practitioners working on speech translation and related fields. The 22nd edition of IWSLT will be run as a hybrid ELRA <https://www.elra.info/>/ACL <https://www.aclweb.org/portal/> event, co-located with ACL 2025 <https://2025.aclweb.org/> from 31 July to 1 August 2025. *Important Dates* *January 1, 2025*: Release of shared task training and dev data *March 15, 2025*: Scientific paper submission deadline *Apr 1-15, 2025*: Evaluation period *April 21, 2025*: System description paper and demo submission deadline *May 15, 2025*: Notification of acceptance *June 1, 2025*: Camera-ready deadline (all paper) *July 31-Aug 1*, *2025*: IWSLT conference *Evaluation* The IWSLT 2025 features shared tasks <https://iwslt.org/2025/#shared-tasks> that address the following focus areas: - High-resource ST: Offline track, Simultaneous track, Subtitling track, Model compression track - Low-resource ST: Low-resource and Indic (multilingual) tracks - Instruction-following Speech Processing track: Technical domain ST, ASR, Summarization, and QA Training and development data for each shared task will be prepared and released by the respective organisers (for further information on this initiative, please refer to the IWSLT website <https://iwslt.org/2025/>). Participants will receive instructions about how to submit their runs. In addition, participants have the opportunity to present their work through a system paper that will be published in the ACL Proceedings. *Conference* IWSLT also invites submissions of scientific papers to be published in the ACL Proceedings and presented either in oral or poster format. The conference selects high-quality, original contributions on theoretical and practical issues of spoken language translation research, technologies and applications. Submissions will be accepted directly through the IWSLT submission site (to be announced on the website <https://iwslt.org/2025/>). We will also accept commitments of submissions with reviews from the ACL Rolling Review. Additionally, to foster cross-pollination of ideas, the conference also invites the presentation of papers on speech translation recently published elsewhere. Please note that this is for non-archival presentation of papers relevant to speech translation already published in other venues (e.g., Findings for the *ACL, speech, NLP or MT conferences). Submissions for this category will be accepted through a dedicated form (to be announced on the website <https://iwslt.org/2025/>). Papers will be checked for relevance to IWSLT, and assigned either oral or poster presentation slots if selected. *Demo Session* We invite researchers, practitioners, and industry professionals to participate in an engaging demo session highlighting innovative systems, tools, and component technologies that advance the field of speech translation. The session will include live and interactive system demonstrations to foster discussion and knowledge exchange among participants across the field. For more information, please see our Call for Demos <https://iwslt.org/2025/call-for-demos>. *Contact* Please email iwslt-evaluation-campaign(a)googlegroups.com if you have any questions related to the shared tasks. Thanks, Marine, Marcello, Alex, Jan, Sebastian, Elizabeth, Atul (IWSLT organisers)

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Second Call for Papers : Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2026)
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 14 Nov '25

14 Nov '25

𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 (𝗡𝗟𝗣𝗔𝗜𝗖𝗦’𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲) University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain 11 and 12 June 2026 https://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es/ 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 Recent advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Deep Learning and Large Language Models (LLMs) have resulted in improved performance of applications. In particular, there has been a growing interest in employing AI methods in different Cyber Security applications. In today's digital world, Cyber Security has emerged as a heightened priority for both individual users and organisations. As the volume of online information grows exponentially, traditional security approaches often struggle to identify and prevent evolving security threats. The inadequacy of conventional security frameworks highlights the need for innovative solutions that can effectively navigate the complex digital landscape to ensure robust security. NLP and AI in Cyber Security have vast potential to significantly enhance threat detection and mitigation by fostering the development of advanced security systems for autonomous identification, assessment, and response to security threats in real-time. Recognising this challenge and the capabilities of NLP and AI approaches to fortify Cyber Security systems, the Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2026) continues the tradition from NLPAICS’2024 to be a gathering place for researchers in NLP and AI methods for Cyber Security. We invite contributions that present the latest NLP and AI solutions for mitigating risks in processing digital information. 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗰𝘀 The conference invites submissions on a broad range of topics related to the employment of NLP and AI (and in general, language studies and models) for Cyber Security including but not limited to: - 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘵𝘺 - Content Legitimacy and Quality - Detection and mitigation of hate speech and offensive language - Fake news, deepfakes, misinformation and disinformation - Detection of machine generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) - Trust and credibility of online information - User Security and Safety - Cyberbullying and identification of internet offenders - Monitoring extremist fora - Suicide prevention - Clickbait and scam detection - Fake profile detection in online social networks - Technical Measures and Solutions - Social engineering identification, phishing detection - NLP for risk assessment - Controlled languages for safe messages - Prevention of malicious use of ai models - Forensic linguistics - Human Factors in Cyber Security - 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘦𝘤𝘩 𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘊𝘺𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 - Voice-based security: Analysis of voice recordings or transcripts for security threats - Detection of machine generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) - NLP and biometrics in multimodal context - 𝘋𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 - Cryptography - Digital forensics - Malware detection, obfuscation - Models for documentation - NLP for data privacy and leakage prevention (DLP) - Addressing dataset “poisoning” attacks - 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯-𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 - Natural language understanding for chatbots: NLP-powered chatbots for user support and security incident reporting - User behaviour analysis: analysing user-generated text data (e.g., chat logs and emails) to detect insider threats or unusual behaviour - Human supervision of technology for Cyber Security - 𝘈𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘺 𝘋𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 - Text-Based Anomaly Detection - Identification of unusual or suspicious patterns in logs, incident reports or other textual data - Detecting deviations from normal behaviour in system logs or network traffic - Threat Intelligence Analysis - Processing and analysing threat intelligence reports, news, articles and blogs on latest Cyber Security threats - Extracting key information and indicators of compromise (IoCs) from unstructured text - 𝘚𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐𝘯𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 - Systems Security - Anti-reverse engineering for protecting privacy and anonymity - Identification and mitigation of side-channel attacks - Authentication and access control - Enterprise-level mitigation - NLP for software vulnerability detection - Malware Detection through Code Analysis - Analysing code and scripts for malware - Detection using NLP to identify patterns indicative of malicious code - 𝘍𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘺𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 - Financial fraud detection - Financial risk detection - Algorithmic trading security - Secure online banking - Risk management in finance - Financial text analytics - 𝘌𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘴, 𝘉𝘪𝘢𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘓𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘺𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 - Ethical and Legal Issues - Digital privacy and identity management - The ethics of NLP and speech technology - Explainability of NLP and speech technology tools - Legislation against malicious use of AI - Regulatory issues - Bias and Security - Bias in Large Language Models (LLMs) - Bias in security related datasets and annotations - 𝘋𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘊𝘺𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 - 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘛𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘤s - Intelligence applications - Emerging and innovative applications in Cyber Security 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬 - 𝘍𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘺𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘳𝘢 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘓𝘔𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘈𝘐 NLPAICS 2026 will feature a special theme track with the goal of stimulating discussion around Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative AI and ensuring their safety. The latest generation of LLMs, such as CHATGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, LLAMA and open-source alternatives, has showcased remarkable advancements in text and image understanding and generation. However, as we navigate through uncharted territory, it becomes imperative to address the challenges associated with employing these models in everyday tasks, focusing on aspects such as fairness, ethics, and responsibility. The theme track invites studies on how to ensure the safety of LLMs in various tasks and applications and what this means for the future of the field. The possible topics of discussion include (but are not limited to) the following: • Detection of LLM-generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) • LLMs for forensic linguistics • Bias in LLMs • Safety benchmarks for LLMs • Legislation against malicious use of LLMs • Tools to evaluate safety in LLMs • Methods to enhance the robustness of language models 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 NLPAICS welcomes high-quality submissions in English, which can take two forms: • Regular long papers: These can be up to eight (8) pages long, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. • Short (poster) papers: These can be up to four (4) pages long and are suitable for describing small, focused contributions, ongoing research, negative results, system demonstrations, etc. Short papers will be presented as part of a poster session. The conference will not consider and evaluate abstracts only. Accepted papers, including both long and short papers, will be published as e-proceedings with ISBN will available online on the conference website at the time of the conference and are expected to be uploaded into the ACL Anthology. To prepare your submission, please make sure to use the NLPAICS 2026 style files available here - Latex - https://www.overleaf.com/read/sgwmrzbmjfhc#aeea77 Word - https://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/NLPAICS2026_Proceed… Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/p/nlpaics2026/user/ The conference will feature a student workshop, and awards will be offered to the authors of the best papers. 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 • Submissions due: 16 March 2026 • Reviewing process: 1 April – 30 April 2026 • Notification of acceptance: 5 May 2026 • Camera-ready due: 19 May 2026 • Conference camera-ready proceedings ready 1 June 2026 • Conference: 11-12 June 2026 𝗢𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝙲̲𝚘̲𝚗̲𝚏̲𝚎̲𝚛̲𝚎̲𝚗̲𝚌̲𝚎̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲𝚜̲ ̲ Ruslan Mitkov (University of Alicante) Rafael Muñoz (University of Alicante) 𝙿̲𝚛̲𝚘̲𝚐̲𝚛̲𝚊̲𝚖̲𝚖̲𝚎̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚘̲𝚖̲𝚖̲𝚒̲𝚝̲𝚝̲𝚎̲𝚎̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲𝚜̲ Elena Lloret (University of Alicante) Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University) 𝙿̲𝚞̲𝚋̲𝚕̲𝚒̲𝚌̲𝚊̲𝚝̲𝚒̲𝚘̲𝚗̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲ Ernesto Estevanell (University of Alicante) 𝚂̲𝚙̲𝚘̲𝚗̲𝚜̲𝚘̲𝚛̲𝚜̲𝚑̲𝚒̲𝚙̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲ Andres Montoyo (University of Alicante) 𝚂̲𝚝̲𝚞̲𝚍̲𝚎̲𝚗̲𝚝̲ ̲𝚆̲𝚘̲𝚛̲𝚔̲𝚜̲𝚑̲𝚘̲𝚙̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲ Salima Lamsiyah (University of Luxembourg) 𝙱̲𝚎̲𝚜̲𝚝̲ ̲𝙿̲𝚊̲𝚙̲𝚎̲𝚛̲ ̲𝙰̲𝚠̲𝚊̲𝚛̲𝚍̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲ Saad Ezzini (King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals) 𝙿̲𝚞̲𝚋̲𝚕̲𝚒̲𝚌̲𝚒̲𝚝̲𝚢̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲ Beatriz Botella (University of Alicante) 𝚂̲𝚘̲𝚌̲𝚒̲𝚊̲𝚕̲ ̲𝙿̲𝚛̲𝚘̲𝚐̲𝚛̲𝚊̲𝚖̲𝚖̲𝚎̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲ Alba Bonet (University of Alicante) 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲 The Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2026) will take place at the University of Alicante and is organised by the University of Alicante GPLSI research group. Further information and contact details The follow-up calls will list keynote speakers and members of the programme committee once confirmed. The conference website is https://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es/ and will be updated on a regular basis. For further information, please email nlpaics2026(a)dlsi.ua.es Registration will open in February 2026. Best Regards Tharindu Ranasinghe Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe | Lecturer in Security and Protection Science School of Computing and Communications | Lancaster University www.lancaster.ac.uk<https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/>

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2nd Call for Papers: VarDial 2026 – The Thirteenth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects
by verena.blaschke＠cis.lmu.de 13 Nov '25

13 Nov '25

Dear all, This is the second CfP for VarDial 2026 - The Thirteenth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (apologies for cross-posting): — VarDial 2026: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2026/ VarDial 2026 will be colocated with EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco. We anticipate a discussion on computational methods and language resources for closely related languages, language varieties, and dialects. We welcome papers dealing with one or more of the following topics: - Language resources and tools for similar languages, varieties and dialects; - Evaluation of language resources and tools applied to non-dominant language varieties; - Cross-lingual transfer and adaptation of models to similar languages, varieties and dialects; - Automatic identification of lexical variation; - Automatic classification of language varieties; - Machine translation between closely-related languages, language varieties and dialects; - Corpus-driven studies in dialectology and language variation; - Computational approaches to mutual intelligibility between dialects and similar languages; - Text similarity and adaptation between language varieties; - Linguistic issues in the adaptation of language resources and tools (e.g., cognate detection, semantic discrepancies, lexical gaps, false friends); - Studies focusing on related creole languages and their lexifier languages; - Studies focusing on diachronic language variation (e.g. phylogenetic methods, historical dialects). In addition to the topics listed above, we also welcome papers dealing with diachronic language variation (e.g. phylogenetic methods, historical dialects). Instructions for Authors Submissions should be formatted according to the ACL Rolling Review template and submitted as a PDF. The review process will be double-blind. More information is on the website (https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2026/). Important Dates - Direct Submission deadline: December 19, 2025 - Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026 - Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026 - Camera-ready paper due: February 3, 2026 - Workshop at EACL (hybrid): March 24-29, 2026 (exact date TBD) Shared Task: Arabic Modeling In Your Accent (AMIYA) VarDial 2026 will have a shared task on language modelling for dialectal Arabic (DA), where participants can contribute LLMs trained or adapted for DA. These will be evaluated using the AL-QASIDA benchmark (Robinson et al., 2025), an evaluation suite that comprehensively measures an LLM’s dialectal fidelity, understanding, generation quality, and MSA-DA diglossia in DA. More information: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2026/shared-tasks - Training data release: November 30, 2025 - Registration deadline, eval data finalized: December 15, 2025 - System submission deadline: January 10, 2025 - System description paper deadline: January 20, 2025 Workshop Organizers Yves Scherrer – University of Oslo (Norway) Noëmi Aepli – University of Pennsylvania (USA) Verena Blaschke – LMU Munich and Munich Center for Machine Learning (Germany) Tommi Jauhiainen – University of Helsinki (Finland) Nikola Ljubešić – Jožef Stefan Institute and University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) Preslav Nakov – Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (UAE) Jörg Tiedemann – University of Helsinki (Finland) Marcos Zampieri – George Mason University (USA) Contact: yves.scherrer(a)ifi.uio.no or verena.blaschke(a)cis.lmu.de

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