SIGUL October 2026

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Call for Papers: VarDial 2027 – The Fourteenth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects
by Verena Blaschke 14 Oct '26

14 Oct '26

VarDial 2027: https://aclsigvar.org/vardial2027 VarDial 2027 will be colocated with EACL 2027 in Athens, Greece, and will take place in a hybrid format (in person & online). 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). 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://aclsigvar.org/vardial2027/cfp). Important Dates - Direct Submission deadline: December 15, 2026 - Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: date TBD - Notification of acceptance: January 20, 2027 - Camera-ready paper due: January 29, 2027 - Workshop at EACL (hybrid): March 9-14, 2027 (exact date TBD) Organizers Verena Blaschke – University of Groningen (The Netherlands) Yves Scherrer – University of Oslo (Norway) Niyati Bafna – Johns Hopkins University (USA) Tommi Jauhiainen – University of Helsinki (Finland) Nikola Ljubešić – Jožef Stefan Institute (Slovenia) Preslav Nakov – Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (UAE) Alan Ramponi – Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Italy) Jörg Tiedemann – University of Helsinki (Finland) Marcos Zampieri – George Mason University (USA) Contact: v.blaschke(a)rug.nl or yves.scherrer(a)ifi.uio.no

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WebSci’27: Call for Papers, Workshops & Tutorials and PhD Symposium
by Wan Li Wendy Poh 06 Oct '26

06 Oct '26

[cid:d4a86534-e397-420e-a76f-2676d9eb6cea] 📣 Call for Contributions | WebSci’27 The 19th ACM Web Science Conference 2027 📍 Singapore 🗓️ 25–28 May 2027 🌐 https://websci27.webscience.org/ The 19th ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci’27) invites researchers, practitioners and students to contribute to the global conversation on the future of the Web. Under the theme “Towards a Healthy, Safe, Flourishing and Equitable Web: Shaping our Digital Futures,” WebSci’27 brings together perspectives from computing, artificial intelligence, information science, communication, sociology, economics, psychology, policy, design and beyond to understand the Web as a sociotechnical system. 📄 Call for Papers Share original interdisciplinary research on topics including AI and the Web, online communities and information ecosystems, governance and policy, inclusion and fairness, privacy, security and trust, Web data and methods, information retrieval and recommendation, and related areas. Submission deadline: 15 December 2026 More details: https://websci27.webscience.org/call-for-papers Co-Chairs: Jürgen Pfeffer (Technical University of Munich), Jussara M. Almeida (Federal University of Minas Gerais) and Subhayan Mukerjee (National University of Singapore) 🧩 Call for Workshops & Tutorials Propose a workshop or tutorial around an emerging research area, new methodology or timely challenge, creating opportunities for interdisciplinary exchange, practical learning and new collaborations. Submission deadline: 15 November 2026 Workshops & Tutorials Day: 25 May 2027 More details: https://websci27.webscience.org/workshops-and-tutorials Co-Chairs: Yingdan Lu (Northwestern University) and Haiming Liu (University of Southampton) 🎓 Call for PhD Symposium PhD students are invited to present and discuss their research, receive feedback and connect with the international Web Science community. Submission deadline: 16 February 2027 PhD Symposium Day: 25 May 2027 More Details: https://websci27.webscience.org/call-for-phd-symposium Co-Chairs: Dominic DiFranzo (Lehigh University) and Marlon Twyman (University of Southern California) We look forward to welcoming your contributions to WebSci’27 in Singapore! Warm regards, Wendy Poh (On behalf of the Organizing Committee of WebSci'27) Wendy POH (Ms) :: Manager, Centre for Trusted Internet and Community :: National University of Singapore :: Innovation 4.0, #04-04 3 Research Link, Singapore 117602 :: +65 9298 8779 (HP) :: wendy.p(a)nus.edu.sg (E) :: ctic.nus.edu.sg (W) :: Company Registration No: 200604346E ________________________________ Important: This email is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it and notify us immediately; you should not copy or use it for any purpose, nor disclose its contents to any other person. Thank you.

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