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Second CFP: LoResMT 2026 at EACL 2026
by Atul K. Ojha 13 Nov '26

13 Nov '26

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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𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 - 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗱 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗼𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗟𝗼𝘄-𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 21 Oct '26

21 Oct '26

[Workshop website - https://loreslm.github.io/home] [CFP - https://loreslm.github.io/cfp] [Direct submission - https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2027/Workshop/LoResLM] [ARR commitment - https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2027/Workshop/LoResLM_ARR_Com…] Neural language models have revolutionised natural language processing (NLP) and have provided state-of-the-art results for many tasks. However, their effectiveness is largely dependent on the pre-training resources. Therefore, language models (LMs) often struggle with low-resource languages in both training and evaluation. Recently, there has been a growing trend in developing and adopting LMs for low-resource languages. Supporting this important shift, LoResLM aims to provide a forum for researchers to share and discuss their ongoing work on LMs for low-resource languages. 𝗧𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗰𝘀 LoResLM 2027 invites submissions on a broad range of topics related to the development and evaluation of neural language models for low-resource languages. We welcome research that explores modalities beyond text and encourage work on low-resource dialects in addition to major language varieties. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Building language models for low-resource languages. • Adapting/extending existing language models/large language models for low-resource languages. • Corpora creation and curation technologies for training language models/large language models for low-resource languages. • Benchmarks to evaluate language models/large language models in low-resource languages. • Prompting/in-context learning strategies for low-resource languages with large language models. • Review of available corpora to train/fine-tune language models/large language models for low-resource languages. • Multilingual/cross-lingual language models/large language models for low-resource languages. • Multimodal language models/large language models for low-resource languages. • Applications of language models/large language models for low-resource languages (i.e. machine translation, chatbots, content moderation, etc.) 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 We follow the EACL 2027 standards for submission format and guidelines. LoResLM 2027 invites submissions of long papers up to 8 pages and short papers up to 4 pages. These page limits only apply to the main body of the paper. At the end of the paper (after the conclusions but before the references), papers need to include a mandatory section discussing the limitations of the work and, optionally, a section discussing ethical considerations. Papers can include unlimited pages of references and an appendix. To prepare your submission, please make sure to use the EACL 2027 style files available here: • Latex - https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files • Overleaf - https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/association-for-computational-ling… We accept both direct submissions and commitments of papers already reviewed through ACL Rolling Review (ARR). Papers should be submitted through OpenReview using the following links: • Direct submissions - https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2027/Workshop/LoResLM • ARR commitments - https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2027/Workshop/LoResLM_ARR_Com… 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 • Paper submission (direct and ARR commitment): 7th January 2027 • Notification of acceptance: 28th January 2027 • Camera-ready submission: 4th February 2027 • Workshop: March 2027 (TBD) @ EACL 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲 LoResLM 2027 will be held in conjunction with EACL 2027 in Athens, Greece. 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 Proceedings of the workshop will appear in ACL Anthology. For past proceedings, please refer https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=rvm3HOgAAAAJ&hl=en 𝗢𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗲 Hansi Hettiarachchi – Lancaster University, UK Tharindu Ranasinghe – Lancaster University, UK Alistair Plum – University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Damith Premasiri – Lancaster University, UK Lasitha Uyangodage – University of Münster, Germany 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘀 Paul Rayson – Lancaster University, UK Ruslan Mitkov – Lancaster University, UK Mohamed Gaber – Queensland University of Technology, Australia 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝘂𝘀 Contact us through loreslm.contact(a)gmail.com. Follow us on social media • LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/loreslm/ • X - https://x.com/LoResLM2027 • BlueSky - https://bsky.app/profile/loreslm.bsky.social Tharindu Ranasinghe On behalf of the Organising Committee

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[CfP] RANLP-2027 Call for Workshop Proposals (deadline: 15 January 2027)
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 19 Oct '26

19 Oct '26

* Apologies for cross-posting * ======================================================================== RANLP-2027: CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS 16th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing Varna, Bulgaria https://ranlp.org/2027/ ======================================================================== Summer school 'Deep Learning and Large Language Models for NLP': 1-3 September 2027 Tutorials: 4-5 September 2027 Main Conference and Student Research Workshop: 6-8 September 2027 Workshops and Shared Tasks: 9-10 September 2027 Workshop proposals due: 15 January 2027 Confirmed keynote speakers: * Barbara Plank (LMU Munich) * Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University Roma) * Preslav Nakov (MBZUAI Abu Dhabi) * Kristina Toutanova (Google, Seattle) * Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University) * Salima Lamsiyah (University of Luxembourg) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ABOUT RANLP ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RANLP (Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing) is one of the most competitive NLP conferences. The event is held biennially and grew out of the International summer schools 'Contemporary topics in Computational Linguistics', which were organised for many years as international training events. Previous RANLP conferences (1995-2025) featured keynote talks by leading experts in NLP as well as high-quality papers, rigorously reviewed by a Programme Committee of well-known scientists. The Student Research Workshops (now in their 10th edition) have become active discussion forums for young researchers. Since 2009, papers accepted at RANLP and its associated workshops have been included in the ACL Anthology. The RANLP proceedings are indexed by SCOPUS and DBLP, and since 2017 all accepted papers have DOI numbers. The conference will be preceded by a summer school, 'Deep Learning and Large Language Models for NLP ', and tutorials on current hot topics, and will be followed by specialised workshops and shared tasks in advanced subfields of NLP. Venue: RANLP-2027 will be held in Varna, the largest city on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, at Hotel 'Cherno More'. The venue is centrally located at the entrance of the Sea Garden and offers excellent conference facilities. Varna is a major tourist destination with numerous flights to/from Varna International Airport. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Following the workshops held in conjunction with RANLP-2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023 and 2025, we are pleased to invite workshop proposals for RANLP-2027. RANLP-2027 welcomes proposals on any topic of interest to the NLP community, from fundamental research questions to applied, industrial or commercial work. We particularly encourage workshops that use or discuss the latest NLP methods, including Large Language Models and Generative AI. A workshop can last from half a day to the full two workshop days (9-10 September 2027), and can include demo sessions and shared tasks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WORKSHOP FORMAT AND ONSITE PRESENCE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Organisers decide whether their workshop runs face-to-face or hybrid. In either case, the sessions must be held onsite in Varna for the full duration of the workshop, so that other RANLP participants can attend. At least one organiser must be present in Varna to run the workshop and chair the onsite sessions. If no organiser can attend in Varna, the workshop will be cancelled. Where possible, its accepted papers will be moved to another workshop. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ REGISTRATION AND FUNDING ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Each accepted workshop receives one free full registration to RANLP-2027. It covers the summer school, tutorials, main conference, all workshops, the reception and the conference dinner. Organisers may use this registration however they choose, for example, for one of the organisers or for an invited speaker. Any further organisers and invited speakers must register and pay the standard fee. The RANLP-2027 Organising Committee cannot provide any other financial support. If organisers plan to invite speakers beyond the one covered by the free registration, they must secure their own funding (for example, a grant or sponsorship) to cover those costs. Where possible, we recommend inviting a speaker from among the main conference keynote speakers or participants. Please note that the free registration does not cover publication. At least one author of each accepted workshop paper must register for RANLP-2027 and pay the standard fee for the paper to be included in the RANLP-2027 proceedings, as for the main conference. This also applies to papers co-authored by workshop organisers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WORKSHOP VENUE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The workshops will take place at Hotel 'Cherno More', the main RANLP-2027 venue. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SUBMISSION AND REVIEWING PLATFORM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ All RANLP-2027 workshops must use START for paper submission, reviewing and camera-ready collection. The RANLP-2027 proceedings for the ACL Anthology, covering the main conference and all workshops and shared tasks, are generated from START, so each workshop's submissions, review records and proceedings must be managed there. The RANLP-2027 organisers will set up a START submission portal for every accepted workshop. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Workshop proposals due: 15 January 2027 Workshop selection notification: 15 February 2027 Workshop website and first call for papers (suggested): 15 March 2027 Second call for papers (suggested): 15 May 2027 Final call for papers (suggested): 15 June 2027 Workshop paper submission deadline (suggested): 30 June 2027 Workshop paper acceptance notification (suggested): 14 July 2027 Workshop paper camera-ready versions (suggested): 28 July 2027 Workshop camera-ready proceedings due (firm): 11 August 2027 Workshops: 9-10 September 2027 All deadlines are 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (UTC-12). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PROPOSAL REQUIREMENTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Proposals must be prepared using the RANLP-2027 workshop proposal template, available on Overleaf: https://www.overleaf.com/read/myrdzwhjxmkr#a27fbf Proposals should be no longer than five pages (including information about the organisers, the programme committee and references) and must include the following: 1. Title, acronym, and a short technical description of the workshop, including its goals and the technical issues it will address. 2. Proposed duration (half day, one day, or two days) and format (face-to-face or hybrid). Name the organiser(s) who will be present in Varna. 3. A short description of the target audience, with estimated numbers of submissions and attendees. A tentative list of potential contributors would be helpful. 4. If the workshop has run before: the number of previous editions, where they were held, and the number of submissions and accepted papers in the most recent edition. 5. A list of related workshops or events held in the last three years or planned for 2027. 6. Planned invited speakers, if any, stating which have agreed and which are tentative, and how any speakers beyond the free registration will be funded. 7. A description of any associated shared task, with an estimated number of participants (optional). 8. A tentative programme committee. 9. Names and contact details (web page and email address) of the proposed organising committee. 10. A description of the organisers' experience in the workshop topic and in organising workshops or related events. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE WORKSHOP ORGANISING COMMITTEE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Setting up and maintaining the workshop website; * Distributing the first, second and final calls for papers and participation; * Running paper submission, reviewing and author notification in START, and collecting audio/visual requirements for presentations; * Checking camera-ready papers and delivering the electronic proceedings in the format required by the RANLP-2027 publication chairs, no later than 11 August 2027; * Making sure at least one organiser is in Varna to run the onsite workshop and chair the sessions, including for hybrid workshops. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE RANLP-2027 ORGANISING COMMITTEE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Linking to the workshop web page from the conference website; * Providing a START submission portal to every workshop; * Publishing the workshop proceedings with ISBN numbers, registering DOIs for all accepted papers, and including them in the ACL Anthology; * Providing the workshop venue; * Issuing visa invitation letters where needed, organising registration and collecting registration fees, supporting on-site poster printing, and providing audio/visual support, coffee breaks and Internet access. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PROPOSAL SUBMISSION ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Please prepare your proposal using the RANLP-2027 workshop proposal template and email it in PDF format to Tharindu Ranasinghe (t.ranasinghe(a)lancaster.ac.uk) by 15 January 2027. Template: https://www.overleaf.com/read/myrdzwhjxmkr#a27fbf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ EVALUATION ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Proposals will be reviewed against the following criteria: * Relevance, importance and timeliness of the topic; * Completeness, clarity and quality of the proposal; * Organisers' experience in the proposed topic; * Viability of the workshop, including plans for onsite organisation in Varna. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tharindu Ranasinghe Lancaster University, UK https://ranlp.org/2027/

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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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