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7th Call for Papers – LaTeLL 2026 (Low-Resource Languages)
by ernesto.estevanell＠ua.es 08 Apr '26

08 Apr '26

International Conference 'LAnguage TEchnologies for Low-resource Languages' (LaTeLL '2026) Fes, Morocco 30 September, 1 and 2 October 2026 www.latell.org/2026/ [1] 7th Call for Papers The conference Natural Language Processing (NLP) has witnessed remarkable progress in recent years, largely driven by the emergence of deep learning architectures and, more recently, large language models (LLMs). Nevertheless, these advances have disproportionately benefited high-resource languages that possess abundant data for model training. By contrast, low-resource languages which account for at least 85% of the world's linguistic diversity and are often spoken by smaller or marginalised communities, have not yet reaped the full benefits of contemporary NLP technologies. This imbalance can be attributed to several interrelated factors, including the scarcity of high-quality training data, limited computational and financial resources, and insufficient community engagement in data collection and model development. Developing NLP applications for low-resource languages poses major challenges, particularly the need for large, well-annotated datasets, standardised tools, and robust linguistic resources. Although several workshops have previously addressed NLP for low-resource languages, _LaTeLL_ represents the first international conference dedicated specifically to the automatic processing of such languages. The event aims to provide a forum for researchers to present and discuss their latest work in NLP in general, and in the development and evaluation of language models for low-resource languages in particular. Conference topics We invite submissions on a broad range of themes concerning linguistic and computational studies focusing on low-resource languages, including but not limited to the following topics: Language resources for low-resource languages * Dataset creation and annotation * Evaluation methodologies and benchmarks for low-resource settings * Lexical resources, corpora, and linguistic databases * Crowdsourcing and community-driven data collection * Tools and frameworks for low-resource language processing Core language technologies for low-resource languages * Language modelling and pre-training for low-resource languages * Speech recognition, text-to-speech, and spoken language understanding * Phonology, morphology, word segmentation, and tokenisation * Syntax: tagging, chunking, and parsing * Semantics: lexical and sentence-level representation NLP Applications for low-resource languages * Information extraction and named entity recognition * Question answering systems * Dialogue and interactive systems * Summarisation * Machine translation * Sentiment analysis, stylistic analysis, and argument mining * Content moderation * Information retrieval and text mining Multimodality and Grounding for low-resource languages * Vision and language for low-resource contexts * Speech and text multimodal systems * Low-resource sign language processing Ethics, Equity, and Social Impact for low-resource languages * Bias and fairness in low-resource language technologies * Sociolinguistic considerations in technology development * Cultural appropriateness and sensitivity Human-Centred Approaches in low-resource languages * Usability and accessibility of low-resource language technologies * Educational applications and language learning * Community needs assessment and technology adoption * User experience research in low-resource contexts Multilinguality and Cross-Lingual Methods for low-resource languages * Multilingual language models and their adaptation * Code-switching and code-mixing * Cross-lingual transfer learning in low-resource languages. Special Theme Track 1 -- Building Applications Based on Large Language Models for Low-Resource Languages _LaTeLL'2026_ will feature a Special Theme Track dedicated to the development of applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) for low-resource languages. This track aims to explore innovative methodologies, architectures, and tools that leverage the power of LLMs to enhance linguistic processing, accessibility, and inclusivity for underrepresented languages. Contributions are encouraged on topics such as model adaptation and fine-tuning, multilingual and cross-lingual transfer, ethical and fairness considerations, and the creation of datasets and benchmarks that facilitate the integration of LLM-based solutions in low-resource settings. Special Theme Track 2 -- Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Arabic Dialects This special track addresses the unique challenges and opportunities in processing Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and the rich landscape of Arabic dialects. The diglossic nature of Arabic, where the formal MSA coexists with numerous, widely used spoken dialects, presents a significant hurdle for NLP. While MSA is relatively well-resourced, Arabic dialects are quintessential examples of low-resource languages, often lacking standardised orthographies, annotated corpora, and dedicated processing tools. This track invites submissions on novel research and resources aimed at bridging this gap and advancing the state of the art in Arabic language technology. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Dialect identification and classification * Creation of corpora and lexical resources for Arabic dialects * Machine translation between MSA and dialects, and across different dialects * Speech recognition and synthesis for dialectal Arabic * Computational modelling of morphology, syntax, and semantics for dialects * NLP applications (e.g., sentiment analysis, NER) for dialectal user-generated content * Code-switching between Arabic dialects, MSA, and other languages Submissions and Publication _LaTeLL'2026_ welcomes high-quality submissions in English, which may take one of the following two forms: * Regular (long) papers: Up to eight (8) pages in length, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished research. * Short (poster) papers: Up to four (4) pages in length, suitable for concise or focused contributions, ongoing research, negative results, system demonstrations, and similar work. Short papers will be presented during a dedicated poster session. The conference will not consider submissions consisting of abstracts only. All accepted papers (both long and short) will be published as electronic proceedings (with ISBN) and made available on the conference website at the time of the event. The organisers intend to submit the proceedings for inclusion in the ACL Anthology. To prepare your submission, please make sure to use the LaTeLL'2026 style files available here: LaTeX: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RceWyUqjFLEbv_oNto-x2Quop7qT4-wf/view?usp=… [2] Word: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m6VeC9jtMpe-Ku2QREgrPlE2-NTDvJvZ/edit?u… [3] Overleaf: https://www.overleaf.com/read/ttzzfcnjrgvw#e82bef [4] Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/p/latell2026 Authors of papers receiving exceptionally positive reviews will be invited to prepare extended and substantially revised versions for submission to a leading journal in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). The conference will also feature a Student Workshop, and awards will be presented to the authors of outstanding papers. Important dates * Submissions due: 1 June 2026 * Notification of acceptance: 21 July 2026 * Camera-ready due: 31 July 2026 * Conference: 30 September, 1 October and 2 October 2026 Keynote speaker Nizar Habash (New York University Abu Dhabi) Organisation Conference Chair Ruslan Mitkov (Lancaster University and University of Alicante) Programme Committee Chairs Saad Ezzini (King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals) Salima Lamsiyah (University of Luxembourg) Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University) Organising Committee Maram Alharbi (Lancaster University) Salmane Chafik (Mohammed VI Polytechnic University) Ernesto Estevanell (University of Alicante) Milica Ikonić Nešić (University of Belgrade) Further information and contact details The follow-up calls will provide more details on the conference venue and registration. The conference website is www.latell.org/2026/ [1] and will be updated on a regular basis. For further information, please email 2026(a)latell.org Registration will open before the end of April 2026. Links: ------ [1] http://www.latell.org/2026/ [2] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RceWyUqjFLEbv_oNto-x2Quop7qT4-wf/view?usp=… [3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m6VeC9jtMpe-Ku2QREgrPlE2-NTDvJvZ/edit?u… [4] https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/latell-26-template/kfcvbgxmccvb

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6th Call for Papers – LaTeLL 2026 (Low-Resource Languages)
by ernesto.estevanell＠ua.es 27 Mar '26

27 Mar '26

International Conference 'LAnguage TEchnologies for Low-resource Languages' (LaTeLL '2026) Fes, Morocco 30 September, 1 and 2 October 2026 www.latell.org/2026/ [1] 6th Call for Papers The conference Natural Language Processing (NLP) has witnessed remarkable progress in recent years, largely driven by the emergence of deep learning architectures and, more recently, large language models (LLMs). Nevertheless, these advances have disproportionately benefited high-resource languages that possess abundant data for model training. By contrast, low-resource languages which account for at least 85% of the world's linguistic diversity and are often spoken by smaller or marginalised communities, have not yet reaped the full benefits of contemporary NLP technologies. This imbalance can be attributed to several interrelated factors, including the scarcity of high-quality training data, limited computational and financial resources, and insufficient community engagement in data collection and model development. Developing NLP applications for low-resource languages poses major challenges, particularly the need for large, well-annotated datasets, standardised tools, and robust linguistic resources. Although several workshops have previously addressed NLP for low-resource languages, _LaTeLL_ represents the first international conference dedicated specifically to the automatic processing of such languages. The event aims to provide a forum for researchers to present and discuss their latest work in NLP in general, and in the development and evaluation of language models for low-resource languages in particular. Conference topics We invite submissions on a broad range of themes concerning linguistic and computational studies focusing on low-resource languages, including but not limited to the following topics: Language resources for low-resource languages * Dataset creation and annotation * Evaluation methodologies and benchmarks for low-resource settings * Lexical resources, corpora, and linguistic databases * Crowdsourcing and community-driven data collection * Tools and frameworks for low-resource language processing Core language technologies for low-resource languages * Language modelling and pre-training for low-resource languages * Speech recognition, text-to-speech, and spoken language understanding * Phonology, morphology, word segmentation, and tokenisation * Syntax: tagging, chunking, and parsing * Semantics: lexical and sentence-level representation NLP Applications for low-resource languages * Information extraction and named entity recognition * Question answering systems * Dialogue and interactive systems * Summarisation * Machine translation * Sentiment analysis, stylistic analysis, and argument mining * Content moderation * Information retrieval and text mining Multimodality and Grounding for low-resource languages * Vision and language for low-resource contexts * Speech and text multimodal systems * Low-resource sign language processing Ethics, Equity, and Social Impact for low-resource languages * Bias and fairness in low-resource language technologies * Sociolinguistic considerations in technology development * Cultural appropriateness and sensitivity Human-Centred Approaches in low-resource languages * Usability and accessibility of low-resource language technologies * Educational applications and language learning * Community needs assessment and technology adoption * User experience research in low-resource contexts Multilinguality and Cross-Lingual Methods for low-resource languages * Multilingual language models and their adaptation * Code-switching and code-mixing * Cross-lingual transfer learning in low-resource languages. Special Theme Track 1 -- Building Applications Based on Large Language Models for Low-Resource Languages _LaTeLL'2026_ will feature a Special Theme Track dedicated to the development of applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) for low-resource languages. This track aims to explore innovative methodologies, architectures, and tools that leverage the power of LLMs to enhance linguistic processing, accessibility, and inclusivity for underrepresented languages. Contributions are encouraged on topics such as model adaptation and fine-tuning, multilingual and cross-lingual transfer, ethical and fairness considerations, and the creation of datasets and benchmarks that facilitate the integration of LLM-based solutions in low-resource settings. Special Theme Track 2 -- Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Arabic Dialects This special track addresses the unique challenges and opportunities in processing Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and the rich landscape of Arabic dialects. The diglossic nature of Arabic, where the formal MSA coexists with numerous, widely used spoken dialects, presents a significant hurdle for NLP. While MSA is relatively well-resourced, Arabic dialects are quintessential examples of low-resource languages, often lacking standardised orthographies, annotated corpora, and dedicated processing tools. This track invites submissions on novel research and resources aimed at bridging this gap and advancing the state of the art in Arabic language technology. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Dialect identification and classification * Creation of corpora and lexical resources for Arabic dialects * Machine translation between MSA and dialects, and across different dialects * Speech recognition and synthesis for dialectal Arabic * Computational modelling of morphology, syntax, and semantics for dialects * NLP applications (e.g., sentiment analysis, NER) for dialectal user-generated content * Code-switching between Arabic dialects, MSA, and other languages Submissions and Publication _LaTeLL'2026_ welcomes high-quality submissions in English, which may take one of the following two forms: * Regular (long) papers:Up to eight (8) pages in length, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished research. * Short (poster) papers:Up to four (4) pages in length, suitable for concise or focused contributions, ongoing research, negative results, system demonstrations, and similar work. Short papers will be presented during a dedicated poster session. The conference will not consider submissions consisting of abstracts only. All accepted papers (both long and short) will be published as electronic proceedings (with ISBN) and made available on the conference website at the time of the event. The organisers intend to submit the proceedings for inclusion in the ACL Anthology. To prepare your submission, please make sure to use the LaTeLL'2026 style files available here: LaTeX: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RceWyUqjFLEbv_oNto-x2Quop7qT4-wf/view?usp=… Word: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m6VeC9jtMpe-Ku2QREgrPlE2-NTDvJvZ/edit?u… Overleaf: https://www.overleaf.com/read/ttzzfcnjrgvw#e82bef [2] Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/p/latell2026 Authors of papers receiving exceptionally positive reviews will be invited to prepare extended and substantially revised versions for submission to a leading journal in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). The conference will also feature a Student Workshop, and awards will be presented to the authors of outstanding papers. Important dates * Submissions due: 1 May 2026 * Reviewing process: 20 May - 20 June 2026 * Notification of acceptance: 25 June 2026 * Camera-ready due: 10 July 2026 * Conference camera-ready proceedings ready 10 July 2026 * Conference: 30 September, 1 October and 2 October 2026 Keynote speaker Nizar Habash (New York University Abu Dhabi) Organisation Conference Chair Ruslan Mitkov (Lancaster University and University of Alicante) Programme Committee Chairs Saad Ezzini (King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals) Salima Lamsiyah (University of Luxembourg) Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University) Organising Committee Maram Alharbi (Lancaster University) Salmane Chafik (Mohammed VI Polytechnic University) Ernesto Estevanell (University of Alicante) Milica Ikonić Nešić (University of Belgrade) Further information and contact details The follow-up calls will provide more details on the conference venue and registration.The conference website is www.latell.org/2026/ [1] and will be updated on a regular basis. For further information, please email 2026(a)latell.org Registration will open in April 2026. Links: ------ [1] http://www.latell.org/2026/ [2] https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/latell-26-template/kfcvbgxmccvb

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CfP Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence in African Studies workshop, Stellenbosch, South Africa
by Menno Van Zaanen 18 Mar '26

18 Mar '26

═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ ═ CALL FOR PAPERS ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ ═ A DFG Programme Point Sud Workshop Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence in African Studies: Towards Sustainable and Equitable Practices 21–24 September 2026 · STIAS, Stellenbosch, South Africa ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ABOUT THE WORKSHOP The integration of digital humanities (DH) and artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the production of knowledge in African Studies, offering new opportunities for innovative analysis, dynamic visualisation and cross-cultural research. Yet this shift raises urgent questions regarding equitable access, the representation of African languages, and the suitability of methodologies. Current large language models underrepresent African languages, digital scholarly infrastructures remain optimised for English, and digitisation pipelines that produce AI-ready data are themselves shaped by political choices about what to digitise, how to describe it, and who controls access. While recent initiatives on digital sovereignty in Africa have centred on policy and regulation, this workshop shifts attention to methodological practice. It asks how DH methods and AI transform research in African Studies, and how we can design, evaluate, and sustain these methods under African conditions. By bringing together scholars, independent researchers and practitioners from Africa, Europe, and beyond, the event will foster North–South and South–South dialogue at the intersection of African epistemologies and digital methods, moving from description to design. ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── CONVENORS - Frédérick Madore, University of Bayreuth - Vincent Hiribarren, King's College London - Emmanuel Ngue Um, University of Yaoundé 1 - Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── THEMATIC AXES The programme is structured around the following thematic axes: 1. Transforming Research Methods through AI and Digital Tools in African Studies This axis asks a fundamental question: how are AI and DH methods changing the study of African cultures, languages, and histories? Participants will present concrete uses of AI to analyse multilingual texts, employ computer vision to study visual culture and historical artefacts, and develop digital mapping to trace cultural movements and connections. We will evaluate what works for different kinds of African cultural materials, identify adaptations required for local contexts, and specify where computational approaches can complement—rather than replace—interpretive scholarship. The goal is clear: practical guidance for integrating these methods while preserving the interpretive richness that defines the humanities. 2. Building Sustainable Research Infrastructures from African Perspectives Moving beyond policy discourse, this axis asks what it takes to build and sustain digital research capacity within African institutions and communities. We will examine practical obstacles—limited connectivity, unstable funding, and scarce training data for local languages—and showcase South–South collaboration models that have navigated these constraints. Participants will share strategies for developing tools that utilise available resources rather than assuming high-end infrastructure. Key questions include how to keep research outputs accessible to the communities being studied, how to train the next generation of African DH scholars, and how to secure sustainable funding that does not depend solely on institutions in the Global North. The focus is on concrete, scalable approaches to durable capacity. 3. Centring African Knowledge Systems in Digital Research Design This axis poses a methodological challenge: how can digital research tools respect and incorporate African ways of knowing? Rather than retrofitting existing techniques to African materials, we explore how African epistemologies can shape the tools themselves. Case studies will show community knowledge informing database structures, oral traditions testing text-centred analytical frameworks, and local classification systems improving standard metadata schemas. We will consider protocols for culturally sensitive materials, interface design that does not privilege European languages, and criteria to ensure that AI systems trained on African data primarily serve African research needs. Here, decolonisation moves from critique to construction. ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── WORKSHOP FORMAT & LANGUAGE POLICY The workshop will run in a hybrid format to maximise participation and impact. In-person sessions at STIAS will be paired with remote access via Zoom for those unable to travel. Participants will pre-circulate draft papers in English or French one month in advance, each with a bilingual abstract to support preparation. To address language barriers, the workshop will operate bilingually in English and French. Presenters may speak in either language; where possible, a bilingual chair will moderate discussion and provide brief consecutive interpretation where needed. Recent advances in AI speech recognition and machine translation now enable near-real-time captioning; we will deploy these tools in the room and on Zoom. All presenters will supply slides with bilingual titles and key terms, and a one-page terminology handout in both languages. Together, these measures encourage meaningful participation in Africa’s Anglophone and Francophone communities, which are often divided by institutional and linguistic boundaries, and provide immediate, practical benefits for multilingual colleagues. ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── SUBMISSION GUIDELINES We invite proposals for individual papers (20-minute presentations). Submissions may be in English or French. Proposals of up to 500 words should be emailed to the convenors by 30 April 2026. Each submission must include: (i) a title; (ii) an abstract outlining the context, central question, and methodological approach; and (iii) a 100-word biographical note indicating the applicant’s discipline and institutional affiliation. Please send your proposals to the following addresses: - Frédérick Madore: frederick.madore(a)uni-bayreuth.de - Vincent Hiribarren: vincent.hiribarren(a)kcl.ac.uk - Emmanuel Ngue Um: ngueum(a)gmail.com - Menno van Zaanen: menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── PUBLICATION Our goal is to publish selected papers from the workshop as a special issue in the Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (JDHASA), subject to agreement with the journal’s editorial board. All submitted full papers will undergo peer review. Authors whose papers are selected for the special issue will be expected to revise their manuscripts in line with reviewer feedback before final publication. ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── SELECTION CRITERIA & INCLUSIVITY Selection will prioritise gender equity, support for early-career scholars based in sub-Saharan Africa, and balance across disciplines and regions. In addition to scholars, we will include practitioner-developers by directly engaging the teams behind DH tools. Their participation will help us to assess user needs and the feasibility of embedding African ways of knowing in tool design. DH remains gender-imbalanced; accordingly, the open call will explicitly encourage applications from women and weight gender equity in review. We will intentionally include Africa-based, diasporic, and returning scholars. Recognising uneven DH capacity, particularly in several Francophone regions, we will aim for a majority of Africa-based participants and amplify Francophone voices through targeted outreach and reserved places for early-career researchers. The workshop will uphold equal opportunity regardless of gender, religion, or other sociocultural differences. ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── KEY DATES - Submission Deadline: 30 April 2026 - Notification of Acceptance: 15 May 2026 - Deadline for Full Papers: 15 August 2026 - Workshop Dates: 21–24 September 2026 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ ═ https://fmadore.github.io/stias-dh-ai-workshop-2026 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ ═ -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. 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ComputEL-9: 2nd Call-for-Papers
by Antti Arppe 17 Mar '26

17 Mar '26

ComputEL-9: Ninth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages Second CALL FOR PAPERS Submission deadline: March 20, 2026 Submission link: https://softconf.com/acl2026/ComputEL2026 ComputEL-9 will be co-located with ACL 2026 in San Diego, California. It will be a one-day workshop, held in Friday July 4, 2026. This time, we are co-ordinating our activities with Americas-NLP, held on the previous day. We encourage submissions that explore the interface and intersection of computational linguistics, documentary linguistics, and community-based efforts in language revitalization and reclamation. This includes submissions that: (i) demonstrate new methods or technologies for tasks or applications focused on low-resource settings, and in particular, endangered languages, (ii) examine the use of specific methods in the analysis of data from low-resource languages, or demonstrate new methods for analysis of such data, oriented toward the goals of language reclamation and revitalization, (iii) propose new models for the collection, management, and mobilization of language data in community settings, with attention to e.g. issues of data sovereignty and community protocols, (iv) explore concrete steps for a more fruitful interaction among computer scientists, documentary linguists, and language communities. IMPORTANT DATES 20 March 2026 Deadline for submission of papers or extended abstracts 1 May 2026 Notification of Acceptance 4 July 2026 Workshop PRESENTATIONS Presentation of accepted papers will be in both oral session and a poster session. The decision on whether a presentation for a paper will be oral and/or poster will be made by the Organizing Committee on the advice of the Program Committee, taking into account the subject matter and how the content might be best conveyed. Oral and poster presentations will not be distinguished in the Proceedings. SUBMISSIONS We offer two submissions lengths: short (up to 4 pages) or long (up to 8 pages) paper. The length of submission does not influence the likelihood of acceptance. Both paper types must include a section on ethical consideration and a section on limitations; these sections are not considered part of the page limit. All submissions must be anonymous and will be peer-reviewed by the scientific Program Committee. Papers must follow the style and formatting guidelines provided in by ACL Style Files (download template files for LaTeX: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files). Submissions that exceed the length requirements, or are missing a limitations section, will be desk rejected. Papers can be submitted to one of the workshop’s tracks: (a) language community perspective and (b) academic perspective. Submissions must be uploaded to SoftConf: https://softconf.com/acl2026/ComputEL2026 by March 20, 2026 11:59PM (UTC-12, “anywhere on earth”). A. Short Papers: Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. They are max. 4 pages excluding references. They must include a section on ethical consideration and limitations; these sections are not considered part of the page limit. Please note that a short paper is not a shortened long paper. Instead, short papers should have a small, focused contribution or describe work in progress (“working paper”). Short papers might not necessarily be intended for publication. Some common kinds of short papers are negative results, opinion pieces, interesting application nuggets, or descriptions of ongoing collaborative teamwork. B. Long Paper: Long papers must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Long papers are max. 8 pages excluding references and appendices. They must include a section on ethical consideration and limitations; these sections are not considered part of the page limit. PROCEEDINGS The Organizing Committee will select papers that have been accepted for presentation for online publication via the open-access ACL Anthology. Not all accepted papers for presentation are guaranteed inclusion in the Anthology. Final versions of long and short papers that are accepted for publication will be allotted one additional page (altogether 5 and 9 pages) excluding references. Papers accepted for inclusion in the Anthology should be revised and improved versions of the work that was submitted for, and which underwent, review. Any revisions should concern responses to reviewer comments or the addition of relevant details and clarifications, but not entirely new, unreviewed content. FUNDING SUPPORT Limited funding will be available for some accepted authors. A link to apply for funding will be sent to submitters after the submission deadline. Decisions on funding will be sent with notification of acceptance. Priority will be given to individuals without institutional support, for instance members of endangered language communities, other unsponsored or under-sponsored presenters (e.g. student/faculty of Linguistics Departments), and student presenters. ADDITIONAL AND CONTACT INFORMATION Please see the ComputEL-9 website for further information: https://computel-workshop.org/computel-9/ Organizing Committee Email: computel.workshop(a)gmail.com -- ====================================================================== Antti Arppe - Ph.D (General Linguistics), M.Sc. (Engineering) Professor of Quantitative Linguistics Director, Alberta Language Technology Lab (ALTLab) Project Director, 21st Century Tools for Indigenous Languages (21C) Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta Algonquian Studies Association - Secretary-Treasurer E-mail: arppe(a)ualberta.ca - antti.arppe(a)iki.fi WWW: www.ualberta.ca/~arppe - altlab.ualberta.ca - 21c.tools Mānahtu ina rēdûti ihza ummânūti ihannaq - dulum ugulak úmun ingul ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Second Call for Papers, Participation and Demo - IWSLT 2026
by Atul K. Ojha 08 Mar '26

08 Mar '26

Apologies for cross-posting. ---------------------------------------- The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation ACL – 23rd IWSLT 2026 – First Call for Participation July 3-4, 2026 - San Diego, CA, USA http://iwslt.org The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) 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, the Special Interest Group on Spoken Language Translation of ACL, ISCA and ELRA. With a track record of 22 years, IWSLT benchmarks and proceedings serve as reference for all researchers and practitioners working on speech translation and related fields. The 23rd edition of IWSLT will be run as an ELRA/ACL event and co-located with ACL 202 <https://2026.aclweb.org/>6 on July 3-4, 2026. It will be run as a hybrid event. Important Dates January 1, 2026: Release of shared task training and dev data March 15, 2026: Scientific paper submission deadline Apr 1-15, 2026: Evaluation period April 24, 2026: System description paper submission deadline May 15, 2026: Notification of acceptance June 1, 2026: Camera-ready deadline (all papers) July 3-4, 2026: IWSLT conference Evaluation The IWSLT 2026 features shared tasks <https://iwslt.org/2026/#shared-tasks> that address the following focus areas: - Speech to Text Translation track: Offline, Low-resource - Customized Speech Translation track: Compression, Subtitling, Simultaneous - Speech Generation track: Indic S2S, African S2S, Cross-lingual Voice Cloning - Instruction Following track - Speech Translation Metrics track 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 website). 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 at the conference website <https://iwslt.org/2026/>). 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., ACL 2026 Findings papers, speech, NLP or MT conferences). Submissions for this category will be accepted through a dedicated form (to be announced at the conference website <https://iwslt.org/2026/>). Papers will be checked for relevance to IWSLT and assigned either oral or poster presentation slots if selected. Contact Please send an email to iwslt-evaluation-campaign(a)googlegroups.com if you have any questions related to the shared tasks. Thanks, Marcello, Alex, Antonios, Luisa, Matteo, Jan, Sebastian, Marco Elizabeth, Atul (IWSLT organisers)

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CFP: The third edition of the International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Interpreting Technology’ (NeTTIT’2026)
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 04 Mar '26

04 Mar '26

International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Interpreting Technology’ (NeTTIT’2026) Dubrovnik, Croatia, 24-27 June 2026 Fifth Call for Papers # The conference The third edition of the International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Interpreting Technology’ (NeTTIT’2026) will take place in Dubrovnik, Croatia from 24 to 27 June 2026. The objective of the conference is (i) to bridge the gap between academia and industry in the field of translation and interpreting by bringing together academics in linguistics, translation and interpreting studies, machine translation and natural language processing, developers, practitioners, language service providers and vendors who work on or are interested in different aspects of technology for translation and interpreting, and (ii) to be a distinctive event for discussing the latest developments and practices. NeTTIT’2026 invites all professionals who would like to learn about the new trends, present the latest work or/and share their experience in the field, and who would like to establish business and research contacts, collaborations and new ventures. The conference will include plenary presentations (research and user presentations, keynote speeches), poster sessions and panel discussions. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by experts, and the accepted papers will be published as open-access conference e- proceedings which will be available at the time of the conference. # Conference topics Contributions are invited on any topic related to latest technology and practices in translation, subtitling, localisation, interpreting, machine translation and Large Language Models used in translation and interpreting. NeTTIT’2026 will feature a Special Theme Track "Future of Translation and Interpreting Technologies in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI". The conference topics include but are not limited to (see also the special conference theme below): ## CAT tools - Translation Memory (TM) systems - NLP and MT for translation memory systems - Terminology extraction tools - Localisation tools ## Machine Translation - Latest developments in Neural Machine Translation - MT for under-resourced languages - MT with low computing resources - Multimodal MT - Integration of MT in TM systems - Resources for MT ## Technologies for MT deployment - MT evaluation techniques, metrics and evaluation results - Human evaluations of MT output - Evaluating MT in a real-world setting - Quality estimation for MT - Domain adaptation ## Translation Studies - Corpus-based studies applied to translation - Corpora and resources for translation - Translationese - Cognitive effort and eye-tracking experiments in translation ## Interpreting studies - Corpus-based studies applied to interpreting - Corpora and resources for interpreting - Interpretese - Resources for interpreting and interpreting technology applications - Cognitive effort and eye-tracking experiments in interpreting ## Interpreting technology - Machine interpreting - Computer-aided interpreting - NLP for dialogue interpreting - Development of NLP based applications for communication in public service settings (healthcare, education, law, emergency services) ## Emerging Areas in Translation and Interpreting - MT and translation tools for literary texts and creative texts - MT for social media and real-time conversations - Sign language recognition and translation ## Subtitling - NLP and MT for subtitling - Latest technology for subtitling ## User needs - Analysis of translators’ and interpreters’ needs in terms of translation and interpreting technology - User requirements for interpreting and translation tools - Incorporating human knowledge into translation and interpreting technology - What existing translators’ (including subtitlers’) and interpreters’ tools do not offer - User requirements for electronic resources for translators and interpreters - Translation and interpreting workflows in larger organisations and the tools for translation and interpreting employed ## The business of translation and interpreting - Translation workflow and management - Technology adoption by translators and industry - Setting up translation /interpreting / language provider company ## Teaching translation and interpreting - Teaching Machine Translation - Teaching translation technology - Teaching interpreting technology - Latest AI developments in the syllabi of translation and interpreting curricula ## Ethical issues in translation and technology - Bias and fairness in MT - Privacy and security in cloud MT systems - Transparency and explainability of MT systems - Environmental impact on MT systems # Special Theme Track - Future of Translation and Interpreting Technologies in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI We are excited to share that NeTTIT’2026 will have a special theme with the goal of stimulating discussion around Large Language Models, Generative AI and the Future of Translation and Interpreting Technologies. While the new generation of Large Language Models such as CHATGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek and LLAMA showcase remarkable advancements in language generation and understanding, we find ourselves in uncharted territory when it comes to their performance on various Translation and Interpreting Technology tasks with regards to fairness, interpretability, ethics and transparency. The theme track invites studies on how LLMs perform on Translation and Interpreting Technology 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: - Changes in (and the impact on) the translators and interpreters’ professions in the new AI era especially as a result of the latest developments in LLMs and Generative AI - Generative AI and translation - Generative AI and interpreting - Augmenting machine translation systems with generative AI - Domain and terminology adaptation with Large Language Models - Literary translation with Large Language Models - Translation for low-resourced and minority languages with LLMs - Improving Machine Translation Quality with Contextual Prompts in Large Language Models - Prompt engineering for translation - Generative AI for professional translation - Generative AI for professional interpreting # Invited speakers Yves Champollion, Wordfast LLC Marko Grobelnik, Josef Stefan Institute # Submissions and publication NeTTIT’2026 invites the following types of submissions in English: ## Academic papers - Regular long papers: These can be up to eight (8) pages long, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. - Short papers: These can be up to four (4) pages long and are suitable for describing small, focused contributions, work-in-progress, negative results, system demonstrations, etc. ## User papers – for industry and practitioners. References to related work are optional. Allowed paper length: between 2 and 4 pages. Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/p/nettit2026/user/ For submitting the papers, we invite the authors to comply with the ACL format using the templates available on the conference website. The conference will not consider and evaluate abstracts only. Further details on the submission procedure are available on the conference website: https://nettt-conference.com/2026/submissions-and-publication/ The accepted papers will be published in the conference e-proceedings with assigned ISBN and DOI and made available online on the conference website at the time of the conference. The conference organisers will seek the inclusion of the conference proceedings in the ACL anthology. # Important dates - Submissions due: 23 March 2026 - Reviewing process: 25 March-25 April 2026 - Notification of acceptance: 28 April 2026 - Camera-ready due: 25 May 2026 - Conference camera-ready proceedings ready 15 June 2026 - Conference: 24-27 June 2026 # Pre-conference Tutorials The pre-conference tutorials will include: Post-editing and AI-augmented translation – Marie Escribe (LanguageWire and Polytechnic University of Valencia) Machine Translation Quality Evaluation – Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University) Automatic Speech Recognition as a supporting tool for interpreters – Constantin Orasan (University of Surrey) # Conference Chairs - Gloria Corpas Pastor (University of Malaga) - Ruslan Mitkov (Lancaster University and University of Alicante) - Marko Tadic (University of Zagreb) # Programme Committee Chairs - Constantin Orasan (University of Surrey) - Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University) # Publication Chairs - Marie Escribe (LanguageWire and Polytechnic University of Valencia) - Alicia Picazo Izquierdo (University of Alicante) # Organising Committee and Programme Committee coordination - Marie Escribe (LanguageWire and Polytechnic University of Valencia) - ‎Alicia Picazo Izquierdo (University of Alicante) - ‎Xiaojing Zhao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) # Publicity and Sponsorship Chair - Vilelmini Sosoni (Ionian University) # Programme committee For a list of the programme committee members visit: https://nettt-conference.com/2026/programme-committee/ # Venue The conference will take place at the Centre for Advanced Academic Studies (CAAS) of the University of Zagreb (http://www.caas.unizg.hr/) in Dubrovnik. # Sponsor Juremy.com # Sponsorship opportunities Companies working in the fields of translation technology, interpreting technology and/or related fields, are welcome to familiarise themselves with the sponsorship opportunities that the conference offers. Please visit https://nettt-conference.com/2026/sponsors/ for more details. # Further information and contact details The conference website https://nettt-conference.com/ is updated on a regular basis. For further information, please email nettit2026(a)nettt-conference.com<mailto:nettit2026@nettt-conference.com>. You can also follow us on social media for updates and announcements. LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/nettit2026/ Twitter/X - https://x.com/NeTTIT2026 Best Regards Tharindu Ranasinghe

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4th CFP - Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing ,and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security,(NLPAICS'2026)
by ernesto.estevanell＠ua.es 27 Feb '26

27 Feb '26

=========================================================================================================================== 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/ Fourth 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 Keynote Speaker We are delighted to announce that Preslav Nakov from Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (Abu Dhabi) (https://mbzuai.ac.ae/study/faculty/preslav-nakov/) will be keynote speaker at NLPAICS 2026. 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 c in an 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 in Overleaf: 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 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 Conference Chairs Ruslan Mitkov (University of Alicante) Rafael Muñoz (University of Alicante) Programme Committee Chairs Elena Lloret (University of Alicante) Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University) Publication Chair Ernesto Estevanell (University of Alicante) Sponsorship Chair Andres Montoyo (University of Alicante) Student Workshop Chair Salima Lamsiyah (University of Luxembourg) Best Paper Award Chair Saad Ezzini (King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals) Publicity Chair Beatriz Botella (University of Alicante) Social Programme Chair 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. Related events The conference school will precede the summer school _The Paradigm Shift: From Rules to Models in Natural _Language 15, 16 and 17 June 2026 (_https://summer-school.gplsi.es [1]_). 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 March 2026. Links: ------ [1] https://summer-school.gplsi.es/

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CFP: International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS2026) in Irbid, Jordan
by Ahmad Mustafa 25 Feb '26

25 Feb '26

Dear colleagues, We invite you to submit your papers to the 17th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS2026) in Irbid, Jordan, May 18th - 21st, 2026 Important Dates: * Full paper submission: March 10th, 2026 * Notification of Decision: March 31st, 2026 * Camera-Ready and Registration: April 10th, 2026 The proceedings of ICICS2026 will be published in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS). The topics that will be covered in ICICS 2026 include, but are not limited to: 1. AI and Machine Learning 2. Networking and Internet of Things (IoT) 3. Data Science and Big Data 4. Natural Language Processing and Applications 5. Software & web Engineering, and Information Systems 6. Security, Privacy, and Digital Forensics 7. Cloud and Fog/Mobile Edge Computing 8. E-Learning Technologies 9. Communication Systems, Electronics, and Signal Processing Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed (check the review process on the conference website). Authors are expected to present their papers at the conference (or virtually). The accepted and registered papers will appear in the conference proceedings. The Conference Program includes free trips to Jarash and Umm Qais Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icics2026 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icics2026> Conference website: http://www.just.edu.jo/icics Please send any inquiry to: icics(a)just.edu.jo<mailto:icics@just.edu.jo>

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Pacific Voices @ Interspeech 2026
by Jesin James 24 Feb '26

24 Feb '26

Kia ora SIGUL, Can the following information me publicised in the SIGUL mailing list: We are excited to invite you to submit to our special session Pacific Voices at Interspeech 2026. Interspeech is the world’s top speech science and technology conference, and it’s happening in Sydney, Australia in 2026. This special session aims to bring together researchers, community members, and industry members working on various aspects of languages of the Pacific Ocean. We are looking for innovative contributions that explore the below themes: * Language documentation * Language revitalisation * Speech technology * Community governance of speech data and technology development * Data sovereignty and data management * Paper submissions are 4 pages and must conform to the Interspeech 2026 format. When making your submission in the Interspeech online submission system, please indicate that the paper should be included in the Pacific Voices Special Session. All submissions will be subject to the normal paper review process. Depending on interest, the special session will be an oral session or poster session.  Please feel free to get in touch with any questions or queries, and please circulate with any others you think may be interested. For more details and to express your interest, please visit our website: https://speechresearch.auckland.ac.nz/events/pacificvoices2026/ Ngā mihi nui | Kind regards, Jesin James on behalf of Pacific Voices Organising Committee Dr Jesin James (she/her) Senior Lecturer | Pouako Matua Department of Electrical, Computer, and Software Engineering | Te Kura Pūhanga Hiko, Rorohiko me te Pūmanawa Faculty of Engineering and Design | Te Herenga Auaha University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau Aotearoa New Zealand

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Final CfP and deadline extension Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL)@LREC
by Menno Van Zaanen 24 Feb '26

24 Feb '26

Final Call for Papers and deadline extension! Seventh Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) Co-located with LREC 2026 RAIL Workshop date: 12 May 2026 RAIL website: https://sadilar.org/en/seventh-workshop-on-resources-for-african-indigenous… Submission link for the RAIL workshop: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/RAIL2026/ LREC Conference dates: 11-16 May 2026 LREC website: https://www.elra.info/lrec2026/ Venue: Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma de Mallorca (Spain) The Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop provides an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on resources such as data collections and annotations, Human Language Technologies (HLT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools, and their applications, specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. In particular, it aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a scientific community of practice that focuses on data, as well as computational linguistic tools specifically designed for or applied to indigenous languages found in Africa. The seventh Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop will be co-located with the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2026 in Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma, Mallorca (Spain). Many African languages are under-resourced while only a few are considered to be somewhat better resourced. These languages often share interesting properties such as writing systems, making them different from most high-resourced languages. From a computational perspective, these languages lack enough corpora to undertake high level development of NLP and HLT tools, which in turn impedes the development of African languages in these areas. During previous workshops, it was noted that the problems and solutions presented were not only applicable to African languages but were also relevant to many other low-resource languages across the world. Because these languages share similar challenges, this workshop provides researchers with opportunities to work collaboratively on issues of language resource development and learn from each other. The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, the workshop brings together researchers who work on African indigenous languages, forming a community of practice for people working on indigenous languages. Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to improve the quality as well as availability of the resources. The workshop theme is “Creating resources for less-resourced African languages”, but submissions on any topic related to properties of African indigenous languages (including related non-African languages) may be accepted. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * Digital representations of linguistic structures * Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous languages * Building resources for (under-resourced) African indigenous languages * Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age * Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African indigenous languages * Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African indigenous languages * Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages * Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African indigenous language resources * Applications that make use of data collections of African indigenous languages Submission requirements: We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, should adhere to the LREC conference requirements. These requirements are described in LREC’s authors kit: https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/. The submission should be double blind and each submission should be between four and eight pages. Only oral papers should be submitted. The maximum number of pages excludes a compulsory ethics statement, discussion on limitations, and references and optional acknowledgements, as well as data and code availability statements if applicable. Appendices or supplementary material are allowed, but this information will not necessarily be taken into account during the review process. The submission link for the RAIL workshop: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/RAIL2026/ Authors are encouraged to upload their datasets to the SADiLaR repository: https://repo.sadilar.org/. In case of difficulties uploading the datasets, please reach out to Benito Trollip (benito.trollip(a)nwu.ac.za). Important dates: Submission deadline: 1 March 2026 AoE Date of notification: 11 March 2026 AoE Camera ready copy deadline: 30 March 2026 AoE Workshop: 12 May 2026 Organising Committee: Muzi Matfunjwa, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. 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