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Reminder: IWSLT 2027 - Call for Task Proposals
by Atul K. Ojha 08 Sep '26

08 Sep '26

Dear all, The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) <https://iwslt.org/> is the premier annual conference for all aspects of Spoken Language Translation. Every year, the conference organizes and sponsors open evaluation campaigns around key challenges in simultaneous and consecutive translation, under real-time/low latency or offline conditions, and for a variety of languages in under-resourced or multilingual conditions. System descriptions and results from participants’ systems, as well as scientific papers on key algorithmic advances and best practices, are presented. IWSLT is the venue of the SIGSLT, the Special Interest Group on Spoken Language Translation of ACL, ISCA, and ELRA <https://iwslt.org/>. With a track record of 20+ years, IWSLT benchmarks and proceedings serve as references for all researchers and practitioners working in speech translation and related fields. Many challenges in speech translation have not yet been addressed; among them, we are really interested in topics related to new application scenarios (e.g. meetings, subtitling, dubbing), specific aspects (e.g. names, accents), different styles, multilingually, discourse and summarization, multimodal and multi-party speech translation, and automatic evaluation metrics for speech translation. or many other ideas that researchers have not yet focused on. Therefore, we invite proposals for shared tasks. As a task organizer you can promote a particular challenge in speech translation, either newly identified or worthy of continued research. For those proposing new tasks, for inspiration, you can find the tasks run in the previous year on the IWSLT website <https://iwslt.org/2026/>. Tasks will be selected in November based on their relevance and readiness for the evaluation campaign, to enable data to be released by the end of the year. To ensure an appropriate number of total tracks, highly related proposals may be encouraged to merge after initial review. If you want to propose a new task to encourage researchers around the world to work on particular timely challenges in SLT, please fill out the following form <https://iwslt.org/assets/pdfs/IWSLT2027-Call_for_Tasks.pdf> and send it to: *iwslt-organizers(a)googlegroups.com <iwslt-organizers(a)googlegroups.com> *by* September 30th, 2026. *Decisions about which tasks will run in 2027 will be announced by *November 1st, 2026* . For further information on this initiative, please refer to the * <https://iwslt.org/assets/pdfs/IWSLT2026-Call_for_Tasks.pdf>CFP <https://iwslt.org/assets/pdfs/IWSLT2027-Call_for_Tasks.pdf> *( https://iwslt.org/assets/pdfs/IWSLT2027-Call_for_Tasks.pdf). Best, Marcello, Alex, Antonios, Luisa, Matteo, Marco, Jan, Sebastian, Elizabeth, Atul

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Final Call for Papers DHASA Conference 2026 and deadline extension
by Menno Van Zaanen 18 Aug '26

18 Aug '26

Final Call for Papers DHASA Conference 2026 and deadline extension https://dh2026.digitalhumanities.org.za DEADLINE EXTENSION: 31 August 2026 Theme: Building the Methodological Commons: Plural Digital Humanities, AI, and Socio-Technical Futures in Southern Africa Conference: 17-20 November 2026 · University of Eswatini, Kwaluseni, Kingdom of Eswatini Important dates Submission deadline: 31 August 2026 Date of notification: 21 September 2026 Camera-ready copy deadline: 19 October 2026 Conference: 17 November 2026-20 November 2026 Conference venue: University of Eswatini, Kwaluseni, Kingdom of Eswatini Co-located events Several co-located events are currently being prepared, including workshops and tutorials. These will be updated on the conference website. Submission types - Long papers: max 8 content pages (9 in final version), presented in 30-minute slots (incl. 10 min questions) - Short papers: max 5 content pages (6 in final version), presented in 15-minute slots (incl. 5 min questions) - Executive summaries: max 1 page, presented as posters References and appendices are unlimited for long and short papers. All submissions must be in PDF and follow the ACL style guide (https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html). Submissions that do not adhere to the style guide will be rejected. Submit via the platform: https://dh2026.digitalhumanities.org.za/submission/ Accepted long and short papers will be published in the JDHASA journal; executive summaries will appear in a book of summaries before the conference. We particularly encourage submissions where the first author is a student. Authors are encouraged to upload datasets to the SADiLaR repository (https://repo.sadilar.org/); for difficulties, contact Benito Trollip (benito.trollip(a)nwu.ac.za). About the conference This conference foregrounds DH as method-making and infrastructure- building, not only tool use. It invites scholarship that advances shared practices (methods, standards, datasets, workflows, pedagogies) while staying attentive to the politics of computation, language, heritage, and knowledge-making in Southern Africa. It also explicitly welcomes critical engagements with AI as an epistemic and cultural force shaping humanities inquiry. Contributions are welcome from across the humanities and allied fields, as well as from computer scientists, data scientists, designers, librarians, archivists, journalists, educators, and community practitioners. Subthemes (non-exclusive; interdisciplinary contributions encouraged) - AI in the humanities, responsibly - Southern African language technologies and linguistic justice - Decolonial, Indigenous, and community-engaged DH - Digital heritage, archives, history, and memory work - Critical platform studies, media, and computational publics - Pedagogy, curriculum, and capacity-building - Infrastructure, sustainability, and open scholarly ecosystems The full call for papers, including detailed subtheme descriptions and co-located events, is available at https://dh2026.digitalhumanities.org.za -- 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. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________

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Second Call for Papers DHASA Conference 2026
by Menno Van Zaanen 07 Aug '26

07 Aug '26

Second Call for Papers DHASA Conference 2026 https://dh2026.digitalhumanities.org.za Theme: Building the Methodological Commons: Plural Digital Humanities, AI, and Socio-Technical Futures in Southern Africa Conference: 17-20 November 2026 · University of Eswatini, Kwaluseni, Kingdom of Eswatini Important dates Submission deadline: 20 August 2026 Date of notification: 21 September 2026 Camera-ready copy deadline: 19 October 2026 Conference: 17 November 2026-20 November 2026 Conference venue: University of Eswatini, Kwaluseni, Kingdom of Eswatini Co-located events Several co-located events are currently being prepared, including workshops and tutorials. These will be updated on the conference website. Submission types - Long papers: max 8 content pages (9 in final version), presented in 30-minute slots (incl. 10 min questions) - Short papers: max 5 content pages (6 in final version), presented in 15-minute slots (incl. 5 min questions) - Executive summaries: max 1 page, presented as posters References and appendices are unlimited for long and short papers. All submissions must be in PDF and follow the ACL style guide (https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html). Submissions that do not adhere to the style guide will be rejected. Submit via the platform: https://dh2026.digitalhumanities.org.za/submission/ Accepted long and short papers will be published in the JDHASA journal; executive summaries will appear in a book of summaries before the conference. We particularly encourage submissions where the first author is a student. Authors are encouraged to upload datasets to the SADiLaR repository (https://repo.sadilar.org/); for difficulties, contact Benito Trollip (benito.trollip(a)nwu.ac.za). About the conference This conference foregrounds DH as method-making and infrastructure- building, not only tool use. It invites scholarship that advances shared practices (methods, standards, datasets, workflows, pedagogies) while staying attentive to the politics of computation, language, heritage, and knowledge-making in Southern Africa. It also explicitly welcomes critical engagements with AI as an epistemic and cultural force shaping humanities inquiry. Contributions are welcome from across the humanities and allied fields, as well as from computer scientists, data scientists, designers, librarians, archivists, journalists, educators, and community practitioners. Subthemes (non-exclusive; interdisciplinary contributions encouraged) - AI in the humanities, responsibly - Southern African language technologies and linguistic justice - Decolonial, Indigenous, and community-engaged DH - Digital heritage, archives, history, and memory work - Critical platform studies, media, and computational publics - Pedagogy, curriculum, and capacity-building - Infrastructure, sustainability, and open scholarly ecosystems The full call for papers, including detailed subtheme descriptions and co-located events, is available at https://dh2026.digitalhumanities.org.za -- 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. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________

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Re: join ISCA SIGUL
by Laurent 22 Jul '26

22 Jul '26

dear anna tks for your interest in SIGUL i’m no longer involved in it but people in cc are best L > On 22 Jul 2026, at 14:56, Anna Taylor <anna.taylor(a)eurecom.fr> wrote: > > Dear Laurent, > > I would like to join the ISCA SIGUL as I am a PhD student in speech deepfake detection with an interest in lesser-resourced languages. > > Thank you, > > -- > Anna TAYLOR > > EURECOM Doctorante > EDITE PhD Student Representative > Digital Security Department > Sophia Antipolis, France > Office 460-3 > www.eurecom.fr <https://www.eurecom.fr/> >

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IWSLT 2027 - Call for Task Proposals
by Atul K. Ojha 22 Jul '26

22 Jul '26

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CfP: 10th Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-10)
by Antti Arppe 21 Jul '26

21 Jul '26

ComputEL-10: Tenth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages First CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop dates: March 2-3, 2027 Place: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (hybrid) Submission deadline: October 2, 2026 Submission link: TBD ComputEL-10 will be co-located with the 10th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC 10) in Honolulu, Hawaii. ComputEL-10 and ICDLC 10 do **not** have joint registration. If you wish to attend ICDLC 10, visit their website: https://ling.lll.hawaii.edu/sites/icldc/. ComputEL-10 explores the interface and intersection of computational linguistics, documentary linguistics, and community-based efforts in language revitalization and reclamation. We encourage submissions that present their work from an interdisciplinary perspective with a focus on one of three areas: (i) Academic: develop new methods or technologies for tasks or applications focused on low-resource, and in particular, endangered languages; propose models in the study or processing of under-documented languages; or evaluate tools or methods for curation and analysis of data in such languages, oriented towards language documentation, description, reclamation and revitalization; (ii) Community: develop new technology toward the goals of language reclamation, revitalization, including language teaching and acquisition; propose new models for the collection, management, and mobilization of language data in community settings, with attention to issues of data sovereignty and community protocols and involvement; describes new uses of language technology by the language's community; (iii) Collaboration: describe challenges and rewards in past or on-going collaboration and interaction among computer scientists and/or documentary linguists that involve(d) language communities; formulate concrete steps for a more fruitful interaction among computer scientists, documentary linguists, and language communities. Note: priority will be given to descriptions of actual collaborations (successful or unsuccessful) over proposals or position papers. (For an example, see Cox et al. 2025: https://aclanthology.org/2025.computel-main.12/) IMPORTANT DATES 2 October, 2026 Deadline for submission of papers 13 November 2026 Notification of Acceptance 2-3 March 2027 Workshop SUBMISSIONS We offer two types of submissions: abstracts and papers. Please carefully read the requirements below. Submissions that do not fulfill all relevant requirements will be desk-rejected. The type of submission does not influence the likelihood of acceptance. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS All submissions must be anonymous. Both submission types have the same deadline. Authors may submit no more than two submissions where they are co-author. In no case may an author submit more than one individually- or first-authored submission. Authors must submit and present in English. Proposals will undergo blind review, so please do not list your name, affiliation, or contact information within the file. (Author names appearing in reference lists or citations are fine and do not need to be anonymized.) ABSTRACTS Abstracts clearly describe the content that author intends to present to the ComputEL-10 audience. Abstracts are max. 800 words not including title or references. Abstracts will NOT be published (in the Proceedings of the workshop in ACL Anthology). Abstracts are intended for academics not accustomed to publishing in proceedings or non-academic community members wishing to share with and receive feedback from the other communities. Upload your abstract as a PDF or MS Word file. PAPERS Paper submission can be of two 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. 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 violate anonymity, exceed the length requirements, or are missing an ethics or a limitations section will be desk rejected. ACL has discontinued making available a submission template for Microsoft Word. Therefore, we strongly recommend using the above LaTeX template with Overleaf, which enables WYSIWYG editing. Nevertheless, we do allow the use of the older ACL Microsoft Word template: https://2023.aclweb.org/calls/style_and_formatting/. While we intend to help accepted authors convert their paper into a format acceptable for ACL Anthology, we may not be able to resolve all potential discrepancies. Therefore, using the MS Word template may run the risk of not being accepted for publication. If you wish assistance with LaTeX, please email soon. A. Short Paper: Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. They are max. 4 pages excluding references and sections on ethical consideration and limitations. A short paper is not a shortened long paper. Instead, short papers have a small, focused contribution or describe work in progress (“working paper”). Recommended topics for short papers include pilot studies, negative results, opinion pieces, interesting application nuggets, or descriptions of initial collaborative teamwork. B. Long Paper: Long papers must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Long papers are max. 8 pages excluding references and appendices and sections on ethical consideration and limitations. Wherever appropriate, concrete qualitative and quantitative evaluation and analysis should be included. PROCEEDINGS The Organizing Committee will select from the papers (excluding all abstracts) that have been accepted for presentation at the workshop for online publication via the open-access ACL Anthology. Not all accepted papers for presentation are guaranteed inclusion in the publication. Long and short papers that are accepted for publication will be allotted one additional page (altogether 5 and 9 pages) excluding references and ethics and limitations sections. Papers accepted for inclusion in the Anthology must be revised versions of the work that underwent ComputEL-10 review. Revisions and improvements should address reviewer comments or add relevant details and clarifications, but should not include entirely new, unreviewed content. ADDITIONAL AND CONTACT INFORMATION Please see the ComputEL-10 website for further information: https://computel-workshop.org/ComputEL-10/ 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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sharing information about BabyHuBERT
by Alex CRISTIA 06 Jul '26

06 Jul '26

Dear all, Over the past four years, researchers worldwide have entrusted the ExELang team <http://exelang.fr/> led by Alex Cristia with their raw audio recordings (either through bilateral Data Transfer Agreements/Memoranda of Understanding, or through scientific archives), which allowed the development of several computational models. Today, we are writing to you about one called BabyHuBERT. BabyHuBERT is a speech representation model, a sort of “jack of all trades” that can then be specialized to solve a specific task, such as voice type classification. The release of this model raised some important ethical questions. To get a non-technical introduction to BabyHuBERT and learn about our approach to its ethics, check out the slides <https://osf.io/n75rs/files/3hqzv> and video recording <https://osf.io/n75rs/files/jaume> (also available on YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inWK5YVET9Q&t=2s>) of a talk Alex gave recently for some researchers who had shared their data with us. The technical description of the model has been reported on "BabyHuBERT: Multilingual Self-Supervised Learning for Segmenting Speakers in Child-Centered Long-Form Recordings" (https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15001), recently accepted at Interspeech. For those interested in potentially using the model, we invite you to visit this OSF Link <https://osf.io/n75rs/overview>, which includes: - A PDF with the documents surrounding the decisions taken regarding the release <https://osf.io/n75rs/files/964df> - The BabyHuBERT License v1.0 <https://osf.io/b79v4>- An introduction to BabyHuBERT <https://osf.io/n75rs/files/anx9v>, a FAQ <https://osf.io/n75rs/files/u2nrf>, and a process flow document <https://osf.io/n75rs/files/a7t2y> Please feel free to reach out to Marvin Lavechin <marvinlavechin(a)gmail.com> if you have any questions! Best, The ExELang team --------------------------------------------------------------- Alex (Alejandrina) Cristia --------------------------------------------------------------- If you donate, ask me about effective charities <https://effectivealtruism.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=52b028e7f799cca…>. / Si vous faites des dons, nous pouvons échanger sur le don efficace <https://mieuxdonner.fr/>.

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First Call for Papers — DHASA Conference 2026
by Menno Van Zaanen 25 Jun '26

25 Jun '26

First Call for Papers — DHASA Conference 2026 https://dh2026.digitalhumanities.org.za Theme: Building the Methodological Commons: Plural Digital Humanities, AI, and Socio-Technical Futures in Southern Africa Conference: 17–20 November 2026 · University of Eswatini, Kwaluseni, Kingdom of Eswatini Important dates Submission deadline: 20 August 2026 Date of notification: 21 September 2026 Camera-ready copy deadline: 19 October 2026 Conference: 17 November 2026 – 20 November 2026 Conference venue: University of Eswatini, Kwaluseni, Kingdom of Eswatini Co-located events Several co-located events are currently being prepared, including workshops and tutorials. These will be updated on the conference website. Submission types Long papers — max 8 content pages (9 in final version), presented in 30-minute slots (incl. 10 min questions) Short papers — max 5 content pages (6 in final version), presented in 15-minute slots (incl. 5 min questions) Executive summaries — max 1 page, presented as posters References and appendices are unlimited for long and short papers. All submissions must be in PDF and follow the ACL style guide (https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html). Submissions that do not adhere to the style guide will be rejected. Submit via the platform: https://dh2026.digitalhumanities.org.za/submission/ Accepted long and short papers will be published in the JDHASA journal; executive summaries will appear in a book of summaries before the conference. We particularly encourage submissions where the first author is a student. Authors are encouraged to upload datasets to the SADiLaR repository (https://repo.sadilar.org/); for difficulties, contact Benito Trollip (benito.trollip(a)nwu.ac.za). About the conference This conference foregrounds DH as method-making and infrastructure- building — not only tool use. It invites scholarship that advances shared practices (methods, standards, datasets, workflows, pedagogies) while staying attentive to the politics of computation, language, heritage, and knowledge-making in Southern Africa. It also explicitly welcomes critical engagements with AI as an epistemic and cultural force shaping humanities inquiry. Contributions are welcome from across the humanities and allied fields, as well as from computer scientists, data scientists, designers, librarians, archivists, journalists, educators, and community practitioners. Subthemes (non-exclusive; interdisciplinary contributions encouraged) - AI in the humanities, responsibly - Southern African language technologies and linguistic justice - Decolonial, Indigenous, and community-engaged DH - Digital heritage, archives, history, and memory work - Critical platform studies, media, and computational publics - Pedagogy, curriculum, and capacity-building - Infrastructure, sustainability, and open scholarly ecosystems The full call for papers, including detailed subtheme descriptions and co-located events, is available at https://dh2026.digitalhumanities.org.za -- 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. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________

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Language Technology and Under-Resourced Languages: Community Survey
by Sakriani Sakti 24 Jun '26

24 Jun '26

Dear Colleagues, We invite you to participate in a survey on language technology for Indigenous, minority, and under-resourced languages. The purpose of this survey is to better understand the current state of language technology, community perspectives, existing skills, and training interests related to Indigenous, minority, and under-resourced languages. We welcome responses from language community members, educators, linguists, researchers, developers, language activists, and others who work with or support these languages. The survey takes approximately 10–15 minutes to complete. The results will help us better understand current needs, priorities, and experiences related to these languages and may inform future community activities and initiatives. Survey link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdXwfTA8pZrefZ1oU_KvrEUPqMYTMt0hmB… We would greatly appreciate your participation and would be grateful if you could share this survey with other language communities, colleagues, or organizations that may be interested. Thank you very much for your time and support. Kind regards, Sakriani Sakti ELRA/ISCA SIGUL Board ISCA Board Geographical Outreach

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SIGUL Board Transition and Proposed Officer Appointments
by Sakriani Sakti 24 Jun '26

24 Jun '26

Dear SIGUL Members, In October 2025, we issued a call for nominations for the positions of SIGUL Chair and Secretary. Unfortunately, despite extending the nomination period, we did not receive enough nominations to proceed with an election. One nomination was received through the open call, and a second candidate agreed to serve after being approached by the Board. Although we are grateful for their willingness to contribute, the number of candidates remained insufficient to support an election process. At the same time, our current Chairs and Secretary have taken on additional professional and personal commitments, making it difficult for them to continue carrying the full responsibilities of their roles. To ensure the continued operation of SIGUL and to provide a sustainable distribution of responsibilities, the Board proposes the following arrangement: * The two new candidates, *Atul K. Ojha*and *Alice Millour*, will assume the roles of Co-Chairs. * The current Secretary, *Maite Melero*, will continue in the role of Secretary. * The current Chairs, *Sakriani Sakti*and *Claudia Soria*, will remain on the Board to provide continuity, advice, and support during the transition period. If there are no objections from the membership, these changes will take effect on *30 June 2026*, and the proposed officers will formally assume their responsibilities from that date. Should you have any concerns or objections regarding this proposal, please let us know before 30 June 2026. Thank you for your continued support of SIGUL and for helping us ensure the continued success of our community. Kind regards, Sakriani Sakti, Claudia Soria, and Maite Melero On behalf of the current SIGUL Board

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