October 2025 - Corpora

Webinar by: Ivan Vulić (University of Cambridge / Google DeepMind)
by HiTZ Zentroa 31 Oct '25

31 Oct '25

**** We apologize for the multiple copies of this email. In case you are already registered to the next webinar, you do not need to register again. **** Dear colleague, We are happy to announce the next webinar in the Language Technology webinar series organized by the HiTZ research center (Basque Center for Language Technology, http://hitz.eus). We are organizing one seminar every month. Next webinar: Speaker: Ivan Vulić (University of Cambridge / Google DeepMind) Title: On Merging and MoErging Models and Modules Date: Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 15:00 CET Summary: Despite recent tendencies towards building large "monolithic" neural models, fine-tuned expert models and parameter-efficient specialised modules still offer gains over large monoliths in specific tasks and for specific data distributions (e.g., low-resource languages or specialised domains). Moreover, such modularisation of skills and expertise into dedicated models or modules allows for asynchronous, decentralised, and more efficient continuous model development, as well as module reusability. However, a central question remains: how to combine and compose these modules to enable positive transfer, sample-efficient learning, and improved out-of-domain generalisation. In this talk, after discussing the key advantages of modularisation and modular specialisation, I will provide an overview of prominent module and model composition strategies. I will focus on composition at the parameter level (model merging) and functional level (model MoErging), and then illustrate the usefulness of these techniques across several applications. Bio: Ivan Vulić is currently a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind in Zurich after spending a year there as a Visiting Researcher. Before that he was a Research Professor and a Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Language Technology Lab, University of Cambridge, where he spent 10 years across different research roles. From January 2018 until November 2024 he was also a Senior Scientist at PolyAI in London. Ivan holds a PhD in Computer Science from KU Leuven awarded summa cum laude. In 2021 he was awarded the annual Karen Spärck Jones Award from the British Computing Society for his research contributions to Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval. His core expertise and research interests span, among others, cross-lingual, multilingual and multi-modal representation learning, modularity and composability of ML models, sample-efficient, parameter-efficient and few-shot ML, conversational AI, data-centric ML. Registration: https://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea You can view the videos of previous webinars and the schedule for upcoming webinars here: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars Upcoming webinars: Goran Glavaš (December 4) Thamar Solorio (January 15) Henning Wachsmuth (February 5) Check past and upcoming webinars at the following url: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars If you are interested in participating, please complete this registration form: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea If you cannot attend this seminar, but you want to be informed of the following HiTZ webinars, please complete this registration form instead: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_info Best wishes, HiTZ Zentroa P.S: HiTZ will not grant any type of certificate for attendance at these webinars.

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Postdoctoral Researcher in Memory Access in Language - Utrecht University
by Takmaz, E.K. (Ece) 31 Oct '25

31 Oct '25

Dear all, There is a two-year postdoctoral position opening in the ERC-funded project 'Memory access in language (MEMLANG): How we store and retrieve linguistic information', led by Jakub Dotlacil, at the Institute for Language Sciences (ILS), Utrecht University. The application deadline is November 9, 2025. See the link below for details: https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs/postdo… Best regards, Ece https://ecekt.github.io/

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Job: Mission de recrutement et gestion de locuteurs en langue française (H/F)
by info＠elda.org 30 Oct '25

30 Oct '25

[Apologies for multiple postings] Dans le cadre de ses activités de production, ELDA propose *plusieurs missions de recrutement (H/F) destinées à la constitution d’un corpus de données audio _en français_*. Langue concernée : français Mission * Recruter des locuteurs natifs francophones afin de réaliser des enregistrements vocaux destinés à la recherche et au développement en traitement automatique de la parole ; * Réaliser avec chacun une conversation téléphonique d’environ 8 à 10 minutes via une plateforme dédiée ; * Contrôler la qualité des enregistrements réalisés par tranche de 12 locuteurs ; * Collecter une courte vidéo (monologue face caméra de 3 à 5 minutes) produite par chaque participant recruté. Profil recherché * Locuteur natif du français ; * Excellente maîtrise de la communication orale ; * Aisance relationnelle et sens du contact. Chaque participant recruté sera gratifié pour sa contribution. Gratification : Entre 65€ et 190€ selon le nombre de locuteurs recrutés. Les candidatures doivent être adressée à dylan(a)elda.org et chomicha(a)elda.org ELDA <www.elda.org> (Evaluation and Language resources Distribution Agency, ) a pour activités principales la distribution et la production de ressources linguistiques, ainsi que l’évaluation de technologies de la langue (traduction automatique, reconnaissance de la parole, etc.).

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Second Call for Papers - International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Interpreting Technology’ (NeTTIT’2026)
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 30 Oct '25

30 Oct '25

𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 - 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 ‘𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗧𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆’ (𝗡𝗲𝗧𝗧𝗜𝗧’𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲) [Website - https://nettt-conference.com/2026/] 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 and/or 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 the 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 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. Submission link – Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/p/nettit2026/user/ The conference will not consider and evaluate abstracts only. Further details on the submission procedure will be made available in the Second Call for Papers due in October 2025. 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. 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 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, Spain) Alicia Picazo Izquierdo (University of Alicante, Spain) 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗿 Vilelmini Sosoni (Ionian University) 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. 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 Companies working in the fields of translation technology, interpreting technology and/or related fields, are welcome to familiarise themselves 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/) will be updated on a regular basis. For further information, please email nettit2026(a)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 Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe | Lecturer in Security and Protection Science School of Computing and Communications | Lancaster University

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Internship in Computational Linguistics (L3/Master)
by Sarra El Ayari 30 Oct '25

30 Oct '25

As part of the working group on multilinguism within CORLI2 consortium, we are offering a two-month internship for a student in computational linguistics (L3/Master). The aim is to create an interactive guide for LLMs' usages applied to corpus linguistics. It will take place in Paris, France and start March/April 2026. Web development skills are madatory. Description and application: https://www.sfl.cnrs.fr/en/internship-llm-corli

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CFP: PROPOR 2026 - 17th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese
by Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira 30 Oct '25

30 Oct '25

The 17th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese will be held at Salvador, BA from Apr 13 to 16 of 2026 PROPOR 2026 The 17th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR 2026) will be held in Salvador - Brazil, from the 13th to the 16th of April 2026. https://propor2026.ufba.br PROPOR is the main scientific meeting in the area of language and speech technologies for the Portuguese/Galician language. The event is supported by the PROPOR steering committee. PROPOR is a biennial event hosted in Brazil and in Portugal (and now in Galicia). Past meetings were held in Lisbon, PT (1993); Curitiba, BR (1996); Porto Alegre, BR (1998); Évora, PT (1999); Atibaia, BR (2000); Faro, PT (2003); Itatiaia, BR (2006); Aveiro, PT (2008); Porto Alegre, BR (2010); Coimbra, PT (2012), São Carlos, BR (2014), Tomar, PT (2016), Canela, BR (2018), Évora, PT (2020), Fortaleza, BR (2022), and Santiago de Compostela, GZ (2024). More details about past events, PROPOR steering committee and the constitution can be found in propor.org. Call for Papers PROPOR 2026: 17th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese. Salvador - Bahia April 13th to 16th 2026 The International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR) is the main event in the area of human language processing that is focused on theoretical and technological issues of written and spoken Portuguese and Galician. The meeting has been a very rich forum for the exchange of ideas and partnerships for the research and industry communities dedicated to the automated language processing, promoting the development of methodologies, resources, and projects that can be shared among researchers and practitioners in the field. We call for papers describing work on any topic related to computational language and speech processing of Portuguese and Galician by researchers in industry or academia. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Natural language processing tasks (e.g. parsing, word sense disambiguation, coreference resolution) - Natural language processing applications (e.g. question answering, subtitling, summarization, sentiment analysis) - Natural language generation - Information extraction and information retrieval - Speech technologies (e.g. spoken language generation, speech and speaker recognition, spoken language understanding) - Speech applications (e.g. spoken language interfaces, dialogue systems, speech-to-speech translation) - Resources, standardization and evaluation (e.g. corpora, ontologies, lexicons, grammars) - NLP-oriented linguistic description or theoretical analysis - Distributional semantics and language modeling - Portuguese language varieties and dialect processing (including the language varieties of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Galicia, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, and Sao Tome and Principe) - Multilingual studies, methods, applications and resources including Portuguese/Galician PROPOR 2026 will be held from April 13th to April 16th at Salvador - BA, Brazil, the place of contact between the Portuguese language with both indigenous languages of Brazil and the African languages brought to Brazil with the enslaved people coming from Africa, a contact that deeply influenced Brazilian Portuguese and culture. PROPOR 2026 will be the 17th edition of the biannual PROPOR conference, hosted alternately in Brazil and Portugal. Past meetings were held in Lisbon, PT (1993); Curitiba, BR (1996); Porto Alegre, BR (1998); Évora, PT (1999); Atibaia, BR (2000); Faro, PT (2003); Itatiaia, BR (2006); Aveiro, PT (2008); Porto Alegre, BR (2010); Coimbra, PT (2012); São Carlos, BR (2014); Tomar, PT (2016); Canela, BR (2018); Évora, PT (2020); Fortaleza, BR (2022); and Santiago de Compostela, GZ (2024) Mandatory Reviewing Workload As the pace of research in the field continues to increase, we need to strengthen the commitment to reviewing for each paper submission. During the submission process, authors will be required to specify which co-authors are committing to cover reviewing in the event. Ethics Policy Authors are advised to follow the ACL Ethics Policy for submission, which can be found here <https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#ethics-policy> Authors are also strongly advised to follow the ACL guidelines for generative AI assistance in authorship, which can be found here <https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Policy_on_Publication_Ethics…> Important Dates - *Full and short paper submission deadline*: Nov 16, 2025 (23:59 GMT-12) - *Notification of paper acceptance or rejection*: Feb 02, 2026 - *Camera-ready papers due*: Mar 27, 2026 - *Conference*: April 13th - 16th, 2026 Submissions Submissions should describe original, unpublished work. Authors are invited to submit two kinds of papers: - Full papers – Reporting substantial and completed work, especially those that may contribute in a significant way to the advancement of the area. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be included. Full papers can have up to 8 content pages + 2 pages for references. - Short papers – Reporting small, focused contributions such as ongoing work, position papers, potential ideas to be discussed, negative results, or an interesting application nugget. Short papers can have up to 4 content pages + 1 page for references. Each submission will be evaluated by at least two reviewers. As reviewing will be double-blind, submitted papers must be anonymized. That is, they should not contain the authors' names and affiliations. Authors must avoid self-references that reveal identity, like "We previously showed (Freitas, 1991) ...". Instead, they should prefer citations such as "Freitas (1991) previously showed ...". Separate author identification information will be required as part of the submission process. Submissions should be written in English. At submission time, only PDF format is accepted. For the final versions, authors of accepted papers will be given 1 extra content page to incorporate the reviews' suggestions. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to send the source files for the production of the proceedings. While recent editions have only accepted submissions in English, this year we are pleased to also accept papers written in Portuguese, reaffirming our commitment to promoting scientific exchange in our language. At submission time, only PDF format is accepted. For the final versions, authors of accepted papers will be given 1 extra content page to incorporate the reviewsâ€™ suggestions. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to send the source files for the production of the proceedings. All submitted papers must conform to the ACL style guidelines and use the LaTeX or MS Word stylesheets below: - LaTeX stylesheet <https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files/tree/master/latex> - MS Word stylesheet <https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files/tree/master/word> Multiple-submission policy For submissions that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications, this information must be provided at submission time. If a submission is accepted, authors must notify the program chairs, indicating which meeting they choose for presentation of their work. Papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere cannot be accepted for publication or presentation. Papers can be submitted through the CMT submission system: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/PROPOR2026

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The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026): Last Call for Industry/Short Papers/Posters/ERA/RENE/Tool Demo/JF/RR Tracks
by Announce 30 Oct '25

30 Oct '25

*** Last Call for Industry/Short Papers/Posters/ERA/RENE/Tool Demo/JF/RR Tracks *** The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026) 17-20 March, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/saner-2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> SANER 2026 attracted for the research track 213 full paper submissions, the third highest in the 33 years of running. Although the submission deadline for the research track is now over, there are plenty of other tracks for which the submission deadline is still open, for just a few more days! SANER 2026 welcomes high-quality submissions of papers describing original and unpublished research results. We encourage submissions describing various types of research, including empirical, theoretical, and tool-oriented studies. TOPICS OF INTEREST The topics of the submissions should be of direct interest to the software analysis, evolution, and reengineering community (including researchers, practitioners, educators). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • AI for Software Engineering and Software Engineering for AI (see note below); • Generative AI and LLM Applied to Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering of Software; • Software Analysis, Parsing, and Fact Extraction; • Software Maintenance and Evolution, Evolution Analysis; • Software Reverse Engineering and Reengineering; • Program Comprehension; • Software Architecture Recovery and Reverse Architecting; • Program Transformation and Refactoring; • Mining Software Repositories and Software Analytics; • Software Visualization; • Software Reconstruction and Migration; • Program Repair; • Software Release Engineering, Continuous Integration and Delivery; • Software Security, Safety, Reliability and Quality Analysis; • Software Tools for Software Evolution and Maintenance; • Human Factors and Legal Aspects in the Context of Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering; • Empirical Studies in the Context of Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering; • Education and Training in the Context of Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS All submitted papers will undergo a rigorous peer review process and will be selected based on originality, quality, soundness, and relevance. Submissions must be original, not published, accepted, or under review elsewhere. All submissions must be in PDF format and conform to the IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines. • Industrial Papers: Submissions should not exceed 12 pages (with the last 2 pages reserved for references only) for full papers; talk proposals should not exceed 2 pages. • Short Papers and Posters: Submissions should not exceed 6 pages (including all text, figures, references, and appendices); posters should not exceed 2 pages. • Early Research Achievement (ERA) Track: Submissions should not exceed 6 pages (with the last 1 page reserved for references only). • Reproducibility Studies and Negative Results (RENE) Track: Submissions should not exceed 5 pages for appendices to conference submissions or previous work and should not exceed 12 pages for new reproducibility studies and new descriptions of negative results (with the last 2 pages reserved for references only). • Tool Demo Track: Submissions should not exceed 5 pages. • Journal-First Papers Track: Submissions should not exceed 1 page (for the main submission). • Registered Report Track: Submissions should not exceed 7 pages (with the last 1 page reserved for references only). Important Note: Short Papers and Posters, ERA, and RENE Tracks follow a double- anonymous review process. Please refer to the conference website for details specific to each different track. Submission Link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=saner2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> PAPERS INVOLVING AI AND ML Papers involving AI or ML must either (a) concern a software system as a whole, or a subsystem, and not simply its AI or ML component, (b) consider software engineering artifacts, (c) target a novel context for a software engineering task, or (d) study human, social, socio-technical, and organizational aspects in the development of AI- or ML- intensive software systems (see also "Scoping Software Engineering for AI: The TSE Perspective", 10.1109/TSE.2024.3470368). Papers involving AI or ML must explicitly explain how they address a software engineering problem. Papers not meeting these criteria may be more suitable for AI- or ML-focused venues instead. Papers that do not clearly explain how they address a software engineering problem or don't meet the above criteria will be desk-rejected. IMPORTANT DATES (All deadlines are 23:59h "Anywhere on Earth" time) Industrial Track • Abstract Submission Deadline: 10 November, 2025 • Paper Submission Deadline: 17 November, 2025 • Notifications: 19 December, 2025 • Camera-Ready: 14 January, 2026 Short Papers and Posters Track • Abstract Submission Deadline: 10 November, 2025 • Paper Submission Deadline: 17 November, 2025 • Notifications: 19 December, 2025 • Camera-Ready: 14 January, 2026 Early Research Achievement (ERA) Track • Abstract Submission Deadline: 10 November, 2025 • Paper Submission Deadline: 17 November, 2025 • Notifications: 19 December, 2025 • Camera-Ready: 14 January, 2026 Reproducibility Studies and Negative Results (RENE) Track • Abstract Submission Deadline: 10 November, 2025 • Paper Submission Deadline: 17 November, 2025 • Notifications: 19 December, 2025 • Camera-Ready: 14 January, 2026 Tool Demo Track • Paper Submission Deadline: 17 November, 2025 • Notifications: 19 December, 2025 • Camera-Ready: 14 January, 2026 Journal-First Track • Paper Submission Deadline: 8 December, 2025 • Notifications: 22 December, 2025 Registered Report Track • Submission Deadline: 7 November, 2025 • First Notification (Reviews): 5 December, 2025 • Second Round Submission (Rebuttal & Revised Report): 12 December, 2025 • Final Notification (Stage 1): 22 December, 2025 • Accepted Report to arXiv Submission: 9 January, 2026 ORGANISING COMMITTEE General Chair • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organizing Chair • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Eunjong Choi, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan • Matthias Galster, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Industrial Chairs • Anne Etien, University of Lille, France • Tushar Sharma, Dalhousie University, Canada ERA Chairs • Mairieli Wessel, Radboud University, Netherlands • Christoph Treude, Singapore Management University, Singapore Short Papers and Posters Chairs • Eleni Constantinou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Sandro Schulze, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Germany RENE Chairs • Apostolos Ampatzoglou, University of Macedonia, Greece • Sebastian Proksch, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Workshop/Tutorial Chairs • Marcelo De Almeida Maia, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil • Juri Di Rocco, University of L'Aquila, Italy Journal-First Chairs • Luigi Lavazza, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy • Yuxia Zhang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Registered Report Chairs • Sherlock A. Licorish, University of Otago, New Zealand • Sebastiano Panichella, Zurich University of Applied Science, Switzerland Tool Demo Chairs • Maliheh Izadi, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands • Roberto Verdecchia, University of Florence, Italy Diversity, Inclusion, and Newcomers Chairs • Catia Trubiani, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy • Aldeida Aleti, Monash University, Australia Proceedings Chair • Raula Gaikovina Kula, Osaka University, Japan Most Influential Paper Award Chairs • Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, University of Macedonia, Greece • Michele Lanza, Software Institute - USI, Lugano, Switzerland Sustainability Chair • Maria Papoutsoglou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Financial Chair • Constantinos Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Publicity and Social Media Chair • Erina Makihara, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

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The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): Second Call for Posters and Demos
by Announce 29 Oct '25

29 Oct '25

*** Second Call for Posters and Demos *** The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> The ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) is the leading annual venue for researchers and practitioners to explore advancements at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). IUI submissions should address HCI challenges using machine intelligence and consider both computational and human- centric aspects. As AI becomes more integrated into everyday technology, understanding its role in meeting human needs is vital for developing effective and responsible systems. This conference fosters collaboration among experts from diverse fields to tackle significant issues in AI and HCI through discussions, workshops, and networking sessions. UI 2026 attracted a record number of submissions for the main conference (561 full paper submissions after an initial submission of 697 abstracts). Posters Posters provide an opportunity for sharing valuable last-minute ideas, eliciting useful feedback on early-stage work and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. We invite submissions relevant to all conference topics. All submissions should convey a scientific result or work in progress that is not yet ready to be published as a full-length research paper at a refereed conference. The page limit for poster papers is 4 pages (references do not count toward the page limit). Submitting a draft poster along with your submission is not required, but is recommended. Accepted poster papers will appear in the companion proceedings of the conference. Each accepted contribution is expected to be presented in person during the poster session. Demos The demonstration track complements the overall program of the conference. Demonstrations show implementations of novel, interesting, and important intelligent user interface concepts or systems. We invite submissions relevant to intelligent user interfaces and which address, but are not limited to, the topics of the conference. All submissions are intended to convey a scientific result or work in progress and should not be advertisements for commercial software packages. The page limit for demo papers is 4 pages (references do not count toward the page limit). Authors further need to submit a video (max. 5 mins) along with their demo paper to showcase their work. Accepted demo papers will be presented as interactive demonstrations at IUI and published in the companion proceedings of the conference. Each accepted contribution is expected to be presented in person during the demo sessions. Important Dates (AoE) • Submission: December 21, 2025 • Decision notification: January 26, 2026 • Camera-ready submission: February 6, 2026 Topics The topics for the Posters and Demos are the same as for the main track. Submission Instructions Papers must be up to 4 pages (references do not count towards the page limit). Demo and poster submissions do not need to be anonymized. Submissions should follow the ACM Master Article Templates in a single-column format. We adopt the ACM TAPS Workflow. Please prepare your submission for review in a single column format, using the latest templates: Word Submission Template, or the LaTeX template using \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for the LaTeX template. Authors are required to include a proper classification for the paper according to the ACM Classification System (CCS). Additional information on how to use it is available at: https://dl.acm.org/ccs<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> . A video (up to 5 mins) is required for demo submissions. The video should showcase the system that will be demonstrated during the conference. Please follow the SIGCHI Technical Requirements and Guidelines for Videos (https://sigchi.org/resources/guides-for-authors/videos/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…>). Please submit your demos and posters electronically to the Precision Conference Submission (PCS) Portal (https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…>) by the paper deadlines. In PCS, first click “Submissions” at the top of the page, from the dropdown menus for Society, Conference, and Track, please select “SIGCHI”, “IUI 2026”, and “IUI 2026 Posters” or “IUI 2026 Demos”, respectively, and then press “Go”. Note: If the corresponding author (the individual who submits the paper, not necessarily the first author) is affiliated with a participating institution that has an open access agreement with ACM, the Article Processing Charges (APCs) will be waived for publishing the paper. Details are under “Publication and Open Access”. Accessibility Authors are asked to make their paper submissions accessible (so that reviewers with vision impairments can access them, for example). The authors of accepted papers will be required to make their final PDFs accessible. Please use the SIGCHI Guide to an Accessible Submission for detailed instructions. If you are submitting a video as supplemental material, please provide captions, as described in Technical Requirements and Guidelines for Videos. Please refer to the Accessibility page of the conference site for further details and guidelines. Usage of Generative AI All submissions must comply with the ACM policy on the usage of GenAI: the April 2023 ACM Policy on Authorship and Frequently Asked Questions. Text generated from a large-scale language model (LLM), such as ChatGPT, must be clearly marked where such tools are used for purposes beyond editing the author’s own text. Authors should include a “GenAI Usage Disclosure” section, right before the references, to provide full disclosure of all use of GenAI tools in all stages of the research (including the code and data) and the writing. This section, together with the references, will not be counted toward the word limit. While we do not anticipate using tools on a large scale to detect LLM-generated text, we will investigate submissions brought to our attention and desk reject papers where LLM use is not clearly marked. Organisation General Chairs • Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel • Styliani Kleanthous, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Posters and Demos Chairs • Julia Sheidin, Braude College of Engineering, Israel • Marko Tkalcic, University of Primorska, Slovenia • Ming Yin, Purdue University, USA

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ACL Rolling Review (ARR) Discontinuation of the MS Word Template
by ACL Announcements 29 Oct '25

29 Oct '25

Dear ARR authors, The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) rolling review (ARR) has decided to abandon the MS Word Template for conference submissions. The submissions based on the Word template will be desk-rejected starting from March 2026. Our past experience suggests that only a small fraction of the papers submitted through ARR are based on the MS Word Template. However, they receive a comparably high number of desk reject flags, because most reviewers are not used to the considerably different layout resulting from this template. The processing of this desk rejects increases the workload on (S)ACs, PCs and EiCs, and is stressful for the authors. The rationale for maintaining the Word template has been to remain open to research communities from other disciplines who may be less used to LaTeX. However, at this point, Overleaf also offers a WYSIWYG interface, the ACL template is available on this platform, and to the best of our knowledge, it is not banned in any countries that have restrictions on i.e., Google products. This makes the burden for the few authors still relying on the MS Word Template more bearable, and reduces the learning curve to adapt to LaTeX. At the same time, the overall benefit for the community is high enough to justify this move. This move would also facilitate the effort of automating some of the formatting checks post-submission, in order to reduce the workload on Reviewers, (S)ACs, PCs and EiCs. In the long run, we hope it will help to shorten the paper checklist. For information on author guidelines, please keep updated on https://aclrollingreview.org/authors Sincerely, ARR Editors

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[Deadline Extension & Final CFP]: 7th International Conference on AI in Computational Linguistics (ACLing-2025)
by Khaled Shaalan 28 Oct '25

28 Oct '25

========================= 7th International Conference on AI in Computational Linguistics (ACLing 2025), December 6-7, 2025 (Hybrid Conference) Publication: Procedia Computer Science by ELSEVIER (Open Access) URL: https://acling.org/ ========================= ## IMPORTANT DATES ## * Submission Deadline: 10 November 2025 (Extended) * Acceptance Notifications: 15 November 2025 * Final camera-ready Submission: 17 November 2025 * Author ?Registration & Payment: 20 November 2025 * Conference Date: 6-7 December 2025 ========================= ## INTRODUCTION ## The AI in Computational Linguistics (ACLing) conference serves as a premier international platform for the dissemination of cutting-edge research at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and natural language processing (NLP). In light of rapid advancements in neural networks and large language models, the conference aims to foster scholarly exchange and collaboration among leading academics, researchers, and industry professionals engaged in the development and application of AI-driven methods in computational linguistics. ACLing welcomes high-quality contributions that address theoretical foundations, novel algorithms, and practical implementations across all dimensions of AI and ML in language technologies. The conference seeks to promote dialogue on emerging trends, innovative solutions, and critical challenges in the field, reflecting the growing importance and societal impact of AI-powered language processing. This year, the conference will be hosted by The British University in Dubai (BUiD), an institution recognized for its dedication to academic excellence, impactful research, and global engagement. BUiD’s commitment to fostering interdisciplinary innovation makes it an ideal venue for this prestigious event. ========================= ## Keynote Speaker# Dr. Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, The University of British Columbia, Canada (https://mageed.arts.ubc.ca/) ========================= ## TOPICS ## We welcome submissions in (but not limited to) the following areas: * Advanced Information Retrieval and Question Answering * Knowledge and Information Extraction * Linguistic Theories and Formal Resources for AI * Statistical and Neural Language Modeling * Speech Technologies and Multimodal Language Interfaces * Machine Translation and Cross-Lingual NLP * Multilinguality, Code-Switching, and Low-Resource Languages * Domain-Specific NLP (e.g., Legal, Biomedical, Scientific, Educational) * Syntactic Analysis, Tagging, and Parsing * Semantics, Pragmatics, and Commonsense Reasoning * Emotion Recognition, Sentiment Analysis, and Social Signal Processing * NLP for Social Media and Computational Social Science * Conversational AI, Spoken Dialogue, and Interactive Systems * Abstractive and Extractive Text Summarization * Natural Language Generation, Storytelling, and Creative AI * Text Classification, Topic Modeling, and Document Understanding * Text Mining and Large-Scale Knowledge Discovery * Vision-Language Models and Multimodal AI * Ethical, Legal, and Societal Implications of AI in Language Technologies * Large Language Models (LLMs): Architecture, Optimization, and Applications * Responsible and Interpretable AI for Language Understanding * Generative AI: Models, Evaluation, and Emerging Applications * Reinforcement Learning and Prompt Engineering for NLP Tasks * AI for Resource-Poor and Endangered Languages * Human-Centered NLP and User-Aware Language Interfaces * Benchmarking, Evaluation Metrics, and Explainability in NLP * AI-Augmented Writing, Reading, and Translation Tools This wide-ranging list reflects the dynamic nature of the field and aims to encourage interdisciplinary engagement that advances the frontiers of AI-driven language technologies. ========================= ## Submission Guidelines ## All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two Program Committee members. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and will be published in Procedia Computer Science by ELSEVIER. Publication in proceedings is conditioned to the registration and presentation of the paper at the conference by one of the authors. We encourage submissions that describe original unpublished work not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Submissions should be prepared according to the main conference guidelines and format described at the Submission Web Page: https://acling.org/submission/ Papers must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair conference management system: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=acling2025 ========================= ## CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS ## * Prof. Khaled Shaalan, The British University in Dubai, UAE * Prof. Samhaa R. El-Beltagy, Newgiza University, Egypt ## INDEXING, RANKING, AND IMPACT (web sources)## ========================= * Abstracting and indexing: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/procedia-computer-science/about/insig… * Scopus/CiteScore: https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/19700182801 * SJR (scimago): https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=19700182801&tip=sid * ACLing by Google Citation: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jkpMuFMAAAAJ&hl=en * ACLing by DBLP: https://dblp.org/db/conf/acling/index.html ## FURTHER INFORMATION & CONTACT DETAILS ## ========================= * Visit the conference website link https://acling.org/ (will be updated on a regular basis). * For general information, please contact us at taher.ghazal(a)ieee.org Regards, Khaled ___________________________________________________ Prof. Dr. Khaled Shaalan Professor of Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Head of Computer Science Department | Head of PhD in Computer Science Program Faculty of Engineering & IT, The British University in Dubai (BUiD), UAE Contact Information: Email: khaled.shaalan(a)buid.ac.ae<mailto:khaled.shaalan@buid.ac.ae> / khaled.shaalan(a)acm.org<mailto:khaled.shaalan@acm.org> Website: khaledshaalan.org<https://www.khaledshaalan.org> University Website: www.buid.ac.ae<http://www.buid.ac.ae> Phone: +971 42791400 D: +971 42791434‎ Dubai International Academic City, Block 10 & 11, 1st and 2nd floor, PO Box: 345015, Dubai, UAE Editorial & Leadership Roles: Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Asian & Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP)<http://tallip.acm.org/‎> Founder & Chair, ACLing: International Conference on AI in Computational Linguistics<http://www.acling.org%20‎> Honors & Recognition: Top 2% Scientists in AI (Stanford Univ. Ranking) Member <https://devpgs.com/mbras2021/public/en/members> of Mohammed bin Rashid Academy of Scientists (MBRAS)<https://devpgs.com/mbras2021/public/en/members> Listed in Top Computer Scientists in UAE<https://research.com/scientists-rankings/computer-science/ae> Academic Profiles: Google Scholar<https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=keLKdlgAAAAJ> | Scopus<https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=6507669702> | Web of Science<https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/E-7377-2016> | ORCID<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0823-8390> | ResearchGate<http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Khaled_Shaalan> | LinkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/in/KhaledShaalan>

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