February 2026 - Corpora

First call for participation - MentalRiskES@IberLEF2026: Early detection of mental risk
by María Dolores Molina González 16 Feb '26

16 Feb '26

*Registration open!!* ****We apologize for multiple postings of this e-mail**** MentalRiskES2026 announces the fourth edition of a novel and enhanced task on early risk identification of mental disorders in Spanish comments from social media sources. Unlike previous editions (IberLEF 2023, 2024, and 2025), this edition introduces significant innovations: psychologists are now actively involved in generating and validating the data, which ensures a closer connection to real clinical settings. The task continues to be solved as an online problem, requiring participants to detect potential risks as early as possible in a continuous stream of data. Consequently, performance depends not only on the accuracy of the systems but also on the speed of detection, reflecting these dynamics in both task design and evaluation metrics. For this fourth edition, we propose two entirely new tasks: the first subtask focuses on the detection of symptoms, while the second subtask addresses decision support for therapeutic interventions. We would like to invite you to participate in the following tasks: *1. Early Symptom Detection in Therapeutic Conversations2. Therapist Response Selection* Find out more at https://sites.google.com/view/mentalriskes2026. <https://sites.google.com/view/mentalriskes2026> MentalRiskES 2026 is part of the IberLEF Workshop and will be held in conjunction with the SEPLN 2026 conference in León (Spain). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Feb 9th Registration open* Mar 27th Release of trial corpora (trial server available) Apr 6th Registration closed Apr 13th Release of test corpora and start of the evaluation campaign (test server available and trial submissions closed) Apr 20th End of evaluation campaign (deadline for submission of runs) Apr 27th Publication of official results and release of test gold labels May 11th Deadline for paper submission June 1st Acceptance notification Jun 15th Camera-ready submission deadline Sep TBD Publication of proceedings Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 Please reach out to the organizers at MentalRiskEs@IberLEF2026. The MentalRiskES 2026 organizing committee. ----------------------------------------------------------- Mas informacion sobre listas de correo en la Univ. de Jaen http://www.ujaen.es/sci/redes/listas/ -----------------------------------------------------------

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2nd CFP: SwissText 2026 – The 11th Swiss Text Analytics Conference
by Yingqiang Gao 16 Feb '26

16 Feb '26

========== Second Call of Papers: SwissText 2026 ========== Paper submission due: 23:59 AOE March 17, 2026 Conference date: June 10, 2026 in Zurich, Switzerland Conference website: https://www.swisstext.org/current/ =================================================== Dear colleagues, We are now announcing the Second Call for Papers for SwissText 2026, the 11th edition of the Swiss Text Analytics Conference. SwissText 2026 will take place on June 10, 2026, at the University of Zurich (Campus Oerlikon) in Zurich, Switzerland. SwissText is an established international forum for researchers and practitioners working on natural language processing, computational linguistics, and text analytics, with a strong tradition of fostering exchange between academia and industry. We invite submissions of substantial, original, and unpublished work to the following tracks: * Applied Track (non-archival), with a strong focus on industry and applied research. * Scientific Track (archival), with technical research papers from the international scientific community, including corpus- and benchmark-related research papers with a focus on Swiss languages from the scientific community and industry. * Corpus Track (archival), with Swiss-related NLP datasets. * Demonstration Track (non-archival), with NLP systems presented live at the SwissText conference. The special theme of SwissText 2026 is Reproducible NLP, we therefore encourage submissions working specifically in reproducible NLP research and fully open NLP. We plan to publish the proceedings of SwissText 2026 in the ACL Anthology. Important dates * Submission deadline: March 17, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: April 21, 2026 * Camera-ready deadline: May 5, 2026 * Conference date: June 10, 2026 All deadlines are at 11:59PM UTC-12:00 AOE (“anywhere on Earth”). Detailed submission guidelines and formatting instructions can be found on the conference website: https://www.swisstext.org/call-for-papers/. Please submit your paper via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=SwissText.org/2026/Conference. General Chair: Prof. Dr. Rico Sennrich, University of Zurich Organizing Committee: Jannis Vamvas, Tilia Ellendorff, Yingqiang Gao, Gerold Schneider, Michelle Wastl, University of Zurich For questions, please contact info(a)swisstext.org<mailto:info@swisstext.org> or the organizing committee members. Best regards, Dr. Yingqiang Gao (he/him) Department of Computational Linguistics Andreasstrasse 15, Office AND 2-20 University of Zurich, CH-8050 Zurich

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Last CFP: Workshop on Structured Linguistic Data and Evaluation (SLiDE) at LREC 2026
by Petya Osenova 15 Feb '26

15 Feb '26

Workshop on Structured Linguistic Data and Evaluation (SLiDE) A full-day workshop at <https://lrec2026.info/> LREC 2026<https://lrec2026.info/>, 11-16 May 2026, Palma, Mallorca (Spain) The workshop will be held on May 11, 2026 Webpage: https://www.slide-workshop.org/ Last Call For Papers In the last ten years, significant advances in deep learning models and the development of Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized the fields of computational linguistics (CL) and natural language processing (NLP). In turn, this has led to a complete re-assessment of the language resources and evaluation practices necessary for training LLMs and analyzing their outputs. In particular, the availability of very large amounts of unstructured data for training foundational models has come into focus, while the value of high-quality structured linguistic data with rich annotations at various levels of linguistic analysis has been downplayed by comparison. However, as CL and NLP practitioners engage further with LLMs and debate their strengths and weaknesses, the importance of high-quality, structured linguistic data has been re-emphasized. The proposed workshop can be seen as related to the Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT) conference series and the more recent SyntaxFest venue. Over the years, these venues have provided a central forum for high-quality research on treebanks, syntactic theory, syntax-semantics interface, structured meaning representations, and annotated linguistic resources. With record participation in recent years, they demonstrate the vitality and relevance of this line of work. The Workshop on Structured Linguistic Data is conceived as both a continuation of this tradition and an adaptation to the new realities of an LLM-dominated research landscape. The workshop will bring together researchers from these overlapping traditions to advance methods, resources, and practices for integrating structured linguistic data into the LLM era. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Linguistic Data Analyses, Language Resources, and Evaluation * Grammar processing with NLP and LLM-based tools * Phonological and morphological analysis and LLM tokenization * Annotation strategies with LLM-empowered methodologies and tools * Design principles and annotation schemes for structured linguistic data * Multi-lingual and cross-lingual settings * Mapping of structured linguistic data to Linked Open Data resources * Evaluation informed by language typology * Language resources for underresourced and endangered languages * The use of structured linguistic data for NLP applications * The use of structured linguistic data in acquiring linguistic knowledge * (Semi-)automatic methods for creating structured linguistic data Spoken language Data * Speech-to-text applications * Speech Generation techniques * Speech data preparation, curation and evaluation Multimodality and Situated Dialogue * Structured multimodal resources: gesture AMR (GAMR), gaze and posture annotation, multimodal dialogue corpora. * Multimodal grounding: linking language with visual, gestural, and action representations * Structured representations for co-attention and alignment in multiparty dialogue * Multimodal evaluation resources for LLMs Pragmatics and Discourse * Structured data for discourse and dialogue: discourse relation annotation, coherence structures, dialogue acts * Pragmatic annotation (speech acts, presupposition, implicature, politeness, stance) * Structured approaches to common ground tracking and Theory of Mind in LLMs Semantics and Lexical Meaning * Dependency analysis and semantic parsing * Annotation beyond syntax: semantics, pragmatics and discourse * Structured data for lexical semantics: sense inventories, semantic frames, qualia structure, and type-theoretic resources * Computational semantics resources: Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR), Universal Meaning Representation (UMR), Discourse, Representation Structures, Minimal Recursion Semantics (MRS), Type Theory with Records (TTR) * Distributional and neural-symbolic representations of lexical meaning: (e.g., Holographic Reduced Representations (HRR), hyperdimensional computing) for structured LLM grounding * Aligning vector-based meaning representations with symbolic/typed structures We invite paper submissions in two distinct tracks: * regular papers on substantial and original research, including empirical evaluation results, where appropriate – 8 pages excluding references and potential ethics statements; * short papers on smaller, focused contributions, work in progress, negative results, surveys, or opinion pieces – 4 pages excluding references and potential ethics statements. Invited speakers Naiara Perez (University of the Basque Country) Shira Wein (Amherst College) Paper Submission and Templates * Submission follows the LREC 2026 conference instructions, using the Softconf START conference management system accessible through the following link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/SLiDE/ * Submissions should follow the LREC stylesheet, available on the conference website on the <https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/> Author’s kit<https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/> page. Papers must be anonymized to support double-blind reviewing. Important Dates February 22, 2026: Paper submission deadline March 15, 2026: Notification of acceptance March 25, 2026: Camera-ready papers May 2026: Workshop at LREC 2026 All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h (“anywhere on Earth”). Workshop Organizers Jan Hajič (Prague University, Czech Republic) Erhard Hinrichs (Tübingen University, Germany) Sandra Kübler (Indiana University, USA) Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University, Sweden) Petya Osenova (Sofia University, Bulgaria) James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University, USA)

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Third Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4Health) @ LREC 2026: Final CFP and EXTENDED DEADLINE
by Paul Thompson 14 Feb '26

14 Feb '26

Third Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4Health) @ LREC 2026 https://bionlp.nlm.nih.gov/cl4health2026/ LREC 2026 Palma, Mallorca (Spain) SCOPE CL4Health fills the gap among the different biomedical language processing workshops by providing a general venue for a broad spectrum of patient-oriented language processing research. The third workshop on patient-oriented language processing follows the successful CL4Health workshops (co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 and NAACL 2025), which clearly demonstrated the need for a computational linguistics venue focused on language related to public health. CL4Health is concerned with the resources, computational approaches, and behavioral and socio-economic aspects of the public interactions with digital resources in search of health-related information that satisfies their information needs and guides their actions. The workshop invites papers concerning all areas of language processing focused on patients' health and health-related issues concerning the public. The issues include, but are not limited to, accessibility and trustworthiness of health information provided to the public; explainable and evidence-supported answers to consumer-health questions; accurate summarization of patients' health records at their health literacy level; understanding patients' non-informational needs through their language, and accurate and accessible interpretations of biomedical research. The topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to the following: * Health-related information needs and online behaviors of the public; * Quality assurance and ethics considerations in language technologies and approaches applied to text and other modalities for public consumption; * Summarization of data from electronic health records for patients; * Detection of misinformation in consumer health-related resources and mitigation of potential harms; * Consumer health question answering (Community Question Answering)(CQA); * Biomedical text simplification/adaptation; * Dialogue systems to support patients' interactions with clinicians, healthcare systems, and online resources; * Linguistic resources, data, and tools for language technologies focusing on consumer health; * Infrastructures and pre-trained language models for consumer health; Resubmissions from the LREC Main Conference We welcome submissions of topically-relevant papers that have been rejected from the main LREC conference. The scores and reviews from the main conference will be taken into consideration. Please ensure that you paste the original review and scores within the indicated text box on the submission page. IMPORTANT DATES February 18 25, 2026 -Workshop Paper Due Date️ March 13, 20 2026 - Notification of acceptance March 20 28 2026 - Camera-ready papers due April 10, 2026 - Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline) May 12, 2026 - Workshop KEYNOTE TALK Kailai Yang, Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester SHARED TASKS Detecting Dosing Errors from Clinical Trials (CT-DEB'26). Clinical Trials Dosing Errors Benchmark 2026 is a challenge to predict medication errors in clinical trials using Machine Learning. The Clinical Trials Dosing Errors Benchmark 2026 (CT-DEB'26) is dedicated to automated detection of the risks of medication dosing errors within clinical trial protocols. Leveraging a curated dataset of over 29K trial records derived from the ClinicalTrials.gov<http://clinicaltrials.gov/> registry, participants are challenged to predict the risk probabilities of protocols likely to manifest dosing errors. The dataset consists of various fields with numerical, categorical, as well as textual data types. Once the shared task is concluded and the leaderboard is published, the participants are invited to submit a paper to the CL4Health workshop. Website: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/11891/ Automatic Case Report Form (CRF) Filling from Clinical Notes. Case Report Forms (CRFs) are standardized instruments in medical research used to collect patient data in a consistent and reliable way. They consist of a predefined list of items to be filled with patient information. Each item aims to collect a portion of information relevant for a specific clinical goal (e.g., allergies, chronicity of disease, tests results). Automating CRF filling from clinical notes would accelerate clinical research, reduce manual burden on healthcare professionals, and create structured representations that can be directly leveraged to produce accessible, patient- and practitioners-friendly summaries. Even though the healthcare community has been utilizing CRFs as a basic tool in the day-to-day clinical practice, publicly available CRF datasets are scarce, limiting the development of robust NLP systems for this task. We present this Shared Task on CRF-filling aiming to enhance research on systems that can be applied in real clinical settings. Website: https://sites.google.com/fbk.eu/crf/ ArchEHR-QA 2026: Grounded Question Answering from Electronic Health Records. The ArchEHR-QA (“Archer”) shared task focuses on answering patients’ health-related questions using their own electronic health records (EHRs). While prior work has explored general health question answering, far less attention has been paid to leveraging patient-specific records and to grounding model outputs in explicit clinical evidence, i.e., linking answers to specific supporting content in the clinical notes. The shared task dataset consists of patient-authored questions, corresponding clinician-interpreted counterparts, clinical note excerpts with sentence-level relevance annotations, and reference clinician-authored answers grounded in the notes. ArchEHR-QA targets the problem of producing answers to patient questions that are supported by and explicitly linked to the underlying clinical notes. This second iteration builds on the 2025 challenge (which was co-located with the ACL 2025 BioNLP Workshop) by expanding the dataset and introducing four complementary subtasks spanning question interpretation, clinical evidence identification, answer generation, and answer–evidence alignment. Teams may participate in any subset of subtasks and will be invited to submit system description papers detailing their approaches and results. Website: https://archehr-qa.github.io/ FoodBench-QA 2026: Grounded Food & Nutrition Question Answering. FoodBench-QA 2026 is a shared task challenging systems to answer food and nutrition questions using evidence from nutrient databases and food ontologies.The dataset includes realistic dietary queries, ingredient and their quantities lists, and recipe descriptions, requiring models to perform nutrient estimation, FSA traffic-light prediction, and food entity recognition/linking across three food semantic models. Participants must generate accurate, evidence-based answers across these subtasks (or at least one of it). After the shared task concludes and the leaderboard is released, participants will be invited to submit their work to the Shared Tasks track of the CL4Health workshop at LREC 2026. Website: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12112/ SUBMISSIONS Two types of submissions are invited: - Full papers: should not exceed eight (8) pages of text, plus unlimited references. These are intended to be reports of original research. - Short papers: may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Appropriate short paper topics include preliminary results, application notes, descriptions of work in progress, etc. Electronic Submission: Submissions must be electronic and in PDF format, using the Softconf START conference management system. Submissions need to be anonymous. Papers should follow LREC 2026 formatting. LREC provides style files for LaTeX and Microsoft Word at https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/. Submission site: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/CL4Health/ Dual submission policy: papers may NOT be submitted to the workshop if they are or will be concurrently submitted to another meeting or publication. Share your LRs: When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). MEETING The workshop will be hybrid. Virtual attendees must be registered for the workshop to access the online environment. Accepted papers will be presented as posters or oral presentations based on the reviewers’ recommendations. ORGANIZERS - Deepak Gupta, US National Library of Medicine - Paul Thompson, National Centre for Text Mining and University of Manchester, UK - Dina Demner-Fushman, US National Library of Medicine - Sophia Ananiadou, National Centre for Text Mining and University of Manchester, UK -- Paul Thompson Research Fellow Department of Computer Science National Centre for Text Mining Manchester Institute of Biotechnology University of Manchester 131 Princess Street Manchester M1 7DN UK http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/Paul.Thompson/

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Invitation to participate
by Lars-Eric Christer Johansson 14 Feb '26

14 Feb '26

We are arranging a workshop / training seminar aimed at advanced MA students and Ph.D. scholarship students. May 4th to May 6th, 2026. Bergen University. There will be a reasonable conference fee covering snacks and lunches. Calls for poster presentations will open soon. Registration will open soon. See https://www.uib.no/en/lle/181518/workshop-tracking-eyes-and-mind

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Public talk - Across the Magic Circle: AI Agents as a Creative Medium for Interactive Storytelling (Dr Yuqian Sun, Midjourney)
by h.dong2＠exeter.ac.uk 13 Feb '26

13 Feb '26

We welcome you to the next Natural Language Processing and Vision (NLPV) seminars at the University of Exeter. Zoom scheduled: Thursday 19 Feb 2026 at 15:30 to 17:00 (expected to finish around 16:30), GMT Location: https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/92623498359?pwd=zPDKXy6XqUqEFKkQG2xPlE… (Meeting ID: 926 2349 8359 Password: 542291) Title: Across the Magic Circle: AI Agents as a Creative Medium for Interactive Storytelling Abstract: As an artist and researcher, I use AI chatbots as my primary expressive medium. My work explores the intersection of LLM applications, interactive storytelling, and computational art. In this talk, I will present research projects that extend generative AI’s storytelling capabilities. These include the game 1001 Nights, in which players must survive an AI King by telling stories; an art installation based on an emergent language system inspired by Nüshu (a historical women’s script created and used exclusively by women in China); and Dramamancer, an AI game-making system built with Midjourney. Speaker's bio: Dr Yuqian (Uchan) Sun, also known as CheeseTalk, is an AI research artist based in London. She's now working at Midjourney. Yuqian aims to create 'alive' narrative experiences that extend beyond video games and into our daily lives through conversational AI agents. She explores linguistic interactions through chatbots, games and interactive installations. Yuqian's interdisciplinary arts and research have been featured in galleries and tech conferences including SIGGRAPH, CVPR, NeurIPS, GDC, Gamescom, AMaze and New York Times Square. She won the Reddot Design Award and Lumen Prize in 2024. Personal website https://fakecheese.me/ X @cheesetalk1997 Check past and upcoming seminars at the following url: https://sites.google.com/view/neurocognit-lang-viz-group/seminars Joining our *Google group* for future seminars and research information: https://groups.google.com/g/neurocognition-language-and-vision-processing-g…

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Recrutement 1 PR et 1 MCF : Informatique, LISN, Université Paris Saclay
by Agata Savary 13 Feb '26

13 Feb '26

ENGLISH VERSION FOLLOWS Bonjour, Le LISN et l'Université Paris-Saclay recrutent : - un maître ou une maitresse de conférence en Informatique (section 27) - un professeur des universités ou une professoresse des universités en Informatique (section 27) Les personnes recrutées seront en poste au sein de l'UFR des Sciences de la Faculté d'Orsay (département informatique). Le LISN est un laboratoire interdisciplinaire de recherche en informatique et sciences du numérique avec une expertise en intelligence artificielle reconnue au niveau international. Les thèmes qui seront considérés en priorité sont les suivants (ordre alphabétique) : Apprentissage statistique Bioinformatique IA hybride, neuro-symbolique, représentation des connaissances et raisonnement Numérique responsable Traitement automatique des langues Les personnes candidates sont invitées à consulter la politique de recrutement pluriannuelle en IA du LISN: https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/lia-au-lisn/ et à prendre contact avant le 31 mars 2026 avec les responsables des équipes et/ou départements de recherche dans lesquels leur projet de recherche pourra s'inscrire. * département Science des données (SD) <https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/departements-et-equipes/science-des-…>: Guillaume Charpiat <mailto:Guillaume.CharpiatREMOVETHESE23CHARACTERS@inria.fr> o équipe A&O <https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/departements-et-equipes/science-des-…>: Sylvain Chevallier <mailto:sylvain.chevallier@universite-paris-saclay.fr> o équipe BioInfo <https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/departements-et-equipes/science-des-…>: Flora Jay <mailto:Flora.JayREMOVETHESE23CHARACTERS@lisn.fr> et Fanny Pouyet <mailto:fanny%20.%20pouyet%20%5Bat%5D%20universite-paris-saclay%20.fr> o équipe LaHDAK <https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/departements-et-equipes/science-des-…>: Fatiha Saïs <mailto:sais@lisn.fr> * département Sciences et Technologies des Langues (STL) <https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/departements-et-equipes/sciences-et-…>: Aurélie Névéol <mailto:aurelie.neveol@lisn.fr> o équipe LIPS <https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/departements-et-equipes/sciences-et-…>: Ioana Vasilescu <mailto:ioana.vasilescu@lisn.fr> o équipe M3 <https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/departements-et-equipes/sciences-et-…>: Albert Rilliard <mailto:albert.rilliard@lisn.fr> o équipe SEME <https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/departements-et-equipes/sciences-et-…>: Agata Savary <mailto:agata.savary@universite-paris-saclay.fr> Pour plus de détails, vous pouvez consulter les fiches de poste complètes ou contacter : Les fiches de poste: - MCF : https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/app/uploads/1/2026/01/Fiche_emploi_CNU_27_1664… <https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/app/uploads/1/2026/01/Fiche_emploi_CNU_27_1664…>- PR :https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/app/uploads/1/2026/02/Fiche_emploi_CNU_27_20-1.pdf Pour le profil recherche : Guillaume Charpiat (guillaume.charpiat(a)lisn.fr) et Aurélie Névéol (aurelie.neveol(a)lisn.fr) Pour le profil enseignement : Fatiha Zaidi (fatiha.zaidi(a)universite-paris-saclay.fr) Les dates et lien odyssée sont disponibles ici : https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/concours-chercheurs-enseignants-cher… Aurélie Névéol et Guillaume Charpiat %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% The LISN lab and Paris-Saclay University are recruiting: - an assistant professor (MCF) in Computer Science - a full professor (PR) in Computer Science The successful candidates will be based at the Faculty of Science in Orsay (Computer Science Department). LISN is an interdisciplinary research laboratory in computer science and digital sciences with internationally recognized expertise in artificial intelligence. The following topics will be given priority (in alphabetical order): Statistical learning Bioinformatics Hybrid AI, neuro-symbolic AI, knowledge representation, and reasoning Responsible digital technology Natural language processing Candidates are invited to read the LISN's multi-year AI recruitment policy: https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/lia-au-lisn/ and to contact the heads of the research teams and/or departments in which their research project could be carried out before March 31, 2026. * Data Science Department (SD) <https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/departements-et-equipes/science-des-…>: Guillaume Charpiat <mailto:Guillaume.CharpiatREMOVETHESE23CHARACTERS@inria.fr> o A&O team <https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/departements-et-equipes/science-des-…>: Sylvain Chevallier <mailto:sylvain.chevallier@universite-paris-saclay.fr> o BioInfo <https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/departements-et-equipes/science-des-…>team <https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/departements-et-equipes/science-des-…> : Flora Jay <mailto:Flora.JayREMOVETHESE23CHARACTERS@lisn.fr> et Fanny Pouyet <mailto:fanny%20.%20pouyet%20%5Bat%5D%20universite-paris-saclay%20.fr> o LaHDA K <https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/departements-et-equipes/science-des-…>team <https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/departements-et-equipes/science-des-…>: Fatiha Saïs <mailto:sais@lisn.fr> * Language Sciences and Technologies Department (STL) <https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/departements-et-equipes/sciences-et-…>: Aurélie Névéol <mailto:aurelie.neveol@lisn.fr> o LIPS <https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/departements-et-equipes/sciences-et-…>team <https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/departements-et-equipes/sciences-et-…>: Ioana Vasilescu <mailto:ioana.vasilescu@lisn.fr> o M3 <https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/departements-et-equipes/sciences-et-…>team <https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/departements-et-equipes/sciences-et-…>: Albert Rilliard <mailto:albert.rilliard@lisn.fr> o SEME team <https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/departements-et-equipes/sciences-et-…>: Agata Savary <mailto:agata.savary@universite-paris-saclay.fr> More details about the positions: - MCF: https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/app/uploads/1/2026/01/Fiche_emploi_CNU_27_1664… - PR: https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/app/uploads/1/2026/02/Fiche_emploi_CNU_27_20-1… Contacts for the research profile: Guillaume Charpiat (guillaume.charpiat(a)lisn.fr) and Aurélie Névéol (aurelie.neveol(a)lisn.fr) Contact for the teaching profile: Fatiha Zaidi (fatiha.zaidi(a)universite-paris-saclay.fr) The dates and link to the odyssée application platform are available here: https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/concours-chercheurs-enseignants-cher… Aurélie Névéol and Guillaume Charpiat

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Third Call for Papers: The 1st Workshop on Computational Affective Science (CAS 2026), co-located with the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2026
by Roman Klinger 13 Feb '26

13 Feb '26

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: The 1st Workshop on Computational Affective Science (Deadline Extended) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Third and Final Call for Papers: The 1st Workshop on Computational Affective Science (CAS 2026), co-located with the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2026 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, May 11-16. (Submission deadline extended to 20 Feb 2026). Website: https://casworkshop.github.io/ Contact: <cas-workshop(a)googlegroups.com> We invite submissions to the first Workshop on Computational Affective Science (CAS 2026), co-located with LREC 2026, on research related to the understanding of affect and emotions through language and computation. CAS will accept archival long and short paper submissions, featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research. We also encourage submissions of extended abstracts from researchers in the broader Affective Science community, with up to two pages of content featuring the research background/hypotheses and a description of methods/results. Extended abstracts are non-archival, offering the option for publication and presentation at other conference venues. ------------ MOTIVATION ------------ Affect refers to the fundamental neural processes that generate and regulate emotions, moods, and feeling states. Affect and emotions are central to how we organize meaning, to our behavior, to our health and well-being, and to our very survival. Despite this, and even though most of us are intimately familiar with emotions in everyday life, there is much we do not know about how emotions work and how they impact our lives. Affective Science is a broad interdisciplinary field that explores these and related questions about affect and emotions. Since language is a powerful mechanism of emotion expression, there is a growing use of language data and advanced natural language processing (NLP) algorithms to shed light on fundamental questions about emotions. The Workshop on Computational Affective Science (CAS) aims to be a dedicated venue for work focused specifically on the link between NLP and affective science. Interdisciplinary Scope: The workshop takes an interdisciplinary approach to affective science and aims at bringing together NLP researchers, scientists, and theorists from many research areas, including psychology, sociology, neuroscience, and philosophy. Although work in sentiment analysis is decades old, this work often proceeds separately and in different fields from research and theory in affective science. Meanwhile, affective scientists in psychology, sociology, neuroscience and philosophy increasingly seek to use linguistic tools to shed light on the nature of emotions, moods, and feeling states. CAS is therefore co-organized by an interdisciplinary group of researchers (spanning NLP and Affective Science) to foment collaboration at this exciting frontier of research. ------------ SUBMISSIONS ------------ We invite long and short archival paper submissions, as well as non-archival extended abstracts on a broad range of topics at the intersection of affective science and natural language processing, including but not limited to: 1. The Nature of Affect and Computational Modeling of Emotions Computational experiments that add to our understanding of affect and emotions, including findings relevant to: - theories and nature of emotion - the biology or neuroscience of emotions - appraisal models - dimensional models (valence / arousal / dominance) - models of constructed emotion - cognitive-affective architectures - emotion dynamics (emergence, intensification, decay, transitions) - emotion granularity - emotion regulation - affective embodiment - evolutionary and developmental affect - emotion–cognition interactions These areas are relevant not just to human affect, but may also apply to data animals and artificial agents. 2. Affective Data and Resources Work on compiling and annotating affect-related information in text, speech, facial and bodily expression, and physiological signals (ECG, EEG, GSR, multimodal biosensing), with a focus on text data (monolingual or multilingual) and multimodal data suitable for an NLP venue. Data from underserved languages is especially encouraged. 3. Emotion Recognition, Prediction, and Inference At the instance level: - emotion classification (discrete emotions, dimensional ratings) - emotion intensity estimation - emotion cause detection - context-aware affect inference (culture, situation, social setting) - structured emotion analysis At the aggregate level: - creating emotion arcs - determining broad trends in emotions over time or across locations - tracking emotional responses toward entities of interest (e.g., climate change) - document-level and cross-document emotion analysis - labeling social networks 4. Applications Including but not limited to: - Affect and health, psychopathology, and mental disorders - Affect and behavior/social science (e.g., interpersonal affect, empathy, group-level affect, affect contagion, computational emotion regulation) - Affect and education - Affect and literature/narratives/digital humanities - Affect and commerce 5. Explainability and Interpretability in Computational Affective Models Work aimed at improving the transparency and interpretability of affective systems. This includes understanding how models represent and infer emotions and identifying key cues driving predictions. 6. Ethics, Fairness, Theory Integration, Philosophical Implications - Bias and generalizability of affective systems across demographics - Privacy and ethics in affective data collection - Examining whether automatic NLP systems rely on current and valid theories of affect and emotion - The implications of machines modeling or simulating affect - Societal considerations surrounding affective artificial agents ------------ IMPORTANT DATES ------------ Submission deadline (**Extended**): 20 Feb 2026 Notification of acceptance: 16 March 2026 Camera Ready Paper due: 30 March 2026 Workshop date: 16 May 2026 ------------ SUBMISSION DETAILS ------------ We invite submissions for archival long and short papers, as well as non-archival extended abstracts. Archival long and short papers should feature novel and unpublished work relating to the topics detailed above. We also invite submissions of extended abstracts from researchers in the broader Affective Science community, with up to two pages of content featuring the research background/hypotheses and a description of methods/results. Extended abstracts are non-archival, offering the option for publication and presentation at other conference venues. Archival Track: Long Paper: Consists of up to 8 pages of content, with additional pages for references, limitations, ethical considerations, and appendices. Short Paper: Consists of up to 4 pages of content, with additional pages for references, limitations, ethical considerations, and appendices. (When preparing camera ready papers, you will be allowed one extra page to address comments by the reviewers.) Non-Archival Track: Extended Abstract: Up to 2 pages. ------------ SUBMISSION FORMAT ------------ All submissions must use the LREC 2026 template and follow the guidelines found at: https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/ (Note: extended abstracts can be limited to being 1-2 pages in length). Mandatory Ethics Section: We ask all authors to include a section on Ethical Considerations in their submission, touching on the ethical concerns and broader societal impacts of the work. This discussion section will not count towards the page limit. ------------ SUBMISSION SITE ------------ All submissions must be made through the SoftConf portal: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/CAS ------------ ADDITIONAL DETAILS ------------ Website: https://casworkshop.github.io/ Attendance: The workshop will follow the attendance policy of the main conference (https://lrec2026.info/registration-policy/ ). ------------ ORGANIZERS ------------ - Christopher Bagdon, University of Bamberg, Germany - Krishnapriya Vishnubhotla, National Research Council Canada - Kristen A. Lindquist, The Ohio State University, USA - Lyle Ungar, University of Pennsylvania, USA - Roman Klinger, University of Bamberg, Germany - Saif M. Mohammad, National Research Council Canada ***Contact us at <cas-workshop(a)googlegroups.com> with any questions.***

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Deadline Extension – CfP for Workshop on Dialects in NLP: A Resource Perspective (DialRes-LREC26)
by Stavros Bompolas 13 Feb '26

13 Feb '26

***APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING*** ***************************************************************** Dear Colleagues, Due to multiple requests, we are pleased to announce a deadline extension for submissions to the Workshop on Dialects in NLP: A Resource Perspective (DialRes-LREC26), which will be held at LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. The new submission deadline is now February 27, 2026. Key Information Workshop Title Dialects in NLP: A Resource Perspective (DialRes-LREC26) Event Workshop at LREC 2026 (Hybrid event — in person and online) Location Palma de Mallorca, Spain (and Online) Workshop Date May 16, 2026 Website https://dialres.github.io/dialres/<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fdialres.github.io%2Fdialres%2F> Contact dialres-lrec26(a)googlegroups.com<https://www.google.com/url?q=mailto%3Adialres-lrec26%40googlegroups.com> Overview Dialectal and non-standard varieties pose persistent challenges for linguistic resource development. While in-depth study and large-scale resource creation for dominant or standard varieties have driven major advances in language technology, linguistic resources that adequately represent dialectal variation remain scarce. It therefore remains an open question whether standard-centric practices address dialectal variation or instead create new problems for dialects. DialRes-LREC26 invites submissions on the creation, analysis, and evaluation of dialectal resources, including—but not limited to—work that critically examines how standard-centric methodologies impact dialects in the development of linguistic resources and models. We especially encourage contributions addressing the consequences of such practices for speech and morphosyntactic modelling, OCR of dialectal and historical texts, orthographic normalisation and homogenisation, annotation practices and lemmatisation strategies that abstract away or suppress dialectal forms, as well as analyses of how these choices affect dialects and their communities methodologically, economically, and socially. The workshop focuses on problems, limitations, and trade-offs in developing dialectal resources from a linguistic perspective, while encouraging the creation and evaluation of resources in formats that enable reuse by the NLP community. Workshop Topics * Development and evaluation of dialectal oral and textual resources * Orthographic normalisation and homogenisation, including their impact on dialectal variation * Dialects vs. standard language varieties in annotation frameworks * Cross-lingual and cross-dialectal transfer and model adaptation * Resource scalability issues and techniques * Use and limitations of large language models (LLMs) in dialectal resource development * OCR for dialectal, non-standard, and historical texts: challenges, errors, and downstream effects * Resources for, and applications supporting, dialect revitalisation and preservation * Dialectal studies and teaching from a resource-oriented perspective * Working on dialectal resources: academic, financial, legal, and societal issues * Enabling and empowering dialect communities to develop their own resources Submission Information Instructions for Authors Submissions are electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system via the link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/DialRes. They must be 4 to 8 pages long (excluding references and potential Ethics Statements) and follow the LREC stylesheet, available on the conference website on the Author’s kit page Author’s Kit<https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/>. All templates are also available from this<https://lrec2026.info/calls/second-call-for-papers/> page. Invited Speaker Prof. Barbara Plank, LMU Munich (https://bplank.github.io/) Important Dates [updated] Submission Deadline February 27, 2026 [updated] Notification of Acceptance March 18, 2026 [updated] Camera-ready Papers Due March 28, 2026 Resubmissions from the LREC Main Conference It will also be possible to submit papers that were rejected from the LREC 2026 main conference to DialRes 2026. Such submissions must be revised to fit the scope and format of the workshop and must comply with the same anonymization requirements. Endorsements The workshop is endorsed by UniDive COST Action CA21167 and Archimedes Athena R.C. Organizing Committee * Antonios Anastasopoulos — George Mason University / Archimedes–Athena RC * Stella Markantonatou — ILSP / Archimedes–Athena RC * Angela Ralli — University of Patras / Archimedes–Athena RC * Marcos Zampieri — George Mason University * Stavros Bompolas — Archimedes–Athena RC * Vivian Stamou — Archimedes–Athena RC We look forward to receiving your contributions! Sincerely, Stavros Bompolas On behalf of the Organizing Committee of DialRes-LREC26

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[CFP] First International Workshop on Extraction from Triplet Text-Table-Knowledge Graph and associated Challenge @ ESWC 2026
by Raphaël Troncy 13 Feb '26

13 Feb '26

[Apologies for cross-postings] Call for Papers First International Workshop on Extraction from Triplet Text-Table-Knowledge Graph and associated Challenge https://ecladatta.github.io/triplet2026/ in conjunction with the 23rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2026) https://2026.eswc-conferences.org/, Dubrovnik, Croatia Important dates: - **Submission deadline**: 3 March, 2026 (11:59pm, AoE) - **Notifications**: 31 March, 2026 - **Camera-ready deadline**: 15 April, 2026 (11:59pm, AoE) - **Workshop**: Sunday 10 May OR Monday 11 May 2026 Motivation: Understanding information spread across text and table is essential for tasks such as question answering and fact checking. Existing benchmarks primarily deal with semantic table interpretation or reasoning over tables for question answering, leaving a gap in evaluating models that integrate tabular and textual information, perform joint information extraction across modalities, or can automatically detect inconsistencies between modalities. This workshop aims to provide a forum for exchanging ideas between the NLP community working on open information extraction and the vibrant Semantic Web community working on the core challenge of matching tabular data to Knowledge Graphs, on populating knowledge graphs using texts and on reasoning across text, tabular data and knowledge graphs. The workshop also targets researchers focusing on the intersection of learning over structured data and information retrieval, for example, in retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and question answering (QA) systems. Hence, the goal of the workshop is to connect researchers and trigger collaboration opportunities by bringing together views from the Semantic Web, NLP, database, and IR disciplines. Scope: The topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Semantic Table Interpretation - Automated Tabular Data Understanding - Using Large Language Models (LLMs) for Information Extraction - Generative Models and LLMs for Structured Data - Knowledge Graph Construction and Completion with Tabular Data and Texts - Analysis of Tabular Data on the Web (Web Tables) - Benchmarking and Evaluation Frameworks for Joint Text-Table Data Analysis - Applications (e.g. data search, fact-checking, Question-Answering, KG alignment) Submission Guidelines: We invite two types of submissions: 1. Full research papers (12-15 pages) including references and appendices 2. Challenge papers (6-8 pages) including references and appendices All submissions should be formatted in the CEUR layout format, https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-w… This workshop is double-blind and non-archival. Submissions are managed through EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=triplet2026. All accepted papers will be presented as posters or as oral talks. **TRIPLET Challenge:** In recent years, the research community has shown increasing interest in the joint understanding of text and tabular data, often, for performing tasks such as question answering or fact checking where evidences can be found in texts and tables. Hence, various benchmarks have been developed for jointly querying tabular data and textual documents in domains such as finance, scientific publications, and open domain. While benchmarks for triple extraction from text for Knowledge Graph construction and semantic annotation of tabular data exist in the community, there remains a gap in benchmarks and tasks that specifically address the joint extraction of triples from text and tables by leveraging complementary clues across these different modalities. The TRIPLET 2026 challenge is proposing three sub-tasks and benchmarks for understanding the complementarity between tables, texts, and knowledge graphs, and in particular to propose a joint knowledge extraction and reconciliation process. #Sub-Task 1: Assessing the Relatedness Between Tables and Textual Passages The goal of this task is to assess the relatedness between tables and textual passages (within documents and across documents). For this purpose, we have constructed LATTE (Linking Across Table and Text for Relatedness Evaluation), a human annotated dataset comprising table–text pairs with relatedness labels. LATTE consists of 7,674 unique tables and 41,880 unique textual paragraphs originating from 3,826 distinct Wikipedia pages. Each text paragraph is drawn from the same or contextually linked pages as the corresponding table, rather than being artificially generated. LATTE provides a challenging benchmark for cross-modal reasoning by requiring classification of related and unrelated table–text pairs. Unlike prior resources centered on table-to-text generation or text retrieval, LATTE emphasizes fine-grained semantic relatedness between structured and unstructured data. The Figure below provides an example, using a web-annotation tool we developed, of how we identify the relatedness between the sentence containing the entity AirPort Extreme 802.11n (highlighted in Orange) and the data table providing information about output power and frequency for this entity. Participants are provided with tables and textual passages that would need to be ranked. The evaluation will use metrics such as P@k, R@k and F1@k. Go to https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12776/ and enroll to participate in this Task. #Sub-Task 2: Joint Relation Extraction Between Texts and Tables The goal of this task is to automatically extract knowledge jointly from tables and related texts. For this purpose, we created ReTaT, a dataset that can be used to train and evaluate systems for extracting such relations. This dataset is composed of (table, surrounding text) pairs extracted from Wikipedia pages and has been manually annotated with relation triples. ReTaT is organized in three subsets with distinct characteristics: domain (business, telecommunication and female celebrities), size (from 50 to 255 pairs), language (English vs French), type of relations (data vs object properties), close vs open list of relation, size of the surrounding text (paragraph vs full page). We then assessed its quality and suitability for the joint table-text relation extraction task using Large Language Models (LLMs). Given a Wikipedia page containing texts and tables and a list of predicates defined in Wikidata, a participant system should extract triples composed of mentions located partly in the text and partly in the table and disambiguated with entities and predicates identified in the Wikidata reference knowledge graph. For example, in the Figure below, an annotation triple <Q13567390, P2109, 24.57> is associated with mentions highlighted in orange (subject), blue (predicate) and green (object) to annotate the document available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirPort_Extreme. Similar to the Text2KGBench evaluation (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-47243-5_14), and because the set of triples are not exhaustive for a given sentence, to avoid false negatives, we follow a locally closed approach by only considering the relations that are part of the ground truth. The evaluation then uses metrics such as P, R and F1. Go to https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12936/ and enroll to participate in this Task. # Sub-Task 3: Detecting Inconsistencies Between Texts, Tables and Knowledge Graphs The goal of this task is to check the consistency of knowledge extracted from tables and texts with existing triples in the Wikidata knowledge graph. Different kind of inconsistencies will be considered in this task. Participants to this task will be able to report on their findings in their system paper. See the Figure at https://ecladatta.github.io/images/triplet_annotation_tool.png # Data & Evaluation: For the first 2 sub-tasks, we have released a training dataset with ground-truth annotations, enabling participant teams to develop machine learning-based systems, and in particular for training purposes and for hyperparameter optimizations and internal validations. A separate blind test dataset will remain private and be used for ranking the submissions. Participants should register on Codabench and then enroll for each sub-task separately (Task 1: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12776/ and Task 2: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12936/). Each team are allowed a limited number of daily submissions, and the highest achieved accuracy will be reported as the team's final result. We encourage participants to develop open-source solutions, to utilise and fine-tune pre-trained language models and to experiment with LLMs of various size in zero-shot or few-shot settings. # Challenge Important Dates: - Release of training set: 13 February 2026 - Deadline for registering to the challenge: 15 March 2026 - Release of test set: 24 March 2026 - Submission of results: 10 April 2026 - System Results & Notification of Acceptance: 17 April 2026 - Submission of System Papers: 28 April 2026 - Presentations @ TRIPLET Workshop: May 2026 Workshop Organizers - Raphael Troncy (EURECOM, France) - Yoan Chabot (Orange, France) - Véronique Moriceau (IRIT, France) - Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT, France) - Mouna Kamel(IRIT, France) Contact: For discussions, please use our Google Group, https://groups.google.com/g/triplet-challenge The workshop is supported by the ECLADATTA project funded by the French National Funding Agency ANR under the grant ANR-22-CE23-0020. -- Raphaël Troncy EURECOM, Campus SophiaTech Data Science Department 450 route des Chappes, 06410 Biot, France. e-mail: raphael.troncy(a)eurecom.fr & raphael.troncy(a)gmail.com Tel: +33 (0)4 - 9300 8242 Fax: +33 (0)4 - 9000 8200 Web: http://www.eurecom.fr/~troncy/

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