Exciting news! Due to several requests, we are happy to announce a deadline extension for the
2nd Workshop on Ecology, Environment, and Natural Language Processing (NLP4Ecology 2026)
to be held at LREC 2026 on 12 May 2026 (afternoon).
New Submission Deadline: 4 March 2026 (23:59 AoE)
All other dates remain unchanged:
Notification of Acceptance: 20 March 2026
Camera-Ready Deadline: 30 March 2026
Workshop Date: 12 May 2026
Submissions are handled via START:
https://softconf.com/lrec2026/NLP4Ecology2026/
Scope:
The workshop brings together researchers working at the intersection of NLP, linguistics, and ecological/environmental studies, with a focus on interdisciplinary approaches to the ecological crisis.
Topics include (but are not limited to):
Sentiment, argument, and stance analysis of environmental topics
Automated linguistic, discourse, frame analysis and topic modeling in ecological communication
Detection of anthropocentric and speciesist biases (including in LLMs)
Environmental text classification, entity recognition, and monitoring
Fact-checking and greenwashing detection
Ecofeminism, environmental justice, and language
Corpora creation and annotation for ecological discourse
Environmental communication in low-resource languages
Multimodal approaches to environmental narratives
Fairness, ethics, and accountability in environmental NLP
NLP for climate change, biodiversity, sustainability, and environmental policy
Submission Categories:
>> Regular papers (4–8 pages) – research papers or position papers, archival, included in the proceedings (must follow the LREC 2026 Author Kit)
>> Non-archival contributions (up to 4 pages) – research communications, work in progress, manifestos, etc. (presented at the workshop but not included in the proceedings)
More information:
https://nlp4ecology2026.di.unito.it/
Contact: nlp4ecology.workshop(a)gmail.com
We warmly encourage submissions and look forward to advancing research at the intersection of language, AI, and ecological transformation.
Best regards,
NLP4Ecology 2026 Organizers
*Studying the Language of Young Learners: Methodological Advances and
Challenges*
16–17 July 2026
Workshop at the University of Bonn, Germany, organized by Robert Fuchs
(University of Bonn), Valentin Werner (University of Bamberg) & Anna
Rosen (University of Freiburg) as part of the project /Young German
Learner English /(funded by the German Research Foundation).
https://www.iaak.uni-bonn.de/bael/en/uploads/yglew2_cfp.pdf
Research on young second language (L2) learners, as well as young
learner (inter-)language specifically, has gained increasing attention
in recent years, driven by calls for greater diversity and
representativeness in both Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and Learner
Corpus Research (LCR). Although a growing number of learner corpora are
available (Fernández & Davis, 2021), corpora representing young learner
language, broadly defined, remain comparatively rare. While empirical
findings from young learners are of exceptional theoretical and applied
importance, they also raise distinct methodological challenges at every
stage of the research process, from study design and data elicitation to
annotation, analysis, and interpretation (Granger, 2015; Myles, 2015,
2021; Tracy-Ventura & Paquot, 2021).
This workshop, organized by the YGLE team (https://www.ygle.de), focuses
explicitly on these methodological issues. It is intended as an
interdisciplinary forum for researchers working with young learner
populations, typically situated in institutional (primary or secondary
school) contexts, to exchange insights, innovations, and best practices
that advance the methodological foundations of our field (Gilquin, 2015,
2021; Paquot & Plonsky, 2017).
The workshop will feature keynotes by
- Emma Marsden, University of York
- Detmar Meurers, Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien, Tübingen
The workshop will take place jointly with the15th /Bonn Applied English
Linguistics Conference/ (BAELc15;
https://www.iaak.uni-bonn.de/bael/en/news-and-events/all-news-and-events/ba…),
which will focus on corpus-based research but is open to other fields of
applied linguistics as well. While the working language of the event is
English, we welcome contributions on all learner and target languages.
The conference is planned as an in-person event in Bonn. It will start
after 12 pm on Thursday and end (at the latest) at 4 pm on Saturday,
leaving room for travel.
Please submit your abstracts (in the range of 400–500 words +
potentially a data table or figure for illustration + references; please
use APA style) before April 15th, 2026 via easyabs (see link below). You
will receive feedback on acceptance in early May 2026. We will be able
to accommodate a limited number of online presentations. Please indicate
your availability in your submission.
Submit via easyabs: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/YGLEw2/
Please send any inquiries to bael(a)uni-bonn.de
Prof. Dr. Robert Fuchs | Head of Department and Professor of English
Linguistics | Department of English, American and Celtic Studies |
University of Bonn | Rabinstr. 8 53113 Bonn, Germany |
https://uni-bonn.academia.edu/RFuchs |
https://www.iaak.uni-bonn.de/bael/en/people/chair/prof-dr-robert-fuchs |
https://sites.google.com/view/rflinguistics/
*Recent publications:*
Coats, S., Basile, A., Morin, C. & Fuchs, R. (to appear). *The YouTube
Corpus of Singapore English Podcasts*. /English World-Wide/
Fuchs, R. et al. (to appear). *Non-standard morphosyntactic variation in
L2 English varieties world-wide: A corpus-based study
<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024384125000737>*.
/Lingua/.
Fuchs, R., Wiltshire, C. & Sarmah, P. (to appear). *The role of English
in the linguistic ecology of Northeast India
<https://www.academia.edu/125365118/The_role_of_English_in_the_linguistic_ec…>*.
In P. Siemund, et al. (Eds.), /World Englishes in their Local
Multilingual Ecologies/. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Lange, C., & Fuchs, R. (to appear). *English in India*. In R. Hickey &
K. Burridge (Eds.), /New Cambridge History of the English Language/.
Cambridge: CUP.
Fuchs, R. (2025). *Influencing people around the globe - The linguistic
expression of persuasion across varieties of English worldwide*
<https://www.academia.edu/107491904/Influencing_people_around_the_globe_The_…>.
In D. Dayter, & S. Rüdiger (Eds.), /Manipulation, Influence, and
Deception: The Changing Landscape of Persuasive Language/, 135-156.
Cambridge: CUP.
The next meeting of the Edge Hill Corpus Research Group will take place online (via MS Teams) on Friday 6 March 2026, 10:00-11:30 am (GMT<https://time.is/United_Kingdom>).
Topics: LLMs, Corpus Linguistics, Language Learning
Speaker: Peter Crosthwaite<https://languages-cultures.uq.edu.au/profile/2845/peter-crosthwaite> (University of Queensland, Australia)
Title: Corpora, Prompts, and Pedagogy: Human-AI Text Comparison in Applied Linguistics
The abstract and registration link are here: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/crg/next
Attendance is free. Registration closes on Wednesday 4 March.
If you have problems registering, or have any questions, please email the organiser, Costas Gabrielatos (gabrielc(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:gabrielc@edgehill.ac.uk>).
________________________________
Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter>
Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter>
University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21
________________________________
This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>
*** First Call for Demos and Tools ***
International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines,
and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026)
29 September - 2 October 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina
Limassol, Cyprus
https://conf.researchr.org/home/variability-2026
VARIABILITY is a new conference that has been merged of three prominent conferences
focussing on software and systems variability, configuration and reuse: SPLC (the
International Systems and Software Product Line Conference, 29 successful editions,
ranked as a top conference), VaMoS (the International Working Conference on Variability
Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems, 19 successful editions), and ICSR (the
International Conference on Systems and Software Reuse, 22 successful editions).
The Demos and Tools Track at VARIABILITY 2026 invites compelling live presentations
and submissions of innovative tools, practical demonstrations, and curated datasets that
support research and practice in software and systems product line engineering, reuse,
and configuration.
This track provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to showcase academic or
commercial tools, demonstrations of novel techniques, and datasets that contribute to the
advancement of software and systems reuse, software product lines and configurable
systems. Accepted contributions will be featured both during the main conference (via oral
presentations) and in interactive exhibition spaces (e.g., demo booths or poster/demo
sessions during breaks).
This track provides an opportunity to illustrate the practical impact of new ideas and to
foster interaction between researchers and practitioners that address real-world variability
challenges.
Topics of Interest
We welcome submissions on all topics related to tool support and datasets for product
lines and variable/configurable software systems, including (but not limited to):
Core Product Line Engineering Techniques
• Feature modeling
• Variability management
• Product Line Architecture
• Validation and verification
• Product derivation and generation, including build systems and CI
• Product-line testing and further analyses
• Optimization and measurement of non-functional properties
• Language product lines
Application Domains and Contexts
• Software-intensive and cyber-physical systems
• Web and cloud-based systems, including microservices
• Internet of Things
• Automotive and industrial automation
• Consumer electronics
• Software ecosystems and multi-product lines
Submission Guidelines
Submissions must describe either (1) a new tool or prototype; (2) a novel extension to an
existing tool; (3) a practical demonstration of an approach; (4) a new or curated dataset
relevant to variability and reuse; (5) a significant update to a previously published tool or
dataset (include a clear description of new contributions).
Each submission must include:
• A paper of up to 4 pages, including references and figures.
• An optional appendix of up to 2 pages (not included in the proceedings), describing the
planned live demonstration or dataset usage scenario.
• A link to a short video (max. 5 minutes) illustrating the tool, demonstration, or dataset
in action.
Papers should briefly describe the theoretical foundation, with a focus on practical aspects
such as software architecture, implementation decisions, usage methodology, and
validation through case studies or benchmarks.
Public availability of tools and datasets (preferably under open-source/open-data licenses)
is strongly encouraged. Where availability is not possible, submissions should explain the
reasons.
All submissions must adhere to the LNCS (Springer) format. Please refer to the official LNCS
template at https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… .
Submissions must be in PDF format and submitted via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=variability2026 (select “Demonstrations and
Tools Track”).
Evaluation Criteria
Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee.
Reviewers will evaluate:
• Relevance to the VARIABILITY community
• Technical soundness and artifact maturity
• Novelty of the contribution
• Quality of the written description and video demonstration
• Clarity in the presentation of implementation details, usage, or dataset structure
• Positioning with respect to existing tools/datasets/practices
This track follows a single-blind review process.
Presentation and Publication
Accepted papers will appear in the VARIABILITY 2026 Companion Proceedings, published
in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.
At least one author of each accepted paper must:
• Register for the full conference, and
• Present the contribution at the event.
Important Dates (AoE)
• Submission of Demos and Posters: 1 June 2026
• Notification of Acceptance: 21 June 2026
• Camera-Ready Submission: 15 July 2026
• Author Registration: 15 July 2026
Organisation
General Chairs
• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
• Gilles Perrouin, FNRS & University of Namur, Belgium
Research Track Chairs
• Thorsten Berger, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
• Ina Schaefer, KIT, Germany
Industry Track Chairs
• Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Lab and Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
• Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
Journal First Track Chairs
• Mathieu Acher, University Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France
• Xhevahire Tërnava, LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France
Doctoral Symposium Track Chairs
• Rick Rabiser, LIT CPS, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
• Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel
Demos and Tools Track Chairs
• Sandra Greiner, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
• Leopoldo Teixeira, Federal University of Pernambuco
Projects Showcase Chairs
• Daniel Struber, Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, Radbound University, Sweden
• Dalila Tamzalit, Nantes Université, France
Hall of Fame Chairs
• Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
• Goetz Botterweck, Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Ireland
• Natsuko Noda, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan
Workshops Chairs
• Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de Malaga, Spain
• Malte Lochau, University of Siegen, Germany
Tutorials Chairs
• Loek Cleophas, Eindhoven University of Technology and Stellenbosch University, The Netherlands
• Mahsa Varshosaz, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Proceedings Chair
• Sophie Fortz, King's College London, UK
Publicity Chairs
• Wesley Assunção, North Carolina State University, USA
• Kentaro Yoshimura, Hitachi Ltd, Japan
Local Organiser and Finance Chair
• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Dear colleagues,
We invite you to submit your papers to the 17th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS2026) in Irbid, Jordan, May 18th - 21st, 2026
Important Dates:
* Full paper submission: March 10th, 2026
* Notification of Decision: March 31st, 2026
* Camera-Ready and Registration: April 10th, 2026
The proceedings of ICICS2026 will be published in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS).
The topics that will be covered in ICICS 2026 include, but are not limited to:
1. AI and Machine Learning
2. Networking and Internet of Things (IoT)
3. Data Science and Big Data
4. Natural Language Processing and Applications
5. Software & web Engineering, and Information Systems
6. Security, Privacy, and Digital Forensics
7. Cloud and Fog/Mobile Edge Computing
8. E-Learning Technologies
9. Communication Systems, Electronics, and Signal Processing
Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed (check the review process on the conference website). Authors are expected to present their papers at the conference (or virtually). The accepted and registered papers will appear in the conference proceedings.
The Conference Program includes free trips to Jarash and Umm Qais
Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icics2026 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icics2026>
Conference website: http://www.just.edu.jo/icics
Please send any inquiry to: icics(a)just.edu.jo<mailto:icics@just.edu.jo>
[Apologies for multiple postings]
The online registration for LREC 2026 Main conference, Workshops and
Tutorials is now open @ https://cvent.me/XakVZG
Early-Bird Deadline: March 6, 2026 (23:59 AoE)
Fees: https://lrec2026.info/registration-fees/
Registration Policy: https://lrec2026.info/registration-policy/
LREC 2026 Contacts
* Invitation and visa letters: german.rigau(a)ehu.es
* ELRA membership, payment, invoices: elrasecretariat(a)lrec2026.info
* Scientific programme and Main conference papers:
lrec2026-pcs(a)googlegroups.com
* Workshops: lrec2026-workshop-chairs(a)googlegroups.com
* Tutorials: lrec2026-tutorial-chairs(a)googlegroups.com
General contact: info(a)lrec2026.info
https://lrec2026.info
Follow ELRA on LinkedIn
*(apologies for cross-postings)*
------------------------------
*HIPE:* Identifying Historical People, Places and other Entities.
*Website:* https://hipe-eval.github.io/HIPE-2026/
*Tasks:* Person-Location Relation Extraction from Multilingual Historical Texts.
*Registration:* https://clef-labs-registration.dipintra.it/ (until 23 April 2026)
*Training data releases:* 19 Dec 2025 (partial); 19 Jan 2026 (full)
*Evaluation period:* 5–7 May 2026
*Workshop venue:* during CLEF conference, 21–24 September 2026, Jena, Germany.
*LinkedIn:* @ImpressoProject / #HIPE2026 / @clef_initiative / #clef2026
------------------------------
"Who was where when?"
We invite participation in the third edition of the HIPE shared task, dedicated to the extraction of person–place relations in multilingual historical documents. Building on the success of HIPE-2020 and HIPE-2022, which focused on entity recognition and linking, HIPE-2026 aims to enable finer-grained analysis of entities and support the accurate reconstruction of individuals’ geographical and temporal trajectories.
The objective of HIPE-2026 is to *build systems capable of determining whether a relation holds between a person and a location (place) mentioned in a document*, and classify its temporal scope. Participants are asked to develop systems that determine, for each (person, location) pair associated with a historical document, whether the text implies that the person is at that location within the document’s temporal horizon (isAt relation), or that the person was there at some earlier moment in their life (a more general At relation), or that no such link can be established.
Can large language models take up the challenges? Simple co-occurrences of entity mentions in a text are not sufficient to uncover the implicit and explicit, temporally anchored relations between person and locations. Addressing this challenge requires temporal reasoning, geographical inference, and the interpretation of noisy historical texts (often with only fragmentary contextual cues) to classify person–location relations with varying degrees of certainty.
The task is designed to be tackled by generative AI systems/LLMs as well as by more traditional classification approaches. HIPE-2026 features two evaluation profiles
- *Accuracy Profile*: Focusing on system performance in relation classification.
- *Efficiency Profile*: Rewarding scalable, lightweight approaches considering model size and compute cost.
- *Generalization Profile*: An unseen dataset from a different domain will be included to evaluate systems’ ability to generalise beyond the newspaper domain data.
For the accuracy and efficiency profile, data originate from historical newspapers in English, German, French and Luxembourgish.
Entity pairs will be provided.
For further information on data, tasks, and evaluation settings
- HIPE-2026 website: https://hipe-eval.github.io/HIPE-2026/
- Participation Guidelines: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17800136
- HIPE-2026-data GitHub repository: https://github.com/hipe-eval/HIPE-2026-data
On HIPE shared tasks:
HIPE evaluation lab series is part of the ongoing efforts of the natural language processing and digital humanities communities to adapt and develop technologies to efficiently retrieving and exploring information from historical texts.
Important dates
-------------------------
- 17 Nov 2025: Lab registration opens.
- 03 Dec 2025: Release of example data.
- 19 Dec 2025: Release of partial training data.
- 19 Jan 2026: Release of final training data.
- 23 Apr 2026: Lab registration closes.
- 05 May 2026: Test data release (10:00 CEST).
- 07 May 2026: Participant run submission deadline.
- 13 May 2026: Publication of results and release of test data.
- 28 May 2026: Submission of participant notebook paper.
- 10 Jul 2026 / 31 Aug 2026: CLEF conference regular/late registration DL.
- 21 Sep 2026: CLEF 2026 Conference.
Best regards,
*HIPE-2026 Shared Task Organizers*
https://hipe-eval.github.io/HIPE-2026/
Final Call for Papers and deadline extension!
Seventh Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL)
Co-located with LREC 2026
RAIL Workshop date: 12 May 2026
RAIL website:
https://sadilar.org/en/seventh-workshop-on-resources-for-african-indigenous…
Submission link for the RAIL workshop:
https://softconf.com/lrec2026/RAIL2026/
LREC Conference dates: 11-16 May 2026
LREC website: https://www.elra.info/lrec2026/
Venue: Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
The Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop provides
an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on resources such
as data collections and annotations, Human Language Technologies (HLT)
and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools, and their applications,
specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. In
particular, it aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a
scientific community of practice that focuses on data, as well as
computational linguistic tools specifically designed for or applied to
indigenous languages found in Africa. The seventh Resources for African
Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop will be co-located with the
Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2026 in Palau de
Congressos de Palma, Palma, Mallorca (Spain).
Many African languages are under-resourced while only a few are
considered to be somewhat better resourced. These languages often share
interesting properties such as writing systems, making them different
from most high-resourced languages. From a computational perspective,
these languages lack enough corpora to undertake high level development
of NLP and HLT tools, which in turn impedes the development of African
languages in these areas. During previous workshops, it was noted that
the problems and solutions presented were not only applicable to
African languages but were also relevant to many other low-resource
languages across the world. Because these languages share similar
challenges, this workshop provides researchers with opportunities to
work collaboratively on issues of language resource development and
learn from each other.
The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, the workshop brings together
researchers who work on African indigenous languages, forming a
community of practice for people working on indigenous languages.
Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished
existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in
a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for
discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this
area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of
low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to
improve the quality as well as availability of the resources.
The workshop theme is “Creating resources for less-resourced African
languages”, but submissions on any topic related to properties of
African indigenous languages (including related non-African languages)
may be accepted. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the
following:
* Digital representations of linguistic structures
* Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous
languages
* Building resources for (under-resourced) African indigenous languages
* Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age
* Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African
indigenous languages
* Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African
indigenous languages
* Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages
* Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African
indigenous language resources
* Applications that make use of data collections of African indigenous
languages
Submission requirements:
We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of
the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, should adhere to
the LREC conference requirements. These requirements are described in
LREC’s authors kit: https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/. The submission
should be double blind and each submission should be between four and
eight pages. Only oral papers should be submitted. The maximum number
of pages excludes a compulsory ethics statement, discussion on
limitations, and references and optional acknowledgements, as well as
data and code availability statements if applicable. Appendices or
supplementary material are allowed, but this information will not
necessarily be taken into account during the review process.
The submission link for the RAIL workshop:
https://softconf.com/lrec2026/RAIL2026/
Authors are encouraged to upload their datasets to the SADiLaR
repository: https://repo.sadilar.org/. In case of difficulties
uploading the datasets, please reach out to Benito Trollip
(benito.trollip(a)nwu.ac.za).
Important dates:
Submission deadline: 1 March 2026 AoE
Date of notification: 11 March 2026 AoE
Camera ready copy deadline: 30 March 2026 AoE
Workshop: 12 May 2026
Organising Committee:
Muzi Matfunjwa, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
(SADiLaR), South Africa
Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
(SADiLaR), South Africa
Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
(SADiLaR), South Africa
Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
(SADiLaR), South Africa
--
Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za
Professor in Digital Humanities
South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
https://www.sadilar.org
________________________________
NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT:
http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html
DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system.
________________________________
Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models (KG–LLM 2026) @ LREC 2026
Last CfP — Deadline extended
We are pleased to announce the Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models (KG–LLM 2026), to be held in conjunction with LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, May 16th 2026.
We invite submissions of original research that leverages both Knowledge Graphs (KGs) and Large Language Models (LLMs) in any domain of Natural Language Processing or language resource development.
More information at https://kg-llm.github.io/
Workshop Overview
Large Language Models have become foundational in NLP, yet they continue to face challenges related to bias, hallucination, explainability, environmental impact, and the cost of training. Knowledge Graphs, in contrast, provide high-quality, interpretable, and reusable ontological and linguistic structures that support reasoning, fact checking, and knowledge preservation.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers working at the intersection of these two paradigms, exploring how explicit knowledge and implicit statistical learning can enhance each other. We welcome contributions that investigate, demonstrate, or evaluate systems, methods, or resources integrating both KGs and LLMs.
Topics of Interest
We encourage submissions on (but not limited to):
1. LLMs for Knowledge Graph Engineering
KG modelling, resource creation, and interlinking
Relation extraction
Corpus annotation
Ontology localization
Creation or expansion of linguistic or knowledge graphs
KG querying and question answering
2. Knowledge Graphs for Large Language Models
Using linguistic or knowledge graphs as training data
Fine-tuning LLMs using linked linguistic (meta)data
Knowledge/linguistic graph embeddings
KGs for model explainability, provenance, and source attribution
Neural models for under-resourced languages
KG-augmented RAG (KG-RAG)
3. Joint Use of KGs and LLMs in Applications
Combined KG–LLM use cases with structured linguistic data
Digital humanities applications
Question answering over graph data
Fake news and misinformation detection
Educational applications and assisted learning
Visualizing academic writing with KGs and LLMs
KG-enhanced chatbots for health and medical contexts
Application Domains
All application domains are welcome (Digital Humanities, FinTech, Linguistics, Education, Cybersecurity, etc.) as long as the work uses both Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models.
Submission Guidelines
Submission Format: Papers up to 8 pages excluding references.
Style: All submissions must follow the LREC 2026 format and use the official LREC author kit. (available at https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/ )
Review Process: Double-blind peer review. Submissions must be fully anonymized.
Submission System: Papers must be submitted via the START conference system at https://softconf.com/lrec2026/KGLLM/
Language Resources: In line with LREC policies, authors are encouraged to describe, document, and share language resources, datasets, models, evaluation tools, or annotation guidelines used or created in their work.
Accepted Papers: All accepted papers will be included in the LREC 2026 workshop proceedings.
Presentation: Accepted papers will be presented as oral or poster sessions during the workshop.
Important Dates
*All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”)*
Paper submission deadline: 1 March 2026
Notification to authors: 24 March 2026
Camera-ready due: 30 March 2026
Workshop date: 16 May 2026
Contact
For questions, please contact the workshop organizers at: kg-llm-26(a)googlegroups.com
Organizing Committee
Gilles Sérasset, Université Grenoble Alpes, France
Katerina Gkirtzou, Athena Research Center, Greece
Michael Cochez, Ellis Institute Finland & Åbo Akademi, Finland
Jan-Christoph Kalo, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands