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Call for Papers: VarDial 2026 - The Thirteenth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects @ EACL
by verena.blaschke＠cis.lmu.de 21 Oct '25

21 Oct '25

Dear all, Here is our CfP for VarDial 2026 - The Thirteenth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects: -- VarDial 2026: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2026/ VarDial 2026 will be colocated with EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco. We anticipate a discussion on computational methods and language resources for closely related languages, language varieties, and dialects. We welcome papers dealing with one or more of the following topics: - Language resources and tools for similar languages, varieties and dialects; - Evaluation of language resources and tools applied to non-dominant language varieties; - Cross-lingual transfer and adaptation of models to similar languages, varieties and dialects; - Automatic identification of lexical variation; - Automatic classification of language varieties; - Machine translation between closely-related languages, language varieties and dialects; - Corpus-driven studies in dialectology and language variation; - Computational approaches to mutual intelligibility between dialects and similar languages; - Text similarity and adaptation between language varieties; - Linguistic issues in the adaptation of language resources and tools (e.g., cognate detection, semantic discrepancies, lexical gaps, false friends); - Studies focusing on related creole languages and their lexifier languages; - Studies focusing on diachronic language variation (e.g. phylogenetic methods, historical dialects). In addition to the topics listed above, we also welcome papers dealing with diachronic language variation (e.g. phylogenetic methods, historical dialects). Instructions for Authors Submissions should be formatted according to the ACL Rolling Review template and submitted as a PDF. The review process will be double-blind. More information is on the website (https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2026/). Important Dates - Direct Submission deadline: December 19, 2025 - Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026 - Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026 - Camera-ready paper due: February 3, 2026 - Workshop at EACL (hybrid): March 24-29, 2026 (exact date TBD) Organizers Yves Scherrer - University of Helsinki (Finland) Noëmi Aepli - University of Pennsylvania (USA) Verena Blaschke - LMU Munich and Munich Center for Machine Learning (Germany) Tommi Jauhiainen - University of Helsinki (Finland) Nikola Ljubešić - Jožef Stefan Institute (Slovenia) and University of Zagreb (Croatia) Preslav Nakov - Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (UAE) Jörg Tiedemann - University of Helsinki (Finland) Marcos Zampieri - George Mason University (USA) Contact: yves.scherrer(a)helsinki.fi or tommi.jauhiainen(a)helsinki.fi -- Best regards, Verena Blaschke

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Postdoc position at Uppsala University: Multilingual NLP
by Joakim Nivre 20 Oct '25

20 Oct '25

The Computational Linguistics group at Uppsala University is hiring a postdoctoral researcher to work on multilingual NLP: https://uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:866727 The position is not tied to a specific project, so candidates are asked to submit their own project proposal with the application. Questions about the position can be directed to joakim.nivre(a)lingfil.uu.se. När du har kontakt med oss på Uppsala universitet med e-post så innebär det att vi behandlar dina personuppgifter. För att läsa mer om hur vi gör det kan du läsa här: http://www.uu.se/om-uu/dataskydd-personuppgifter/ E-mailing Uppsala University means that we will process your personal data. For more information on how this is performed, please read here: http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/data-protection-policy

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Student contest: 2025 Babel Young Writers' Competition
by Tristan Miller 20 Oct '25

20 Oct '25

Dear all, Below is a call for submissions to our annual contest for student writers. Contributions from students of computational linguistics are most welcome. Sincerely, Tristan Miller Babel Advisory Panel ---------------------- Babel: The Language Magazine <https://babelzine.co.uk/> is running the 11th edition of its Young Writers' Competition, which encourages young linguists who are starting out on their study of language. The competition is open to all linguistics students in further and higher education. The winner(s) will have their article published in Babel and receive a year's subscription to the magazine. Competition guidelines: Deadline: Monday, 1 December 2025 Length: 2000 to 2500 words Topic: Entries can be on any linguistic topic -- the important thing is that the discussion of it is accessible and interesting. Format: Entries should be clearly presented in a Word file, with images submitted as separate high-resolution JPEGs. Submission: By e-mail to babelthelanguagemagazine(a)gmail.com with the subject "Young Writers' Competition" For inspiration, you can browse past articles in the sample issues available for free on the magazine's website, or check out articles featured on the magazine's social media accounts: Bluesky: @babelzine.bsky.social X: @Babelzine Instagram: @babel_zine Mastodon: @babel@masto.ai Please e-mail babelthelanguagemagazine(a)gmail.com if you have any questions about the competition. -- Dr. Tristan Miller, Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba https://clam.logological.org/ | Tel. +1 204 474 6792

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AAMAS 2026: Last Call for Nominations for the 2026 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award and the 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award
by Announce 20 Oct '25

20 Oct '25

*** Last Call for Nominations for the 2026 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award *** *** Last Call for Nominations: 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award *** The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026) May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> 2026 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award The International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (IFAAMAS) in 2006 established an award to recognize publications in the autonomous agents and multiagent systems field that have made influential and long-lasting contributions. Candidates for this award are papers that have proved a key result, led to the development of a new subfield, demonstrated a significant new application or system, or simply presented a new way of thinking about a topic that has proved influential. A list of previous winners of this award appears at http://www.ifaamas.org/award-influential.html<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> . This award is presented annually at the AAMAS Conference. Winning papers must have been published at least 10 years before the first day of the conference. Therefore, papers eligible for the 2026 award must have been published earlier than May 2016, and in a recognized scientific forum (e.g., journal, conference, or workshop). The criteria that will be considered in the selection for the award are: 1. Opened up new research line(s) within and even outside AAMAS; 2. Broad impact, e.g. started new fields, new conferences, new journals; 3. Broadly inspired the community; 4. Posed and/or solved an issue seen as fundamental to the field. To nominate a publication for this award, please send by October 31, 2025 the full reference plus a brief statement (200 words or fewer) arguing for the significance of the paper to the chair of the 2026 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award committee, Maria Gini (gini(a)umn.edu). 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award IFAAMAS, the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, is pleased to announce the call for the 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award. The award is named after Professor Victor Lesser, a long-standing member of the AAMAS community who has supervised a large number of outstanding PhD students in the area. It is awarded for dissertations written as part of a PhD, defended in the specified period, and nominated by the supervisor (with supporting references), which show originality, significance, and impact, and are supported by high quality publications. Nominations are invited for the award which is sponsored by IFAAMAS and will be presented at AAMAS 2026. The award includes a certificate and a 1500 EUR payment. Eligibility: Eligible doctoral dissertations are those defended between October 1, 2024 and September 30, 2025 (both endpoints included) in the area of Autonomous Agents or Multiagent Systems. Submission link: https://forms.gle/xzfax1VCTVimTypu5<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> Submission deadline: October 31, 2025 (anywhere on earth) Selection procedure: The selection of the dissertation will be based on the originality, significance, and impact of the work. Evidence of such impact includes publications at highly selective conferences and journals in the field, with due importance given to the AAMAS conference series and JAAMAS. Research output that resulted primarily from the student’s initiative will be considered more favorably. The selection committee will be the final arbiter in the decision process. The selection committee might also decide to consult external assessors, and reserves the right to not award the prize if the nominations do not meet the expected quality level. Every submitted dissertation must be nominated by the thesis supervisor and must be supported by the following 4 (four) documents, all of which should be delivered via the Google Form link above by October 31, 2025: a) A link to a PDF file of the dissertation. If the dissertation is not written in English, the nomination must include an accessible link to a substantial manuscript in English, with the nominee as the first author, published in a peer-reviewed journal or conference. b) A PDF that contains a list of publications that have arisen from the dissertation, with links to the published papers. c) A recommendation from the dissertation supervisor, on departmental letterhead, nominating the dissertation for the 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award. The recommendation should explain the contribution of the dissertation to the field of autonomous agents and multiagent systems, argue the merit and possible future impact of the work, and highlight, where relevant, how the work resulted from the initiative of the student. Finally, this document should certify the eligibility of the PhD by asserting that the PhD was successfully defended between October 1, 2024 and September 30, 2025. d) A PDF with the names, email addresses, and affiliations of at least one and at most three referees, familiar with the research of the candidate and experts in the pertinent research area, who will directly email their recommendations for the candidate to the chair of the selection committee (Gauthier Picard, gauthier.picard(a)onera.fr). A reference letter should be no more than 500 words in length, should be on an official letterhead, signed and emailed as a PDF file, and received by the same deadline of October 31, 2025. To ease the recovery of these emails, it is recommended that the subject of the recommendation letter email be “2025 Victor Lesser Award: Recommendation: ” Note: It is the responsibility of the dissertation supervisor to contact the referees and ensure that their letters (max 500 words, signed, and on letterhead) are submitted by the deadline. Though the nomination is to be submitted by the nominee’s dissertation supervisor, it is required that the nominee has consented that the dissertation be considered for this award and, if selected for the award, commits to attending the AAMAS 2026 conference, where they will receive the award and will give a presentation on the work contained in the dissertation at a special session of the conference. The cost of attending the conference is not covered by the award. For questions, please contact the chair of the selection committee, Gauthier Picard, at gauthier.picard(a)onera.fr.

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Second CFP: SemEval 2026 Task 1 on Humor Generation
by Luis Chiruzzo - Inco 20 Oct '25

20 Oct '25

*** Second Call for Participation for MWAHAHA at SemEval 2026 (Task 1) *** Can computers be funny? MWAHAHA – Models Write Automatic Humor And Humans Annotate at SemEval 2026 (Task 1) https://pln-fing-udelar.github.io/semeval-2026-humor-gen/ While Humor Understanding has been the focus of many shared tasks, Humor Generation remains an even more challenging and largely unexplored frontier. MWAHAHA (Models Write Automatic Humor And Humans Annotate) is SemEval 2026's Task 1 <https://semeval.github.io/SemEval2026/> and is the first task dedicated to advancing the state of the art in Computational Humor Generation. We invite participants to develop systems capable of generating genuinely humorous content under various constraints. Our goal is to push NLP models beyond memorization and towards true humorous creativity. By using carefully designed constraints, we aim to ensure fairness in evaluation and encourage the generation of novel jokes. This task has significant implications for more engaging conversational AI, creative writing tools, and a deeper understanding of the complex nature of humor itself. The development data for the evaluation trial phase has just been released, and we are accepting submissions for this phase! The task is organized into two subtasks: - Subtask A: Text-based Humor Generation Systems must generate jokes following constraints (related to a news headline, or containing certain words). This subtask is in English, Spanish, and Chinese. - Subtask B: Image-Based Caption Generation Systems must generate a caption given a GIF image that enhances its comedic effect. Subtask B1 uses only an image, while B2 uses an image and a starting prompt. This subtask is in English only. The participating systems will be evaluated based on human preferences on 1-on-1 arena-style battles. To participate in this task, please join our CodaBench competition: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/9719/ Important Dates: * Development data release: September 1, 2025 * Evaluation trial phase starts: October 15, 2025 * Evaluation trial phase ends: December 15, 2025 * Evaluation period starts: January 10, 2026 * Evaluation period ends: January 31, 2026 * System description paper submission: February 28, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2026 * Camera-ready papers due: April 30, 2026 * SemEval 2026 Workshop: July 2026

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First CFP: LoResMT 2026 at EACL 2026
by Atul K. Ojha 18 Oct '25

18 Oct '25

Apologies for cross-posting --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *The Ninth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT 2026)* *https://www.loresmt.org/ <https://www.loresmt.org/>* *@ EACL 2026 (March 24-29, 2026)* *Rabat, Morocco* *SUBMISSION* ARR submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop/LoResMT *TIMELINE* - Submission deadline: December 19, 2025 (Anywhere on Earth) - Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026 - Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026 - Camera-ready paper due: February 3, 2026 (Anywhere on Earth) - Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline): February 24, 2026 - Workshop dates at EACL 2026: TBD - EACL 202 Main Conference: March 24-29, 2026 *SCOPE* Based on the success of past low-resource machine translation (MT) workshops at AMTA 2018, MT Summit 2019, AACL-IJCNLP 2020, AMTA 2021, COLING 2022, EACL 2023, ACL 2024, NAACL 2025, we introduce LoResMT 2026 workshop at EACL 2025. The workshop provides a discussion panel for researchers working on MT systems/methods for low-resource and under-represented languages in general. We would like to help review/overview the state of MT for low-resource languages and define the most important directions. Fundamental work on low-resource languages in MT and NLP is still crucial and unavoidable. We also solicit papers dedicated to supplementary natural language processing (NLP) tools that are used in any language and especially in low-resource languages. Overview papers of these NLP tools are very welcome. It will be beneficial if the evaluations of these tools in research papers include their impact on the quality of MT output. *TOPICS* We are highly interested in (1) original research papers, (2) review/opinion papers, and (3) online systems on the topics below; however, we welcome all novel ideas that cover research on low-resource languages. - Neural machine translation for low-resource languages - Work that presents online systems for practical use by native speakers - Word tokenizers/de-tokenizers for specific languages - Word/morpheme segmenters for specific languages - Alignment/Re-ordering tools for specific language pairs - Use of morphology analyzers and/or morpheme segmenters in MT - Multilingual/cross-lingual NLP tools for MT - Corpora creation and curation technologies for low-resource languages - COVID-related corpora, their translations and corresponding NLP/MT systems - Review of available parallel corpora for low-resource languages - Research and review papers of MT methods for low-resource languages - MT systems/methods (e.g. rule-based, SMT, NMT) for low-resource languages - Pivot MT for low-resource languages - Zero-shot MT for low-resource languages - Fast building of MT systems for low-resource languages - Re-usability of existing MT systems for low-resource languages - Machine translation for language preservation *SUBMISSION INFORMATION* We are soliciting two types of submissions: (1) research, review, and position papers and (2) system demonstration papers. For research, review and position papers, the length of each paper should be at least four (4) and not exceed eight (8) pages, plus unlimited pages for references. For system demonstration papers, the limit is four (4) pages. Submissions should be formatted according to the official ACL style templates (Overleaf). Please refer to the EACL submission guidelines for further information <https://2026.eacl.org/calls/papers/>. Accepted papers will be published online in the EACL 2026 proceedings and will be presented at the conference. Submissions must be anonymized and should be done using the provided submission system. Scientific papers that have been or will be submitted to other venues must be declared as such and must be withdrawn from the other venues if accepted and published at LoResMT. The review will be double-blind. Authors of an accepted paper should present their paper in person at EACL 2026. Papers should be submitted in PDF to the LoResMT Open Review. We would like to encourage authors to cite papers written in ANY language that are related to the topics, as long as both original bibliographic items and their corresponding English translations are provided. Registration is handled by the main conference ( https://2026.eacl.org/registration). *ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (LISTED ALPHABETICALLY)* Atul Kr. Ojha Chao-Hong Liu Ekaterina Vylomova Flammie Pirinen Jonathan Washington Nathaniel Oco Xiaobing Zhao *PROGRAM COMMITTEE (To be confirmed)* Abigail Walsh, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland Alberto Poncelas, Rakuten, Singapore Ali Hatami, University of Galway Alina Karakanta, Leiden University Amirhossein Tebbifakhr, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Anna Currey, Amazon Web Services Aswarth Abhilash Dara, Walmart Global Technology Arturo Oncevay, University of Edinburgh Atul Kr. Ojha, DSI, University of Galway Barry Haddow, University of Edinburgh Bogdan Babych, Heidelberg University Chao-Hong Liu, Potamu Research Ltd Constantine Lignos, Brandeis University, USA Daan van Esch, Google Diptesh Kanojia, University of Surrey, UK Duygu Ataman, University of Zurich Ekaterina Vylomova, University of Melbourne, Australia Eleni Metheniti, CLLE-CNRS and IRIT-CNRS Flammie Pirinen, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø Koel Dutta Chowdhury, Saarland University (Germany) Jade Abbott, Retro Rabbit Jasper Kyle Catapang, University of the Philippines Jinliang Lu, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences John P. McCrae, DSI, University of Galway Liangyou Li, Noah’s Ark Lab, Huawei Technologies Majid Latifi, University of York, York, UK Maria Art Antonette Clariño, University of the Philippines Los Baños Mathias Müller, University of Zurich Milind Agarwal, George Mason University Nathaniel Oco, De La Salle University (Philippines) Pavel Rychlý, Masaryk University Pengwei Li, Meta Rico Sennrich, University of Zurich Saliha Muradoglu, The Australian National University Sangjee Dondrub, Qinghai Normal University Santanu Pal, WIPRO AI Sardana Ivanova, University of Helsinki Sourabrata Mukherjee, Charles University Surafel Melaku Lakew, Amazon AI Thepchai Supnithi, National Electronics and Computer Technology Centre Timothee Mickus, University of Helsinki Wen Lai, Center for Information and Language Processing, LMU Munich Xuebo Liu, Harbin Institute of Technolgy, Shenzhen Yalemisew Abgaz, Dublin City University Yasmin Moslem, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland Zhanibek Kozhirbayev, National Laboratory Astana, Nazarbayev University *CONTACT* Please email loresmt(a)googlegroups.com if you have any questions/comments/suggestions.

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Call for Papers: First Workshop on Multilingual Multicultural Evaluation (MME@EACL'26)
by pinzhen.chen＠ed.ac.uk 17 Oct '25

17 Oct '25

*Workshop co-located with EACL, 24-29 March 2026, Rabat, Morocco* LLMs in so many languages? When can such a claim be substantiated, and how should it be evaluated? This workshop brings together the community to answer these questions through three goals: - Establish a dedicated venue for multilingual evaluation, including resources, metrics, and methodologies; - Advance and standardize evaluation practices to enhance accuracy, scalability, fairness, and cross-system comparability; - Integrate cultural and social dimensions into multilingual evaluation. *Call for Papers* We invite archival (ACL Anthology) or non-archival submissions, in ACL's short or long format. We accept both direct and ARR-reviewed submissions. Topics include, but are not limited to: - Evaluation resources beyond English or Western-centric perspectives and materials; - Annotation methodology and procedures; - Standardised reporting, and scientific comparison of multilingual performance; - Evaluation protocols: ranking vs direct assessment, rubric-based vs reference-based vs reference-free, prompt variations, etc; - Metrics, LLM judges, and reward models; - Complex tasks: multimodality, fairness, long I/O, tool using, code-switching, literary, etc; - Sociocultural and cognitive variation affecting the use and evaluation across languages; - Scalable evaluation of cultural and factual knowledge; - Efficient evaluation of a massive number of languages and tasks; - AI-assisted evaluation: data, methods, metrics, and standards; - Other position, application-, or theory-focused contributions. *Dates* (tentative, all dates are 23:59 AoE) - Direct submission deadline: 19 Dec 2025 - Pre-reviewed ARR submission deadline: 02 Jan 2026 - Notification of acceptance: 23 Jan 2026 - Camera-ready version due: 03 Feb 2026 - Workshop date: 28 or 29 Mar 2026 --- Website: https://multilingual-multicultural-evaluation.github.io/ Email: mme-workshop(a)googlegroups.com Submission: OpenReview, link TBD Best regards, Pinzhen Chen on behalf of MME organizers

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Call for papers BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG Symposium 2025
by Benet Vincent 17 Oct '25

17 Oct '25

BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG Symposium 2025 AI and EAP: New Directions Monday 15th December 2025, Coventry University (in-person event) Generative AI is still a recent development, yet it is having a significant impact in the fields of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and Corpus Linguistics. A general consensus is emerging that researchers and practitioners need to have a thorough understanding of the uses of Gen AI, but it can be hard to keep track of developments in such a fast-moving field. The aim of this one-day event is to discuss current and future developments concerning AI in EAP with a specific focus on corpus linguistics and corpus approaches. Abstract submission We invite proposals for 20-minute presentations (15 minutes + 5 minutes for questions). These will offer short, thought-provoking talks on what speakers feel are essential corpus linguistic elements for EAP teacher training. We encourage early-stage work that focuses on innovation, as well as more advanced research. Please send 250-word abstracts to Hilary Nesi (h.nesi(a)coventry.ac.uk<mailto:h.nesi@coventry.ac.uk>) with 'BAALSIG COV2025' in the subject line by 23 October 2025. Notification of successful abstract submissions will be on 31 October 2025. Attendance The Journal of EAP<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-o…> is kindly providing sponsorship for the event for those who would like to present but haven't got the financial means to attend. If you would like to be considered for sponsorship, please include a maximum 100-word justification for sponsorship with your abstract submission. The BAAL CL SIG<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://baal-clsig.weebly.com/about.html__;!!K7…> is also able to offer a number of attendance fee waivers for non-presenters; these are aimed at enabling students and early career researchers to participate. If you would like to be considered for fee waiver, please send a maximum 100-word explanation of the benefits to you of participation to sian.alsop(a)coventry.ac.uk<mailto:sian.alsop@coventry.ac.uk>, with 'BAALSIG COV2025' in the subject line by 23 October 2025. To register for the event, please enter your details and pay the registration fee here<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.eventsforce.net/cugroup/frontend/re…> (choose the Register tab). Benet Vincent (he/him) Lecturer (Teaching) School of Social Sciences & Humanities Coventry University [cid:1d97cf6f-8f65-4ec3-94af-5bb1df230600] [cid:228a09e9-2e9f-470c-9e37-d7da2cccb039]<https://outlook.office.com/bookwithme/user/a7809b7442504c0c836457ded745a58c…> Book time to meet with me<https://outlook.office.com/book/Bookableacademicsupporttutorials@live.coven…> Queen's Award for Enterprise International Trade 2022 Ranked in the top 50% of UK universities for research power Times Higher Education analysis of REF 2021 Joint top Modern University for Career Prospects Guardian University Guide 2022 Top 40 in the World for International Students (ratio) QS World University Rankings 2025 NOTICE This message and any files transmitted with it is intended for the addressee only and may contain information that is confidential or privileged. Unauthorised use is strictly prohibited. If you are not the addressee, you should not read, copy, disclose or otherwise use this message, except for the purpose of delivery to the addressee. Any views or opinions expressed within this e-mail are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Coventry University.

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FINAL CALL: LCRGrad25 – Registration Closes Monday, October 20th!
by Cansu Akan 17 Oct '25

17 Oct '25

Dear Colleagues, This is the final announcement for the Learner Corpus Research Graduate Conference 2025 (LCRGrad25). Hosted by the Chair of English and Digital Linguistics, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany, and held under the aegis of the Learner Corpus Association, this virtual event takes place from October 22–24, 2025. While LCRGrad25 offers a diverse program for the whole community, it is specifically programmed to support graduate students and early-career researchers with a strong focus on practical development: • Distinguished Keynotes: Featuring talks from Prof. Dr. Randi Reppen, Prof. Dr. Michaela Mahlberg, and Dr. Dana Gablasova. • Coffee Chats with Keynotes: Informal, direct engagement with our distinguished keynote speakers immediately after their sessions. • Promising Research & Posters: A full schedule of emerging research papers presented live, plus asynchronous viewing of great emerging research posters on our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@LCRgradconf/videos • Workshops: Focused training designed to enhance essential academic and soft skills, providing practical takeaways that are applicable to research and career journey. • Research Clinics & AMA Panels: Expert advice on critical topics like building and analyzing corpora, legal/ethical issues, and low-resource languages. We also warmly invite seasoned researchers to attend. Your insights and support are invaluable for mentoring the next generation of scholars during the interactive sessions. Registration is free of charge, but mandatory for all attendees to receive the secure Zoom links. The registration window CLOSES on Monday, October 20th. Please ensure you register soon if you plan to attend. • View the full program: https://shorturl.at/KsAPj • Book of Abstracts: https://shorturl.at/G2oyX • MANDATORY FREE Registration: https://shorturl.at/CPUUU • Conference Website: https://lnkd.in/duSqy8Xy We look forward to a productive and engaging conference and hope you will join us! Best regards, Cansu Akan

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[Call for Papers] Cambridge NLE - Special Issue - "Revolutionising Natural Language Processing with Quantum Computing"
by Dr. Partha Pakray 17 Oct '25

17 Oct '25

Dear All, We are pleased to invite submissions to the special issue of Natural Language Engineering, now called *Natural Language Processing* (Cambridge University Press), on the theme: "*Revolutionising Natural Language Processing with Quantum Computing*" *Cambridge NLE - Special Issue* *Revolutionising Natural Language Processing with Quantum Computing* *The deadline for submissions is November 30, 2025.* *Call for Papers* We welcome papers dealing with one or more of the following topics: - Quantum computing Platforms for Algorithm execution - Quantum-enhanced NLP models and embeddings - Quantum Algorithms towards Natural Language Processing - Design and Development of Quantum Machine Learning Hybrid quantum-classical Models - Applications of Quantum Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing - Future Direction of Quantum Machine Learning in Natural Language Processing - Quantum Large Language Models - Architectures and Mechanisms and Challenges - Quantum Machine Learning for Low-Resource Language Modeling - Hybrid Quantum-Classical LLMs for Low-Resource Languages - Quantum transformers and compression of large language models - Quantum cognitive NLP for contextual and semantic understanding - Quantum dialogue systems and conversational AI - Quantum knowledge graphs for reasoning and inference - Quantum semantic search and information retrieval - Quantum adversarial learning and robustness in NLP - *any other, which is related to Quantum Computing* *Important Dates:* - *Deadline for submissions*: November 30, 2025 - *First-round author notification*: Between April 30, 2026 and May 30, 2026 - *Submission of revised versions*: Between July 30, 2026 and August 30, 2026 - *Second-round author notification*: Between Nov 30, 2026 and Dec 30, 2026 - *Submission of revised second versions*: Between Dec 31, 2026 and Feb 28, 2027 - *Final Version*: Between April 30, 2027 and May 30, 2027 *Submissions:* Instructions for preparing your manuscript for the *Journal of Natural Language Engineering* are available <https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/natural-language-engineering/inform…> here <https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/natural-language-engineering/inform…> . Please submit your article through the NLE <https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nle>manuscript submission system <https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nle>. When submitting your manuscript, please select "*Revolutionising Natural Language Processing with Quantum Computing"* in the field *Special Issue Section.* *Any questions: *Dr. Partha Pakray National Institute of Technology Silchar, India Email: partha(a)cse.nits.ac.in *[Guest Editor]* Thanks & Regards, Thanks & Regards, *Dr. Partha Pakray* Associate Professor Department of Computer Science & Engineering National Institute of Technology Silchar Silchar, Assam, India partha(a)cse.nits.ac.in

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