Final Call for Papers: SoCon and NLPSI will be co-located with the 15th conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’26), held in Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma de Mallorca (Spain), on 11-16 May 2026. Overview: Natural Language Processing (NLP) has undergone a significant evolution, opening up the possibility of capturing high-level aspects of human communication. Key areas of interest include the pragmatics, social dynamics, and the integration of social context, to further

Interspeech is the world’s largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. The conference emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches addressing all aspects of speech science and technology. The theme of Interspeech 2026 is “Speaking Together”, highlighting the fundamental role of speech in enabling human communication, and exploring how speech technologies can bring people and communities closer across languages, cultures, and modalities. Inter

The purpose of this workshop is to investigate the relationship between morphology and syntax, and in particular to investigate the extent to which morphological generalizations can be accounted for in terms of purely syntactic operations and conditions. Can morphology and syntax be unified under purely Merge based theories with the same principles? April 17, Friday Queens College, City University of New York Queens Hall 250, 65-21 Main Street Flushing, NY 11367 Goals: Phenomena trad

In conjunction with LREC 2026, Palma de Mallorca, Spain One-day hybrid event We are delighted to announce the 7th Financial Narrative Processing Workshop (FNP 2026), an international event dedicated to the intersection of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML), and Financial/Accounting data. This year, FNP 2026 will be held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, within the framework of LREC 2026. The workshop will run as a one-day hybrid event, allowing for both on-site interactio

Final Call for Papers: Theme Session Title: "Between Entrenchment and Imagination: Cognitive, Crosslinguistic, Corpus-Based, and Multimodal Perspectives on Idioms, Creativity, and Figurativity" Idioms occupy a unique position at the intersection of figurative thought, linguistic structure, and creative language use. With their relatively inflexible forms and conceptually dense meanings, idioms often invite local adaptations, humorous reinterpretations, multimodal elaborations, and other in

Call for Papers: The conference Construal in Language and Discourse invites contributions that examine construal as a central concept for understanding meaning construction across language, different forms of discourse, cognition, narrative, and multimodal communication. In Cognitive Linguistics, construal refers to how speakers and writers conceptualise experience by selecting, structuring, profiling, foregrounding, backgrounding, and simulating aspects of a scene. This conference adopts

In conjunction with LREC 2026, Palma de Mallorca, Spain One-day hybrid event We are delighted to announce the 7th Financial Narrative Processing Workshop (FNP 2026), an international event dedicated to the intersection of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML), and Financial/Accounting data. This year, FNP 2026 will be held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, within the framework of LREC 2026. The workshop will run as a one-day hybrid event, allowing for both on-site interactio

SUMMARY This book has emerged from an academic network “Syntax Beyond the Canon”, sponsored by the German Research Foundation between 2019 and 2025. The contributors share the idea that, for anything one might want to say, there is a default – “canonical” – way of saying it, and they are interested in how, and why, a language-user might instead choose an alternative, “non-canonical” way of expressing himself (where the alternatives considered relate largely to word-order differences). Thus

Focus: PhD students are the main target audience, but the courses are not restricted to them and are open to a professional audience that wants to keep up to date. Description: 9 courses are offered, 3 per area: AREA 1: FORMAL AND EXPERIMENTAL LINGUISTICS Course 1: L2 spoken vocabulary learning and teaching - Takumi Uchihara (Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan) Course 2: Eye-tracking methodology in linguistic research - Andrea Listanti (BilinguaLab - Universidad de Granada) Course 3: C

As generative AI and large language models reshape how we interact with chatbots, voice assistants and conversational agents, HUMIC focuses on the linguistic, social and relational dimensions of these technologies—areas often overlooked in technical development. HUMIC, led by Dr. Doris Dippold and supported by the Surrey Institute for Advanced Studies, the BAAL Special Interest Group ‘Humans, Machines, Languages’ and the Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI, aims to foster interdisciplinary

There are common words and linguistic similarities between languages spoken in Ethiopia and the Arabic varieties used in the Middle East and North Africa primarily due to shared "Semitic" linguistic roots, geographical proximity, and historical interactions. Amharic and Tigrinya are the major languages in the Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands, they share many cognates (words with a common origin) and similar grammatical structures. We at Kalmasoft have spent the last five years extracting all

Analyzing language at scale can be daunting. Open Brain AI (https://openbrainai.com/) simplifies this by offering an all-in-one, free-to-use application for language analysis. It integrates multi-level linguistic and acoustic processing, offering a robust environment for researchers, clinicians, and educators to process language. 1) Multilingual Analysis: English, French, German, Greek, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, and other languages. 2) Multi-Level Text Processing: Automatically extract score

As generative AI and large language models reshape how we interact with chatbots, voice assistants and conversational agents, HUMIC focuses on the linguistic, social and relational dimensions of these technologies—areas often overlooked in technical development. HUMIC, led by Dr. Doris Dippold and supported by the Surrey Institute for Advanced Studies, the BAAL Special Interest Group ‘Humans, Machines, Languages’ and the Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI, aims to foster interdisciplinary

We'd like to invite you to participate in the following shared tasks at PAN 2026 held in conjunction with the CLEF conference in Jena, Germany. 1. Voight-Kampff Generative AI Detection. Given a (potentially obfuscated) text, decide whether it was written by a human or an AI. https://pan.webis.de/clef26/pan26-web/generated-content-analysis.html 2. Text Watermarking. Insert a watermark into a given text. Then, after we have attacked the text, detect the inserted watermark. https://pan.we

While humour is commonly seen as a form of entertainment, its role often extends beyond mere amusement. It can, in fact, be a powerful vehicle for social critique, raising cultural awareness, and fostering civic engagement. However, for every instance of harmless or well-intentioned humour (Raskin 1985; Norrick 1993; Dore 2022 here), there are cases where it acts to reinforce, disseminate, and normalise social discrimination, including racism, sexism, ageism, ableism, and bullying, across a wide

We'd like to invite you to participate in the following shared tasks at PAN 2026 held in conjunction with the CLEF conference in Jena, Germany. 1. Voight-Kampff Generative AI Detection. Given a (potentially obfuscated) text, decide whether it was written by a human or an AI. https://pan.webis.de/clef26/pan26-web/generated-content-analysis.html 2. Text Watermarking. Insert a watermark into a given text. Then, after we have attacked the text, detect the inserted watermark. https://pan.we

While humour is commonly seen as a form of entertainment, its role often extends beyond mere amusement. It can, in fact, be a powerful vehicle for social critique, raising cultural awareness, and fostering civic engagement. However, for every instance of harmless or well-intentioned humour (Raskin 1985; Norrick 1993; Dore 2022 here), there are cases where it acts to reinforce, disseminate, and normalise social discrimination, including racism, sexism, ageism, ableism, and bullying, across a wide

Call For Papers: The UC Davis Cluster on Language Research is pleased to announce our 12th annual Symposium on Language Research, taking place in May 22nd and 23rd, 2026. The current theme is "Language at a Crossroads: History, Innovation, and Change." The UC Davis CLR is a very interdisciplinary, fully student-run and organized conference hosting research on "language" in any capacity. Every year, we have presentations on work done in departments of linguistics, education, psychology, c

Registration is still open for the 48th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), which will take place in Trier, Germany, on Feb 25-27. The programme comprises plenary events, 15 parallel workshops, and satellite events on Tuesday, Feb 24. See www.dgfs2026.uni-trier.de for details. Invited Speakers: Jennifer Cole (Northwestern U) Annette Gerstenberg (U Potsdam) Simon Meier-Vieracker (TU Dresden) Peter Uhrig (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) Workshops: - Visual Patterns in the

The Third Workshop on Computation and Written Language (CAWL 2026) will be held in conjunction with LREC 2026 as a half-day workshop on May 12th in Palma, on the island of Mallorca, Spain. The workshop will feature an invited talk, a tutorial on working with different writing systems, and posters and presentations for submitted work. Annual CAWL workshops are organized under the guidance of the ACL Special Interest Group on Writing Systems and Written Language (SIGWrit). Most work in NLP focu