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Second CfP Seventh Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL)@LREC
by Menno Van Zaanen 28 Jan '26

28 Jan '26

Second Call for Papers 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: 23 February 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. 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Global Digital Humanities Symposium - Reminder: Registration Open!
by Menno Van Zaanen 27 Jan '26

27 Jan '26

Dear all, I'm forwarding this on behalf of Kristen Mapes: Dear colleagues, The Global Digital Humanities Symposium planning committee is delighted to remind everyone that theprogram<https://msuglobaldh.org/schedule/> is available and free registration<https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/register/event/74923> is open for the 11th annual Symposium. This year’s event will take place in-person on Monday, 13 April at Michigan State University (USA), virtually on Zoom and YouTube on Tuesday and Wednesday, 14-15 April, and in-person on Friday, 17 April at Universidad de Monterrey (Mexico). All days will be livestreamed. The registration deadline is Friday, 27 March 2026. During the Virtual Symposium, we will support live interpretation of presentations from English into Spanish and from Spanish into English. We are delighted to feature virtual keynote presentations from Evelin Heidel from Wikimedistas de Uruguay, Cindy A. Nguyen from UCLA, and in-person keynote presentations from Rayvon Fouché from Northwestern University on 13 April and Hugo Solís García from Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana on 17 April. The daily schedule of the Symposium is listed below, and you can explore the full program<http://msuglobaldh.org/schedule/>, including presentation abstracts. Virtual Symposium Tuesday, 14 April<https://msuglobaldh.org/schedule-detailed/#tuesday> 12:00-6:15pm EDT / 5:00-11:15pm Nigeria / 6:00pm-12:15am April 15 CEST / 12:00-6:15am April 15 Beijing Wednesday, 15 April<https://msuglobaldh.org/schedule-detailed/#tuesday> 9:00am-5:00pm EDT / 2:00-10:00 pm Nigeria / 3:00-11:00pm CEST / 9:00pm-5:00am 16 April Beijing In-Person Symposium Monday, 13 April<https://msuglobaldh.org/schedule-detailed/#monday> (East Lansing, Michigan, USA) 8:30am-7:30pm EDT / 1:30pm-12:30am A 14pril Nigeria / 2:30pm-1:30am 14 April CEST / 8:30pm-7:30am 14 April Beijing Friday, 17 April<https://msuglobaldh.org/schedule-detailed/#friday> (Monterrey, México,) 8:00am-5:30pm CST / 10:00am-7:30pm EDT / 3:00pm-12:30am 18 April Nigeria / 4:00pm-1:30am 18 April CEST / 10:00pm-7:30am 18 April Beijing We hope you will be able to join us! Sincerely, Kristen Mapes, on behalf of the Global DH Symposium Planning Committee -- 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. ________________________________

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Second call for papers: Seventh Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) 2026
by Muzi Matfunjwa 21 Jan '26

21 Jan '26

Dear colleagues Second Call for Papers Seventh Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) Co-located with LREC 2026<https://www.elra.info/lrec2026> 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: 23 February 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 Kind regards Dr. Muzi Matfunjwa Senior Lecturer Tel: 018 285 2879 | cell: 063 331 1945 [cid:b3cf9f4f-97d3-4a2e-bb86-fd423eda02bc] https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4553-3225 [signature_2455794445] ________________________________ 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. ________________________________

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Second call for papers - Reimagining the Archive in the Post-Truth Era : An International Interdisciplinary Conference 29 June to 3 July 2026
by Wynand Van Der Walt 21 Jan '26

21 Jan '26

Dear Colleagues, CORY LIBRARY and the INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF AFRICAN MUSIC will host the first Conference on Reimagining the Archive in the Post-Truth Era : An International Interdisciplinary Conference, 29 June to 3 July 2026, at Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa This is the Second Call for Papers. For more information, click here <https://www.ru.ac.za/corylibrary/latestnews/second_call_for_papers_reimagin…> or visit the Cory Library for Humanities Research webpage. *In an age of distortion and falsification, can the archive claim any mandate to speak the truth?* In the present-day global socio-political and technological landscape, we live in a time when expertise is being undermined and the always-tenuous boundaries between “truth” and “fiction” are increasingly blurred. More than ever before, the archive has emerged as both a site of authority and a field of dispute. The “post-truth” era – characterised by the rise of misinformation, historical denialism, and digital echo chambers reinforced by social media algorithms – demands a fundamental rethinking of how archives are imagined, constructed, accessed, and interpreted. This conference invites historians, archivists, anthropologists, musicologists, artists, environmental scientists, natural scientists, information systems professionals, scholars and practitioners from a wide range of other disciplines, activists, and publishers, media practitioners and content creators to explore the evolving role of the archive in shaping collective memory, public trust, and historical knowledge in the post-truth era. What does it mean to “reimagine the archive” when truth itself is increasingly contested and under siege? How can archives resist manipulation, amplify marginalised voices, and act as tools for critical engagement in an age of epistemic crisis? Do they have a responsibility to extend their reach, actively sharing information rather than serving as ivory-tower repositories of research? We welcome papers and panels that engage with topics including but not limited to: - The politicisation and weaponisation of historical records - Archives and other repositories in the age of misinformation and conspiracy theories - Forgery, authenticity, and the ethics of archival evidence - Archives and genealogical fictions - The rise of “counter-archives” - Digitisation, AI, and the reconfiguration of archival authority - Disinformation, deepfakes, and the future of historical and scientific truth - Post-Colonial, decolonial and anticolonial archival methodologies - Silences, absences, and erasures in traditional archives - Archival justice and truth-telling in transitional societies - Creative, speculative, and performative archival practices - The role of curation in archive building - Content management strategies for building spaces of truth - Policy design and legislative frameworks - The role of archives in repatriation and social justice - Epistemologies, ontologies and taxonomies - The role of print media in the post-truth era - Rights, responsibilities and the ethical use of information in the era of big data - Self-curation, social media and algorithm-generated archives. We are especially interested in submissions that critically engage with interdisciplinary approaches, including digital humanities, media studies, cultural memory, fine and performing arts, public history, environmental and natural sciences, ecological challenges, and archival management and practice (including scientific archives and repositories such as herbaria). Alternative presentation formats, such as performative works, film screenings, and/or the display of artefacts, may be considered depending on the technical requirements and our ability to accommodate them within the programme and venue. It is anticipated that a selection of papers will be peer-reviewed and submitted to an accredited, peer-reviewed journal for publication. Other peer-reviewed publication possibilities are currently under consideration. Regards, Wynand Van Der Walt Senior Manager: Innovation, Systems & Collections Schedule a meeting with me <https://calendar.app.google/w83EUzEmS7QjBw1w8> Rhodes University Library t: +27 (0) 46 603 8281 c: +27 (0) 78 304 0526 Library, Artillery Road, Makhanda, 6139 PO Box 94, Makhanda, 6140, South Africa www.ru.ac.za/library <https://www.ru.ac.za>

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Global Digital Humanities Symposium
by Menno Van Zaanen 21 Jan '26

21 Jan '26

Dear all, The Global Digital Humanities Symposium is quite an interesting event (and free). I'm sharing a message from Kate Topham here: Reminder that free registration (https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/register/event/74923) is open for the 11th Global Digital Humanities Symposium (http://msuglobaldh.org/) This year’s event will take place in-person on Monday, 13 April at Michigan State University (USA), virtually on Zoom and YouTube on Tuesday and Wednesday, 14-15 April, and in-person on Friday, 17 April at Universidad de Monterrey (Mexico). All days will be livestreamed.Register by Friday, 27 March 2026 (https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/register/event/74923) Best regards, Menno -- 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. ________________________________

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DH colloquium 21 January 2026 10:00 SAST
by Menno Van Zaanen 16 Jan '26

16 Jan '26

This is a reminder as people may have missed this invitation at the end of last year: On 21 January 10:00 SAST, Roald Eiselen will present: Ugh, your tagger is useless! A case study of domain transfer for part of speech taggers in two South African languages You can register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1977583167489?aff=oddtdtcreator If you did not know, all DH colloquia have been recorded and are made available on SADiLaR's DH colloquium webpage that can be found here: https://sadilar.org/en/dh-colloquium/ Please also share with your colleagues! -- 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. ________________________________

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2nd Call for paper: The Information Disorder Workshop
by Simona Frenda 14 Jan '26

14 Jan '26

The Information Disorder Workshop Collocated with LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain https://information-disorder-workshop.github.io/ * February 17: Paper submission * March 17: Notification of acceptance * March 30: Camera-ready submission * May 12, 2026: InDor at LREC! Online disinformation is a pressing challenge for our societies. Its role in influencing elections (Allcott & Gentzkow, 2017) and behaviours (van der Linden et al., 2020) has gathered the attention of different societal actors aimed at mitigating its negative impact. The Natural Language Processing (NLP) community is contributing to fighting this phenomenon with a growing number of datasets (Hussain et al., 2025) and technologies (VeraAI, AskVera, Bellingcat) (Lupi et al., 2023; Wuhrl et al., 2023) for the automatic recognition of fake news. However, this field of research suffers from a lack of a common theoretical framework, which causes a fragmentation of approaches. The increasing attention of the NLP community to human-label variation (Plank, 2022) raises additional challenges regarding the cross-cultural and pragmatic implications that determine the spreading of disinformation (Dabbous et al., 2022). The goal of the Information Disorder (InDor) workshop is to promote an interdisciplinary and intersectorial discussion towards the development of NLP research on disinformation. Information Disorder is a recent framework introduced by Wardle and Derakhshan (2017) to organize theories, definitions, and approaches for the study of disinformation. The framework is characterized by two main pillars: 1) acknowledging the need to categorize fake news under a finer-grained taxonomy of disorders (mis-information, dis-information, and mal-information); 2) exploring the role of the contextual factors that determine the spreading of fake news. InDor aims to - Define a common theoretical ground for the research on disinformation in NLP and beyond - Discuss the cultural factors determining subjectivity to disinformation - Promote interdisciplinarity in the development of datasets and models - Discuss the impact of real-world applications to contrast disinformation The InDor workshop (half-day duration) will be co-located with the fifteenth biennial Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) held at the Palau de Congressos de Palma in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, on 11-16 May 2026. Submissions 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). In addition, authors will be required to adhere to ethical research policies on AI and may include an ethics statement in their papers. The papers should be submitted as a PDF document, conforming to the formatting guidelines provided in the call for papers of the LREC conference. Templates are provided here https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/ We accept three types of submissions: - Regular research papers; - Non-archival submissions: like research papers, but will not be included in the proceedings; - (Non-archival) research communications: 1-page abstracts summarising relevant research published elsewhere. InDor will also accept submissions that have been rejected from ACL rolling review, provided they are accompanied by their reviews, and they fit the topic of the workshop. Research papers (archival or non-archival) may consist of up to 8 pages of content. Research communications may consist of up to 1 page of content. Please make the submission here: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/InDor26/ Topics We invite original research papers specifically on the following topics, with a particular focus on resources, taxonomies, and benchmarks for the evaluation of NLP systems on Information Disorder: - new interdisciplinary theoretical proposals and foundational aspects - surveys on Information Disorder - multiculturality and multilinguality in datasets and technologies - interdisciplinary computational methods and frameworks - community- and user-centred approaches - real-world applications to contrast false information - experimental applications and projects for social good - evaluation of Information Disorder-focused systems - generative approaches to contrast false information - participatory approaches - positions on Information Disorder Submissions are open to all and are to be submitted anonymously (and must conform to the instructions for double-blind review). All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process by at least three reviewers, with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organisers. Scientific papers will be evaluated based on relevance, significance of contribution, impact, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation. Attendance At least one author of each accepted paper is required to participate in the conference and present the work, in-person or online. Workshop organisers: Simona Frenda, Heriot-Watt University Marco Antonio Stranisci, University of Turin Shaina Ashraf, Phillips University of Marburg Ada Ren, Macquarie University Ioannis Konstas, Heriot-Watt University Usman Naseem, Macquarie University Contact us at s.frenda(a)hw.ac.uk if you have any questions. Website: https://information-disorder-workshop.github.io/

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