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First call for papers: Seventh Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) 2026
by Muzi Matfunjwa 08 Dec '25

08 Dec '25

Dear colleagues First 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… 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 link for the RAIL workshop will be provided later. 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: 16 February 2026 AoE Date of notification: 11 March 2026 AoE Camera ready copy deadline: 30 March 2026 AoE Workshop: 12 May 2026 NB: Kindly note that there will be no deadline extension for the submission of papers. These are hard deadlines. 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 RAIL Workshop Organisers ________________________________ 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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Third Call for Papers: The First International Workshop on Linguistic Analysis for Health (HeaLing’26)
by Vera Danilova 04 Dec '25

04 Dec '25

We are excited to announce the First Workshop on Linguistic Analysis for Health (HeaLing), co-located with EACL 2026, to be held in Rabat, Morocco, on March 24–29, 2026. [??] Important Links Workshop Website: https://healing-workshop.github.io<https://healing-workshop.github.io/> Contact: healing-workshop(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:[email protected]> CFP & Submissions (OpenReview): https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop/HeaLing <https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop/HeaLing> [???] Key Dates (AoE) Direct submission deadline (through OpenReview) - December 19, 2025 ACL Rolling Review submission deadline January 5, 2026 - https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp Notification of acceptance - January 23, 2026 Camera-ready paper due - February 3, 2026 Workshop date - March 28, 2026 (afternoon session) [??] Workshop Scope Language-oriented approaches—such as discourse and conversation analysis, narrative medicine, and linguistic ethnography—have long been central to qualitative investigations of how medical knowledge is produced, communicated, and experienced. Today, advances in natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence (AI) offer new possibilities for extending and scaling linguistic approaches across large health-related datasets. The HeaLing workshop invites contributions that integrate qualitative and computational methods to examine how language informs and transforms medicine as a social and scientific practice. A central focus of the workshop is the practical value of interpretive insights derived from language analysis. We welcome researchers from medical humanities, social and historical studies of medicine, and computational language sciences. The workshop will be held as a half-day event at EACL 2026. [??] Topics of Interest (include but are not limited to) - Computational + qualitative discourse analysis of clinical, scientific, policy, and other health-related texts (media, guidelines, patient narratives, clinical notes). - Metaphor and framing in illness narratives, public health messaging, and clinical communication. - Narrative medicine, story-centered clinical interventions, and evaluation of their effects. - Historical and contemporary discourse studies of medical epistemologies (how concepts, categories, and expertise are constructed). - Language, power, and inequality: how linguistic framing shapes access, stigma, and policy for marginalized populations. - Methods for responsible use of NLP/LLMs in medical language research (bias, explainability, mixed-methods validation). - Digital humanities approaches: building and interrogating historical corpora, archives, and born-digital records. - Translational impact: case studies showing how interpretive linguistic insights led to concrete changes in practice, education, or policy. [??] Submission Format and Reviewing Procedure We accept original and unpublished research contributions (including surveys, position, and theory papers) following the ACL format. The ACL Paper Styles are available here: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files (both LaTeX and Word). Long papers: up to 8 pages (+ references) Short papers: up to 4 pages (+ references) Camera-ready versions will be given one additional page to address reviewers’ comments. Papers must be submitted anonymously. We accept submissions either through our own submission page or via the ACL Rolling Review (ARR). All submissions will undergo double-blind peer review by at least three reviewers, with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organizers. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and presented orally or as posters. [??] Organizing Committee Ylva Söderfeldt, Uppsala University, Sweden Vera Danilova, Uppsala University, Sweden Julia Reed, University of Vienna, Austria Murathan Kurfalı, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Sweden Gavin Farrell, University of Padua, Italy 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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How do You Interact with Knowledge Graphs - A Short Survey
by ursula.rabar＠operas-eu.org 04 Dec '25

04 Dec '25

The GRAPHIA team is running a short survey to better understand how researchers, particularly from SSH, interact with knowledge graphs when supported by Large Language Models (LLMs). Your perspective matters. GRAPHIA is being developed with its users, and your input will directly influence how future features and interaction styles are designed. We want to learn how you explore and query research data, whether through natural language (e.g. chatbots) or structured interfaces (e.g. dropdown menus), so we can build tools that fit the way you work. The survey takes about 15 minutes to complete and is open to SSH researchers at all career stages, including those with little or no prior experience using knowledge graphs or formal query languages. By sharing your experience, you’ll help guide the next stage of GRAPHIA’s co-design process and ensure the platform continues to evolve around real user needs. You can access the survey here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf5BDE0Okrbz-9IWQWOR-AZD28sjB750rx… and provide your input by 16th of January 2026. For any questions you can contact them directly by emailing Ursula Rabar at ursula.rabar(a)operas-eu.org To find out more about GRAPHIA visit our website https://graphia-ssh.eu/knowledge-graphs/

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DH2026 deadline extension
by Menno Van Zaanen 02 Dec '25

02 Dec '25

Dear all, The DH2026 organizers announce that the submission deadline for Digital Humanities 2026 proposals has been extended to December 15, 2025. Next year’s conference (July 27–31, 2026) will be hosted by the Korean Association for Digital Humanities (KADH) at the Daejeon Convention Center in Daejeon, South Korea. The theme for this conference is “Engagement.” Submissions are welcome in multiple formats, including long and short papers, posters, workshops, and mini-conferences. Please visit the Call for Proposals on the conference website for more details: https://dh2026.adho.org. We invite you to share your work with the global Digital Humanities community and submit your proposals via Conftool: https://www.conftool.pro/dh2026 Sincerely, Wonhee & Misun (DH2026 PC Chairs) -- 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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CfP DH 2026 South Korea
by Menno Van Zaanen 27 Nov '25

27 Nov '25

Dear all, Please do not forget to submit something for the global ADHO DH 2026 conference! The deadline is 8 December 2025. Best regards, Menno The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites submissions for its annual conference, DH2026: Engagement, to be held in Daejeon, South Korea. Further details: https://dh2026.adho.org/cfp/ We welcome proposals relating to all aspects of digital humanities. Submissions may focus on the conference sub-themes: Translating | Translinguality in the Era of AI Annotating | Beyond Patterns: Interpretation with Small Data Remembering | Digital Humanities and the Memory of the World Formats: long papers, short papers, posters, pre-conference workshops or mini-conferences, and the technical track. Important dates: Submission deadline: December 8, 2025 Notification of acceptance: February 2026 -- 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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International Conference
by Anderson Pereira Antunes 26 Nov '25

26 Nov '25

Dear DHASA, On behalf of the organizing committee, I am sending this email to share news of the hybrid international conference on Digital Humanities "Crossing Oceans", which is currently being organized at the University of Évora, Portugal. If it is of interest to you and your members, I hereby kindly ask if you could help us share this news, as we have a call for papers still open for submission. Information about the conference can be found at our official website: https://www.knowafrica.uevora.pt/crossing-oceans-digital-humanities-in-dial… Thank you in advance for your kind consideration. Best regards, -- Anderson Antunes Ph.D Investigador/Researcher Instituto de História Contemporânea | Universidade de Évora Palácio do Vimioso | Largo Marquês de Marialva, nº 8 | 7002-554 Évora, Portugal Gab. 215 | Tel: +351 920 400 504 https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/B915-52CE-1F11 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7133-7848 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=e2zABDQAAAAJ&hl https://uevora.academia.edu/AndersonAntunes [image: image.png] *KNOW.AFRICA* | Redes de conhecimento na África Oitocentista: uma abordagem das Humanidades Digitais dos encontros coloniais e do conhecimento local nas narrativas de expedições portuguesas (1853-1888) | ref. FCT - 2022.01599.PTDC https://doi.org/10.54499/2022.01599.PTDC | www.knowafrica.uevora.pt *O IHC é financiado por fundos nacionais através da FCT — Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., no âmbito dos projectos UID/04209 e LA/P/0132/2020 (DOI 10.54499/LA/P/0132/2020).* <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> Não contém vírus.www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

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Recruitment – Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) in Computational Philology, University of Geneva
by Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel 26 Nov '25

26 Nov '25

Dear all, I am forwarding this recruitment announcement for an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in Computational Philology at the University of Geneva. Application deadline: 15 January 2026 Expected start date: 1 August 2026 Note: The recruitment process will be conducted in French. Please find the full announcement below. Feel free to circulate it within your networks. With kind regards, Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel Chair of Digital Humanities, université de Genève, Switzerland. ** La Faculté des lettres de l'Université de Genève met au concours un poste de professeur-e assistant-e avec prétitularisation conditionnelle (tenure track) en philologie computationnelle. CALENDRIER : Date limite de candidature : 15 janvier 2026. Date d’entrée en fonctions : 1er août 2026. CHARGE : Il s’agit d’un poste à charge complète comprenant des enseignements aux niveaux bachelor, master et post-grade ainsi que la direction de travaux de maîtrise universitaire et de thèses de doctorat. Le/la candidat-e sera appelé-e à développer des recherches au niveau national et international dans son domaine de spécialisation et obtenir des financements extérieurs. Il/elle devra également assumer les tâches de gestion et d’organisation au niveau des activités relatives aux humanités numériques et à celles de la Faculté des lettres. PROFIL SOUHAITÉ : Le/la candidat-e sera spécialisé-e dans le domaine des humanités numériques avec une orientation textuelle (approches computationnelles des textes et traitement automatique des textes sur des grands ensembles de données). Une expertise en extraction d’information depuis les documents littéraires et historiques, dans la conception de corpus ou d'éditions numériques, et dans l'analyse des résultats est attendue. Ses compétences computationnelles contribuent à faire avancer la recherche en humanités numériques, notamment du côté de l’intelligence artificielle appliquée aux disciplines de la Faculté des lettres. Sa mission est de poursuivre un programme de formation et de recherche en philologie computationnelle, qui contribue à faire progresser la Faculté des lettres dans ce domaine, en constituant un lien transversal entre ses disciplines. Le/la candidat-e doit faire état de publications dans le domaine des humanités numériques mais aussi dans celui des études littéraires et de la philologie. Un engagement dans la réflexion critique et théorique sur l'utilisation des outils numériques dans le domaine des sciences humaines est également souhaité. Lien vers l’annonce complète : https://jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_portal.show_job?p_web_site_id=1&p_web_page_id=… Lien vers la chaire (futur département) d’humanités numériques : https://www.unige.ch/lettres/humanites-numeriques/accueil ~ Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel Vice-doyenne de la Faculté des Lettres, Université de Genève Professeure ordinaire (Full Professor, HDR). Chaire des Humanités numériques - dh.unige.ch<http://dh.unige.ch> Courrier/Mail: Rue de Candolle 5, 1211 Genève 4 Bureau/Office : Aile Jura, 3e étage droite, bureau 68 Tél : +41 22 37 97385. beatrice.joyeux-prunel(a)unige.ch<mailto:[email protected]> Last Book: L’art contemporain. Une infographie (with Data-Designer G. Crozet. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2024). CV & Publications : https://www.unige.ch/lettres/humanites-numeriques/equipe/collaborateurs/pro…

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OERcamp global
by Menno Van Zaanen 14 Nov '25

14 Nov '25

Dear all, For those of you interested in open educational resources (for example for digital humanities) this may be a wonderful opportunity! 📅 Date: 25–26 November 2025 (online, via Zoom) 🌐 Website: oercamp.global 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 19 November 2025 10:00 SAST
by Menno Van Zaanen 13 Nov '25

13 Nov '25

Join us for an engaging discussion with Mthuli Buthelezi as he explores the intersection of isiZulu and algorithms in advancing African language technologies! This thought-provoking Digital Humanities Colloquium delves into the fascinating world where computational methods meet African languages. Using isiZulu as a case study, this presentation introduces a groundbreaking book that showcases how language-agnostic algorithms can advance Human Language Technologies (HLTs) for resource-scarce languages. Register here: https://bit.ly/4nDqIMN -- 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 19 November 2025 10:00 SAST
by Menno Van Zaanen 13 Nov '25

13 Nov '25

Join us for an engaging discussion with Mthuli Buthelezi as he explores the intersection of isiZulu and algorithms in advancing African language technologies! This thought-provoking Digital Humanities Colloquium delves into the fascinating world where computational methods meet African languages. Using isiZulu as a case study, this presentation introduces a groundbreaking book that showcases how language-agnostic algorithms can advance Human Language Technologies (HLTs) for resource-scarce languages. Register here: https://bit.ly/4nDqIMN -- 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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