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Online Workshop - Large Language METAPHORS: New Trends in Computational Approaches to Metaphorical Expressions
by ginevra.martinelli＠iusspavia.it 05 Feb '26

05 Feb '26

We are pleased to announce the online workshop Large Language METAPHORS: New Trends in Computational Approaches to Metaphorical Expressions, to be held on 5th March, organised by the Neurolinguistics and Experimental Pragmatics Laboratory (NEPLab) and supported by the ERC project “PROcessing MEtaphors: Neurochronometry, Acquisition and DEcay” (PROMENADE). The workshop adopts an interdisciplinary perspective, bringing together linguistics, computational linguistics, and psycholinguistics. It will investigate how Large Language Models (LLMs) can be used for the detection, interpretation, mapping, and evaluation of metaphors across languages. Particular attention will also be given to aligning computational models with human cognitive data, as well as to the use of metaphorical language as a means of probing the linguistic capabilities of LLMs. Talk lineup: - Using Large Language Models to Identify Metaphorical Expressions in Text Matteo Fuoli, Weihang Huang, Jeannette Littlemore, Sarah Turner, Ellen Wilding - Language Models and the Magic of Metaphor, Revisited: A Comparative Evaluation of Italian Baby and Large Language Model with Human Interpretations Simone Mazzoli, Alice Suozzi, Gianluca E. Lebani - A Novel Metaphor Dataset of Toxic Posts from Christian Subreddits Sebastian Reimann, Tatjana Scheffler - Exploring Metaphors in LLMs with a Human-Centric and Culture-Aware Approach Bolette S. Pedersen, Ali Basirat, Alberto Parola, Sussi Olsen - Commonsense Reasoning for Automatic Metaphor Elaboration: A Conceptual Combination Approach Antonio Lieto, Gian Luca Pozzato, Stefano Zoia - HUMMUS: a Dataset of Humorous Multimodal Metaphor Use Xiaoyu Tong, Zhi Zhang, Pia Sommerauer, Martha Lewis, Ekaterina Shutova - Participants and Models: the Role of LLMs in Psycholinguistic Approaches to Metaphor Veronica Mangiaterra, Hamad Al-Azary, Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro, Paolo Canal, Valentina Bambini - MetaMap – Mapping Metaphors Across Languages and Cultures Ginevra Martinelli, Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro, Maddalena Bressler, Veronica Mangiaterra, Valentina Bambini The workshop will be fully online and free of charge, but registration is required. For registration and further information: • Workshop website: https://www.neplab.it/large_language_metaphors_home/ • Email: ginevra.martinelli(a)iusspavia.it Organizing Committee: Valentina Bambini Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro Veronica Mangiaterra Ginevra Martinelli

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EADH 2026 - deadline extended
by EADH 2026 04 Feb '26

04 Feb '26

Dear Colleagues, We are happy to announce that the deadline for the European Association for Digital Humanities 2026 conference has been extended to 27 February 2026! The conference will take place from 15 to 19 September 2026 at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland), and is co-organized by the Jagiellonian Centre of Digital Humanities, the Institute of Polish Language of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and the University of Wrocław. Under the theme “Linking Europe: Digital Humanities Without Borders”, the event invites the international Digital Humanities community to reflect on technological transformations, including artificial intelligence, multilingual infrastructures, sustainability, and responsible data governance. Submissions are open for posters, short papers, long papers, and workshops. The thematic areas include: data and methods, AI and ethics, infrastructure and open science, cultural heritage and diversity, communities and futures of DH. All conference venues are fully accessible, and online participation is available for presenters. The new deadline for all types of submissions is 23:59 AoE on Friday, 27 February 2026. You can find the full Call for Papers as well as other information here: https://eadh2026.confer.uj.edu.pl/cfp Proposals may be submitted via ConfTool: https://www.conftool.net/eadh2026/index.php Sincerely, EADH 2026 Organizing Team

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Second call for contributions for the 5th International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence (HHAI 2026) in Brussels
by LENAERTS Tom 02 Feb '26

02 Feb '26

SECOND CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS HHAI 226 - Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence July 6–10, 2026, Brussels, Belgium -------------------------------------------------- Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence (HHAI) is an international conference series that focuses on the study of Artificial Intelligence systems that cooperate synergistically, proactively and purposefully with humans, amplifying instead of replacing human intelligence. HHAI aims for AI systems that work together with humans, emphasizing the need for adaptive, collaborative, responsible, interactive and human-centered intelligent systems. HHAI systems leverage human strengths and compensate for human weaknesses, while taking into account social, ethical and legal considerations. HHAI 2026 will be held on July 6-10, 2026, in Brussels, Belgium, and is the fifth conference in the series. The HHAI field is driven by developments in AI, but it also requires fundamentally new approaches and solutions. Thus, we encourage collaborations across research domains such as AI, HCI, cognitive and social sciences, philosophy and ethics, complex systems, and others. In this fifth international conference, we invite scholars from these fields to submit their best original – published, new as well as in progress – works, and visionary ideas on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence. **Join the HHAI community and keep up with the news:** Website: https://hhai-conference.org/2026/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hhai-conference/ You can contribute in many ways; Check out the Call for papers <https://hhai-conference.org/2026/cfp/> Call for workshops and tutorials <https://hhai-conference.org/2026/workshops-and-tutorials/> Call for demos and posters <https://hhai-conference.org/2026/call-for-posters-and-demos/> Call for contributions in the Doctoral consortium <https://hhai-conference.org/2026/doctoral-consortium/> This year, the main track also invites extended abstracts on research published in high-quality journals starting from publications starting in January 2025. Bien cordialement | Vriendelijke groet | Kind regards Tom ________________________________________________________________________________ prof. Tom Lenaerts Département d’Informatique Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Boulevard du Triomphe CP212 1050 Brussels. Belgium. Email: Tom.Lenaerts(a)ulb.be Web: tomlenaerts.be <http://tomlenaerts.be/>

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DEADLINE EXTENDED - CfP: Semantic Annotation for the Ancient World - SA4AW
by Rachel Milio 02 Feb '26

02 Feb '26

--- apologies for cross-posting --- DEADLINE EXTENDED - CfP: Semantic Annotation for the Ancient World - SA4AW Dear colleagues, This is a reminder for the Call for Abstracts for the SA4AW Conference taking place in Rethymno, Crete (Greece) on May 7-8, 2026. The new deadline is February 15th. Please submit an abstract of max. 1, 000 words (bibliography excluded) via EasyChair<https://easychair.org/cfp/SA4AW2026>. The conference is organised by the TALOS Centre in AI4SSH of the University of Crete (Horizon ERA Chair TALOS AI4SSH ID: 101087269) in collaboration with the Department of Philology, University of Crete. Learn more at the conference webpage<https://talos-ai4ssh.uoc.gr/events/conferences/semantic-annotation-for-the-…>. Description: We invite proposals for the 2nd Semantic Annotation for the Ancient World (SA4AW) conference, which examines the role of semantic annotation in dialogue with hybrid AI approaches, large language models (LLMs), deep learning, and knowledge graphs in the study of the ancient world and cultural heritage. Semantic annotation―whether manual, automated, or human-in-the-loop―enables the identification and linking of concepts, entities, and relationships, transforming raw textual and visual data into structured, interoperable knowledge. At a moment when LLMs can generate fluent interpretations but require grounding in domain-specific context, semantic annotation and knowledge graphs provide essential transparency, precision, and reusability. We welcome contributions that showcase methods, tools, case studies, theoretical reflections, and cross-disciplinary collaborations. In line with FAIR and Linked Open Data principles, the conference encourages open and accessible research practices. Conference proceedings will be published in open access online format. We encourage proposals on the following themes: * Semantic annotation in the era of LLMs (hybrid workflows, grounding, explainability) * Ontology-driven annotation and knowledge modelling * Knowledge graphs and Linked Open Data for ancient world studies * Human-in-the-loop annotation: methods, strategies, and pedagogy * Automatic and semi-automatic annotation pipelines * Cross-lingual and multilingual annotation (Ancient Greek, Latin, and historical languages) * Annotation and disambiguation of ancient places, persons, and cultural entities * NER and entity linking for ancient languages * RDF-based and ontology-aware digital editions * Standards, interoperability, and data sustainability (FAIR principles) * Platforms, tools, and reproducible workflows for annotation and data reuse Submission details: We invite proposals from all scholars, junior and senior, working in the topic areas of the conference. Please submit an abstract of max. 1,000 words (bibliography excluded, free format). Submissions will be reviewed via double-blind peer review through EasyChair . Paper presentations will be 20 minutes long, with extra time for questions and discussion. The working language of the conference is English. A longer version of accepted papers will be published in an edited volume after the conference. More details about the edited volume are forthcoming. For more information, contact the conference organisers at sa4aw.contact(a)gmail.com<mailto:[email protected]>. Rachel Milio (she/her) PhD Candidate of TALOS-AI4SSH<https://talos-ai4ssh.uoc.gr/>, Semantic Annotation of Texts TALOS Address: University of Crete Research Center (UCRC), Level 1-Building Γ- Room Γ2 Gallos Campus, University of Crete, Rethymno, GR 74100 Office Phone: +30 28310 77141 Mobile Phone: +30 69816 31347 University Email: philp0997(a)philology.uoc.gr

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“Accessible Textual Heritage” Course – third and last CfA
by Simone Rebora 02 Feb '26

02 Feb '26

Dear all, Applications for the Professional Development and Specialization Course “Accessible Textual Heritage” are open until February 8th. The course will take place at the University of Verona and online (blended mode) from March 23, 2026, to April 30, 2026. The course consists of 25 hours of training in the first week (March 23-27, 2026), with theoretical explanations and practical workshops, and the completion of a final project, with presentation of the results to a team of experts in the field (April 30, 2026). The full program is available here: https://daih.eu/assets/pdf/CPAP-ATH2026.pdf The course is aimed at undergraduate and graduate students, PhD candidates, research fellows, professors and teachers, public administration employees, and professionals in archives, museums, and libraries. Attendance requires a minimum of 70% participation in the lessons, with the possibility to listen to recordings at home. The course can also be tailored to meet the specific academic or professional needs of each participant. The course has received the patronage of the Association for Digital Humanities and Digital Culture (AIUCD) and the Digital Arena for Inclusive Humanities (DAIH). Instructors: Simone Rebora (University of Verona), Giulia Grisot (University of Manchester), Piergiovanna Grossi (University of Verona), and Marina Lehmann (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) Topics and Workshops: • Accessible computing o Basics of computational thinking o Computational thinking with LLMs • Accessible computational resources o Accessible materials for computational analysis o Accessible tools for computational analysis • Accessible digital documents o Accessibility standards and guidelines for digital documents o Accessibility practices for textual and visual content • Accessible research outcomes o Introduction to storytelling for academic and nonacademic audiences o Visualization as tool for accessible research outcomes Recognition: Upon successful completion of the Professional Development and Specialization Course, participants will receive a certificate and earn 6 ECTS credits. Registration: https://www.corsi.univr.it/?ent=cs&id=1279&menu=home&lang=en More info: simone.rebora(a)univr.it

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TOTh 2026 - Last Call for Papers
by Christophe Roche 02 Feb '26

02 Feb '26

Please share [Apologies for multiple postings] ====================================================== *LAST CALL FOR PAPERS - TOTh 2026* ====================================================== *The 20th Anniversary Edition of the Longest-Running International Conference on Terminology* Terminology & Ontology: Theories and applications June 4 & 5, 2026 - University Savoie Mont-Blanc (Chambéry, France) https://toth.condillac.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This landmark event will feature invited lectures and round tables, all within a festive atmosphere to commemorate two decades of exchange within the TOTh community and explore future perspectives. Don’t miss the opportunity to submit your work to the conference bringing together the foremost experts in the field. Selected papers will be published in a special volume of the Terminologica series. Topics include (but are not limited to): - Terminology, Translation, Linguistics, Terminography, Lexicography, Lexicology, Corpus - Natural Language Processing: Corpus analysis - Artificial Intelligence: Knowledge Representation, Ontology, Knowledge Graph, Generative AI, LLMs - Methodology (FAIR principles) & Standards (ISO, W3C) - Environments & Applications: Cultural Heritage, Digital Humanities, Education, Healthcare, Industry, Content Management Systems, Semantic Web, Metadata, Linked Open Data, etc. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Deadline for submission of extended abstracts POSTPONED to February 8, 2026* Notification to authors: March 8, 2026 Easychair submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=toth2026 The format for submitting abstracts is free. The number of characters including spaces is between 12,000 and 15,000, excluding the bibliography Working languages: English and French ===================================================== *TOTh 2026 Training Session on * The conference is preceded by a two-day training session: 2 & 3 June 2026 *"Bringing Artificial Intelligence to Terminology: A Step-by-Step Project Approach"* https://toth.condillac.org/training-2026-ai University Savoie Mont-Blanc (Chambéry, France). ===================================================== Prof Christophe Roche University of Crete (Greece) - ERA Chair Holder University Savoie Mont Blanc (France) - Emeritus https://talos-ai4ssh.uoc.gr/ http://christophe-roche.fr/ roche.university(a)gmail.com

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CFP: LT4HALA 2026
by Rachele Sprugnoli 02 Feb '26

02 Feb '26

CFP: LT4HALA 2026 - The Fourth Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages Website: https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2026/ Date: 11 May 2026 Place: co-located with LREC 2026, 11-16 May 2026, Palma, Mallorca (Spain) Submission page: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/LT4HALA2026/ Submission deadline: 17 February 2026 DESCRIPTION LT4HALA 2026 is a one-day workshop that seeks to bring together scholars who are developing and/or are using Language Technologies (LTs) for historically attested languages, so to foster cross-fertilization between the Computational Linguistics community and the areas in the Humanities dealing with historical linguistic data, e.g. historians, philologists, linguists, archaeologists and literary scholars. LT4HALA 2026 follows LT4HALA 2020, 2022, 2024 that were organized in the context of LREC 2020, LREC 2022 and LREC-COLING 2024, respectively. Despite the current availability of large collections of digitized texts written in historical languages, such interdisciplinary collaboration is still hampered by the limited availability of annotated linguistic resources for most of the historical languages. Creating such resources is a challenge and an obligation for LTs, both to support historical linguistic research with the most updated technologies and to preserve those precious linguistic data that survived from past times. Relevant topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to: creation and annotation of linguistic resources (both lexical and textual); the role of digital infrastructures, such as CLARIN <https://www.clarin.eu/>, in supporting research based on language resources for historical and ancient languages; handling spelling variation; detection and correction of OCR errors; deciphering; morphological/syntactic/semantic analysis of textual data; adaptation of tools to address diachronic/diatopic/diastratic variation in texts; teaching ancient languages with LTs; NLP-driven theoretical studies in historical linguistics; NLP-driven analysis of literary ancient texts; evaluation of LTs designed for historical and ancient languages; LLMs for the automatic analysis of ancient texts. SHARED TASKS LT4HALA 2026 will host: the 4th edition of EvaLatin <https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2026/EvaLatin>, a campaign entirely devoted to the evaluation of NLP tools for Latin. This new edition will focus on two tasks: dependency parsing and Named Entity Recognition. Dependency parsing will be based on the Universal Dependencies framework. the 5th edition of EvaHan <https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2026/EvaHan>, the campaign for the evaluation of NLP tools for Ancient Chinese. EvaHan 2026 will focus on Ancient Chinese OCR (Optical Character Recognition) Evaluation. the 2nd edition of EvaCun <https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2026/EvaCun>, the campaign for the evaluation of Ancient Cuneiform Languages, with shared tasks on transliteration normalization, morphological analysis and lemmatization, Named Entity Recognition of Akkadian and/or Sumerian. SUBMISSIONS Submissions should be 4 to 8 pages in length and follow the LREC stylesheet (see below). The maximum number of pages excludes potential Ethics Statements and discussion on Limitations, acknowledgements and references, as well as data and code availability statements. Appendices or supplementary material are not permitted during the initial submission phase, as papers should be self-contained and reviewable on their own. Papers must be of original, previously unpublished work. Papers must be anonymized to support double-blind reviewing. Submissions thus must not include authors’ names and affiliations. The submissions should also avoid links to non-anonymized repositories: the code should be either submitted as supplementary material in the final version of the paper, or as a link to an anonymized repository (e.g., Anonymous GitHub or Anonym Share). Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Submissions should follow the LREC stylesheet, which is available on the LREC 2026 website on the Author’s kit page <https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/>. Each paper will be reviewed by three independent reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, which include both oral and poster papers in the same format. Determination of the presentation format (oral vs. poster) is based solely on an assessment of the optimal method of communication (more or less interactive), given the paper content. As for the shared tasks, participants will be required to submit a technical report for each task (with all the related sub-tasks) they took part in. Technical reports will be included in the proceedings as short papers: the maximum length is 4 pages (excluding references) and they should follow the LREC 2026 official format. Reports will receive a light review (we will check for the correctness of the format, the exactness of results and ranking, and overall exposition). All participants will have the possibility to present their results at the workshop. Reports of the shared tasks are not anonymous. WORKSHOP IMPORTANT DATES 17 February 2026: submissions due 13 March 2026: reviews due 16 March 2026: notifications to authors 27 March 2026: camera-ready due Shared tasks deadlines are available in the specific web pages: EvaLatin, EvaHan, EvaCun. Identify, Describe and Share your LRs! 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).

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Open Access journal Philosophy & Digitality (P&D): Update on Special Issues and the Call for Special Issues
by Geiger, Jonathan 01 Feb '26

01 Feb '26

Dear colleagues, Sorry for crossposting. Our Open Access journal Philosophy & Digitality (P&D) has some updates regarding our Special Issues as well as the Call for Special Issues. In July 2025 we could successfully publish our first Special Issue on "LLMs and the Patterns of Human Language Use", edited by Christoph Durt and Sybille Krämer. The link is this: https://journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/phidi/issue/view/622 . In the issue, you can find papers from Elena Esposito, Wilrich Jeffrey Nieto, Xyh Tamura, Sybille Krämer, David Gunkel, Anna Strasser, Hadi Asghari & Filip Bialy, Shane Denson, M. Beatrice Fazi and Christoph Durt. In December 2025 we could also publish the Introduction of the next Special Issue on "Normative Issues of Affective Computing", edited by Anna Tuschling and Eva Weber-Guskar. The link is this: https://journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/phidi/issue/view/649 . The papers of this issue will be published as rolling publication during the course of the next months. If you are interested in publishing with us, please have a look at our standing Call for Special Issues. The link is this: https://journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/phidi/announcement/view/63 . P&D is an international, open access, double-blind reviewed philosophical community journal without publication fees (ISSN 2940-8466). It is supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The editorial board is Gabriele Gramelsberger (Aachen, Germany) (Editor in Chief), Sybille Krämer (Luneburg, Germany) and Jörg Noller (Munich, Germany). A special issue focuses on one particular aspect or perspective of the philosophy of digitality. The contributions can be the proceedings of an international conference or workshop (in the near past or future) or an international call for papers. Interested editors can submit a concept for a special issue until the 15th of April 2026. Please send your concept to info(a)phidi.org. After a positive review of the concept by the editorial board of the journal towards the middle of the year, the special issue will then be scheduled for 2027. You can find more information on P&D in general here: https://journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/phidi/index . Further questions about the journal, issues or formalities can be addressed to info(a)phidi.org. Kind regards, Eric Eggert and Jonathan D. Geiger (journal editors of P&D)

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Call for Abstracts
by Eliana Bergaglio 30 Jan '26

30 Jan '26

Dear all, The PhD students in Digital Humanities at the Universities of Genoa and Turin are pleased to share with you the Call for Abstracts for the 2026 DH Days entitled “Practices, Limits e Perspectives: (In)conveniences in the Digital Humanities”. The event will be held on 25 and 26 May 2026 at the University of Genoa. The conference aims to explore the potential, challenges, and implications of digital technologies in the various fields of arts, linguistics, literature, and education. The initiative aims to encourage interdisciplinary dialogue and promote new connections between PhD students from different research backgrounds, in a manner fully consistent with the vocation of Digital Humanities. The program includes four thematic panels – Art, Entertainment and Heritage; Linguistics, Translation and Language Technologies; Literary and Cultural Research; Educational Technologies and New Learning Environments – which reflect the doctoral curriculum. Keynote speakers of national and international importance will participate at the event, including Prof. Vittorio Gallese (University of Parma), Prof. Stefano Moriggi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), Prof. Sophie Robert-Hayek (Sorbonne Université – Paris), and Prof. Giovanni Pietro Vitali (Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University – Paris-Saclay). Deadline for submitting long abstracts (1000–1500 words): 18 February 2026. The attached document contains all the details, thematic areas, guidelines, and useful information for authors. All future updates will be available on the conference website (we recommend checking it regularly for updates): https://digitalhumanities.phd.unige.it/en/node/1313 We would be very grateful if you could share the call within your networks and research communities. For any information, please contact us by replying to this email. Kind regards, The Organising Committee.

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Call for paper: Analysing Cultural Heritage Documents: HTR/OCR, Information Extraction, and Textual Variation
by Elena Pierazzo 29 Jan '26

29 Jan '26

Hello everyone, We are pleased to announce the call for proposals for a workshop organised as part of the ERC PRIMA project, titled "Analysing Cultural Heritage Documents: HTR/OCR, Information Extraction, and Textual Variation". It will take place on Friday, 9 October 2026, in Tours. The aim is to bring together researchers interested in computational approaches applied to the analysis of manuscripts and printed documents. The topics addressed include, in particular: HTR/OCR Data augmentation Clustering Computational palaeography etc. Proposals may be submitted in English or French and should include: an abstract (max 500 words) a short biography (max 5 lines) 3–5 keywords Proposals should be submitted by 15 May 2026. All information (topics, guidelines, timeline) is available here: https://prima.hypotheses.org/3737 We warmly encourage you to participate and to share this announcement within your networks. All the best wishes Elena

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