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CALL FOR PAPERS

Second Call for Participation: ImageEval 2026: Cultural Grounding in Arabic Multimodal Generation and Understanding

We invite researchers and practitioners to participate in ImageEval 2026: Cultural Grounding in Arabic Multimodal Generation and Understanding, a shared task organized as part of ArabicNLP 2026, co-located with EMNLP 2026.

ICNLSP 2026 welcomes contributions on both the theoretical foundations and applied aspects of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Speech Processing. The conference will feature regular sessions, along with keynote talks delivered by distinguished international researchers.
We invite authors to submit their work on topics relevant to ICNLSP 2026 and contribute to advancing research in the field.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
We invite contributions on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:

Call for Participation: ArGuard 2026 Shared Task at ArabicNLP 2026

We invite researchers and practitioners to participate in ArGuard 2026: Harmful Content Detection in Arabic Memes and LLM Prompts, a shared task organized as part of ArabicNLP 2026, co-located with EMNLP 2026.

ArGuard 2026 focuses on Arabic-specific challenges in harmful content detection, including dialectal variation, sarcasm, cultural references, code-switching, multimodal signals, and implicit harmful intent.

Workshop on Natural Legal Language Processing (NLLP) 2026

28 or 29 October 2026, Budapest, Hungary (collocated with EMNLP 2026)

Website: http://nllpw.org/workshop Twitter: @nllpworkshop Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/nllpworkshop.bsky.social
Contact: nllp.chairs@gmail.com

= Important Dates =

We are delighted to share the second call for papers with you for Konferenz zur Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache (KONVENS) 2026, organized under the auspices of the GSCL, the DGfS-CL, the ÖGAI, and SwissNLP. This year’s KONVENS will take place in Hamburg, September 14 – 17 under the special theme “Context Matters: NLP Beyond Text”. The conference will include a diverse program including talks by our two keynote speakers:

Dr. Valentin Hoffmann, Allen Institute for AI
Prof. Dr. Barbara Plank, LMU Munich.

We are pleased to announce the 15th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2026), co-located with ACL 2026. The call for papers can be found here and below.

*SEM 2026: The 15th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics [San Diego, CA (Co-located with ACL 2026)]

Website: https://starsem2026.github.io/

NLP4DH (Natural Language Processing for the Digital Humanities) is an interdisciplinary conference series that leverages advancing techniques in natural language processing to enhance research in the digital humanities, and vice versa. NLP4DH has been organized annually since its inception in 2021.

We are pleased to announce the 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for the Digital Humanities (NLP4DH 2026) will be co-located with ACL 2026. The conference will take place in San Diego, California, USA on July 6 (tent.), 2026.

Are you passionate about leveraging AI for societal good? We are pleased to announce that registration and submissions are now open for eRisk 2026, the tenth edition of the CLEF associated evaluation lab of early risk prediction on the Internet!!. Full details are available on the eRisk website.
Tasks for eRisk 2026 (All the info available at https://erisk.irlab.org/)
*Task 1: Conversational Depression Detection with LLMs

SilkRoad2026:
The First Workshop on NLP and LLMs for the Iranian Language Family

at EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco
March 29, 2026, 9am-12:30pm (Half Day)

https://www.silkroadnlp.org/ [1]

# Introduction