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SECOND CALL FOR WORKSHOPS - LREC 2026
Organized by the ELRA Language Resources Association
Palma, Mallorca, Spain
11-16 May 2026
The Organisers of LREC 2026 invite proposals for workshops to be held in
conjunction with the main conference at Palau de Congressos de Palma,
Palma de Mallorca (Spain). We solicit proposals in all areas of language
resources, language technology, and evaluation of the underlying
technologies, broadly conceived to also include related disciplines such
as linguistics, language documentation, natural language processing,
speech and multimodal processing, computational social science, and the
digital humanities.
The workshops will be held at LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca (Spain) on
11, 12 and 16 May 2026.
IMPORTANT DATES
(All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”)
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17 October 2025: Proposal submission deadline
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17 November 2025: Notification of acceptance
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11-16 May 2026: LREC2026 conference
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
Submissions should follow this template:
https://www.overleaf.com/project/68879da091da5870fcb655de
<https://www.overleaf.com/project/68879da091da5870fcb655de>
Proposals should be submitted as PDF documents using the START system
(https://softconf.com/lrec2026/workshops/
<https://softconf.com/lrec2026/workshops/>).
Note that submissions should essentially be ready to be turned into a
Call for Workshop Papers within one week of notification of acceptance
(see Important dates above).
The proposals should be at most two pages for the main proposal + at
most two additional pages for information about organisers, program
committee, and references. Thus, the whole proposal should not be more
than FOUR pages long, excluding references.
The two pages for the main proposal must include:
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A title and a brief description of the workshop topic and content.
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Workshops can be half-day (morning 9:00 to 13:00 or afternoon 14:00
to 18:00) or full-day (9:00 to 18:00) and must follow fixed hours
for breaks (morning coffee break 10.30-11.00, lunch break:
13:00-14:00, afternoon coffee break: 16.00-16.30).
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A list of invited speakers, if applicable, with an indication of
which ones have already agreed and which are tentative, and sources
of funding for the speakers, if needed.
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An estimate of the number of attendees.
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A description of any shared tasks associated with the workshop, and
estimate of the number of participants. Note that any shared task
will also need to be reviewed by the workshop committee for ethical
concerns.
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A description of special requirements and technical needs, where
relevant.
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If the workshop has been held before, a note specifying where
previous iterations of the workshops were held, how many submissions
the workshop received, how many papers were accepted (also specify
if they were not regular papers, e.g., shared task system
description papers, non-archival papers), and how many attendees the
workshop attracted.
The two pages for information about the workshop, the organisers and the
program committee must include:
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A very brief advertisement or tagline for the workshop, up to 140
characters, that highlights any key information you wish prospective
attendees to know, and which would be suitable to be put onto a
web-based survey (see below).
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The names, affiliations, and email addresses of the organisers, with
one-paragraph statements of their research interests, areas of
expertise, and experience in organising workshops and related events.
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A list of Program Committee members, with an indication of which
members have already agreed. Organisers should do their best to
estimate the number of submissions (especially for recurring
workshops) in order to (a) ensure a sufficient number of reviewers
so that each paper receives 3 reviews, and (b) anticipate that no
one is committed to reviewing more than 3 papers. This practice is
likely to ensure on-time, and more thorough and thoughtful reviews.
Submission is electronic. Please submit the proposals using the START
system at this URL:https://softconf.com/lrec2026/workshops/
<https://softconf.com/lrec2026/workshops/>
EVALUATION CRITERIA
The workshop proposals will be evaluated according to their originality
and impact, the expected interest level of participants, as well as the
quality of the organising team and Program Committee, and their
contribution to the diversity of the conference.
DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
We particularly encourage submissions of underrepresented groups in
language resources and language technology, including researchers from
any demographic or geographic minority, with disabilities, or others. In
the evaluation of the proposal, we will take these aspects into account
to create a varied and balanced set of workshops.
Workshop proposals are evaluated on a range of aspects, including
diversity, such as (1) how the topic of the workshop contributes to
improved diversity and increased fairness in the field, (2) if the topic
is particularly relevant for a specific underrepresented group of
potential participants, (3), if the presenters are from an
underrepresented group.
WORKSHOP ORGANISER RESPONSIBILITIES
At least one of the accepted organisers must attend the workshop in
person. The organisers of the accepted proposals are responsible for
publicizing and running the workshop, including reviewing submissions,
producing the workshop program and the camera-ready workshop proceedings
according to LREC requirements, organising the meeting days, and playing
their part to ensure that all participants are aware of LREC’s
anti-harassment policy and code of conduct (see
https://lrec2026.info/lrec-2026-code-of-conduct/
<https://lrec2026.info/lrec-2026-code-of-conduct/>). It is crucial that
organisers commit to all deadlines. In particular, failure to produce
the camera-ready proceedings in the correct format on time will lead to
the exclusion of the workshop from the unified proceedings and author
indexes. Workshop organisers cannot accept submissions for publication
that will be (or have been) published elsewhere, although they are free
to set their own policies on simultaneous submission and review, as well
as to accept additional non-archival presentations
CONTACT
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Workshop Chairs: [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
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General contact: mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
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More information on LREC 2026: https://lrec2026.info/
<https://lrec2026.info/>
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