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Today's Topics:
1. 2nd Call for Papers: SIGUL 2026 Joint Workshop with ELE,
EURALI, and DCLRL Towards Inclusivity and Equality: Language
Resources and Technologies for Under-Resourced and Endangered
Languages (Atul Kr. Ojha)
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Language Resources and Technologies for Under-Resourced and Endangered
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*SIGUL 2026 Joint Workshop with ELE, EURALI, and DCLRL*
*Towards Inclusivity and Equality: Language Resources and Technologies for
Under-Resourced and Endangered Languages*
*https://sites.google.com/view/sigul2026/home-page
<https://sites.google.com/view/sigul2026/home-page>*
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We are pleased to announce the upcoming SIGUL 2026 Joint Workshop with ELE,
EURALI, and DCLRL on Towards Inclusivity and Equality: Language Resources
and Technologies for Under-Resourced and Endangered Languages
<https://sites.google.com/view/sigul2026/home-page>, co-located with *LREC
2026 *in Palma, Mallorca, Spain. This workshop brings together researchers
working on less-resourced, endangered, minority, low-density, and
underrepresented languages to share novel techniques, resources,
strategies, and evaluation methods. We emphasize the entire pipeline: data
creation, modeling, adaptation/transfer, system development, evaluation,
deployment, and ethical/community engagement.
We invite contributions on, but not limited to, the following topics:
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Data collection, annotation, and curation for under-resourced languages
(crowdsourcing, participatory methods, gamification, unsupervised or weakly
supervised methods)
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Learning with limited supervision (zero- or few-shot, PEFT, RAG with
linguistic resources)
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Multilingual alignment, representation learning, and language
embeddings, including rare languages
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Speech, multimodal, and cross-modal technologies for under-resourced
languages (speech recognition, synthesis, speech-to-text, speech
translation, multimodal resources)
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Basic text processing (normalization, orthography, transliteration,
tokenization/segmentation, morphological and syntactic processing) in and
for low-resource settings.
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Low-resource machine translation (pivoting, alignment, synthetic data)
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Evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, and metrics designed or adapted for
underrepresented languages
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Adaptation, domain adaptation, and robustness to domain shift in
low-resource contexts
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Responsible approaches, ethical issues, community engagement, data
sovereignty, and language revitalization
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Deployment, tools, and practical systems for underserved languages
(e.g., mobile apps, dictionary or translation apps, linguistic tools)
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Case studies of success and negative results (with lessons learned)
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Interoperability, standardization, and metadata practices for datasets
in low-resource scenarios
Special Themes
Language modeling for intra-language variation, dialects, accents, and
regional variants of less-resourced languages
Many less-resourced languages display rich internal diversity, including
dialects, accents, and regional or social varieties. This special theme
focuses on developing language models and speech technologies that capture
and respect intra-language variation rather than reduce it to a single
?standard.? We welcome work on dialect identification and adaptation,
accent-robust speech systems, normalization vs. diversity-preserving
modeling, and cross-dialect transfer in low-data scenarios. Approaches
combining linguistic insights, community participation, and ethical
awareness are especially encouraged. The aim is to build technologies that
reflect and sustain the true linguistic richness of under-resourced
languages.
Ultra-Low-Resource Language Adaptation
This special theme focuses on methods that enable effective language and
speech technology development under extreme data scarcity. We invite
research on transfer learning, cross-lingual adaptation, multilingual
pretraining, and self-supervised or few-shot approaches tailored to
ultra-low-resource settings. Work on evaluation, data augmentation
(including synthetic data), and leveraging typological or linguistic
knowledge is also welcome. The goal is to advance techniques that extend
modern language technologies to the most underrepresented languages,
ensuring inclusivity in the digital age.
Community-Led Project Showcase
To help ground research in community needs, we invite brief (5?10 min)
presentations by language community members, NGOs, or practitioners
describing real-world challenges or resource needs. Position papers or
research posters are appropriate formats for this category.
Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: February 20 (Friday), 2026
Notification of Acceptance: March 22 (Sunday), 2026
Submission of Camera-Ready: March 30 (Monday), 2026
Workshop Date: 11-12 May 2026
All deadlines are anywhere-on-earth (AoE).
Call for Papers
We welcome original research papers and ongoing work relevant to the topics
of the workshop. Each submission can be one of the following categories:
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research papers;
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position papers for reflective considerations of methodological, best
practice, and institutional issues (e.g., ethics, data ownership, speakers?
community involvement, de-colonizing approaches);
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posters, for work-in-progress projects in the early stage of development
or description of new resources;
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demo papers and early-career/student papers (to be submitted as extended
abstracts and presented as posters).
The research and position papers should range from four (4) to eight (8)
pages, while demo papers are limited to four (4) pages. References don't
count towards page limits. 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.
Submissions must be anonymous and follow LREC formatting guidelines
<https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/>.
For inquiries, send an email to claudia.soria@cnr.it.
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).
Thanks,
Atul
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