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[1] From: Muzi Matfunjwa <Muzi.Matfunjwa@nwu.ac.za>
Subject: First call for papers: Seventh Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) 2026 (101)
[2] From: Journal of Computational Literary Studies <info@jcls.io>
Subject: Upcoming Deadline: Call for Papers for CCLS2026, the Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies (Jan 8, 2026) (42)
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Date: 2025-12-08 14:44:19+00:00
From: Muzi Matfunjwa <Muzi.Matfunjwa@nwu.ac.za>
Subject: First call for papers: Seventh Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) 2026
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-languages-rail-2026/
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@nwu.ac.za<mailto:benito.trollip@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
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Date: 2025-12-08 10:11:23+00:00
From: Journal of Computational Literary Studies <info@jcls.io>
Subject: Upcoming Deadline: Call for Papers for CCLS2026, the Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies (Jan 8, 2026)
Dear colleagues,
This is a friendly reminder that the Journal of Computational Literary Studies
(JCLS) is currently accepting submissions for the conference + journal track at
CCLS 2026, the 5th Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies, taking
place May 28–29, 2026, at the University of Potsdam, Germany.
Submission deadline: January 8, 2026
We warmly invite you to submit your work and contribute to the ongoing
discussion in computational literary studies. Full details of the call,
including submission guidelines, can be found on our website:
https://jcls.io/site/cfp/
If you have any questions regarding the submission process or the journal more
generally, please feel free to contact us at info@jcls.io
For updates, you can also follow JCLS on Mastodon <https://fedihum.org/@jcls> or
Bluesky <https://bsky.app/profile/jcls-io.bsky.social>.
We look forward to receiving your submissions!
All the best,
The JCLS Editors Evelyn Gius, Christof Schöch, Peer Trilcke
PS: The contributions of CCLS2025 are currently being published here:
https://jcls.io/articles/
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