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[1] From: Web and Publicity ESWC <eswc.publicity@gmail.com>
Subject: [CfP] ESWC 2026: Calls for Posters & Demos (33)
[2] From: Muzi Matfunjwa <Muzi.Matfunjwa@nwu.ac.za>
Subject: Second call for papers: Seventh Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) 2026 (111)
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Date: 2026-01-21 17:43:30+00:00
From: Web and Publicity ESWC <eswc.publicity@gmail.com>
Subject: [CfP] ESWC 2026: Calls for Posters & Demos
The European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) is a major venue for academic
research and developments in the area of the Semantic Web and Knowledge
Graphs. The 23rd edition will take place from May 10 to 14, 2026, in
Dubrovnik, Croatia.
The Posters and Demos Track of ESWC 2026 welcomes submissions for
presenting late-breaking results, ongoing research, innovative ideas, and
early-stage prototypes within the Semantic Web domain. This track
encourages discussions and interaction between researchers and
practitioners, facilitating feedback on emerging work and demonstrations of
cutting-edge technologies.
Important Dates
Submission deadline March 03, 2026
Notification of acceptance March 31, 2026
Camera-ready final version April 15, 2026
All deadlines are 23:59 anywhere on earth (UTC-12).
More information: http://2026.eswc-conferences.org/calls/poster-demo/
Posters and Demos Chairs
Pasquale Lisena
EURECOM - France
pasquale.lisena@eurecom.fr
Marta Sabou
Vienna University Economics and Business (WU) - Austria
marta.sabou@wu.ac.at
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Date: 2026-01-21 09:15:31+00:00
From: Muzi Matfunjwa <Muzi.Matfunjwa@nwu.ac.za>
Subject: Second call for papers: Seventh Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) 2026
Dear colleagues
Second 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/
Submission link for the RAIL workshop: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/RAIL2026/
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 should be double blind and
each submission should be between four and eight pages. Only oral papers should
be submitted. The maximum number of pages excludes a compulsory ethics
statement, discussion on limitations, and references and optional
acknowledgements, as well as data and code availability statements if
applicable. Appendices or supplementary material are allowed, but this
information will not necessarily be taken into account during the review
process.
The submission link for the RAIL workshop:
https://softconf.com/lrec2026/RAIL2026/
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).
Important dates:
Submission deadline: 23 February 2026 AoE
Date of notification: 11 March 2026 AoE
Camera ready copy deadline: 30 March 2026 AoE
Workshop: 12 May 2026
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
Dr. Muzi Matfunjwa
Senior Lecturer
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