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Humanist Archives: Feb. 23, 2026, 6:12 a.m. Humanist 39.338 - events cfp: information disorder; neology & LLMs (Palma de Mallorca)

				
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    [1]    From: Simona Frenda <simona.frenda@gmail.com>
           Subject: [new deadline extension] Call for paper: The Information Disorder Workshop (131)

    [2]    From: Florentina Armaselu <florentina.armaselu@gmail.com>
           Subject: Second Call for Papers: Neology and Large Language Models Workshop (NeoLLM2026) (105)


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        Date: 2026-02-20 13:44:35+00:00
        From: Simona Frenda <simona.frenda@gmail.com>
        Subject: [new deadline extension] Call for paper: The Information Disorder Workshop

The Information Disorder Workshop

– An interdisciplinary workshop.

Collocated with LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain
https://information-disorder-workshop.github.io/

* March 3: Paper submission (extension)
* March 20: Notification of acceptance
* March 30: Camera-ready submission
* May 12, 2026: InDor at LREC!

Online disinformation is a pressing challenge for our societies. Its role
in influencing elections (Allcott & Gentzkow, 2017) and behaviours (van der
Linden et al., 2020) has gathered the attention of different societal
actors aimed at mitigating its negative impact.

The Natural Language Processing (NLP) community is contributing to fighting
this phenomenon with a growing number of datasets (Hussain et al., 2025)
and technologies (VeraAI, AskVera, Bellingcat) (Lupi et al., 2023; Wuhrl et
al., 2023) for the automatic recognition of fake news. However, this field
of research suffers from a lack of a common theoretical framework, which
causes a fragmentation of approaches. The increasing attention of the NLP
community to human-label variation (Plank, 2022) raises additional
challenges regarding the cross-cultural and pragmatic implications that
determine the spreading of disinformation (Dabbous et al., 2022).

The goal of the Information Disorder (InDor) workshop is to promote an
interdisciplinary and intersectorial discussion towards the development of
NLP research on disinformation.

Information Disorder is a recent framework introduced by Wardle and
Derakhshan (2017) to organize theories, definitions, and approaches for the
study of disinformation.

The framework is characterized by two main pillars: 1) acknowledging the
need to categorize fake news under a finer-grained taxonomy of disorders
(mis-information, dis-information, and mal-information); 2) exploring the
role of the contextual factors that determine the spreading of fake news.

InDor aims to

   -   Define a common theoretical ground for the research on disinformation in
   NLP and beyond
   -   Discuss the cultural factors determining subjectivity to disinformation
   -   Promote interdisciplinarity in the development of datasets and models
   -   Discuss the impact of real-world applications to contrast disinformation


The InDor workshop (half-day duration) will be co-located with the
fifteenth biennial Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) held
at the Palau de Congressos de Palma in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, on 11-16
May 2026.

Submissions

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).  In addition, authors will be required to
adhere to ethical research policies on AI and may include an ethics
statement in their papers.

The papers should be submitted as a PDF document, conforming to the
formatting guidelines provided in the call for papers of the LREC
conference. Templates are provided here https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/

We accept three types of submissions (see the website
<https://information-disorder-workshop.github.io/> for details)

   -   Regular research papers;
   -   Non-archival submissions: like research papers, but will not be included
   in the proceedings;
   -   (Non-archival) research communications: 1-page abstracts summarising
   relevant research published elsewhere.

InDor will also accept submissions that have been rejected from the ACL
rolling review or other conferences (e.g., LREC), provided they are
accompanied by their reviews, and they fit the topic of the workshop.

Research papers (archival or non-archival) may consist of up to 8 pages of
content. Research communications may consist of up to 1 page of content. Please
make the submission here: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/InDor26/

Topics

We invite original research papers specifically on the following topics,
with a particular focus on resources, taxonomies, and benchmarks for the
evaluation of NLP systems on Information Disorder:

   -   new interdisciplinary theoretical proposals and foundational aspects
   -   surveys on Information Disorder
   -   multiculturality and multilinguality in datasets and technologies
   -   interdisciplinary computational methods and frameworks
   -   community- and user-centred approaches
   -   real-world applications to contrast false information
   -   experimental applications and projects for social good
   -   evaluation of Information Disorder-focused systems
   -   generative approaches to contrast false information
   -   participatory approaches
   -   positions on Information Disorder


Submissions are open to all and are to be submitted anonymously (and must
conform to the instructions for double-blind review). All papers will be
refereed through a double-blind peer review process by at least three
reviewers, with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organisers.
Scientific papers will be evaluated based on relevance, significance of
contribution, impact, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of
presentation.

Attendance

At least one author of each accepted paper is required to participate in
the conference and present the work, in-person or online.

Workshop organisers:

Simona Frenda, Heriot-Watt University
Marco Antonio Stranisci, University of Turin
Shaina Ashraf, Phillips University of Marburg
Ada Ren, Macquarie University
Ioannis Konstas, Heriot-Watt University
Usman Naseem, Macquarie University

Contact us at s.frenda@hw.ac.uk if you have any questions.

Website: https://information-disorder-workshop.github.io/

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        Date: 2026-02-20 12:33:10+00:00
        From: Florentina Armaselu <florentina.armaselu@gmail.com>
        Subject: Second Call for Papers: Neology and Large Language Models Workshop (NeoLLM2026)

Call for papers

Neology and Large Language Models Workshop (NeoLLM2026)
Co-located with LREC 2026, Palma de Mallorca (in-person & online)
May 16, 2026
Paper submission deadline: February 28, 2026 (extended)

Submission link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/NeoLLM2026/
Workshop website: https://neollm2026.del.auth.gr/
Main conference website: https://lrec2026.info/


Motivation and Topics of Interest

Understanding how LLMs capture, propagate, or even invent semantic shifts
raises fundamental questions for lexicography, language modeling, and
semantic resources. Addressing these questions requires close collaboration
between computational linguistics, lexicography, and lexical resource
development. Such interdisciplinary work can shed light on how large
language models both reflect and reshape linguistic creativity, an inquiry
that lies at the core of the proposed workshop.

The goal is to examine methodological, theoretical, and applied questions:
How can LLMs help identify, track, and categorize new lexical items and
senses across languages? To what extent do LLMs replicate or amplify human
neologisms and semantic shifts, and when do they generate artificial or
spurious ones? What are the implications for lexicographic practice,
language documentation, NLP applications, and cultural studies of language
change?

We invite researchers from computational linguistics, lexicography, digital
humanities, and language technology to explore the intersection of LLMs and
neology. We invite submissions on (but not limited to) the following topics:

Linguistic Innovation in the Age of AI
- Neology detection and tracking using LLMs
- How LLMs absorb, generate, and disseminate new lexical items
- Benchmarks for LLM-driven neology detection
- Legitimacy and authority in AI-generated neologisms

Language Resources and Inequality
- High-resource vs. low-resource languages in neology
- Integration of neologisms in dominant languages
- LLMs and neology for low-resource languages

Cultural and Sociolinguistic Dimensions
- Cultural appropriateness and contextual limitations of AI-driven
neologisms
- Sociolinguistic perspectives on LLMs and neology
- LLMs as participants in language innovation
- Opportunities for language revitalization and documentation

Future Considerations for Linguistic Research
- AI’s role in shaping language futures
- Strategies to ensure linguistic equity and diversity
- Cross-disciplinary approaches: linguistics, AI, education, and sociology

We invite both long (8 pages and 2 pages of references) and short papers (4
pages and 2 pages of references) representing original research, innovative
approaches and resource descriptions. Short papers may also represent
project descriptions. These do not have to be implemented but discuss to
what extent and for which purposes the project is created. Projects that
are still in their early stages and seek advice from the broader scientific
community are welcome, especially if they include underrepresented fields
of study. We particularly welcome work on under-resourced and endangered
languages. Submissions can be made via: https://neollm2026.del.auth.gr/

Papers should be formatted according to the LREC guidelines, please see
https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/. Submissions that do not conform to the
required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size
restrictions, will be rejected without review.

At the time of submission, authors are offered the opportunity to share
related language resources with the community. All repository entries are
linked to the LRE Map (https://lremap.elra.info/), which provides metadata
for the resource.

Important Dates (extended deadline)
Paper Submission: 28 February 2026
Notification: 15 March 2026
Camera-ready Copy: 30 March 2026
Workshop: 16 May 2026
All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on earth”).

Workshop organisers
Giedre Valunaite Oleskeviciene (Mykolas Romeris University)
Barbara McGillivray (King’s College London)
Florentina Armaselu (University of Luxembourg)
Voula Giouli (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Chaya Liebeskind (Jerusalem College of Technology)
Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (University of Applied Sciences in Konin)
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Florentina Armaselu
Research Scientist, PhD
Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH)
UNIVERSITÉ DU LUXEMBOURG
CAMPUS BELVAL
Maison des Sciences Humaines

11, Porte des Sciences
L-4366 Esch-sur-Alzette
T +352 46 66 44 9021
F +352 46 66 44 3 9021
florentina.armaselu@uni.lu / www.uni.lu


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