2026 15th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)

Palau de Congressos de Palma

May 11 - 17, 2026

Palau de Congressos de Palma

Palma, Spain

May 11 - 17, 2026

Palma, Spain

About the Conference

The three-day main conference took place on 13-15 May 2026, and it was accompanied by three days of workshops and tutorials held in the days immediately before (11-12 May 2026) and after (16 May 2026). The conference brought together researchers and practitioners in natural language processing, computational linguistics, speech and multimodality, with special attention to evaluation and the development of resources that support work in these areas. Following the tradition of LREC, the 15th edition featured grand challenges and provide ample opportunity for participants to exchange information and ideas through both oral presentations and extensive poster sessions, complemented by an exciting social program.

Subject Areas

Language Resource Development Language Resource Use Evaluation Language Resources and Large Language Models Policy and Organizational Considerations Paper Theme Tracks

Keynote Speakers

Nancy F. Chen

ISCA Fellow, AAIA Fellow, A*STAR Fellow · A*STAR / Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R)

Dan Jurafsky

Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Computer Science, Reynolds Professor in Humanities · Stanford University

Nicolau Dols

Full professor of Catalan · Universitat de les Illes Balears

Important Dates

2025-10-24 Oral and poster (or poster+demo) paper submission · All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth") CLOSED

2026-02-13 Notification of acceptance · All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth") CLOSED

2026-03-15 Camera Ready due · All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth") CLOSED

2026-05-11 LREC 2026 conference · 11-16 May 2026 CLOSED

2026-02-16 Industry Day Submission Deadline CLOSED

2026-03-13 Industry Day Notification of acceptance CLOSED

Call For Papers

Language Resource Development

Methods and tools for mono- and multi-lingual language resource development and annotation Knowledge discovery/representation (knowledge graphs, linked data, terminologies, lexicons, ontologies, etc.) Resource development for less-resourced/endangered languages Guidelines, standards, best practices, and models for interoperability

Language Resource Use

Use of language resources in systems and applications for any area of language and speech processing Use of language resources in assistive technologies, support for accessibility Efficient/low-resource methods for language and speech processing

Evaluation

Methodologies and protocols for evaluation and benchmarking of language technologies Measures for validation of language resources and quality assurance Usability of user interfaces and dialogue systems Bias, safety, and user satisfaction metrics Interpretability/explainability of language models and language and speech processing tools

Language Resources and Large Language Models

Language resource development for LLMs (monolingual, multilingual, multimodal) (Semi-)automatic generation of training data Training, fine-tuning, adaptation, alignment, and representation learning Guardrails, filters, and modules for generative AI models

Policy and Organizational Considerations

International and national activities, projects, initiatives, and policies Language coverage and diversity Replicability and reproducibility Organisational, economic, ethical, climate, and legal issues

Paper Theme Tracks

T01 Applications Involving LRs and Evaluation for any area/domain of language and speech processing T02 Bias, Offensive and Non-inclusive Language; Guardrails, filters T03 Corpora, Treebanks and Annotation; Tools, Systems and Platforms T04 Dialogue, Conversational Systems, Chatbots, Human-Robot Interaction T05 Digital Humanities, Cultural Heritage and Computational Social Science T06 Discourse and Pragmatics T07 Document Classification, Information Retrieval and Cross-lingual Retrieval T08 Ethics, Research Reproducibility and Replicability, and Environmental Issues T09 Evaluation, Validation, Quality Assurance and Benchmarking Methodologies T10 Inference, Reasoning, Question Answering T11 Information Extraction and Text Mining T12 Interpretability/explainability of language models and language and speech processing tools T13 Knowledge discovery/representation (knowledge graphs, linked data, terminologies, lexicons, ontologies, etc.) T14 Language Modeling and LRs (including training, fine-tuning, representation learning, and generation of synthetic data) T15 Less-Resourced/Endangered/Less-studied Languages T16 Lexicon and Semantics T17 Machine Learning Methods and Techniques for Language and Speech Processing, including efficient/low-resource methods T18 Multilinguality, Machine Translation (including Speech-to-Speech) and Translation Aids T19 Multimodality, Cross-modality (including Sign Languages, Vision and Other Modalities), Multimodal Applications, Grounded Language Acquisition T20 Natural Language Generation and Summarization T21 Simplification, Plain Language and Assistive Technologies T22 Opinion & Argument Mining, Sentiment Analysis, Emotion Recognition/Generation T23 Parsing, Tagging, Chunking, Grammar, Syntax, Morphosyntax, Morphology T24 Policy and Legal Issues (including Language Resource Infrastructures, Interoperabillity, Standards for LRs, Metadata) T25 Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Linguistics and Linguistic Theories T26 Social Media Processing T27 Speech Resources and Processing (including Phonetic Databases, Phonology, Prosody, Speech Recognition, Synthesis and Spoken Language Understanding)

Publication & Indexing

ProceedingsLREC 2026 proceedings

Conference Organization

Organized by

ELRA Language Resources Association

Committee

General Chair

Stelios Piperidis

Athena Research Center/ILSP, Athens, Greece

Management Committee Chairs

Khalid Choukri

ELDA/ELRA, Paris, France

Sara Goggi

ILC-CNR, Italy

Hélène Mazo

ELDA/ELRA, Paris, France

Program Committee Chairs

Núria Bel

Pompeu Fabra University Barcelona, Spain

Henk van den Heuvel

Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

Nancy Ide

Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York/Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA

Simon Krek

Jožef Stefan Institute / University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Antonio Toral

Universitat d’Alacant, Spain

Workshop Chairs

Luis Chiruzzo

Universidad de la República, Uruguay

Darja Fiser

CLARIN ERIC, The Netherlands

Menno van Zaanen

North-West University, South Africa

Local Organisation Committee Chairs

German Rigau

HiTZ, University of the Basque Country, Spain

Maria del Mar Vanrell

Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain

Melania Sánchez Masià

Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain

Rafael Muñoz Guillena

Universidad de Alicante, Sociedad Española Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, Spain

Tutorial Chairs

Francesca Frontini

ILC-CNR, Italy

Atul Kumar Ojha

University of Galway, Ireland

Ethics Chairs

Denise DiPersio

Linguistic Data Consortium, USA

Thomas Margoni

KU Leuven, Belgium

Claudia Cevenini

Università di Bologna, Italy

Publication Chairs

John McCrae

University of Galway, Ireland

Gilles Sérasset

Université Grenoble Alpes, France

Publicity Chairs

Elena Volodina

University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Rafael Valencia García

Universidad de Murcia, Spain

A. Seza Doğruöz

Ghent University, Belgium

Exhibition Chair

Rafael Muñoz Guillena

Universidad de Alicante, Sociedad Española Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, Spain

Sponsorship Chairs

Patrick Paroubek

Université Paris-Saclay, France

Alexandros Poulis

Transperfect/Dataforce, Luxembourg

Jimmy Kunzmann

Retired Amazon Alexa Hybrid Science

Raquel Lázaro Gutiérrez

Universidad de AlcalÁ

Diversity and Inclusion Chair

Sakriani Sakti

Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Industry Track Chairs

Teresa Lynn

MohamMed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE

Natalie Schluter

Apple

Advisors

Nicoletta Calzolari

Advisor, Italy

Senior Area Chairs

Sophia Ananiadou

University of Manchester, United Kingdom

José M. Gómez Pérez

Expert.AI, Spain

Tommaso Caselli

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands

Flor Miriam Plaza Del Arco

Leiden University, The Netherlands

Amir Zeldes

Georgetown University, USA

Ines Rehbein

University of Münster/U-Mannheim, Germany

Deniz Zeyrek

Middle East Technical University, Turkey

Sandra Kuebler

Indiana University, USA

Zoraida Callejas

University of Granada, Spain

Kallirroi Georgila

University of Southern California (USC), USA

Petya Osenova

Sofia University “St. Kl Ohridski” and IICT-BAS, Bulgaria

Alexander Mehler

Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

Massimo Poesio

Queen Mary Uni, United Kingdom

Yulia Grishina

Amazon, Germany

William Hersh

Oregon Health & Science University, USA

Gareth J. F. Jones

Dublin City University, Ireland

Kirk Roberts

UTHealth Houston, USA

Elena Cabrio

Université Côte d’Azur, Inria, CNRS, I3S, France

Paolo Rosso

Univeridad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain

Yiming Cui

iFLYTEK Research, China

Yao Lu

University College London, United Kingdom

Mark Finlayson

Florida International University, USA

Diana Inkpen

Dublin City University, Ireland

Fabio Massimo Zanzotto

Uni Roma 2, Italy

Giuseppe Attanasio

Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal

Paul Buitelaar

University of Galway, Ireland

Jorge Gracia

University of Zaragoza, Spain

Lucia Passaro

Uni Pisa, Italy

Suzan Verberne

Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands

David Ifeoluwa Adelani

McGill University / MILA, Canada

Antonios Anastasopoulos

Geroge Mason University and Archimedes, Athena RC, USA

Gerardo Sierra

UNAM, Mexico

Martha Lewis

University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Annemarie Friedrich

University of Augsburg, Germany

Vincent Vandeghinste

KU Leuven / INT, Belgium

Bram Vanroy

KU Leuven / INT, Belgium

Taro Watanabe

Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Houda Bouamor

Carnegie Mellon Universtity in Qatar, Qatar

Sarah Ebling

University of Zurich, Switzerland

Sriparna Saha

Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India

Marko Robnik Šikonja

University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Antoine Doucet

University of La Rochelle, France

Horacio Saggion

Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

Anna Matamala

Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain

Luis Espinosa Anke

Cardiff University, United Kingdom

Haris Papageorgiou

ILSP/Athena RC, Greece

Magda Ševčíková

UFAL, Czechia

Parameswari Krishnamurthy

NITI, Hyderabad, India

Catia Cucchiarini

DLU/ Radboud University, The Netherlands

Tommi Jauhiainen

U Helsinki, Finland

Rui Mao

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Tan Yue

Peking University, China

Costanza Navarretta

UCPH, Denmark

Jose Camacho-Collados

Cardiff University, United Kingdom

Christoph Draxler

LMU Munich, Germany

Isabel Trancoso

INESC-ID, Portugal