36.3813, Confs: 4th Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages at LREC 2026 (Spain)

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Subject: 36.3813, Confs: 4th Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages at LREC 2026 (Spain)

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Date: 10-Dec-2025
From: Rachele Sprugnoli [rachele.sprugnoli at unicatt.it]
Subject: 4th Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages at LREC 2026


4th Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient
Languages at LREC 2026
Short Title: LT4HALA 2026

Date: 11-May-2026 - 11-May-2026
Location: Palma, Mallorca, Spain
Meeting URL: https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2026/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus
Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 17-Feb-2026

LT4HALA 2026 is a one-day workshop that seeks to bring together
scholars who are developing and/or are using Language Technologies
(LTs) for historically attested languages, so to foster
cross-fertilization between the Computational Linguistics community
and the areas in the Humanities dealing with historical linguistic
data, e.g. historians, philologists, linguists, archaeologists and
literary scholars.
Relevant topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to:
 - creation and annotation of linguistic resources (both lexical and
textual);
 - role of digital infrastructures, such as CLARIN, in supporting
research based on language resources for historical and ancient
languages;
 - handling spelling variation;
 - detection and correction of OCR errors;
 - deciphering;
 - morphological/syntactic/semantic analysis of textual data;
 - adaptation of tools to address diachronic/diatopic/diastratic
variation in texts;
 - teaching ancient languages with LTs;
 - NLP-driven theoretical studies in historical linguistics;
 - NLP-driven analysis of literary ancient texts;
 - evaluation of LTs designed for historical and ancient languages;
 - LLMs for the automatic analysis of ancient texts.
LT4HALA 2026 will also host:
 - the 4th edition of EvaLatin, a campaign entirely devoted to the
evaluation of NLP tools for Latin. This new edition will focus on two
tasks: dependency parsing and Named Entity Recognition. Dependency
parsing will be based on the Universal Dependencies framework.
 - the 5th edition of EvaHan, the campaign for the evaluation of NLP
tools for Ancient Chinese. EvaHan 2026 will focus on Ancient Chinese
OCR (Optical Character Recognition) Evaluation.
 - the 2nd edition of EvaCun, the campaign for the evaluation of
Ancient Cuneiform Languages, with shared tasks on transliteration
normalization, morphological analysis and lemmatization, Named Entity
Recognition of Akkadian and/or Sumerian.



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