37.1369, Confs: Workshop at LREC 2026: Dialects in NLP: A Resource Perspective (Spain)

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Date: 08-Apr-2026
From: Stavros Bompolas [s.bompolas at athenarc.gr]
Subject: Workshop at LREC 2026: Dialects in NLP: A Resource Perspective


Workshop at LREC 2026: Dialects in NLP: A Resource Perspective
Short Title: DialRes-LREC26

Date: 11-May-2026 - 16-May-2026
Location: Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Contact Email: dialres-lrec26 at googlegroups.com
Meeting URL: https://dialres.github.io/dialres/index.html

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Language
Documentation; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Translation; Writing Systems

The ATHENA R.C. team on Dialectal NLP, affiliated with the Institute
for Language and Speech Processing and Archimedes, in collaboration
with researchers from George Mason University, is organizing the first
edition of the DialRes-LREC 2026 workshop, “Dialects in NLP: A
Resource Perspective”, to be held on 16 May 2026. More information is
available here: https://dialres.github.io/dialres/index.html.
DialRes is co-located with the Language Resources and Evaluation
Conference (LREC 2026) in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. The workshop aims
to bring together researchers working on dialectal resources, with a
particular focus both on their creation and on their evaluation
through the study of dialects.
Despite being a first edition, DialRes received 43 submissions, of
which 35 were accepted, and ranks among the most populated of the 46
workshops co-located with LREC 2026 in terms of registered
participants.
The accepted papers cover both living and historical dialects from all
continents. The workshop program can be found here:
https://dialres.github.io/dialres/conferenceprogram.html. A map
showing the papers and the geographical distribution of the language
varieties they examine is provided on the same page. Studies on
historical dialects include work on English, German, Heptanesian
Greek, Old Irish, and Transcarpathian varieties. Research on living
dialects draws on data from a wide range of varieties, including
Arabic, Aromanian, Bangla, Basque, Formosan, German, Italian, Kurdish,
Modern Greek, and Slavic varieties (such as Pomak and Ukrainian), as
well as Saaho and Wancho.
The papers address a wide range of topics, from the collection and
development of oral and written dialect resources of various
kinds—such as corpora, Universal Dependencies treebanks, benchmarks,
and specialized databases—to their use in dialectometry and dialect
classification. Many contributions also make use of state-of-the-art
technologies, including Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), neural
parsing, and Large Language Models (LLMs).
These very encouraging results show that DialRes offers the community
a much-needed space for discussion, while also creating a strong
foundation for future editions of the workshop.
Registrations are open through the LREC 2026 registration page:
https://lrec2026.info/online-registration/.
Endorsements:
The workshop is endorsed by:
 - UniDive COST Action CA21167, which supports work on language
diversity and resource development
 - Archimedes/Athena RC, a major AI research hub in Greece with strong
academic and industrial collaborations
Organizing Committee:
Antonios Anastasopoulos — George Mason University / Archimedes–Athena
RC
Stella Markantonatou — ILSP / Archimedes–Athena RC
Angela Ralli — University of Patras / Archimedes–Athena RC
Marcos Zampieri — George Mason University
Stavros Bompolas — Archimedes–Athena RC
Vivian Stamou — Archimedes–Athena RC



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