37.503, Confs: LREC 2026 Workshop on Structured Linguistic Data and Evaluation (Spain)

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Date: 03-Feb-2026
From: Erhard Hinrichs [erhard.hinrichs at uni-tuebingen.de]
Subject: LREC 2026 Workshop on Structured Linguistic Data and Evaluation


LREC 2026 Workshop on Structured Linguistic Data and Evaluation
Short Title: SLiDE
Theme: Structured Linguistic Data and Evaluation

Date: 11-May-2026 - 11-May-2026
Location: Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Meeting URL: https://www.slide-workshop.org/

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics;
General Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 22-Feb-2026

In the last ten years, significant advances in deep learning models
and the development of Large Language Models (LLMs) have
revolutionized the fields of computational linguistics (CL) and
natural language processing (NLP). In turn, this has led to a complete
re-assessment of the language resources and evaluation practices
necessary for training LLMs and analyzing their outputs. In
particular, the availability of very large amounts of unstructured
data for training foundational models has come into focus, while the
value of high-quality structured linguistic data with rich annotations
at various levels of linguistic analysis has been downplayed by
comparison. However, as CL and NLP practitioners engage further with
LLMs and debate their strengths and weaknesses, the importance of
high-quality, structured linguistic data has been re-emphasized.
The proposed workshop can be seen as related to the Treebanks and
Linguistic Theories (TLT) conference series and the more recent
SyntaxFest venue. Over the years, these venues have provided a central
forum for high-quality research on treebanks, syntactic theory,
syntax-semantics interface, structured meaning representations, and
annotated linguistic resources. With record participation in recent
years, they demonstrate the vitality and relevance of this line of
work. The Workshop on Structured Linguistic Data is conceived as both
a continuation of this tradition and an adaptation to the new
realities of an LLM-dominated research landscape. The workshop will
bring together researchers from these overlapping traditions to
advance methods, resources, and practices for integrating structured
linguistic data into the LLM era.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Linguistic Data Analyses, Language Resources, and Evaluation
 - Grammar processing with NLP and LLM-based tools
 - Phonological and morphological analysis and LLM tokenization
 - Annotation strategies with LLM-empowered methodologies and tools
 - Design principles and annotation schemes for structured linguistic
data
 - Multi-lingual and cross-lingual settings
 - Mapping of structured linguistic data to Linked Open Data resources
 - Evaluation informed by language typology
 - Language resources for under-resourced and endangered languages
 - The use of structured linguistic data for NLP applications
 - The use of structured linguistic data in acquiring linguistic
knowledge
 - (Semi-)automatic methods for creating structured linguistic data
Spoken language Data
 - Speech-to-text applications
 - Speech Generation techniques
 - Speech data preparation, curation and evaluation
Multimodality and Situated Dialogue
 - Structured multimodal resources: gesture AMR (GAMR), gaze and
posture annotation, multimodal dialogue corpora.
 - Multimodal grounding: linking language with visual, gestural, and
action representations
 - Structured representations for co-attention and alignment in
multiparty dialogue
 - Multimodal evaluation resources for LLMs
Pragmatics and Discourse
 - Structured data for discourse and dialogue: discourse relation
annotation, coherence structures, dialogue acts
 - Pragmatic annotation (speech acts, presupposition, implicature,
politeness, stance)
 - Structured approaches to common ground tracking and Theory of Mind
in LLMs
Semantics and Lexical Meaning
 - Dependency analysis and semantic parsing
 - Annotation beyond syntax: semantics, pragmatics and discourse
 - Structured data for lexical semantics: sense inventories, semantic
frames, qualia structure, and type-theoretic resources
 - Computational semantics resources: Abstract Meaning Representation
(AMR), Universal Meaning Representation (UMR), Discourse,  -
Representation Structures, Minimal Recursion Semantics (MRS), Type
Theory with Records (TTR)
 - Distributional and neural-symbolic representations of lexical
meaning: (e.g., Holographic Reduced Representations (HRR),
hyperdimensional computing) for structured LLM grounding
 - Aligning vector-based meaning representations with symbolic/typed
structures
We invite paper submissions in two distinct tracks:
 - regular papers on substantial and original research, including
empirical evaluation results, where appropriate – 6 to 8 pages
excluding references and potential ethics statements;
 - short papers on smaller, focused contributions, work in progress,
negative results, surveys, or opinion pieces – 4 to 6 pages excluding
references and potential ethics statements.
Invited Speakers:
Naiara Perez (University of the Basque Country)
Shira Wein (Amherst College)
Paper Submission and Templates:
Submission follows the LREC 2026 conference instructions, using the
START conference management system.
Submissions should follow the LREC stylesheet, available on the
conference website on the Author’s kit page.
For more information about paper submission, please consult:
https://www.slide-workshop.org/
Papers must be anonymized to support double-blind reviewing.
Important Dates:
February 22, 2026: Paper submission deadline
March 15, 2026: Notification of acceptance
March 25, 2026: Camera-ready papers
May 2026: Workshop at LREC 2026
All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h (“anywhere on Earth”).
Workshop Organizers:
Jan Hajič (Charles University, Czech Republic)
Erhard Hinrichs (Tübingen University, Germany)
Sandra Kübler (Indiana University, USA)
Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Petya Osenova (Sofia University and IICT-BAS, Bulgaria)
James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University, USA)



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