37.573, Calls: Workshop at LREC 2026: Dialects in NLP: A Resource Perspective (Spain)

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Subject: 37.573, Calls: Workshop at LREC 2026: Dialects in NLP: A Resource Perspective (Spain)

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Date: 10-Feb-2026
From: Stavros Bompolas [s.bompolas at athenarc.gr]
Subject: Workshop at LREC 2026: Dialects in NLP: A Resource Perspective


Full Title: 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
Meeting Email: dialres-lrec26 at googlegroups.com
Web Site: https://dialres.github.io/dialres/index.html

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

Call Deadline: 20-Feb-2026

Final Call for Papers:
Dialects in NLP: A Resource Perspective (DialRes-LREC26)
Workshop at LREC 2026 — Palma de Mallorca, Spain, May 16, 2026
Hybrid event — in person and online
Website: https://dialres.github.io/dialres/
Contact: dialres-lrec26 at googlegroups.com
Dialectal and non-standard varieties pose persistent challenges for
linguistic resource development. While in-depth study and large-scale
resource creation for dominant or standard varieties have driven major
advances in language technology, linguistic resources that adequately
represent dialectal variation remain scarce. It therefore remains an
open question whether standard-centric practices address dialectal
variation or instead create new problems for dialects.
DialRes-LREC26 invites submissions on the creation, analysis, and
evaluation of dialectal resources, including—but not limited to—work
that critically examines how standard-centric methodologies impact
dialects in the development of linguistic resources and models. We
especially encourage contributions addressing the consequences of such
practices for speech and morphosyntactic modelling, OCR of dialectal
and historical texts, orthographic normalisation and homogenisation,
annotation practices and lemmatisation strategies that abstract away
or suppress dialectal forms, as well as analyses of how these choices
affect dialects and their communities methodologically, economically,
and socially.
The workshop focuses on problems, limitations, and trade-offs in
developing dialectal resources from a linguistic perspective, while
encouraging the creation and evaluation of resources in formats that
enable reuse by the NLP community.
Workshop Topics:
- Development and evaluation of dialectal oral and textual resources
- Orthographic normalisation and homogenisation, including their
impact on dialectal variation
- Dialects vs. standard language varieties in annotation frameworks
- Cross-lingual and cross-dialectal transfer and model adaptation
- Resource scalability issues and techniques
- Use and limitations of large language models (LLMs) in dialectal
resource development
- OCR for dialectal, non-standard, and historical texts: challenges,
errors, and downstream effects
- Resources for, and applications supporting, dialect revitalisation
and preservation
- Dialectal studies and teaching from a resource-oriented perspective
- Working on dialectal resources: academic, financial, legal, and
societal issues
- Enabling and empowering dialect communities to develop their own
resources
Submission Information:
Instructions for Authors Submissions are electronic, using the
Softconf START conference management system via the link:
https://softconf.com/lrec2026/DialRes. They must be 4 to 8 pages long
(excluding references and potential Ethics Statements) and follow the
LREC stylesheet, available on the conference website on the Author’s
kit page Author’s Kit. All templates are also available from this
page.
Invited Speaker:
Prof. Barbara Plank, LMU Munich (https://bplank.github.io/)
Important Dates:
20 February 2026 — Submission Deadline
11 March 2026 — Notification of Acceptance
28 March 2026 — Camera-ready Papers Due
Resubmissions from the LREC Main Conference
It will also be possible to submit papers that were rejected from the
LREC 2026 main conference to DialRes 2026. Such submissions must be
revised to fit the scope and format of the workshop and must comply
with the same anonymization requirements.
Endorsements:
The workshop is endorsed by UniDive COST Action CA21167 and Archimedes
Athena R.C.
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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