37.298, Confs: Joint Workshop on Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Language Technologies and Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization, Anonymization, De-identification, and Data Privacy at LREC 2026 (Spain)

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Date: 19-Jan-2026
From: Lisa Södergård [lisa.sodergard at helsinki.fi]
Subject: Joint Workshop on Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Language Technologies and Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization, Anonymization, De-identification, and Data Privacy at LREC 2026


Joint Workshop on Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Language
Technologies and Computational Approaches to Language Data
Pseudonymization, Anonymization, De-identification, and Data Privacy
at LREC 2026
Short Title: LEGAL2026 & CALD-pseudo 2026

Date: 12-May-2026 - 12-May-2026
Location: Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Meeting URL: https://legal2026.mobileds.de/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics;
Discipline of Linguistics; General Linguistics; Text/Corpus
Linguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     German (deu)
                     Norwegian (nor)
                     Swedish (swe)

Submission Deadline: 20-Feb-2026

Second Call for Papers: Joint Workshop on Legal and Ethical Issues in
Human Language Technologies (LEGAL2026) and Computational Approaches
to Language Data Pseudonymization, Anonymization, De-identification,
and Data Privacy (CALD-pseudo 2026)
We invite submissions to the Joint Workshop on Legal and Ethical
Issues in Human Language Technologies (LEGAL2026) and Computational
Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization, Anonymization,
De-identification, and Data Privacy (CALD-pseudo 2026), to be held at
LREC 2026 on the 12th of May 2026.
Important Dates
- 20th of February 2026: paper submission deadline
- 30th March 2026: camera ready deadline (strict)
- 12th May 2026: workshop date
Website: https://legal2026.mobileds.de/
Submission: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/LEGAL2026/
Access to text and speech data is essential for research, yet personal
and sensitive information often prevents open sharing. Techniques such
as pseudonymization and anonymization offer potential solutions, but
their effectiveness, limitations, and impact on data utility require
deeper investigation. Balancing privacy protection with meaningful
scientific use remains a key challenge.
At the same time, legal and ethical requirements increasingly shape
how language resources can be created, processed, and distributed.
Regulatory frameworks, such as the GDPR, the Data Act, and the
Artificial Intelligence Act, affect access, reuse, and documentation
duties for both text and speech data, creating a complex environment
that demands interdisciplinary insight.
The workshop brings these two perspectives together by addressing both
the technical and practical aspects of de-identification as well as
the legal and ethical obligations governing data handling. Topics
include anonymization and pseudonymization methods, compliance in
practical workflows, provenance and rights tracking, and emerging
approaches to legal metadata. The goal is to foster responsible,
legally sound, and technically robust innovation in human language
technologies.
We invite contributions from all disciplines involved in the creation,
processing, governance, and de-identification of text and speech data.
Submissions may address theoretical, empirical, methodological, legal,
or technical questions, including cross-disciplinary work. We
particularly encourage research on less-represented languages and on
data from under-represented communities.
1. Legal Aspects of Language Data (LEGAL2026)
- Regulatory frameworks and global governance
- Intellectual property, data protection, and LLM governance
- Ethics, fairness, trust, and transparency
- Compliance in practice
- Ethics, fairness, and trust
- Operationalizing compliance
- Emerging and grey areas
- Interdisciplinary and cross-border coordination
2. Pseudonymization, Anonymization, and De-identification:
Theoretical, Methodological, and Technical Aspects (CALD-pseudo 2026)
- Detection and classification of personal information (PI)
- Replacement and transformation of PI
- Utility and bias after de-identification
- Approaches to evaluation and adversarial testing
- Dataset creation for de-identification research
- Low-resource scenarios
- Speech-specific challenges
- Cross-disciplinary applications and challenges
We invite submissions from fields where de-identification of data
plays an important role, including but not limited to Computational
Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Digital
Humanities, Social Sciences, Political Sciences, Medical Science etc.,
from the perspectives of researchers, public organizations, and
industry.
Submission Guidelines:
Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished research papers
in the following categories:
Long papers (up to 8 pages) for substantial contributions
Short papers (up to 4 pages) for:
 - Small, focused contributions or ongoing or preliminary work
 - Extended abstracts for non-technical submissions only, such as
conceptual, theoretical, legal, ethical, policy-oriented, or position
papers. Extended abstract submissions are expected to be developed
into regular papers by the camera-ready submission deadline.
The full papers will be published as workshop proceedings along with
the LREC main conference. They should follow the LREC stylesheet,
which is available on the conference website on the Author’s kit page.
Unlike the main conference, we allow appendices of up to 10 pages
already in the review phase. However, the reviewers will not be
required to look in the appendices and must be able to review the
paper based on everything contained within the main body of the paper
(as if there were no appendices).
Submission deadline: 20th of February 2026
Submission link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/LEGAL2026/
When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to
provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e.
also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been
used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your
research.
Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs
(data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability
of experiments (including evaluation ones).
Keynote Talks:
We are delighted to announce the workshop will host keynote talks from
two speakers:
 - Paweł Kamocki, Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Germany
 - Ivan Habernal, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Workshop Organizers:
LEGAL 2026:
Ingo Siegert, Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg, Germany
Paweł Kamocki, Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Germany
Kossay Talmoudi, ELDA, France
Khalid Choukri, ELDA, France
CALD-pseudo 2026
Maria Irena Szawerna, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Simon Dobnik, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Therese Lindström Tiedemann, University of Helsinki, Finland
Pierre Lison, Norwegian Computing Center & University of Oslo, Norway
Ildikó Pilán, Norwegian Computing Center, Norway
Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Lisa Södergård, University of Helsinki, Finland
Elena Volodina, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Xuan-Son Vu, Lund University & DeepTensor AB, Sweden
Program Committee
A list of program committee members is available on the workshop
webpage.
For inquiries, please contact ingo.siegert at ovgu.de for questions about
LEGAL2026 or mormor.karl at svenska.gu.se for questions about CALD-pseudo
2026.



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