37.1172, Confs: Pre-conference Workshop at CLIB 2026 - FAIR Language Resources in NLP: Stewardship, Reuse and Long-Term Sustainability (Bulgaria)

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Date: 21-Mar-2026
From: Milena Dobreva [milena.dobreva at ustrath.ac.uk]
Subject: Pre-conference Workshop at CLIB 2026 - FAIR Language Resources in NLP: Stewardship, Reuse and Long-Term Sustainability


Pre-conference Workshop at CLIB 2026 - FAIR Language Resources in NLP:
Stewardship, Reuse and Long-Term Sustainability
Short Title: Workshop FAIR Language Resources in NLP

Date: 07-Sep-2026 - 07-Sep-2026
Location: Sofia, Bulgaria
Contact: Milena Dobreva
Contact Email: milena.dobreva at ustrath.ac.uk
Meeting URL: https://dcl.bas.bg/clib/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 22-Apr-2026

Language resources are the foundation of linguistic research and NLP.
Corpora, lexicons, annotated datasets, benchmarks, and models are
produced at an unprecedented pace. Yet their long-term stewardship,
interoperability, and reuse remain inconsistent and often fragile.
Rapid creation has outpaced sustainable design. This workshop aims to
bring together researchers, infrastructure providers, data stewards,
and policy actors who are committed to building durable language
resource ecosystems. We aim to address the pressing challenges of
sustaining datasets used in linguistic research and in the development
of NLP systems—from documentation and versioning to governance,
licensing, and infrastructure support. The workshop will explore how
FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) can be
meaningfully operationalised for language resources in NLP and
computational linguistics.
Important Dates:
Submission deadline: 22 April 2026
Notification of acceptance: 22 May 2026
Camera-ready deadline: To be confirmed
Workshop date: 7 September 2026
Submission Guidelines:
The proposal considers short papers (4-6 pages), which will be
delivered in 10 min slots. Submissions should be made using the CLIB
Word template (camera-ready) available at
https://dcl.bas.bg/clib/instructions-for-authors/.
Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fairclib2026
List of Topics:
1. Technical Foundations
 - Designing language resources so they are interoperable,
transparent, and structurally reusable.
 - Domain-specific FAIR implementation strategies for corpora,
lexicons, datasets, and models
 - Metadata, paradata, and annotation transparency frameworks
 - Repository architectures and infrastructure design for linguistic
data
2. Lifecycle & Reuse
 - Еnsuring language resources remain usable, traceable, and
measurable across research cycles.
 - Documentation, versioning, and provenance tracking for evolving
resources
 - Persistent identifiers and citation mechanisms for language
datasets
 - Methods for tracking, measuring, and evidencing reuse
 - Critical reflections and lessons learned from implementation
challenges
 - From raw data to FAIR-ready assets: preprocessing, cleaning, and
quality assurance workflows
 - Replicability of the experiments over the language resources
3. Policy & Sustainability
 - Creating the institutional and legal conditions that allow language
resources to endure.
 - Legal, ethical, and licensing considerations in sharing and reusing
language data
 - Governance structures and sustainability models beyond project
funding
 - Raising awareness for and supporting communities in adapting best
practices
Program Committee (under development):
Edward J. Pinot Gray, DARIAH Coordination Office Paris, France
Egon W. Stemle, Institute for Applied Linguistics, Italy
Olha Kanishcheva, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
Petya Osenova, Faculty of Slavic Studies at Sofia University “St.
Kliment Ohridski” and Department of Linguistic Modelling and Knowledge
Processing at the Institute of Information and Communication
Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Ruslana Margova, GATE Institute, Sofia
Chairs:
Milena Dobreva (University of Strathclyde, IMI BAS)
Ivan Lambov (IMI BAS)
Invited Speakers:
Kaja Dobrovoljc, Research Associate, Laboratory for Machine Learning
and Language Technologies, Faculty of Computer and Information
Science, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Mietta Lennes,  RI Specialist, FIN-CLARIN & Kielipankki – The Language
Bank of Finland,  Department of Digital Humanities, University of
Helsinki, Finland
Beth Knazook, Senior Programme Manager, Research and Engagement,
Digital Repository of Ireland
Publication: We are finalising the proceedings information.
Venue: The conference will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria.



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