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Call for Industry Day @ LREC 2026
LREC 2026 invites presentation proposals for its signature Industry Day.
The Industry Day will take place on 14th May, 2026 in Palma, Mallorca
(Spain).
The objective of the Industry Day is to:
* provide a unique forum for researchers, industry players, and
funding agencies from across a wide spectrum of areas to discuss
challenges, achievements and synergies,
* bridge the gap between academic research and real-world
industry practices, including resource development and evaluation
methodologies,
* provide a networking platform for conference participants,
experts, and professionals to foster international collaborations,
* connect researchers and industry leaders in order to identify
employment or internship opportunities.
The events of the day will include:
* presentations by industry participants on their applications
and innovation in the field of AI, NLP, and Speech processing,
* a panel session where participants will gain insights on both
challenges and initiatives that relate to today’s AI advancements,
* a networking lunch with a student poster session.
Topics of interest include:
Language Resource Development
Methods and tools for mono- and multi-lingual language resource
development and annotation
Knowledge discovery/representation (knowledge graphs, linked data,
terminologies, lexicons, ontologies, etc.)
Resource development for less-resourced/endangered languages
Guidelines, standards, best practices, and models for interoperability
Language Resource Use
Use of language resources in systems and applications for any area
of language and speech processing
Use of language resources in assistive technologies, support for
accessibility
Efficient/low-resource methods for language and speech processing
Evaluation
Methodologies and protocols for evaluation and benchmarking of
language technologies
Measures for validation of language resources and quality assurance
Usability of user interfaces and dialogue systems
Bias, safety, and user satisfaction metrics
Interpretability/explainability of language models and language and
speech processing tools
Language Resources and Large Language Models
Language resource development for LLMs (monolingual, multilingual,
multimodal)
(Semi-)automatic generation of training data
Training, fine-tuning, adaptation, alignment, and representation
learning
Guardrails, filters, and modules for generative AI models
Policy and Organizational Considerations
International and national activities, projects, initiatives, and
policies
Language coverage and diversity
Replicability and reproducibility
Organisational, economic, ethical, climate, and legal issues
Proposal Format
Only an abstract submission is required for a presentation proposal (not
a full paper) and it will not be included in the conference proceedings
or ACL Anthology. We also welcome abstracts based on previously
published work, or papers submitted to LREC’s main conference or workshops.
Please submit your abstract proposal via the following form
https://forms.gle/CQTBLcMxuL1cjmUf7 <https://forms.gle/CQTBLcMxuL1cjmUf7>
Applications require an abstract of 150-200 words along with a short bio.
Submission Deadline: February 16, 2024
Notification of acceptance: March 13, 2024
For more information, please send an email to
[email protected] referring to LREC 2026
Industry Day in the subject line.
Industry Chairs
Natalie Schluter, Apple and IT University of Copenhagen
Teresa Lynn, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
