FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

LREC 2026

Organised by the ELRA Language Resources Association

Palma, Mallorca, Spain

11-16 May 2026


The Fifteenth biennial Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
(LREC) will be held at the Palau de Congressos de Palma in Palma,
Mallorca, Spain, on 11-16 May 2026. LREC serves as the primary forum for
presentations describing the development, dissemination, and use of
language resources involving both traditional and recently developed
approaches.

The scientific program will include invited talks, oral presentations,
and poster and demo presentations, as well as a keynote address by the
winner of the Antonio Zampolli Prize. Submissions describing all aspects
of language resource development and use are invited, including, but not
limited to, the following:

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

Separate calls will be issued for Workshops, Tutorials and Industry Track.


Submission

Submissions should be 4 to 8 pages in length (excluding references) and
follow the LREC stylesheet, which will soon be available on the
conference website.

At the time of submission, authors are offered the opportunity to share
related language resources with the community. All repository entries
are linked to the LRE Map [https://lremap.elra.info/], which provides
metadata for the resource.

Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, which include
both oral and poster papers in the same format. Determination of the
presentation format (oral vs. poster) is based solely on an assessment
of the optimal method of communication (more or less interactive), given
the paper content.

Important dates

(All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”)

     Oral and poster (or poster+demo) paper submission: 17 October 2025
     Notification of acceptance: 13 February 2026
     Camera Ready due: 6 March 2026
     Workshop and tutorial proposals submission: 17 October 2025
     LREC 2026 conference: 11-16 May 2026


More information on LREC 2026: https://lrec2026.info/

Contact: info@lrec2026.info