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, 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