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The 6th workshop on: "Resources and ProcessIng of linguistic, para-linguistic and extra-linguistic Data from
people with various forms of cognitive/psychiatric/developmental impairments" in collaboration with the MENTAL.ai -consortium
Workshop: co-located with LREC 2026 | Palma de Mallorca, Spain | May 12th, 2026

RaPID-6@MENTAL.ai serves as an interdisciplinary platform for researchers to exchange insights, methods, and experiences related to collecting and processing data from individuals with mental, cognitive, neuropsychiatric, or neurodegenerative impairments. The workshop focuses on creating, processing, and applying such data resources from individuals at different stages and severity levels of these impairments. The ultimate goal of RaPID-6@MENTAL.ai is to facilitate the study of relationships among linguistic, paralinguistic, and extra-linguistic observations, with applications ranging from aiding diagnosis to enhancing monitoring and predicting individuals at higher risk, ultimately promoting multidisciplinary collaboration across clinical/medical, language technology, computational linguistics, and computer science communities.
Workshop date: Tue., 12th of May 2026
Submission deadline: Sun., 22nd of February, 2026 (anywhere on earth)
Paper submission: (SOFTCONF-TBA)
Invited Speakers: Prof. Brian MacWhinney, Carnegie Mellon University, USA. and Assoc Prof, MD, Sunny X. Tang, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Northwell Health, USA.
Website and details: https://spraakbanken.gu.se/en/rapid-2026
Contact: Dimitrios Kokkinakis
Contact email: dimitrios.kokkinakis@gu.se
Organizing committee:

Dimitrios Kokkinakis, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Charalambos Themistocleous, University of Oslo, Norway
Gaël Dias, University of Caen Normandie, France
Kathleen C. Fraser, University of Ottawa, Canada
Fredrik Öhman, University of Gothenburg and Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Sweden
Sebastião Pais, University of Beira Interior, Portugal

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