globaloutlookdh-l January 2026

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Second CfP Seventh Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL)@LREC
by Menno Van Zaanen 28 Jan '26

28 Jan '26

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Second Call for Papers Seventh Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) Co-located with LREC 2026 RAIL Workshop date: 12 May 2026 RAIL website: https://sadilar.org/en/seventh-workshop-on-resources-for-african-indigenous… Submission link for the RAIL workshop: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/RAIL2026/ LREC Conference dates: 11-16 May 2026 LREC website: https://www.elra.info/lrec2026/ Venue: Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma de Mallorca (Spain) The Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop provides an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on resources such as data collections and annotations, Human Language Technologies (HLT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools, and their applications, specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. In particular, it aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a scientific community of practice that focuses on data, as well as computational linguistic tools specifically designed for or applied to indigenous languages found in Africa. The seventh Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop will be co-located with the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2026 in Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma, Mallorca (Spain). Many African languages are under-resourced while only a few are considered to be somewhat better resourced. These languages often share interesting properties such as writing systems, making them different from most high-resourced languages. From a computational perspective, these languages lack enough corpora to undertake high level development of NLP and HLT tools, which in turn impedes the development of African languages in these areas. During previous workshops, it was noted that the problems and solutions presented were not only applicable to African languages but were also relevant to many other low-resource languages across the world. Because these languages share similar challenges, this workshop provides researchers with opportunities to work collaboratively on issues of language resource development and learn from each other. The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, the workshop brings together researchers who work on African indigenous languages, forming a community of practice for people working on indigenous languages. Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to improve the quality as well as availability of the resources. The workshop theme is “Creating resources for less-resourced African languages”, but submissions on any topic related to properties of African indigenous languages (including related non-African languages) may be accepted. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * Digital representations of linguistic structures * Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous languages * Building resources for (under-resourced) African indigenous languages * Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age * Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African indigenous languages * Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African indigenous languages * Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages * Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African indigenous language resources * Applications that make use of data collections of African indigenous languages Submission requirements: We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, should adhere to the LREC conference requirements. These requirements are described in LREC’s authors kit: https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/. The submission should be double blind and each submission should be between four and eight pages. Only oral papers should be submitted. The maximum number of pages excludes a compulsory ethics statement, discussion on limitations, and references and optional acknowledgements, as well as data and code availability statements if applicable. Appendices or supplementary material are allowed, but this information will not necessarily be taken into account during the review process. The submission link for the RAIL workshop: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/RAIL2026/ Authors are encouraged to upload their datasets to the SADiLaR repository: https://repo.sadilar.org/. In case of difficulties uploading the datasets, please reach out to Benito Trollip (benito.trollip(a)nwu.ac.za). Important dates: Submission deadline: 23 February 2026 AoE Date of notification: 11 March 2026 AoE Camera ready copy deadline: 30 March 2026 AoE Workshop: 12 May 2026 Organising Committee: Muzi Matfunjwa, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. 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Global Digital Humanities Symposium - Reminder: Registration Open! | Simposio Global de Humanidades Digitales - Recordatorio: ¡Inscripción abierta!
by Mapes, Kristen 27 Jan '26

27 Jan '26

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Dear colleagues, The Global Digital Humanities Symposium planning committee is delighted to remind everyone that the program<https://msuglobaldh.org/schedule/> is available and free registration<https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/register/event/74923> is open for the 11th annual Symposium. This year’s event will take place in-person on Monday, 13 April at Michigan State University (USA), virtually on Zoom and YouTube on Tuesday and Wednesday, 14-15 April, and in-person on Friday, 17 April at Universidad de Monterrey (Mexico). All days will be livestreamed. The registration deadline is Friday, 27 March 2026. During the Virtual Symposium, we will support live interpretation of presentations from English into Spanish and from Spanish into English. We are delighted to feature virtual keynote presentations from Evelin Heidel from Wikimedistas de Uruguay, Cindy A. Nguyen from UCLA, and in-person keynote presentations from Rayvon Fouché from Northwestern University on 13 April and Hugo Solís García from Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana on 17 April. The daily schedule of the Symposium is listed below, and you can explore the full program<http://msuglobaldh.org/schedule/>, including presentation abstracts. Virtual Symposium Tuesday, 14 April<https://msuglobaldh.org/schedule-detailed/#tuesday> 12:00-6:15pm EDT / 5:00-11:15pm Nigeria / 6:00pm-12:15am April 15 CEST / 12:00-6:15am April 15 Beijing Wednesday, 15 April<https://msuglobaldh.org/schedule-detailed/#tuesday> 9:00am-5:00pm EDT / 2:00-10:00 pm Nigeria / 3:00-11:00pm CEST / 9:00pm-5:00am 16 April Beijing In-Person Symposium Monday, 13 April<https://msuglobaldh.org/schedule-detailed/#monday> (East Lansing, Michigan, USA) 8:30am-7:30pm EDT / 1:30pm-12:30am A 14pril Nigeria / 2:30pm-1:30am 14 April CEST / 8:30pm-7:30am 14 April Beijing Friday, 17 April<https://msuglobaldh.org/schedule-detailed/#friday> (Monterrey, México,) 8:00am-5:30pm CST / 10:00am-7:30pm EDT / 3:00pm-12:30am 18 April Nigeria / 4:00pm-1:30am 18 April CEST / 10:00pm-7:30am 18 April Beijing We hope you will be able to join us! Sincerely, Kristen Mapes, on behalf of the Global DH Symposium Planning Committee ——— Estimados/as colegas: El comité de planificación del Simposio Global de Humanidades Digitales se complace en recordarles que el programa<https://msuglobaldh.org/schedule/> ya está disponible y que la inscripción<https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/register/event/74923> gratuita para el 11º Simposio anual está abierta. El evento de este año se llevará a cabo de forma presencial el lunes 13 de abril en la Universidad Estatal de Michigan (EE.UU.), de forma virtual a través de Zoom y YouTube el martes 14 y el miércoles 15 de abril, y de forma presencial el viernes 17 de abril en la Universidad de Monterrey (México). Todas las sesiones se transmitirán en directo. La fecha límite para inscribirse es el viernes 27 de marzo de 2026. Durante el simposio virtual ofrecemos servicio de interpretación de las presentaciones del inglés al español y del español al inglés. Nos complace contar con las ponencias magistrales a cargo de Evelin Heidel de Wikimedistas de Uruguay y Cindy A. Nguyen de UCLA, en formato virtual, así como con las ponencias magistrales de Rayvon Fouché de la Universidad Northwestern el 13 de abril y Hugo Solís García de la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana el 17 de abril, en formato presencial. A continuación encontrará el programa diario del Simposio, y puede consultar el programa completo<http://msuglobaldh.org/schedule/>, incluidos los resúmenes de las ponencias, en nuestra página web. Simposio virtual Martes 14 de abril<https://msuglobaldh.org/schedule-detailed/#tuesday> 12:00-6:15pm EDT / 5:00-11:15pm Nigeria / 6:00pm-12:15am del 15 de abril en CEST / 12:00-6:15am del 15 de abril en Beijing Miércoles 15 de abril<https://msuglobaldh.org/schedule-detailed/#tuesday> 9:00am-5:00pm EDT / 2:00-10:00 pm Nigeria / 3:00-11:00pm CEST / 9:00pm-5:00am del 16 de abril en Beijing Simposio en persona Lunes 13 de abril<https://msuglobaldh.org/schedule-detailed/#monday> (East Lansing, Michigan, EE.UU.) 8:30am-7:30pm EDT / 1:30pm-12:30am A 14pril Nigeria / 2:30pm-1:30am del 14 de abril en CEST / 8:30pm-7:30am del 14 de abril en Beijing Viernes 17 de abril<https://msuglobaldh.org/schedule-detailed/#friday> (Monterrey, México,) 8:00am-5:30pm CST / 10:00am-7:30pm EDT / 3:00pm-12:30am del 18 de abril Nigeria / 4:00pm-1:30am del 18 de abril en CEST / 10:00pm-7:30am del 18 de abril en Beijing ¡Esperamos que puedan unirse a nosotros! En gratitud, Kristen Mapes, El Comité de Planificación del Simposio Global de Humanidades Digitales Kristen Mapes Global Digital Humanities Symposium, Co-Chair Interim Director of Digital Humanities, College of Arts & Letters Michigan State University East Lansing, MI kmapes(a)msu.edu<mailto:kmapes@msu.edu> she/her

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DH colloquium 21 January 2026 10:00 SAST
by Menno Van Zaanen 16 Jan '26

16 Jan '26

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. This is a reminder as people may have missed this invitation at the end of last year: On 21 January 10:00 SAST, Roald Eiselen will present: Ugh, your tagger is useless! A case study of domain transfer for part of speech taggers in two South African languages You can register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1977583167489?aff=oddtdtcreator If you did not know, all DH colloquia have been recorded and are made available on SADiLaR's DH colloquium webpage that can be found here: https://sadilar.org/en/dh-colloquium/ Please also share with your colleagues! -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________

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