The Fifteenth biennial Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) will be held at the Palau de Congressos de Palma in Palma de 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
Paper Theme Tracks
The above topics are organised in 27 main tracks:
- T01 Applications Involving LRs and Evaluation for any area/domain of language and speech processing
- T02 Bias, Offensive and Non-inclusive Language; Guardrails, filters
- T03 Corpora, Treebanks and Annotation; Tools, Systems and Platforms
- T04 Dialogue, Conversational Systems, Chatbots, Human-Robot Interaction
- T05 Digital Humanities, Cultural Heritage and Computational Social Science
- T06 Discourse and Pragmatics
- T07 Document Classification, Information Retrieval and Cross-lingual Retrieval
- T08 Ethics, Research Reproducibility and Replicability, and Environmental Issues
- T09 Evaluation, Validation, Quality Assurance and Benchmarking Methodologies
- T10 Inference, Reasoning, Question Answering
- T11 Information Extraction and Text Mining
- T12 Interpretability/explainability of language models and language and speech processing tools
- T13 Knowledge discovery/representation (knowledge graphs, linked data, terminologies, lexicons, ontologies, etc.)
- T14 Language Modeling and LRs (including training, fine-tuning, representation learning, and generation of synthetic data)
- T15 Less-Resourced/Endangered/Less-studied Languages
- T16 Lexicon and Semantics
- T17 Machine Learning Methods and Techniques for Language and Speech Processing, including efficient/low-resource methods
- T18 Multilinguality, Machine Translation (including Speech-to-Speech) and Translation Aids
- T19 Multimodality, Cross-modality (including Sign Languages, Vision and Other Modalities), Multimodal Applications, Grounded Language Acquisition
- T20 Natural Language Generation and Summarization
- T21 Simplification, Plain Language and Assistive Technologies
- T22 Opinion & Argument Mining, Sentiment Analysis, Emotion Recognition/Generation
- T23 Parsing, Tagging, Chunking, Grammar, Syntax, Morphosyntax, Morphology
- T24 Policy and Legal Issues (including Language Resource Infrastructures, Interoperabillity, Standards for LRs, Metadata)
- T25 Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Linguistics and Linguistic Theories
- T26 Social Media Processing
- T27 Speech Resources and Processing (including Phonetic Databases, Phonology, Prosody, Speech Recognition, Synthesis and Spoken Language Understanding)
Separate calls have been issued for Workshops and Tutorials.
Additionally, we will also organise an Industry Track to showcase the cutting-edge advancements in the industry and commercial achievements. A separate Call will be issued for this track.
Paper Submission and Templates
Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system via the link:
https://softconf.com/lrec2026/main
Submissions should be 4 to 8 pages in length, excluding acknowledgements, references, potential Ethics Statements and discussion on Limitations. Appendices or supplementary material are not permitted during the initial submission phase, as papers should be self-contained and reviewable on their own. However, appendices and supplementary material will be allowed in the final, camera-ready version of the paper.
Submissions should follow the LREC stylesheet, that is available on the conference website on the Author’s kit page. All templates are also available from this page.
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.
Author Responsibilities
All submissions should consist of original, previously unpublished work. To support double-blind reviewing, all submissions must be fully anonymized. This includes removing the authors’ names and their affiliations. Links to non-anonymized repositories should be avoided, the code should be either submitted as supplementary material in the final version of the paper, or as a link to an anonymized repository (e.g., Anonymous GitHub or Anonym Share). Submissions that fail to meet these requirements will be rejected without further review.
At the time of submission to LREC 2026, papers that have been submitted to or are under consideration for other venues at the same time must be declared. If a paper is accepted for publication at LREC 2026, it must be immediately withdrawn from any other venue. If a paper under review at LREC 2026 is accepted elsewhere and authors intend to proceed there, the LREC 2026 Programme Committee must be notified immediately.
There is no anonymity period for LREC 2026. This means that authors may publish preprints of the submitted work at any time. Still, it is repeated here that papers submitted for review at LREC 2026 must be anonymized; submissions thus must conceal the authors’ names and affiliations.
Ethics Statement and Limitations Section
We encourage all authors submitting to LREC 2026 to include an explicit ethics statement on the broader impact of their work, or other ethical considerations. A section discussing possible limitations can also be included. The ethics statement and the limitations section will not be counted toward the page limit.
Both ethics statement and discussion on limitations should be placed after the conclusion so that it is still possible to check that the paper still fits in the maximum of 8 pages.
Appendices
Appendices are not permitted during the initial submission phase, as papers should be self-contained and reviewable on their own. However, appendices will be allowed in the final, camera-ready version. Each camera-ready version may include an appendix, up to ten (10) pages long.
Presentation Requirement
All papers accepted for the Main Conference must be presented at the conference to appear in the proceedings. At least one author must register for LREC 2026. Papers will be presented during the Oral and Poster sessions. The specific presentation type of paper will be decided based on its content, with no difference in quality implied. Papers that include a demonstration component will be presented as posters.
The conference will be hybrid, including both on-site and virtual presentations. For hybrid purposes, all authors of papers accepted to the main conference, whether oral or poster, will be required to upload a set of documents including a presentation video and a set of slides, plus the poster PDF (for the authors of an accepted paper as Poster), on the Conference Catalysts platform.
This material will also be inserted in the LREC 2026 online proceedings.
Important dates
- Oral and poster (or poster+demo) paper submission: 17 October 2025
- Notification of acceptance: 13 February 2026
- Camera Ready due: 6 March 2026
- LREC 2026 conference: 11-16 May 2026
All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”)
More information on LREC 2026: https://lrec2026.info/
Contact: lrec2026-pcs@googlegroups.com