LREC 2026 accepts papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of natural language and computation, language resources (LRs) and evaluation, including spoken and sign language and multimodal interaction.
Submissions are invited in a wide range of categories: (i) theories, algorithms, and models, (ii) NLP applications, (iii) language resources, (iv) NLP evaluation and (v) topics of general interest. Submissions that span multiple categories are particularly welcome.
PAPER TYPES
Submissions may be Oral papers, Poster papers, or Poster papers with demo. Submissions should be 4 to 8 pages in length and follow the LREC stylesheet (see below). The maximum number of pages excludes potential ethics Statements and discussion on limitations, acknowledgements and references, as well as data and code availability statements. Appendices or supplementary material are not permitted during the initial submission phase, as papers should be self-contained and reviewable on their own.
Papers must be of original, previously unpublished work. Papers must be anonymized to support double-blind reviewing. Submissions thus must not include authors’ names and affiliations. The submissions should also avoid links to non-anonymized repositories: 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). Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review.
There is no anonymity period for LREC 2026. This means that authors may publish preprints of the submitted work at any time.
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 If a paper is accepted for publication at LREC 2026, it must be immediately withdrawn from any other venue.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.
At the time of submission, authors are also 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 resources.
Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, which include both oral, poster or poster plus demo 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.
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 after the conclusion but before the references. The ethics statement will not count toward the page limit
PAPER SUBMISSION
All papers should be submitted online at https://softconf.com/lrec2026/main/
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STYLESHEET
The LREC 2026 template MUST be used for your submission(s). If not, your submission(s) will be rejected.
Authors are requested to format their submitted and final paper according to the guidelines specified in this style sheet. Final papers which do not adhere to this format will NOT be accepted for publication in the Conference Proceedings.
Basic formatting
Each paper should be submitted in A4-size format. The font for the main body of the text should be Arial or TeX Gyre Heroes 10 pt with interlinear spacing of 11 pt. Papers must respect the limit of 8 pages, including figures (plus more pages for references if needed), regardless of the mode of presentation (oral or poster).
The fully justified text should be formatted in two parallel columns. The new LREC paper dimensions are now aligned with ACL layout to ensure quick integration within the ACL Anthology. These dimensions are as follows:
- The paper is in A4-size format, that is 21 x 29.7 cm.
- The text height is 24.7 cm and the text width 16.0 cm in two columns separated by a 0.6 cm space.
- The font for the main body of the text must be Arial or TeX Gyre Heroes 10 pt with interlinear spacing of 11 pt.
- The use of the lrec2026.sty, the Word .dotx or Open Office templates will ensure good formatting.
Note on the font: To comply with recommendations from standardization bodies on online content accessibility, LREC is using Sans Serif fonts: the Helvetica clone TeX Gyre Heros (which works with all versions of LaTeX), or Arial (which is available on computers with Word installed). Users of Open Office on Linux should install one of these fonts from available packages and consistently use it in their submission and final versions.
Abstract
Each article must include an abstract of 150 to 200 words in Arial/TeX Gyre Heroes 9 pt with interlinear spacing of 10 pt. The heading Abstract should be centred, font Arial/TeX Gyre Heroes 10 bold.
Keywords
Each article must contain the Keywords which have been entered in START at the final submission stage on a separate line beginning with “Keywords:” AFTER the abstract.
Keywords: keyword1, keyword2, keyword3
Page Numbering
Please do not include page numbers in the final version of your article.
Title
The title of the article is in Arial/TeX Gyre Heroes 14 pt boldface, and should appear in the centre of the page, 3 cm from the top. All the initials of each content word of the title MUST BE capitalised.
For example: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Authors’ data (in final version only)
The authors’ data are centred under the title, in the following format:
Name(s): Arial/TeX Gyre Heroes 12 pt boldface
Affiliation: Arial/TeX Gyre Heroes 10 pt regular
Address: Arial/TeX Gyre Heroes 10 pt regular
E-mail address: Arial/TeX Gyre Heroes 10 pt regular.
There should be no spaces left between paragraphs.
Headings 1
Level 1 Headings should be capitalised in the same way as the main title and centred within the column. The font used is Arial/TeX Gyre Heroes 12 pt bold. There should also be a space of 12 pt between the title and the preceding section, and a space of 3 pt between the title and the text that follows.
Headings 2
The format of Level 2 Headings is the same as Level 1 Headings’, with font size 11 pt, except that the heading is aligned to the left of the column. There should also be a space of 6 pt between the title and the preceding section, and a space of 3 pt between the title and the text that follows.
Headings 3
The format of Level 3 Headings is the same as Level 2’s, with font size 10 pt, and there should be no space left between the heading. There should also be a space of 6 pt between the title and the preceding section, and a space of 3 pt between the title and the text that follows.
References within the text
All references within the text should be placed in parentheses containing the author’s surname followed by a comma before the date of publication (Martin, 1996). If the sentence already includes the author’s name, then it is only necessary to put the date in parentheses: Martin (1996). When several authors are cited, those references should be separated with a semicolon: (Martin, 1996; Chibout & Masson, 1995). When the reference has more than three authors, only cite the name of the first author followed by et al. If the reference pertains to a Language Resource, it should be placed in parentheses containing the full author’s name followed by a comma before the date of publication (Speecon Consortium, 2014)
Footnotes
Footnotes are indicated within the text by a number in superscript. They should be in Arial/TeX Gyre Heroes 9 pt and appear at the bottom of the same page as their corresponding number. Footnotes should also be separated from the rest of the text by a horizontal line 5 cm long.
Figures
All figures should be centred and clearly distinguishable. They should never be drawn by hand, and the lines must be very dark in order to ensure a high-quality printed version. Figures should be numbered in the text and have a caption in Arial/TeX Gyre Heroes 10 pt underneath. A space must be left between each figure and its respective caption.
Figure and caption should always appear together on the same page. Particularly large figures may span the two text columns and, in that case, should be centred on full page.
Tables
The instructions for tables are the same as for figures (see previous section).
Accessibility
Please prioritise the accessibility of your paper. The Diversity & Inclusion committee for ACL2020 has provided some tips on how to do this. To accommodate people who are colour-blind (as well as those printing with black-and-white printers), grayscale readability is strongly encouraged. Colour is not forbidden, but authors should ensure that tables and figures do not rely solely on colour to convey critical distinctions.
Language of Study
Always name the language(s) you’re working on. Acknowledging that we are working on a particular language foregrounds the possibility that the techniques may in fact be language-specific. Conversely, neglecting to state that the particular data used were in, say, English, gives [a] false veneer of language-independence to the work. See Bender, E. M., & Friedman, B. (2018) Data statements for natural language processing: Toward mitigating system bias and enabling better science. for more discussion.
Non-English Text
Text in languages other than English should be accompanied by translations into English, and text in scripts other than Latin should also be accompanied by transliterations into Latin script, since not all readers can recognize non-Latin characters easily.
For example, παράδειγμα paradeigma ‘example’ is a Greek word, and this is a Greek sentence:
(1) Αυτό είναι ένα παράδειγμα. (Greek)
auto einai ena paradeigma.
‘This is an example.’
See the Leipzig glossing rules for more discussion.
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 the 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.
Acknowledgements
Place all acknowledgements (including those concerning research grants and funding) in a separate section at the end of the article.
Bibliographical references
Bibliographical references should be listed in alphabetical order at the end of the article. The title of the section, “References”, should be a Level 1 Heading. The first line of each bibliographical reference should be justified to the left of the column, and the rest of the entry should be indented by 0.35 cm.
The following examples (of fictitious references) illustrate the basic format required for conference Proceedings, books, journals, articles, PhD theses, and chapters of books respectively:
Martin, L.E. (1990). Knowledge Extraction. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp. 252-262.
Chercheur, J.L. (1994). Case-Based Reasoning. San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufman Publishers.
Castor, A. & Pollux, L.E. (1992). The use of user modelling to guide inference and learning. Applied Intelligence, 2(1), pp. 37-53. Zavatta, A. (1992). Un Générateur d’Insultes s’intégrant dans un Système de Dialogue Humain-Machine. Thèse de Doctorat en Informatique. Université Paris-Sud, Centre d’Orsay.
Grandchercheur, L.B. (1983). Vers une modélisation cognitive de l’être et du néant. In S.G Paris, G.M. Olson, H.W. Stevenson (Eds.), Fondement des Sciences Cognitives. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp. 6-38.
Language Resource References
Language Resource references should be listed in alphabetical order at the end of the article, in the “Language Resource References” section, placed after the “Bibliographical References” section. The title of the “Language Resource References” section should be a Level 1 Heading. The first line of each language resource reference should be justified to the left of the column, and the rest of the entry should be indented by 0.35 cm. The example in Section 13 illustrates the basic format required for language resources.
Speecon Consortium. (2014). Dutch Speecon Database. Speecon Project, distributed via ELRA, Speecon resources, 1.0, ISLRN 613-489-674-355-0.
All online language resources should have a persistent identifier (PID) . See the LaTeX example for details.
Appendices
Appendices or supplementary material will be allowed ONLY in the final, camera-ready version, but NOT during submission, as papers should be reviewed without the need to refer to any supplementary materials.
Each camera-ready paper can be accompanied by an appendix, up to ten (10) pages long,
We encourage the submission of these supplementary materials to improve the reproducibility of results and to enable authors to provide additional information that does not fit in the paper. For example, preprocessing decisions, model parameters, feature templates, lengthy proofs or derivations, pseudocode, sample system inputs/outputs, and other details necessary for the exact replication of the work described in the paper can be put into the appendix. However, the paper submissions must remain fully self-contained, as these supplementary materials are optional. If the pseudo-code or derivations, or model specifications are an essential part of the contribution, or if they are important for the technical correctness of the work, they should be a part of the main paper and not appear in the appendix.
Copyrights
The Language Resource and Evaluation Conference (LREC) proceedings are published by the European Language Resources Association (ELRA). They are made available online from the conference website. ELRA’s policy is to license all LREC proceedings (including workshops) under Creative Commons licenses (CC-BY-NC-4.0). The Proceedings will be licensed under CC-BY-NC-4.0, the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Your submission of a finalized contribution for inclusion in the LREC Proceedings automatically transfers the above-mentioned copyright to ELRA. Under the Creative Commons licenses, you are not forfeiting your right to use your contribution elsewhere. This you may do without seeking permission and is subject only to normal acknowledgement to the LREC proceedings.
Presentation Slides
Due to the size of the conference rooms, it is recommended to use 36 pt fonts for the presentation slides.
Posters
The size of poster holders is 90cm x 150 cm and the format is vertical (Portrait). The Poster Boards cannot accommodate Landscape posters. You can print your poster in Portrait A0 (84,1 x 118,9cm).
CONTACT
Conference website: https://lrec2026.info/
General information contact: info@lrec2026.info
LREC 2026 Publication Chairs contact: lrec2026-publication-chairs@googlegroups.com
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