Welcome to DialRes-LREC26

Workshop on Dialects in NLP — A Resource Perspective

You can see the workshop program here.

Invited Talk: "Beyond the Standard: Dialectal Variation at the Heart of NLP"
Prof. Barbara Plank, LMU Munich, Visiting Prof ITU Copenhagen

Description

DialRes-LREC26 will be collocated with the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), to be held in Palma de Mallorca (Spain), on May 16 2026, and will be organised as a hybrid event, allowing both in-person and online participation.

DialRes-LREC26 focuses on the challenges and opportunities in dialectal NLP from a resource perspective; it seeks to bring together researchers from linguistics, computational linguistics, digital humanities, and related areas to share work on the creation, documentation, and exploitation of dialectal resources.

Workshop Topics

  • Development and evaluation of dialectal oral and textual resources
  • Orthographic normalisation and homogenisation
  • Dialects vs. standard language varieties in annotation frameworks
  • Cross-lingual transfer and model adaptation
  • Resource scalability issues and techniques
  • LLMs in dialectal resource development
  • Resources for and applications supporting dialect revitalisation and preservation
  • Dialectal studies and teaching from a resource perspective
  • Working on dialect resources: academic, financial, legal, societal issues
  • Enabling dialect communities to develop resources

Contact

To contact the organisers: dialres-lrec26@googlegroups.com

Endorsements
The workshop is endorsed by UniDive COST Action CA21167 and Archimedes Athena R.C.

Workshop Organizers

  • Antonios Anastasopoulos
    George Mason University and Archimedes/Athena RC
  • Stella Markantonatou
    ILSP and Archimedes/Athena RC
  • Angela Ralli
    University of Patras and Archimedes/Athena RC
  • Marcos Zampieri
    George Mason University
  • Stavros Bompolas
    Archimedes/Athena RC
  • Vivian Stamou
    Archimedes/Athena RC