Welcome to DialRes-LREC26

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.