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.
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The workshop will offer individual tutoring and mentoring upon request. Interested authors should contact the organizers at least 10 days before the paper submission deadline at: dialres-lrec26@googlegroups.com This support is addressed especially to early-career researchers and contributors working with dialectal data who have limited or no prior experience in developing NLP-oriented resources.
Instructions for Authors Submissions are electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system via the link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/DialRes. They must be 4 to 8 pages long (excluding references and potential Ethics Statements) and follow the LREC stylesheet, available on the conference website on the Author’s kit page Author’s Kit. All templates are also available from this page.
All submitted abstracts and papers will undergo a double-blind peer review process. Submissions will be evaluated anonymously by at least two members of the Program Committee. Authors’ identities will not be disclosed to reviewers during the evaluation. Submissions must therefore be fully anonymized and must not include names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or other identifying information, including references to non-anonymized external resources. Submissions will be assessed based on their relevance to the workshop topics, scientific quality, originality, and clarity of presentation. Accepted contributions will be selected for presentation at the workshop and inclusion in the workshop proceedings, in accordance with LREC workshop policies.
It will also be possible to submit papers that were rejected from the LREC 2026 main conference to DialRes 2026. Such submissions must be revised to fit the scope and format of the workshop and must comply with the same anonymization requirements.
Endorsements The workshop is endorsed by UniDive COST Action CA21167 and Archimedes Athena R.C.