The Fifteenth biennial Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) will be held at the Palau de Congressos de Palma in Palma, 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. We will also organise an Industry Track to report on state of the art within industry and commercial achievements, for which there will be a separate Call.