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.