Workshop on Structured Linguistic Data and Evaluation (SLiDE)
Call For Papers
In the last ten years, significant advances in deep learning models and the development of Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized the fields of computational linguistics (CL) and natural language processing (NLP). In turn, this has led to a complete re-assessment of the language resources and evaluation practices necessary for training LLMs and analyzing their outputs.
In particular, the availability of very large amounts of unstructured data for training foundational models has come into focus, while the value of high-quality structured linguistic data with rich annotations at various levels of linguistic analysis has been downplayed by comparison. However, as CL and NLP practitioners engage further with LLMs and debate their strengths and weaknesses, the importance of high-quality, structured linguistic data has been re-emphasized.
The proposed workshop can be seen as related to the Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT) conference series and the more recent SyntaxFest venue. The Workshop on Structured Linguistic Data is conceived as both a continuation of this tradition and an adaptation to the new realities of an LLM-dominated research landscape.
Topics of Interest
Topics include but are not limited to:
Linguistic Data & Evaluation
- Grammar processing with NLP and LLM-based tools
- Phonological and morphological analysis and LLM tokenization
- Annotation strategies with LLM-empowered methodologies
- Design principles and annotation schemes
- Multi-lingual and cross-lingual settings
- Language resources for underresourced languages
- (Semi-)automatic methods for creating structured linguistic data
Spoken Language & Multimodality
- Speech-to-text, Generation, and Curation
- Structured multimodal resources: gesture AMR (GAMR), gaze, posture
- Multimodal grounding and alignment
- Multimodal evaluation resources for LLMs
Pragmatics & Semantics
- Structured data for discourse: coherence, dialogue acts
- Pragmatic annotation: speech acts, politeness, stance
- Theory of Mind in LLMs
- Dependency analysis and semantic parsing
- Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR), UMR, MRS, TTR
- Distributional and neural-symbolic representations
Invited Speakers
- Naiara Perez (University of the Basque Country)
- Shira Wein (Amherst College)
Important Dates
Submission Instructions
We invite paper submissions in two distinct tracks:
- Regular papers: on substantial and original research, including empirical evaluation results, where appropriate -- 8 pages excluding references and potential ethics statements;
- Short papers: on smaller, focused contributions, work in progress, negative results, surveys, or opinion pieces -- 4 pages excluding references and potential ethics statements.
Submission follows the LREC 2026 conference instructions. Papers must be anonymized.
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- Jan Hajič (Prague University, Czech Republic)
- Erhard Hinrichs (Tübingen University, Germany)
- Sandra Kübler (Indiana University, USA)
- Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University, Sweden)
- Petya Osenova (Sofia University, Bulgaria)
- James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University, USA)
Programme Committee
- Meriem Beloucif, Uppsala University, Sweden
- Bernd Bohnet, Google, London, UK
- Johan Bos, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, NL
- Gosse Bouma, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, NL
- Çağrı Çöltekin, Tübingen University, Germany
- Daniel Dakota, Leidos, Indiana University, USA
- Miryam de Lhoneux, KU Leuven, Belgium
- Stephanie Dipper, Bochum University, Germany
- Kilian Evang, Düsseldorf University, Germany
- >Kim Gerdes, Université Paris-Saclay, France
- Jan Hajič, Charles University, Czech Republic
- Eva Hajičová, Charles University, Czech Republic
- Yoshihiko Hayashi, Waseda University, Japan
- Erhard Hinrichs, University of Tübingen, Germany
- Shu Kai Hsieh, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
- Chu-Ren Huang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Laura Kallmeyer, Düsseldorf University, Germany
- Ekaterina Kochmar, MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi
- Marie-Pauline Krielke, Saarbrücken, Germany
- Sandra Kübler, Indiana University, USA
- Lori Levin, Carnegie Mellon University, USA (tbc)
- Wolfgang Menzel, Hamburg University, Germany
- Marie Mikulová, Charles University, Czechia
- Kaili Müürisep, University of Tartu, Estonia
- John Nerbonne, Freiburg University, Germany
- Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University, Sweden
- Colleen Alena O'Brien, Palacky University, Czechia
- Stephan Oepen, Oslo University, Norway
- Petya Osenova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
- Lilja Øvrelid, University of Oslo, Norway
- Barbara Plank, LMU Munich, Germany
- James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University, USA
- Agata Savary, Université Paris-Saclay, France
- Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
- Sanghoun Song, Korea University, Korea
- Sara Stymne, Uppsala University, Sweden
- Rob van der Goot, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Leonie Weissweiler, Uppsala University, Sweden
- Shuly Wintner, Haifa University, Israel
- Alina Wróblewska, Polish Academy of Sciences
- Nianwen Xue, Brandeis University, USA
- Dan Zeman, Charles University, Czech Republic
- Heike Zinsmeister, Hamburg University, Germany