CFP

FAIR@CLIB2026: FAIR Language Resources in NLP: Stewardship, Reuse and Long-Term Sustainability

Sofia, Bulgaria, September 7, 2026

Submission link

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fairclib2026

Topics: lifecycle technical foundations for fair resources

FAIR Language Resources in NLP: Stewardship, Reuse and Long-Term Sustainability

Pre-conference Workshop at CLIB 2026

Sofia, Bulgaria

7 September 2026

Why this workshop and why now?

Language resources are the foundation of linguistic research and NLP. Corpora, lexicons, annotated datasets, benchmarks, and models are produced at an unprecedented pace. Yet their long-term stewardship, interoperability, and reuse remain inconsistent and often fragile. Rapid creation has outpaced sustainable design.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers, infrastructure providers, data stewards, and policy actors who are committed to building durable language resource ecosystems. We aim to address the pressing challenges of sustaining datasets used in linguistic research and in the development of NLP systems—from documentation and versioning to governance, licensing, and infrastructure support.

The workshop will explore how FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) can be meaningfully operationalised for language resources in NLP and computational linguistics.

Important Dates

Submission deadline: 22 April 2026
Notification of acceptance: 22 May 2026
Camera-ready deadline: To be confirmed
Workshop date: 7 September 2026

Submission Guidelines

The proposal considers short papers (4-6 pages), which will be delivered in 10 min slots.

List of Topics

1. Technical Foundations

Designing language resources so they are interoperable, transparent, and structurally reusable.

Domain-specific FAIR implementation strategies for corpora, lexicons, datasets, and models
Metadata, paradata, and annotation transparency frameworks
Repository architectures and infrastructure design for linguistic data

2. Lifecycle & Reuse

Ensuring language resources remain usable, traceable, and measurable across research cycles.

Documentation, versioning, and provenance tracking for evolving resources
Persistent identifiers and citation mechanisms for language datasets
Methods for tracking, measuring, and evidencing reuse
Critical reflections and lessons learned from implementation challenges

3. Policy & Sustainability

Creating the institutional and legal conditions that allow language resources to endure.

Legal, ethical, and licensing considerations in sharing and reusing language data
Governance structures and sustainability models beyond project funding

Committees

Program Committee (TBC)

Chairs

Dr. Milena Dobreva (Unviersity of Strathclyde, IMI BAS)
Dr. Ivan Lambov (IMI BAS)

Organizing committee

Dr. Krassimira Ivanova
Teodora Gandova

Invited Speakers (TBC)

Publication

We are finalising the proceedings information.

Venue

The conference will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to milena.dobreva AT ustrath.ac.uk.

Acknowledgement of support

The workshop organisation is partially supported by the project BG16RFPR002-1.016-0002 “ERA Chair in fostering digital cultural heritage via open innovations and open science” funded by the Programme “Research, Innovation and Digitalization for Smart Transformation” 2021-2027 (PRIDST) and co-funded by the European Union.