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<p data-start="214" data-end="230">Dear colleagues,</p>
<p data-start="232" data-end="628"><em data-start="232"
data-end="265">We apologize for cross-posting.</em><br
data-start="265" data-end="268">
We are pleased to invite submissions to the <strong
data-start="312" data-end="401">Joint Workshop on Legal and
Ethical Issues in Human Language Technologies (LEGAL2026)</strong>
and <strong data-start="406" data-end="539">Computational
Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization, Anonymization,
De-identification, and Data Privacy (CALD-pseudo 2026)</strong>,
held in conjunction with <strong data-start="566" data-end="579">LREC
2026</strong> in Palma de Mallorca (Spain) on <strong
data-start="612" data-end="627">12 May 2026</strong>.</p>
<p data-start="630" data-end="680">Workshop website: <a
data-start="487" data-end="519" rel="noopener" target="_new"
class="decorated-link" href="https://legal2026.mobileds.de/">https://legal2026.mobileds.de/<span
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<h3 data-start="528" data-end="552">Scope and Motivation</h3>
<p data-start="554" data-end="1032">Access to text and speech data
is essential for research and development in language
technologies. At the same time, personal and sensitive information
often prevents open sharing of such data. Techniques like
pseudonymization and anonymization promise to mitigate these
risks, but their <strong data-start="842" data-end="900">effectiveness,
limitations, and impact on data utility</strong> are far from
fully understood. Balancing <strong data-start="942"
data-end="964">privacy protection</strong> with <strong
data-start="970" data-end="1003">scientific and societal value</strong>
remains a central challenge.</p>
<p data-start="1034" data-end="1457">In parallel, evolving legal and
ethical frameworks – including the <strong data-start="1101"
data-end="1109">GDPR</strong>, the <strong data-start="1115"
data-end="1127">Data Act</strong>, and the <strong
data-start="1137" data-end="1168">Artificial Intelligence Act</strong>
– increasingly shape how language resources can be <strong
data-start="1220" data-end="1271">created, processed,
documented, and distributed</strong>. These regulations define
rights and obligations for researchers, institutions, and
industry, and require interdisciplinary expertise at the
intersection of law, ethics, and technology.</p>
<p data-start="1459" data-end="1534">This joint workshop brings
these perspectives together. It aims to connect:</p>
<ul data-start="1536" data-end="1781">
<li data-start="1536" data-end="1660">
<p data-start="1538" data-end="1660"><strong data-start="1538"
data-end="1575">Technical and methodological work</strong>
on de-identification, anonymization, and pseudonymization of
text and speech, with</p>
</li>
<li data-start="1661" data-end="1781">
<p data-start="1663" data-end="1781"><strong data-start="1663"
data-end="1707">Legal, ethical, and governance questions</strong>
around access, reuse, documentation, and accountability in
language data.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p data-start="1783" data-end="1902">Our goal is to foster <strong
data-start="1805" data-end="1870">responsible, legally sound,
and technically robust innovation</strong> in human language
technologies.</p>
<hr data-start="1904" data-end="1907">
<h3 data-start="1909" data-end="1931">Topics of Interest</h3>
<p data-start="1933" data-end="2339">We welcome contributions from
all disciplines involved in the <strong data-start="1995"
data-end="2054">creation, processing, governance, and
de-identification</strong> of text and speech data. Submissions
may address theoretical, empirical, methodological, legal,
ethical, or technical questions, including cross-disciplinary
work. We particularly encourage research on <strong
data-start="2257" data-end="2287">less-represented languages</strong>
and on data from <strong data-start="2305" data-end="2338">under-represented
communities</strong>.</p>
<h4 data-start="2341" data-end="2391">1. Legal Aspects of Language
Data (LEGAL2026)</h4>
<ul data-start="2393" data-end="3081">
<li data-start="2393" data-end="2530">
<p data-start="2395" data-end="2530">Regulatory frameworks and
global governance<br data-start="2438" data-end="2441">
(e.g. impact of GDPR, Data Act, AI Act, and other
national/international regulations)</p>
</li>
<li data-start="2531" data-end="2614">
<p data-start="2533" data-end="2614">Intellectual property, data
protection, and governance of LLMs and other models</p>
</li>
<li data-start="2615" data-end="2712">
<p data-start="2617" data-end="2712">Ethics, fairness, trust,
transparency, and accountability in language and speech
technologies</p>
</li>
<li data-start="2713" data-end="2811">
<p data-start="2715" data-end="2811">Operationalizing compliance
in practice (policies, workflows, documentation, DPIAs,
contracts)</p>
</li>
<li data-start="2812" data-end="2880">
<p data-start="2814" data-end="2880">Provenance, rights,
consent, and licensing of language resources</p>
</li>
<li data-start="2881" data-end="2971">
<p data-start="2883" data-end="2971">Emerging and “grey” areas
(e.g. web-scraped data, model inversion, model-as-a-service)</p>
</li>
<li data-start="2972" data-end="3081">
<p data-start="2974" data-end="3081">Interdisciplinary and
cross-border coordination between legal, technical, and
organizational stakeholders</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h4 data-start="3083" data-end="3148">2. Pseudonymization,
Anonymization, and De-identification:</h4>
<p data-start="3149" data-end="3218">Theoretical, Methodological,
and Technical Aspects (CALD-pseudo 2026)</p>
<ul data-start="3220" data-end="3985">
<li data-start="3220" data-end="3300">
<p data-start="3222" data-end="3300">Detection and
classification of personal information (PI) in text and speech</p>
</li>
<li data-start="3301" data-end="3363">
<p data-start="3303" data-end="3363">Replacement, masking, and
transformation techniques for PI</p>
</li>
<li data-start="3364" data-end="3429">
<p data-start="3366" data-end="3429">Utility, bias, and
representativeness after de-identification</p>
</li>
<li data-start="3430" data-end="3512">
<p data-start="3432" data-end="3512">Evaluation, benchmarking,
and adversarial testing of de-identification systems</p>
</li>
<li data-start="3513" data-end="3577">
<p data-start="3515" data-end="3577">Dataset creation and
curation for de-identification research</p>
</li>
<li data-start="3578" data-end="3673">
<p data-start="3580" data-end="3673">Low-resource and
high-stakes scenarios (e.g. minority languages, clinical or
forensic data)</p>
</li>
<li data-start="3674" data-end="3776">
<p data-start="3676" data-end="3776">Speech-specific challenges:
voice identity, paralinguistic cues, prosody, pathology,
emotion, etc.</p>
</li>
<li data-start="3777" data-end="3899">
<p data-start="3779" data-end="3899">Cross-disciplinary
applications (e.g. digital humanities, social sciences,
political science, medical and health data)</p>
</li>
<li data-start="3900" data-end="3985">
<p data-start="3902" data-end="3985">Practical experiences and
case studies from research, public bodies, and industry</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p data-start="3987" data-end="4343">We explicitly invite
submissions from fields where de-identification plays an important
role, including but not limited to <strong data-start="4110"
data-end="4259">Computational Linguistics, Applied Linguistics,
Corpus Linguistics, Digital Humanities, Social Sciences,
Political Sciences, and Medical Sciences</strong>, and welcome
perspectives from <strong data-start="4291" data-end="4342">researchers,
public organizations, and industry</strong>.</p>
<hr data-start="4345" data-end="4348">
<h3 data-start="4350" data-end="4369">Important Dates</h3>
<ul data-start="4371" data-end="4546">
<li data-start="4371" data-end="4423">
<p data-start="4373" data-end="4423"><strong data-start="4373"
data-end="4393">20 February 2026</strong> – Paper submission
deadline</p>
</li>
<li data-start="4424" data-end="4478">
<p data-start="4426" data-end="4478"><strong data-start="4426"
data-end="4443">30 March 2026</strong> – Camera-ready
deadline (strict)</p>
</li>
<li data-start="4479" data-end="4546">
<p data-start="4481" data-end="4546"><strong data-start="4481"
data-end="4496">12 May 2026</strong> – Workshop date (in
conjunction with LREC 2026)</p>
</li>
</ul>
<hr data-start="4548" data-end="4551">
<h3 data-start="4553" data-end="4578">Submission Guidelines</h3>
<p data-start="4580" data-end="4672">Authors are invited to submit <strong
data-start="4610" data-end="4638">original and unpublished</strong>
work in the following categories:</p>
<ul data-start="4674" data-end="5130">
<li data-start="4674" data-end="4759">
<p data-start="4676" data-end="4759"><strong data-start="4676"
data-end="4691">Long papers</strong> (up to 8 pages):<br
data-start="4708" data-end="4711">
Substantial, completed research contributions.</p>
</li>
<li data-start="4761" data-end="4860">
<p data-start="4763" data-end="4860"><strong data-start="4763"
data-end="4779">Short papers</strong> (up to 4 pages):<br
data-start="4796" data-end="4799">
Small, focused contributions or ongoing / preliminary work.</p>
</li>
<li data-start="4862" data-end="5130">
<p data-start="4864" data-end="5130"><strong data-start="4864"
data-end="4886">Extended abstracts</strong> (for <em
data-start="4892" data-end="4907">non-technical</em>
submissions only):<br data-start="4926" data-end="4929">
Conceptual, theoretical, legal, ethical, policy-oriented, or
position papers.<br data-start="5008" data-end="5011">
Extended abstracts are <strong data-start="5036"
data-end="5084">expected to be developed into regular papers</strong>
(short or long) by the camera-ready deadline.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p data-start="5132" data-end="5360">All submissions must follow the
<strong data-start="5164" data-end="5183">LREC stylesheet</strong>,
available on the LREC 2026 website (Author’s Kit).<br
data-start="5235" data-end="5238">
Accepted full papers will be published in the <strong
data-start="5284" data-end="5308">workshop proceedings</strong>
together with the LREC main conference proceedings.</p>
<p data-start="5362" data-end="5474">The <strong data-start="5366"
data-end="5385">submission link</strong> will be provided in due
time on the workshop website:<br data-start="5439" data-end="5442">
<a data-start="5442" data-end="5474" rel="noopener" target="_new"
class="decorated-link" href="https://legal2026.mobileds.de/">https://legal2026.mobileds.de/<span
aria-hidden="true"
class="ms-0.5 inline-block align-middle leading-none"><svg
width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20"
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<p data-start="5476" data-end="5805">When submitting via START,
authors will be asked to provide basic information regarding <strong
data-start="5564" data-end="5586">language resources</strong>
(in a broad sense, including data, tools, standards, evaluation
kits, etc.) used in the work or newly created. ELRA strongly
encourages all LREC authors to <strong data-start="5743"
data-end="5768">share their resources</strong> to foster reuse
and reproducibility.</p>
<hr data-start="5807" data-end="5810">
<h3 data-start="5812" data-end="5832">Keynote Speakers</h3>
<p data-start="5834" data-end="5876">We are delighted to host
keynote talks by:</p>
<ul data-start="5878" data-end="6002">
<li data-start="5878" data-end="5947">
<p data-start="5880" data-end="5947"><strong data-start="5880"
data-end="5897">Paweł Kamocki</strong>, Leibniz-Institut für
Deutsche Sprache, Germany</p>
</li>
<li data-start="5948" data-end="6002">
<p data-start="5950" data-end="6002"><strong data-start="5950"
data-end="5967">Ivan Habernal</strong>, Ruhr University
Bochum, Germany</p>
</li>
</ul>
<hr data-start="6004" data-end="6007">
<h3 data-start="6009" data-end="6033">Organizing Committee</h3>
<p data-start="6035" data-end="6048"><strong data-start="6035"
data-end="6048">LEGAL2026</strong></p>
<ul data-start="6050" data-end="6249">
<li data-start="6050" data-end="6116">
<p data-start="6052" data-end="6116">Ingo Siegert,
Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg, Germany</p>
</li>
<li data-start="6117" data-end="6182">
<p data-start="6119" data-end="6182">Paweł Kamocki,
Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Germany</p>
</li>
<li data-start="6183" data-end="6216">
<p data-start="6185" data-end="6216">Kossay Talmoudi, ELDA,
France</p>
</li>
<li data-start="6217" data-end="6249">
<p data-start="6219" data-end="6249">Khalid Choukri, ELDA,
France</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p data-start="6251" data-end="6271"><strong data-start="6251"
data-end="6271">CALD-pseudo 2026</strong></p>
<ul data-start="6273" data-end="6796">
<li data-start="6273" data-end="6331">
<p data-start="6275" data-end="6331">Maria Irena Szawerna,
University of Gothenburg, Sweden</p>
</li>
<li data-start="6332" data-end="6382">
<p data-start="6334" data-end="6382">Simon Dobnik, University of
Gothenburg, Sweden</p>
</li>
<li data-start="6383" data-end="6447">
<p data-start="6385" data-end="6447">Therese Lindström
Tiedemann, University of Helsinki, Finland</p>
</li>
<li data-start="6448" data-end="6521">
<p data-start="6450" data-end="6521">Pierre Lison, Norwegian
Computing Center & University of Oslo, Norway</p>
</li>
<li data-start="6522" data-end="6574">
<p data-start="6524" data-end="6574">Ildikó Pilán, Norwegian
Computing Center, Norway</p>
</li>
<li data-start="6575" data-end="6634">
<p data-start="6577" data-end="6634">Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez,
University of Gothenburg, Sweden</p>
</li>
<li data-start="6635" data-end="6686">
<p data-start="6637" data-end="6686">Lisa Södergård, University
of Helsinki, Finland</p>
</li>
<li data-start="6687" data-end="6739">
<p data-start="6689" data-end="6739">Elena Volodina, University
of Gothenburg, Sweden</p>
</li>
<li data-start="6740" data-end="6796">
<p data-start="6742" data-end="6796">Xuan-Son Vu, Lund
University & DeepTensor AB, Sweden</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p data-start="6798" data-end="6863">The <strong data-start="6802"
data-end="6823">program committee</strong> will be listed on the
workshop website.</p>
<hr data-start="6865" data-end="6868">
<h3 data-start="6870" data-end="6881">Contact</h3>
<p data-start="6883" data-end="6951">For general inquiries, please
contact: <strong data-start="6922" data-end="6951"><a
data-start="6924" data-end="6949"
class="decorated-link cursor-pointer" rel="noopener">mail@legal2026.mobiles.de<span
aria-hidden="true"
class="ms-0.5 inline-block align-middle leading-none"><svg
width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20"
fill="currentColor" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
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<p data-start="6953" data-end="7093">We would be very grateful if
you could <strong data-start="6992" data-end="7016">distribute
this call</strong> within your networks and look forward to your
submissions and participation!</p>
<p data-start="7095" data-end="7165" data-is-last-node=""
data-is-only-node="">Best regards,<br data-start="7108"
data-end="7111">
the LEGAL2026 & CALD-pseudo 2026 Organizing Committees</p>
<p data-start="630" data-end="680"><br>
</p>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
PD. Dr.-Ing. Ingo Siegert
FEIT IIKT-Mobile Dialog Systems
Building 03, Room 325
+49 391 67 500 60
Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg
Universitätsplatz 2, 39106 Magdeburg Germany</pre>
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