[CLASSLA] Fwd: Deadline Extension – JuDig2026

[Nikola Ljubešić]

Dear CLASSLA people,

Please find below the final CfP for JuDig: South Slavic Languages in the
Digital Environment, an event very close to what CLASSLA is about. Deadline
is 1 June.

CLASSLA will participate at JuDig with the third iteration of the
CLASSLA-express workshop.
https://www.clarin.si/info/k-centre/workshops/classla-express/

Best regards,

Nikola

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From: Jerteh Serbia <jerteh.rs at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, May 13, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Subject: Deadline Extension – JuDig2026
To:


Dear Colleagues,

Due to multiple requests, we are pleased to announce a deadline extension
for submissions to the South Slavic Languages in the Digital Environment
(JuDig), which will be held from 26–28 October 2026 at the Faculty of
Mining and Geology, University of Belgrade. The new submission deadline is
1 June 2026.



*** Apologies for cross-posting ***



Deadline Extension

University of Belgrade–Faculty of Mining and Geology,

University of Belgrade–Faculty of Philology,

Language Resources and Technologies Society (JeRTeh),
Institute for Serbian Language SASA, and

University Library “Svetozar Marković”



We are glad to announce that

The Second International Conference

South Slavic Languages in the Digital Environment  (JuDig)

will be held from 26–28 October 2026 at the Faculty of Mining and Geology,
University of Belgrade.



The conference aims to foster networking and to provide a forum for
high-quality research in all (sub)domains of computational linguistics and
related topics, with a special focus on language resources and technologies
available for Serbian and other South Slavic and Balkan languages. During
the conference, several workshops will be organized on a thematic basis.
All conference sessions will be held in a hybrid mode.



Invited Speakers:



·         Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Associate Professor, Institute of Computer
Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences

·         Francesca Frontini, Researcher at the Istituto di Linguistica
Computazionale “A. Zampolli” of the CNR in Pisa





Workshops:

·         TBA



Extended abstract and paper submission:

Extended abstracts and papers are invited for 20-minute presentations,
followed by a 10-minute discussion, on any of the following topics,
including but not limited to:
Information Technologies in the Processing of South Slavic Languages

·         Morphological, syntactic, and semantic analysis

·         Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Serbian and other South
Slavic languages

·         Automatic normalization

·         Named entity recognition and linking (NER, NEL)

·         Relation and event extraction

·         Processing of dialects and language varieties
Digital Corpora of South Slavic Languages

·         Corpus design, compilation, annotation, and standardization (TEI,
CoNLL, JSON-LD)

·         Historical, diachronic, and specialized corpora

·         Parallel and multilingual corpora

·         Corpora for machine learning and large language models

·         Spoken language corpora and transcription resources

·         Metadata standards, licensing, and FAIR principles

·         Domain-specific corpora (e.g., law, medicine, mining, economics)

·         Monitor (dynamic) corpora
Language Resources for South Slavic Languages

·         Lexical databases, dictionaries, and terminological resources

·         Ontologies and knowledge graphs (e.g., Wikidata and
domain-specific knowledge graphs)

·         Semantic networks, WordNet, and FrameNet

·         Resources for sentiment, emotion, and moral value analysis

·         Educational language resources

·         Interoperability and Linked Open Data

·         Standards and frameworks (ISO/TC 37, LAF, OntoLex-Lemon)
Language Technologies for South Slavic Languages

·         Machine translation

·         Automatic summarization and text generation

·         Speech recognition and speech synthesis

·         Intelligent information retrieval and question answering systems



Extended abstracts and papers can be in one of the South Slavic languages
or in English. The length of the abstract should be from 1000 to 2500
words, including examples and diagrams (no more than 10 pages without
references). Papers should be between 4500 and 6000 words (maximum 20 pages
without references). The deadline for sending extended abstracts and papers
is May 15, 2026 June 1, 2026.



To prepare a paper/abstract, use the Word template
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UtSFP7Ssf7IeJHulB6MfHsZvPBvFpK4l/edit?rtpof=true&sd=true&tab=t.0>
or the Overleaf template
<https://www.overleaf.com/project/69aa7ce848d9e9116fa20dda> for LaTeX.



For abstract and paper submission, please use OpenReview
<https://openreview.net/group?id=JUDIG/2026/Conference&referrer=%5BHomepage%5D(%2F)#tab-your-consoles>
.



The conference website is at the address: https://judig.jerteh.rs/
<https://judig.jerteh.rs/dev/index.php>.



Important dates:

·         Extended abstract and paper submission deadline: 15th May 2026 1
June 2026

·         Notification of acceptance: 15th June 2026 1 July 2026

·         Registration: August – September 2026

·         Conference dates: 26–28 October 2026



Registration fee:

·         Regular: 120€ (early bird, until 31 August 90 €)

·         Reduced: 50€ (early bird 40 €) (PhD students, scholars from war
and conflict zones, accompanying persons)



The registration fee includes the conference pack, refreshments, and
welcome reception. The conference dinner is to be paid separately, and it
costs 50€. Registration will start on 1 August 2026.



Conference Proceedings:

All abstracts and full papers submitted for the conference proceedings will
be reviewed through a double-blind process, and accepted ones will be
published electronically.

Co-chairs:

Prof. dr. Ranka Stanković, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mining and
Geology & Language Resources and Technologies Society (JeRTeh)

Dr. Milica Dinić Marinković, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Philology
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