Special Session
Special Session on
Speech and Text Processing for Low-Resource Languages -
STP-LRL
2026
5 - 7 March, 2026 - Marbella, Spain
Within the 18th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - ICAART 2026
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CO-CHAIRS
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Mohamed Ali Sghaier
University of Monastir
Tunisia
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Brief Bio
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Mohamed Lazhar Bellagha
University of Monastir
Tunisia
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SCOPE
Speech and text technologies have achieved significant progress in recent years, driven by deep learning and large-scale data. However, most advances still focus on high-resource languages, leaving many languages underrepresented.
The special session on Speech and Text Processing for Low-Resource Languages (STP-LRL) at ICAART 2026 aims to unite researchers and practitioners dedicated to advancing speech and text technologies for low-resource languages. It will provide a forum to discuss recent breakthroughs, share innovative approaches and resources, and address future challenges in creating inclusive and accessible language technologies.
We invite contributions presenting novel theoretical advances, practical implementations, and methods designed to overcome data scarcity and support low-resource languages.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Language modeling and representation learning for low-resource languages
- Speech recognition and synthesis for low-resource settings
- Machine translation involving low-resource language pairs
- Named entity recognition and information extraction in low-resource contexts
- Development of linguistic resources and annotated corpora
- Sentiment and emotion analysis in under-resourced languages
- Speech-to-text and text-to-speech applications supporting cultural preservation
- Evaluation metrics and benchmarks for low-resource NLP
- Multimodal analysis integrating text, speech, and visual content
- Recommendation systems in low-resource language contexts
- Applications of speech and text technologies in healthcare, education, and social services for underrepresented language communities
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission:
December 17, 2025
Authors Notification:
January 14, 2026
Camera Ready and Registration:
January 22, 2026
SPECIAL SESSION PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Available soon.
PAPER SUBMISSION
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed above.
Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at: Paper Templates
Please also check the Guidelines.
Papers must be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system using the appropriated button on this page.
PUBLICATIONS
After thorough reviewing by the special session program committee, all accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings book - under an ISBN reference and on digital support - and submitted for indexation by SCOPUS, Google Scholar, DBLP, Semantic Scholar, EI and Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index.
SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier).
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library