The Fourth Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages (LT4HALA 2026)

Co-located with LREC 2026

Location: Palma, Mallorca (Spain)

Date: TBA

Submission page: TBA

Proceedings: TBA

This one-day workshop seeks to bring together scholars, who are developing and/or are using Language Technologies (LTs) for historically attested languages, so to foster cross-fertilization between the Computational Linguistics community and the areas in the Humanities dealing with historical linguistic data, e.g. historians, philologists, linguists, archaeologists and literary scholars. Despite the current availability of large collections of digitized texts written in historical languages, such interdisciplinary collaboration is still hampered by the limited availability of annotated linguistic resources for most of the historical languages. Creating such resources is a challenge and an obligation for LTs, both to support historical linguistic research with the most updated technologies and to preserve those precious linguistic data that survived from past times.

The workshop will also be the venue of the:

fourth edition of EvaLatin, the campaign for the evaluation of NLP tools for Latin;
fourth edition of EvaHan, the campaign for the evaluation of NLP tools for Ancient Chinese organized by the team of Bin Li (School of Chinese Language and Literature, Nanjing Normal University);
the second edition of EvaCun, the campaign for the evaluation of NLP tools for Ancient Cuneiform Languages organized by the team of Adam Anderson (UC Berkeley, USA).

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