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Welcome to IEEE EM-RITE 2026
Welcome to IEEE EM-RITE 2026
The 15th IEEE International Workshop on Empirical Methods for Recognizing Inference in TExt
The 15th IEEE International Workshop on Empirical Methods for Recognizing Inference in TExt
(IEEE EM-RITE 2026)
(IEEE EM-RITE 2026)
In conjunction with IEEE IRI 2026
July 31 - August 2, 2026
Seattle, WA, USA
https://sites.google.com/view/emrite2026
The IEEE EM-RITE workshop focuses on advancing the field of natural language processing (NLP) through the exploration of inference tasks such as textual entailment, paraphrasing, and contradiction detection in text. This workshop invites original, high-quality research contributions that utilize empirical methods to recognize inference in textual data. We also encourage multidisciplinary research that bridges gaps between theoretical research and practical applications in natural language processing and related fields.
Topics of Interest:
Topics of Interest:
We welcome submissions on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:
Textual Inference, Entailment & Causal Reasoning
Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) and Natural Language Inference (NLI)
Causal Reasoning, Counterfactual Inference, and Abductive NLI
Chain-of-Thought, Step-by-Step, Multi-Hop, and Tree-of-Thought Reasoning
Large Reasoning Models (LRMs), Test-Time Compute Scaling, and Inference-Time Search
Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning (RLVR) and Process Reward Models
World Models, Formal Verification, Symbolic and Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning
Contradiction Detection, Paraphrase Recognition, and Logical Consistency
Foundation Models, Generative & Agentic AI
Advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs), Small Language Models (SLMs), and Mixture-of-Experts Architectures
Generative AI, AI-Generated Content (AIGC), and Controlled Text Generation
Multimodal Generative AI and Cross-Modal Inference (text, image, audio, video)
Agentic AI, Autonomous Language Agents, and Multi-Agent Orchestration
AgentOps, Tool Use, Function Calling, Prompt Engineering, and Compound AI Systems
Human–AI and Human–Agent Collaboration, Supervised Autonomy, and Mixed-Initiative Systems
Context Engineering, Long-Context Management, Model Alignment, RLHF, and Direct Preference Optimization (DPO)
Question Answering, Retrieval & Knowledge Integration
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Agentic RAG, and Retrieval-Augmented Question Answering
Graph RAG, Knowledge-Grounded Generation, and Knowledge Base Population
Open-Domain, Machine Reading Comprehension, and Complex Multi-Step Question Answering
Semantic Search, Dense and Sparse Retrieval, Reranking, and Context-Aware Memory
Structured Knowledge Integration: Knowledge Graphs, Tables, and Databases
Named Entity Recognition (NER), Relation Extraction, Temporal Reasoning, and Event Extraction
Text Summarization, Fact Verification, and Information Extraction from Heterogeneous Sources
Trustworthy AI, Evaluation & Harness Engineering
Hallucination Detection, Mitigation, Attribution, and Faithfulness Evaluation
LLM Evaluation Methodologies, Benchmark Design, Contamination Detection, and Shared Tasks
Harness Engineering for LLM Evaluation, Automated Testing, and Agentic Workflow Assessment
AI Safety, Robustness, Adversarial NLP, Prompt Injection, and Jailbreak Defense
Bias Detection, Fairness, Accountability, and AI Governance for Autonomous Systems
Human vs. AI Text Detection, Watermarking, and Annotation Quality Assurance
Privacy-Preserving NLP, Risk Assessment, Uncertainty Quantification, and Differential Privacy
Conversational AI, Sentiment & Multilingual NLP
Dialogue Systems, Task-Oriented Agents, and Context-Aware Multi-Turn Conversation
Sentiment Analysis, Aspect-Based Opinion Mining, and Emotion Recognition
Sarcasm, Irony, Figurative Language, and Implicit Sentiment Detection
Cross-Lingual Transfer Learning, Multilingual Models, and Low-Resource NLP
Machine Translation, Localization, and Cultural Adaptation
Code-Switching, Dialect Identification, and Morphologically Rich Language Processing
Spoken Language Understanding, Speech-Text Alignment, and Voice Interfaces
Sustainable Finance, Corporate Accountability & Legal NLP
ESG Promise Verification, Commitment Tracking, and Corporate Accountability Analysis
Automated ESG Disclosure Analysis, Scoring, and NLP-Driven Rating Systems
Greenwashing Detection, Claim Fact-Checking, and Credibility Assessment in Sustainability Reports
ESG Causal Reasoning, Impact Assessment, and Event Detection
Financial Opinion Mining, Earnings Call Analysis, and Market Sentiment
FinTech, Green Finance, Climate Risk Disclosure, and Sustainable Investment Text Analytics
Regulatory Compliance Verification, Legal Document Understanding, and Contract Analysis
Domain-Specific NLP Applications
NLP for Scientific Discovery, Hypothesis Generation, and Literature Mining
Clinical NLP, Biomedical Text Mining, and Medical Dialogue Systems
Educational NLP, Automated Essay Scoring, and Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Crisis and Disaster NLP, Emergency Response, and Humanitarian Computing
Social Computing, Social Media Mining, and Market Signal Detection
NLP for Cybersecurity: Threat Intelligence, Phishing Detection, and Vulnerability Analysis
NLP for Engineering and Technical Domains: Code Understanding, Patent Analysis, and Technical QA
IMPORTANT DATES
IMPORTANT DATES
Regular paper submission: May 1, 2026
Notification of acceptance: May 20, 2026
Camera-ready paper due: June 20, 2026
Author registration due: June 20, 2026
Conference events: July 31 - August 2, 2026
SUBMISSIONS
SUBMISSIONS
Authors are invited to submit a paper up to 6 pages (in English) in double-column IEEE format following the submission guidelines available on the IEEE IRI 2026 web page. Papers must be original and not submitted to or accepted by any other conference or journal. An electronic version (PDF format) of the full paper should be submitted by the paper submission deadline to EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeeemrite2026). All submissions will be acknowledged.
Online Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeeemrite2026
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Workshop Co-Chairs
Workshop Co-Chairs
Min-Yuh Day, National Taipei University, Taiwan
Yoshinobu Kano, Shizuoka University, Japan
Chuan-Jie Lin, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan
Program Committee
Program Committee
Paavo Arvola, University of Tampere, Finland
Yung-Chun Chang, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan
Weide Chang, California State University, Sacramento, USA
Chien-Chang Chen, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Kuo-Chung Chu, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences, Taiwan
Hong-Jie Dai, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Wen-Lian Hsu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Ya-Han Hu, National Central University, Taiwan
Mike Tian-Jian Jiang, Zeals Co. Ltd., Japan
Chi-Chang Jou, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Makoto Kato, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Lun-Wei Ku, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Chiang-Chi Liao, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Chao-Lin Liu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Suguru Matsuyoshi, University of Yamanashi, Japan
Teruko Mitamura, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Maryoly Ortega, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela
Sheng-Pao Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Eriks Sneiders, Stockholm University, Sweden
Ling-Chuan Tai, Kun Shan University, Taiwan
I-Hsien Ting, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Ming-Feng Tsai, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Richard Tzong-Han Tsai, National Central University, Taiwan
Vincent S. Tseng, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Chih-Chien Wang, National Taipei University, Taiwan
Yotaro Watanabe, Tohoku University, Japan
I-Chin Wu, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
Shih-Hung Wu, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan
Youzheng Wu, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
Jean-Daniel Zucker, Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement, France
LINKS
LINKS
IEEE IRI 2026, Seattle, WA, USA: https://ieee-iri.github.io/
IEEE EM-RITE 2026, Seattle, WA, USA: https://sites.google.com/view/emrite2026
IEEE EM-RITE 2025, San Jose, CA, USA: https://sites.google.com/view/emrite2025
IEEE EM-RITE 2024, San Jose, CA, USA: https://sites.google.com/view/emrite2024
IEEE EM-RITE 2023, Bellevue, WA, USA: https://sites.google.com/view/emrite2023
IEEE EM-RITE 2022, San Diego, CA, USA (Virtual): https://sites.google.com/view/emrite2022
IEEE EM-RITE 2021, Las Vegas, NV, USA (Virtual): https://sites.google.com/view/emrite2021
IEEE EM-RITE 2020, Las Vegas, NV, USA (Virtual): https://sites.google.com/view/emrite2020
IEEE EM-RITE 2019, Los Angeles, CA, USA: https://sites.google.com/view/emrite2019
IEEE EM-RITE 2018, Salt Lake City, UT, USA: https://sites.google.com/view/emrite2018
IEEE EM-RITE 2017, San Diego, CA, USA: https://sites.google.com/view/emrite2017
IEEE EM-RITE 2016, Pittsburgh, PA, USA: https://sites.google.com/site/emrite2016
IEEE EM-RITE 2015, San Francisco, CA, USA: https://sites.google.com/site/emrite2015
IEEE EM-RITE 2014, Redwood City, CA, USA: https://sites.google.com/site/emrite2014
IEEE EM-RITE 2013, San Francisco, CA, USA: https://sites.google.com/site/emrite2013
IEEE EM-RITE 2012, Las Vegas, NV, USA: https://sites.google.com/site/emrite2012
IEEE IRI Proceedings on IEEE Xplore DL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome.jsp?punumber=1001046
IEEE IRI Proceedings on DBLP: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/iri/index.html
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