Call for Papers: RaPID-6@MENTAL.ai Workshop at LREC-2026
Call for Papers for RaPID-6@MENTAL.ai workshop at LREC-2026: An interdisciplinary platform for researchers to exchange insights on data from individuals with cognitive/psychiatric impairments.
The 6th workshop on ‘Resources and ProcessIng of linguistic, para-linguistic and extra-linguistic Data from people with various forms of cognitive/psychiatric/developmental impairments’ is announced, in collaboration with the MENTAL.ai consortium. The workshop is co-located with LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, on May 12th, 2026.
RaPID-6 at MENTAL.ai is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers to exchange insights on collecting and processing data from individuals with mental, cognitive, neuropsychiatric, or neurodegenerative impairments. Key focus areas include:
- Creating, processing, and applying data resources from individuals at different stages and severity levels of these impairments.
- Studying relationships among linguistic, paralinguistic, and extra-linguistic observations.
- Applications ranging from aiding diagnosis to enhancing monitoring and predicting individuals at higher risk.
Important dates:
- Submission deadline: Sunday, 22nd of February, 2026 (anywhere on earth).
- Workshop date: Tuesday, 12th of May 2026.
Invited Speakers:
- Prof. Brian MacWhinney, Carnegie Mellon University, USA.
- Assoc Prof, MD, Sunny X. Tang, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Northwell Health, USA.
For more information, visit the workshop website. Contact: Dimitrios Kokkinakis (dimitrios.kokkinakis@gu.se).
Tags: RaPID-6, MENTAL.ai, LREC-2026, cognitive impairments, linguistic data processing, multidisciplinary research
