NALEF 2026 Labs

Evaluation Tasks & Shared Campaign

Explore the official shared tasks of NALEF 2026, focused on multilingual, multimodal, and real-world challenges across the Americas.

Call for Papers

NALEF 2026 will be held in person on August 12, 13, and 14, 2026, at the Almirante Padilla Naval Academy in Cartagena, Colombia, as part of the 20th Colombian Computing Congress (20CCC).

Participants are invited to submit system description papers (5 to 8 pages) in English, addressing one of the following tasks: Task 1: Food Safety, Task 2: GastroCorp NER, Task 3: WIAAIS, Task 4: WTECPG, or Task 5: SMD.

Submissions must be original and unpublished. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series (CEUR-WS.org, ISSN 1613-0073).

Author Instructions

System description papers must be 5 to 8 pages long, including references and appendices. They must be written in English using the CEURART template, without including author names to enable anonymous review (LaTeX or Overleaf format).

All submissions will undergo peer review by the program committee. Evaluation criteria will include: relevance, technical/scientific quality, clarity, and suitability for the workshop tasks.

Submission & Proceedings

Papers must be submitted through the OpenReview platform. Accepted papers will be published in open access under the CC BY 4.0 license.

Submit via OpenReview

Important Dates

  • Paper submission May 25, 2026, 11:59 PM UTC-0
  • Acceptance notification June 30, 2026
  • Camera-ready submission July 10, 2026
  • Workshop dates August 12–14, 2026
We look forward to welcoming you to the 1st NALEF Workshop in Cartagena!

Available Workshops

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How to Participate

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Chairs Committee

  • Dr. Edwin Puertas (UTB, Cartagena)
  • Andrea Menco Tovar (UTB, Cartagena)
  • Daniel Peña Gnecco (UTB, Cartagena)

Steering Committee

  • Dr. Edwin Puertas (UTB, Cartagena)
  • Dr. Jairo Serrano Castañeda (UTB, Cartagena)
  • Dr. Juan Carlos Martinez (UTB, Cartagena)
  • Dr. Oneris Rico (Cross Labs, Japon)

Program Committee

  • Dr. Oneris Rico (Cross Labs, Japon)
  • MIng. Duvan Marrugo (Cross Labs, Japon)
  • Danileth (UTB, Cartagena)
  • Melissa Moreno (UTB, Cartagena)
  • Yuranis Henrique (UTB, Cartagena)
  • Andrea Menco Tovar (UTB, Cartagena)
  • Luis Gabriel Moreno (Javeriana, Bogota)