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# Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages @ LREC 2026 — accepted papers

Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages @ LREC 2026 is the 2026 edition of the Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages @ LREC, held in Palma, Mallorca (Spain), May 2026 (publisher: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)). The ACL Anthology lists 50 papers of it; our library holds 10 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

[**50** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**10** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lt4hala/2026/#works) · [**5** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lt4hala/2026/#works)**Palma, Mallorca (Spain)** where it was held**May 2026** when

## All accepted papers (50)

The most cited first; 10 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[A Computational Evaluation of Syllabic Hypotheses for Rongorongo: Evidence from N-gram Analysis](https://aclanthology.org/2026.lt4hala-1.16/)**Evgeniya Korovina
2. **[A Dual-Modality Framework for Ancient Document Layout Analysis and Text Recognition](https://aclanthology.org/2026.lt4hala-1.27/)**Qi Fan, Jieming Hu, Chen Ye
3. **[A Layered Annotation Workflow for Semitic Epigraphy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bernstein-2026-layered-annotation-workflow-semitic-epigraphy/)**Tal Bernstein, Shai Gordin, Letizia Cerqueglini*our summary*
4. **[A Multi-Modal Recognition Framework for Ancient Books Integrating DoRA-DPO Text Recognition and YOLO Layout Analysis](https://aclanthology.org/2026.lt4hala-1.25/)**Chaokun Zhang, Xin Wen, Tongtong Zhou
5. **[A Multi-Stage System for Ancient Chinese OCR and Layout Understanding in the EvaHan2026 Shared Task](https://aclanthology.org/2026.lt4hala-1.24/)**KeYan Liang, Meiling Liu
6. **[A New State-of-the-Art BERT Model for Judeo-Arabic](https://aclanthology.org/2026.lt4hala-1.6/)**Elisha Rosensweig, Yitzchak Lindenbaum, Hillel Gershuni et al.
7. **[A Parameter-Efficient and Data-Centric Framework for Ancient Chinese Text Recognition and Layout Analysis](https://aclanthology.org/2026.lt4hala-1.29/)**Yuchun Meng
8. **[Across Generations: A Comparative Analysis of NER for Latin Inscriptions from Classical Machine Learning to LLMs](https://aclanthology.org/2026.lt4hala-1.11/)**Wenhui Cui, Phillip Benjamin Ströbel
9. **[AnandaSky: A Vision–Language Model for Line-Level Transcription of Historical Sinographic Documents](https://aclanthology.org/2026.lt4hala-1.32/)**Colin Brisson, Ayoub Kahfy, Frédéric Constant et al.
10. **[Automatic Detection of Metaphorical Expressions in Classical Japanese Using WLSP-Enhanced BERT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhu-2026-automatic-detection-metaphorical-expressions-classical/)**Hang Zhu, Mitoki Ohara, Rei Kikuchi et al.*our summary*
11. **[BEReshiT: an Ancient Hebrew Model based on DictaBERT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/stoupak-2026-bereshit-ancient-hebrew-model-based/)**Iglika Nikolova-Stoupak, Maxime Amblard, Frédérique Rey*our summary*
12. **[Beijing Normal University at EvaHan 2026: Enhancing Ancient Chinese Character Recognition and Layout Analysis via VLM Fine-Tuning and Linguistic Post-Processing](https://aclanthology.org/2026.lt4hala-1.26/)**Yihuan Yin, Qian Zhao
13. **[Building Character(s): Synthetic Data and In-Context Learning Strategies for Few-Shot Ancient Chinese Recognition](https://aclanthology.org/2026.lt4hala-1.35/)**Denise Atzori, Marie Bizais-Lillig, Mathias Garnier et al.
14. **[Building a Corpus and Database for Rare and Undeciphered Scripts](https://aclanthology.org/2026.lt4hala-1.17/)**Beata Megyesi, Rune Rattenborg, Benedek Láng et al.
15. **[Capturing Ancient Chinese Sense Induction with Automatic Pipelines](https://aclanthology.org/2026.lt4hala-1.15/)**Guan-Yu Tseng, Chunki Lim, Chih-Han Lin et al.
16. **[Classificatio Sine Iactu – That Is, Zero-Shot NERC in Latin](https://aclanthology.org/2026.lt4hala-1.46/)**Luisa Ripoll-Alberola, Fernando Nicolás-Flores, Francisco Javier Muñoz Acebes
17. **[Contemporizing 20-th Century Estonian](https://aclanthology.org/2026.lt4hala-1.41/)**Heiki-Jaan Kaalep
18. **[Contextual Probing for Low-Resource Named Entity Recognition in Latin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/trusca-2026-contextual-probing-low-resource-named/)**Maria Mihaela Trusca, Mark Depauw, Violet Soen et al.*our summary*
19. **[Cost-Aware Pre-Annotation Strategies for Nested NER in Historical Latin Notarial Deeds](https://aclanthology.org/2026.lt4hala-1.42/)**Charlene Ellul, Vanessa Buhagiar, Claudia Borg et al.
20. **[Data-Centric Strategies for Ancient Chinese Text Recognition: Augmentation, Annotation Refinement, and Style Transfer in EvaHan 2026](https://aclanthology.org/2026.lt4hala-1.31/)**Li Chengfei, Zhang Yunjie, Li XiaoYi et al.
21. **[Domain-Aware Error Correction for Citation NER in Medieval Hebrew Responsa](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liebeskind-2026-domain-aware-error-correction-citation/)**Shmuel LIebeskind, Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet, Binyamin Katzoff et al.*our summary*
22. **[EvaHan 2026 Ancient Books Multimodal OCR and Layout Analysis System Technical Report](https://aclanthology.org/2026.lt4hala-1.28/)**Chenrui Zheng
23. **[Evaluating Hierarchical Aggregation and LLM-Based Matching for Synset Selection in Ancient Greek](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/villa-2026-evaluating-hierarchical-aggregation-llm-based/)**Luca Brigada Villa, Marco Passarotti, Chiara Zanchi et al.*our summary*
24. **[Extending omnes flores for the EvaLatin 2026 Dependency Parsing Tasks](https://aclanthology.org/2026.lt4hala-1.47/)**Hiroshi Matsuda, Masayuki Asahara
25. **[Extracting Volcanological Knowledge from Historical Texts: A Language-Technology Pipeline for Diachronic Geovisualization](https://aclanthology.org/2026.lt4hala-1.4/)**Costanza Marini, Gianluca Casagrande, Alessio Palmero Aprosio et al.

[See all 50 papers in Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages @ LREC 2026 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lt4hala/2026/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (10)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. **[THIVLVC: Retrieval Augmented Dependency Parsing for Latin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pommeret-2026-thivlvc-retrieval-augmented-dependency-parsing/) [Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages @ LREC](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lt4hala/)**Luc Pommeret, Thibault Wagret, Jules Deret*2026 · 1 citation*
2. **[UppsalaNLP at EvaLatin 2026: Multilingual parsing for Latin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/stymne-2026-uppsalanlp-evalatin-2026-multilingual-parsing/) [Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages @ LREC](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lt4hala/)**Sara Stymne*2026 · 1 citation*
3. **[Contextual Probing for Low-Resource Named Entity Recognition in Latin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/trusca-2026-contextual-probing-low-resource-named/) [Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages @ LREC](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lt4hala/)**Maria Mihaela Trusca, Mark Depauw, Violet Soen, et al.*2026 · 1 citation*
4. **[Language Models for the Restoration of Latin Legal Manuscripts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-language-models-restoration-latin-legal/) [Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages @ LREC](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lt4hala/)**Shibingfeng Zhang, Edoardo Caraffa, Annafelicia Zuffrano, et al.*2026 · 1 citation*
5. **[Automatic Detection of Metaphorical Expressions in Classical Japanese Using WLSP-Enhanced BERT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhu-2026-automatic-detection-metaphorical-expressions-classical/) [Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages @ LREC](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lt4hala/)**Hang Zhu, Mitoki Ohara, Rei Kikuchi, et al.*2026 · 1 citation*
6. [**A Layered Annotation Workflow for Semitic Epigraphy**Tal Bernstein, Shai Gordin, Letizia Cerqueglini*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bernstein-2026-layered-annotation-workflow-semitic-epigraphy/)
7. [**Domain-Aware Error Correction for Citation NER in Medieval Hebrew Responsa**Shmuel LIebeskind, Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet, Binyamin Katzoff, et al.*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liebeskind-2026-domain-aware-error-correction-citation/)
8. [**BEReshiT: an Ancient Hebrew Model based on DictaBERT**Iglika Nikolova-Stoupak, Maxime Amblard, Frédérique Rey*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/stoupak-2026-bereshit-ancient-hebrew-model-based/)
9. **[From Lemmatization to Legal Terminology: Assessing an Hybrid Pipeline on Justinian's Digest](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/marongiu-2026-lemmatization-legal-terminology-assessing-hybrid/) [Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages @ LREC](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lt4hala/)**Paola Marongiu, Eva Sassolini*2026*
10. **[Evaluating Hierarchical Aggregation and LLM-Based Matching for Synset Selection in Ancient Greek](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/villa-2026-evaluating-hierarchical-aggregation-llm-based/) [Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages @ LREC](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lt4hala/)**Luca Brigada Villa, Marco Passarotti, Chiara Zanchi, et al.*2026*

## Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

[Latin (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/latin/) · [Hebrew & Aramaic (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/hebrew-aramaic/) · [Semitic languages (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Biblical Hebrew (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/biblical-hebrew/) · [Named entity recognition (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) · [Legal AI (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/legal-ai/) · [Dependency parsing (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dependency-parsing/) · [Universal Dependencies (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/universal-dependencies/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Low-resource languages (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) · [Morphology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Ancient Greek (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/ancient-greek/) · [Interpretability (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/) · [Idioms & multiword expressions (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multiword-expressions/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (10)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (9)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Psychology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/)

## Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

[🧑‍🔬**Giovanni Colavizza**1 work here · 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/giovanni-colavizza/) · [🧑‍🔬**Masayuki Asahara**1 work here · 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/masayuki-asahara/) · [🧑‍🔬**Sara Stymne**1 work here · 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sara-stymne/) · [🧑‍🔬**Tim Van De Cruys**1 work here · 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tim-van-de-cruys/) · [🧑‍🔬**Frédérique Rey**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/frederique-rey/) · [🧑‍🔬**Iglika Nikolova-Stoupak**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/iglika-nikolova-stoupak/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jonathan Schler**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jonathan-schler/) · [🧑‍🔬**Luca Brigada Villa**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/luca-brigada-villa/) · [🧑‍🔬**Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maayan-zhitomirsky-geffet/) · [🧑‍🔬**Marco Passarotti**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marco-passarotti/) · [🧑‍🔬**Maxime Amblard**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maxime-amblard/) · [🧑‍🔬**Paola Marongiu**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/paola-marongiu/)

## Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

[🔬**Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique** Paris · France 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique/) · [🎓**Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore** Milan · Italy 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universita-cattolica-del-sacro-cuore/) · [🎓**École Normale Supérieure de Lyon** Lyon · France 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ecole-normale-superieure-de-lyon/) · [🎓**Uppsala University** Uppsala · Sweden 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/uppsala-university/) · [🎓**University of Copenhagen** Copenhagen · Denmark 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-copenhagen/) · [🔬**Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique** Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt · France 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/institut-national-de-recherche-en-sciences-et-technologies-du-numerique/) · [🎓**Bar-Ilan University** Ramat Gan · Israel 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/bar-ilan-university/) · [🎓**Holon Institute of Technology** Holon · Israel 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/holon-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**Tel Aviv University** Tel Aviv · Israel 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tel-aviv-university/) · [🎓**Hokkaido University** Sapporo · Japan 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hokkaido-university/) · [🎓**University of Pavia** Pavia · Italy 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pavia/) · [🎓**Université Paris-Saclay** Gif-sur-Yvette · France 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-paris-saclay/)

Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library.

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