[Event at CIG] CFP: The Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage and Indigenous Futures (AI4CHIEF) - Springer - Paris

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The Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage and
Indigenous Futures (AI4CHIEF)
April 16-17, 2026, Paris, France

https://ai4chief.roc.cnam.fr/


Objective:
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Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence have opened unprecedented
opportunities for cultural heritage research, enabling scholars,
scientists, and communities to study the past, document the present, and
envision the future of human societies. Within this broader context,
Indigenous cultures worldwide face urgent and intersecting challenges to
the continuity of their heritage and the realization of self-determined
futures.
>From large-scale digitization of manuscripts and artifacts to the
computational analysis of language and oral traditions, AI tools are
transforming how we preserve and interpret cultural data. However, access
to these powerful AI tools and technologies remain a significant challenge
for indigenous communities, who are often marginalized.

AI4CHIEF aims to advance rigorous and reproducible methods, open standards,
and community-aligned protocols for documenting, analyzing, and preserving
languages, and cultural practices.

Topics:
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Scholars are invited to submit original work to one of the thematic tracks
listed below:
• AI for Cultural Heritage
• AI for Language Preservation
• AI for Language Revitalization
• AI for Ethical Frameworks and Data Governance
• AI for Community Empowerment and Sovereignty
• AI for Environmental and Climate Challenges of indigenous communities

The symposium encourages interdisciplinary work that bridges artificial
intelligence with the humanities, social sciences, and Indigenous studies.

Doctoral Session:
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Ph.D students are invited to submit a work-in-progress poster or a two-page
abstract for the dedicated doctoral session.


Guidelines:
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Papers must be prepared using Springer’s LNCS format and submitted in PDF.
Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their
proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of
their papers.

Submission:
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Submission deadline: January 30, 2026.
Submissions are to be made via the official submission system:
https://edas.info/N34456

The symposium proceedings will be published in Springer Lecture Notes in
Networks and Systems (LNCS).
This series is indexed by SCOPUS, EI Compendex, INSPEC, WTI Frankfurt eG,
zbMATH, and SCImago.


Special Issues:
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Selected presented papers will be invited for submission to the Digital
Transformation and Society journal (Citation metric: 4.9 CiteScore) (
https://www.emerald.com/dts)

Paper submission deadline:   January 30, 2026 (11:59 p.m. American Samoa
time)
Notification to authors  :          Feb. 28, 2026
uthors registration deadline:   March 10, 2026
Camera-ready deadline  :       March 15, 2026


General Chairs:
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 Youakim Badr, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
 Samia Saad-Bouzefrane, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France

Track Chairs:
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* AI for Cultural Heritage
  Mark Altaweel, University College London, UK

* AI for Language Preservation
  Luis Chiruzzo,  Universidad de la República, Uruguay

* AI for Language Revitalization
  Moussa Diallo, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal

* AI for Ethical Frameworks and Data Governance
  Roman Altshuler, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

* AI for Community Empowerment and Sovereignty
  Kahente Horn-Miller, Carleton University, Canada

* AI for Environmental and Climate Challenges of Indigenous Communities
  Alexandra Okada, The Open University / UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab, UK

* Doctoral Session: AI for Cultural Heritage and Indigenous Futures
  Tanya Te Miringa Te Rorarangi Ruka, Victoria University of Wellington,
New Zealand
  Wallace Peaslee, University of Cambridge, UK

Contact:  ai4chief at acm.org