Joint Call for Tutorial Proposals (EACL/ACL) 2026
The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and the European
Chapter of the ACL (EACL) invite proposals for tutorials in conjunction
with the ACL 2026 and EACL 2026 conferences. We welcome submissions
covering all areas of computational linguistics (CL) and natural language
processing (NLP), broadly defined to include related disciplines.
We are soliciting proposals for two types of tutorials:
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Cutting-edge tutorials in CL/NLP: Covering recent advances in emerging
areas not previously addressed in tutorials at EACL, NAACL-HLT, ACL, or
EMNLP.
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Introductory tutorials in related fields: Offering overviews of
disciplines potentially relevant to the CL/NLP community, such as
linguistics, bioinformatics, machine learning, human-computer interaction,
or applications of large language models in non-English languages.
In both cases, the primary goal is to help CL/NLP researchers understand
key scientific challenges, their tractability, and their theoretical and
practical implications. Presentations of specific technologies or systems
are welcome when used to illustrate broader scientific insights.
Tutorials will be held at one of the following conference venues:
* EACL 2026 (The 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the
Association for Computational Linguistics), which will be held as a hybrid
conference, and physically held in Rabat, Morocco, from March 24-29, 2026.
* ACL 2026 (The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics), which will be held as a hybrid conference and physically held
in San Diego, California, from July 2-7, 2026.
Other calls will be made in the fall for tutorials colocated with
conferences later in the year (e.g., EMNLP and AACL). This call thus
exclusively centers EACL and ACL 2026.
*Important Dates*
EACL/ACL 2026 shared dates:
Proposal submission deadline
October 20, 2025
Notification of acceptance
December 08, 2025
Tutorial slides + abstract + bibliography + any other materials
one month prior to the date of the tutorial
All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”).
Fee Waivers
Up to 3 instructors per tutorial can have their registration fees waived
for the main conference and any subset of co-located tutorials and
workshops.
Diversity & Inclusion
To foster an inclusive culture in our field, we particularly encourage
submissions from members of underrepresented groups in CL/NLP, i.e.,
researchers from any demographic or geographic minority, researchers with
disabilities, among others. The overall diversity of the tutorial
organizers and potential audience will be taken into account to ensure that
the conference program is varied and balanced.
Tutorial proposals should describe and will be evaluated according to how
the tutorial contributes to topics promoting diversity (e.g., working on
minority languages or groups), participation diversity (e.g., coordinating
with social affinity groups, providing subsidies, making a promotional plan
for the tutorial), and representation diversity among tutorial presenters.
For more information or advice, organizers may consult resources such as
the BIG directory <http://www.winlp.org/big-directory/>, Black in AI
<https://blackinai.github.io/#/membership>, Disability in AI
<https://elesa.github.io/ability_in_AI/>, Indigenous AI
<https://www.indigenous-ai.net/>, LatinX in AI
<https://lxai.app/PUBLIC-DIRECTORY>, Masakhane <https://www.masakhane.io/>, 500
Queer Scientists <https://500queerscientists.com/>, and Women-in-ML’s
directory <https://www.wiml.org/directory>.
Submission Details
Proposals should use the ACL paper submission format. Authors can download
<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files> the LaTeX or Word template or
use the Overleaf template <https://www.overleaf.com/read/crtcwgxzjskr>.
Proposals should not exceed 4 pages of content (plus one page for tutor
biographies and unlimited pages for references), should be submitted as PDF
documents, and should contain the following:
1.
A title and authors, affiliations, and contact information.
2.
A brief description of the tutorial content and its relevance to the
CL/NLP community.
3.
Type of the tutorial: “cutting-edge in CL/NLP” vs ”introductory to
fields related to CL/NLP”.
4.
Briefly describe the target audience and any expected prerequisites for
the attendees, for example:
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Math: e.g., “Understand derivatives and integrals as found in
introductory calculus”
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Linguistics: e.g., “Be able to parse and generate text with
dependency grammars”
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Machine Learning: e.g., “Understand ‘classical’ supervised methods
such as SVM and perceptron”
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Neural Network: e.g., “Familiarity with transformers”
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Programming or other tools: e.g., “Knowledge of PyTorch and Unix
command line tools”
5.
An outline of the tutorial structure and content, and how it will be
covered in a three-hour slot. In exceptional cases, six-hour tutorial slots
are available. These time limits do not include coffee breaks, e.g., a
three-hour tutorial in fact occupies a 3.5-hour slot, and a six-hour
tutorial occupies a 7-hour slot.
6.
Explain how the tutorial includes other people’s work. We recommend that
the tutorial cover work by the presenters as well as by other researchers.
The submission should explain how this breadth is ensured. Tutorials should
not be “self-invited talks”.
7.
Diversity considerations, e.g., use of multilingual data, indications of
how the described methods scale up to various languages or domains,
participation of both senior and junior instructors, demographic and
geographical diversity of the instructors, plans for how to diversify
audience participation, etc.
8.
Reading list. Work that you expect the audience to read before the
tutorial can be indicated by an asterisk. Recommended papers should provide
breadth of authorship and include work by other authors, as well as work
from other disciplines is welcomed if relevant.
9.
For each tutorial presenter, a one-paragraph statement of their research
interests and areas of expertise for the tutorial topic, as well as
experience in instructing an international audience.
10.
An estimate of the audience size for the tutorial. If the same or a
similar tutorial (or workshops, talks, etc.) has been given before, include
information on where any previous version of the tutorial was given and how
many attendees the tutorial attracted.
11.
A description of special requirements for technical equipment.
12.
We intend to make tutorial presentation materials publicly available
(e.g., tutorial slides, captioned video recording, as well as software,
data, or other resources as applicable) in the ACL Anthology. If any of
your tutorial materials cannot be shared, please explain why this is the
case.
13.
An ethics statement that discusses the ethical considerations related to
the topics of the tutorial.
14.
A description of any limitations that would restrict the tutorial to a
specific venue (EACL or ACL). For example: if the tutorial is compatible
with only one of these events, logistically, thematically or otherwise, or
if the tutorial cannot be held at a venue for logistical reasons.
15.
OPTIONAL: We welcome proposals on the special conference themes. If your
tutorial proposal aligns with the special themes of EACL (theme TBA) or ACL
(theme TBA), then please explain why this is the case.
16.
OPTIONAL: We invite tutorial instructors to include pedagogical material
that the audience can bring into classrooms or similar spaces of
discussion, to bring attention to the tutorial topic (e.g., a hands-on
exercise, discussion questions, a demo, or an assignment). If you would
like to provide this, then please explain why this is the case.
Tutorial proposals should be submitted online using the softconf system at
the following link: https://softconf.com/p/acl-tutorials2026. Proposals
will be reviewed jointly by the Tutorial Co-Chairs of the conferences and,
optionally, by a group of external experts.
Evaluation Criteria
Each tutorial proposal will be evaluated according to its clarity and
preparedness, novelty or timely character of the topic, instructors’
experience, target audience, open access of the tutorial instructional
material, and diversity and inclusion.
Instructor Responsibilities
Tutorial decisions along with reviews will be released by Dec 08, 2025.
Accepted tutorial proposers must then provide abstracts for inclusion in
the conference registration material by the specific conference deadlines.
The description should be in two formats: (a) an ASCII version that can be
included in email announcements and published on the conference website,
and (b) a PDF version for inclusion in the electronic proceedings (detailed
instructions will be provided). Tutorial speakers must provide tutorial
materials (e.g., slides, a relevant list of papers) at least one month
prior to the start date of the hosting conference. The final submitted
tutorial materials must minimally include copies of the course slides and a
bibliography for the material covered in the tutorial. After the
conference, the presenters will be invited to update their slides in the
ACL Anthology (if needed).
Tutorial Chairs
*EACL
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Aline Paes, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil
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Rodrigo Wilkens, University of Exeter, UK
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Chenghua Lin, The University of Manchester, UKå
*ACL
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Kenton Murray, Johns Hopkins University, USA
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Jacob Andreas, MIT, USA
If you have any questions related to tutorial proposals, you can reach us
at eaclacl2026_tutorials(a)googlegroups.com
<eacl2026_tutorials(a)googlegroups.com>.
Call for Papers: Fourth Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility and Readability
📅 Deadline: 2 September 2025 (Anywhere on Earth)
📍 Co-located with EMNLP 2025 (https://2025.emnlp.org/) – Suzhou, China
We’re excited to announce that the Fourth Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability (TSAR 2025, https://tsar-workshop.github.io/) is now accepting submissions! TSAR brings together researchers, practitioners, and industry experts working to make information more inclusive and accessible.
💡 Topics of interest include (but aren't limited to):
* Lexical, syntactic, discourse, and document simplification
* Text complexity assessment & complex word identification
* Domain-specific applications (health, legal, etc.)
* Evaluation metrics at different granularity levels
* Large Language Models (LLMs) & multi-agent systems for accessibility
💬 Didn't get accepted to the EMNLP or INLG main conference?
* Consider submitting your work to TSAR 2025 — we welcome high-quality papers on our topics of interest, and the workshop offers a great opportunity for discussion, networking, and feedback from a focused research community.
📄 Submission Types:
* Long & Short Papers – Following official ACL style templates and formatting guidelines.
* Demo Papers – 6 pages including references, describing implemented systems related to workshop topics.
📅 Key Dates (AoE)
* (Extended) Submission deadline: 2 September 2025
* Notifications: 30 September 2025
* Camera-ready: 7 October 2025
* Workshop: 5–9 November 2025
🔗 Full Call for Papers: https://tsar-workshop.github.io/cfp/
Join us in shaping the future of accessible and simplified communication! 🌍✨
The Center for Mind-Brain Sciences (CIMeC) at the University of Trento,
Italy, invites expressions of interest for the forthcoming opening of a
Tenure Track Researcher (RTT) position in Computational Linguistics.
The ideal candidate should have an interest in the relation between CL and
cognitive models of language and cognition. The applicant will be expected
to teach in English and to collaborate with the local faculty in one of the
largest cognitive science departments in Italy.
See full job specification in
https://www.cimec.unitn.it/en/71/language-interaction-and-computation-labor…
The University of Trento is an equal opportunity institution. Applications
from female candidates are especially encouraged.
Informal inquiries regarding the position can be addressed to
cimec.clic-lab(a)unitn.it, Prof. Roberto Zamparelli (
roberto.zamparelli(a)unitn.it), or Prof. Jakub Szymanik (
jakub.szymanik(a)unitn.it).
Expressions of interest should be addressed via email to
cimec.clic-lab(a)unitn.it
*Deadline: *September 14, 2025
Roberto Zamparelli,
Associate Professor in Linguistics
CIMEC, University of Trento
https://www.cimec.unitn.it/
The CIS institute at LMU Munich has an opening for a tenure-track Akademische/r Rat/Rätin (roughly equivalent to lecturer or junior professor) in NLP / Computational Linguistics.
Details are available here: https://cis.lmu.de/web/arposition2026.html
Dear all,
We invite everyone interested to attend the 2nd UniDive Training School on Linguistic Diversity in NLP.
Dates: 20-24 January, 2026 (Tuesday-Saturday)
Location: Yerevan State University (YSU), Yerevan, Armenia
Coordinating Project: UniDive (Universality, Diversity and Idiosyncrasy in Language Technology)
Website: https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=meetings:other-events:2nd_unid…
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id%3…>Cost: Participants selected on the basis of their applications will be reimbursed, details below.
We are happy to announce the 2nd edition of UniDive Training School on Universality, Diversity and Idiosyncrasy in Language Technology. It is dedicated mainly (but not exclusively) to young researchers and investigators. Researchers working on low-resourced languages, dialects and varieties are particularly welcome. See below for the application details.
TRAINING SCHOOL ACTIVITIES
Courses
Linguistic Typology for NLP researchers: Methods and Resources in the 21st century <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/lib/exe/fetch…> - by Harald Hammarström (Uppsala University, Sweden) and Luigi Talamo (Saarland University, Germany)
Large Language Models for Low-Resourced Languages: Hands-On Approaches to Cultural and Genre Diversity in NLP <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/lib/exe/fetch…> - by Maria Carp (Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania) and Nina Hosseini-Kivanani (RTL Luxembourg and University of Luxembourg)
Diversity quantification in natural language processing: The why, what, where and how <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/lib/exe/fetch…> - byLouis Estève <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/membres/esteve-lo…> (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, France), Marie-Catherine de Marneffe (Université Catholique Louvain, Belgium), Nurit Melnik (The Open University, Israel), Agata Savary <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://perso.limsi.fr/savary/&source=gmail-im…>(Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, France) and Olha Kanishcheva (Heidelberg University, Germany, SET University, Ukraine)
Poster sessions
Brainstorming hackathon on open issues submitted by the trainees
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Each applicant should submit a project related to language diversity and the topics of the training school (e.g., research in fields such as linguistic variation, diversity, typology, and computational linguistics, including specific topics like diversity quantification across textual genres, corpora and languages). The length of the application should be 2 pages (excluding references). The application should contain:
The title
Applicant’s name and affiliation (including the country of the affiliation)
A list of 3-4 key-words
Description of the project related to the topics of the training school
Explanation how the participation in the training school will be useful for the project
Short statement of the project phase (planned, started, ongoing)
The projects are to be submitted via the OpenReview portal.
IMPORTANT DATES
Trainee's application deadline: 12 September, 2025 (AoE)
Acceptance notification: 17 October, 2025
Invitations for visas (if needed): 20 October, 2025
Official confirmations of travel grants: Early November
Training school: January 20-24, 2026
TRAINEE’S SELECTION CRITERIA
We can fund about 40 trainees to come to Yerevan (additionally to local trainees). In case of a larger number of candidates, the selection criteria will include:
Trainee’s country: trainees only from COST countries and Near-Neighbour Countries can be funded. See here and here
Age: Young Researchers and Investigators, i.e. under the age of 40, are promoted
Gender and geographical balance (notably between Inclusiveness Target Countries and others COST countries)
Relevance and quality of the project submitted by the trainee
Status of the languages, dialects, or varieties on which the trainee intends to work (low-resourced languages, dialects, or genres are promoted)
If you are not selected on the basis of these criteria and you can find other financial sources to cover your travel, accommodation and meals, you are also welcome to participate.
The authors of the selected projects will present them in a poster session during the Training School.
PROGRAM CHAIRS
Victoria Bobicev
Anna Danielyan
Santiago Herrera
Esther Ploeger
Wessel Poelman
Ranka Stanković
Abigail Walsh
For any question, please contact the organisers at adanielyan82(a)gmail.com <mailto:adanielyan82@gmail.com> and s.herrera(a)parisnanterre.fr <mailto:s.herrera@parisnanterre.fr>
Looking forward to seeing you in Yerevan,
Program Chairs
Dear all,
Over the last month, the server for OGA and OLA [1] has experienced occasional downtimes, including the current one, due to connectivity issues within the hosting department of Leipzig University. This is an infrastructure issue outside my control, and I am monitoring the situation closely. I will keep you updated if there are significant further developments. I apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Best regards,
Giuseppe Celano
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[1] https://annis.varro.informatik.uni-leipzig.de
We are pleased to invite participation in the First Workshop on
Optimal Reliance and Accountability in Interaction with Generative
Language Models (ORIGen) to be held in conjuction with the Conference
on Language Modeling (COLM) in Montreal, Canada, on October 10, 2025!
With the rapid integration of generative AI, exemplified by large
language models (LLMs), into personal, educational, business, and even
governmental workflows, such systems are increasingly being treated as
“collaborators” with humans. In such scenarios, underreliance or
avoidance of AI assistance may obviate the potential speed,
efficiency, or scalability advantages of a human-LLM team, but
simultaneously, there is a risk that subject matter non-experts may
overrely on LLMs and trust their outputs uncritically, with
consequences ranging from the inconvenient to the catastrophic.
Therefore, establishing optimal levels of reliance within an
interactive framework is a critical open challenge as language models
and related AI technology rapidly advances.
- What factors influence overreliance on LLMs?
- How can the consequences of overreliance be predicted and guarded against?
- What verifiable methods can be used to apportion accountability for
the outcomes of human-LLM interactions?
- What methods can be used to imbue such interactions with
appropriate levels of “friction” to ensure that humans think through
the decisions they make with LLMs in the loop?
ORIGen will examine questions of reliance, trust, confidence, and
accountability in interactions with modern generative systems from an
interdisciplinary perspective, and we seek engagement from the NLP,
AI, HCI, robotics, education, and cognitive science communities and
beyond. The workshop will feature paper presentations as well as 4
invited talks from leading AI, NLP, and HCI researchers, and a panel
discussion on the Future of Reliable and Accountable AI. More
information about the workshop can be found at:
https://origen-workshop.github.io
9:00-9:15 - Opening remarks
9:15-9:50 - Invited talk I: Andreas Vlachos is a Professor of Natural
Language Processing and Machine Learning at the Department of Computer
Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge and a Dinesh
Dhamija fellow of Fitzwilliam College. His expertise includes dialogue
modeling, automated fact-checking, imitation and active learning,
semantic parsing, and natural language generation and summarization.
9:50-11:00 - Accepted paper lightning talks: 4 minutes each + 1 minute
transition
11:00-11:15 - Coffee break
11:15-12:00 - Keynote talk: Malihe Alikhani is an Assistant Professor
at Northeastern University’s Khoury College of Engineering and
Visiting Fellow at The Center on Regulation and Markets at Brookings.
She works towards developing safe and fair AI systems that enhance
communication, decision-making, and knowledge-sharing across
disciplines and populations.
12:00-12:35 - Invited talk II: Bertram F. Malle is a Professor of
Cognitive and Psychological Sciences at Brown University. He received
the Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP) Outstanding
Dissertation award, an NSF CAREER award, the Decision Analysis Society
2018 best publication award, several HRI best-paper awards, and the
2019 SESP Scientific Impact Award. Malle’s research focuses on moral
psychology and human-machine interaction.
12:35-2:05 - Lunch
2:05-2:40 - Invited talk III: Q. Vera Liao is an Associate Professor
of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, and
previously a researcher at Microsoft Research and IBM research. Her
current interests are in human-AI interaction, responsible AI and AI
transparency, with a goal of bridging emerging AI technologies and
human-centered perspectives.
2:40-3:40 - Poster Session
3:40-4:00 - Coffee break
4:00-4:45 - Panel discussion: Future of Reliable and Accountable AI
Matthias Scheutz, Tufts University
Jesse Thomason, University of Southern California
Diyi Yang, Stanford University
Matthew Marge, DARPA
4:45-5:00 - Conclusion
The list of accepted papers can be found at
https://origen-workshop.github.io/programme/
Nikhil Krishnaswamy
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
*Colorado State University*
The Centre for Computational Linguistics (KU Leuven) is seeking a
research-oriented full-stack developer to contribute to cutting-edge
linguistic infrastructure by reimagining the next generation of GrETEL,
a treebank query system developed at KU Leuven. This position is part of
CLARIAH-VL+ [1], a strategic research infrastructure project funded by
the Flemish Research Foundation (FWO). It provides the opportunity to
work at the intersection of computational linguistics, language
technology, and digital humanities. More information and link to the
application here [2].
Links:
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[1] https://clariahvl.hypotheses.org/2582
[2] https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/60510459
--------Call for participation in a research survey on collecting data
in the era of LLMs-------------------------------
Dear Collegues,
We (researchers originally from University of Stuttgart, Kopenhagen and
Gent) are conducting a survey on the challenges of collecting data in
the era of large language models (LLMs). In particular, we are
interested in issues such as crowdworkers relying on LLMs to generate
free-text responses that are expected to be written by themselves.
Our goal is to better understand the contexts in which researchers
encounter these problems and to find possible solutions.
The survey is completely anonymous and should take about 5–10 minutes to
complete.
You can access it here:
https://ugent.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6KUJzBhQSgemzpY
We would be very grateful for your input—your perspective will help
support this research.
Thank you for your time and support!
Best regards
Aswathy Velutharambath, Amelie Wührl, Sofie Labat, Tarun Tater and Neele
Falk
First CFP: CHOMPS – Confabulation, Hallucinations, & Overgeneration in Multilingual & Precision-critical Settings
(with our apologies for cross-posting)
Venue: IJCNLP-AACL 2025 (https://2025.aaclnet.org/), Mumbai, India
Date: 23/24th December 2025 (TBC)
Workshop website: https://chomps2025.github.io/
* Description *
Despite rapid advances, LLMs continue to "make things up": a phenomenon that manifests as hallucination, confabulation, and overgeneration. That is, produce unsupported and unverifiable text that sounds deceptively plausible. These outputs pose real risks in settings where accuracy and accountability are non-negotiable, including healthcare, legal systems, and education. The aim of the CHOMPS workshop is to find ways to mitigate one of major the hurdles that currently prevent the adoption of Large Language Models in real-world scenarios: namely, their tendency to hallucinate, i.e., produce unsupported and unverifiable text that sounds deceptively plausible.
The workshop will explore hallucination mitigation in practical situations, where this mitigation is crucial: in particular, precision-critical applications (such as those in the medical, legal and biotech domains), as well as multilingual settings (given the lack of resources available to reproduce what can be done for English in other linguistic contexts). In practice, we intend to invite works of the following (not exclusive) list of topics:
* Workshop topics *
- Metrics, benchmarks and tools for hallucination detection
- Factuality challenges in mission critical & domain-specific (e.g., medical, legal, biotech) and their consequences
- Mitigation strategies during inference or model training
- Studies of hallucinatory and confabulatory behaviors of LLMS in cross-lingual and multilingual scenarios
- Confabulations in language & multimodal (vision, text, speech) models
- Perspectives and case studies from other disciplines
- …
* Invited speakers *
- Anna ROGERS, IT University of Copenhagen
- Danish PRUTHI, IISc Bangalore
- Abhilasha RAVICHANDER, University of Washington
* Submission details *
The workshop is designed with a widely inclusive submission policy so as to foster as vibrant a discussion as possible.
Archival or non-archival submissions may consist of up to 8 pages (long) or 4 pages (short) of content. Dissemination submissions may consist of up to 1 pages of content. On acceptance, authors may add one additional page to accommodate changes suggested by the reviewers.
Please use the ACL style templates available here: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files
The submissions need to be done in PDF format via (a) via Direct submission (https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2025/Workshop/CHOMPS) (b) via ARR commitment (https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2025/Workshop/CHOMPS…)
* Important dates *
Paper submission deadline: September 29, 2025
Direct ARR commitment: October 27, 2025
Author notification: November 3, 2025
Camera-Ready due: November 11, 2025
Workshop date: December 23-24, 2025 (TBC)
* Contact *
For questions, please send an email to chomps-aacl2025(a)googlegroups.com or contact one of the workshop chairs:
- Aman Sinha, Université de Lorraine, aman.sinha(a)univ-lorraine.fr
- Raúl Vázquez, University of Helsinki, raul.vazquez(a)helsinki.fi
- Timothee Mickus, University of Helsinki, timothee.mickus(a)helsinki.fi