**First Call for Papers** Gaze4NLP - The Second Workshop on Gaze Data and Natural Language Processing May 2026, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (co-located with LREC 2026)
The Second Workshop on Gaze Data and Natural Language Processing (Gaze4NLP), co-located with LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, invites papers of a theoretical or experimental nature describing research methodologies by employing interdisciplinary perspectives, including computer science and engineering perspectives and cognitive sciences, and identifying challenges to resolve in the intersection of the two domains: eye tracking and NLP. Gaze4NLP aims to bring together researchers conducting research on eyes on eyes on text and NLP; and establishing bridges between them for identifying future venues of research.
Workshop webpage: https://gaze4nlp.github.io/Gaze4NLP2026/
Important Dates Workshop paper submission deadline: 9 February 2026 Workshop paper acceptance notification: 16 March 2026 Workshop paper camera-ready versions: 30 March 2026 Workshop camera-ready proceedings ready: May 2026 Conference: 11-16 May 2026 All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (anywhere on Earth)
Topics for the workshop will include, but are not limited to: - Investigating the pillars for bridging the gap between the research on eyes on text and NLP. Study how to expand research methodologies by employing interdisciplinary perspectives, including computer science and engineering perspectives and cognitive sciences, and identify challenges, issues to resolve. - Exploring new areas so that both fields benefit from each other better than the past, identifying novel domains of exploration for further research. - Discussing how to develop cognitively inspired models that align human reading data with LLMs.
Submissions
We solicit regular workshop papers, which will be included in the proceedings as archival publications. All categories of papers may be long (maximum 8 pages of content + up to one page for limitations (required) + unlimited references) or short (maximum 4 pages of content + up to one page for limitations (required) + unlimited references). Accepted papers will be presented in the form of either oral or poster presentations.
Please note that camera-ready papers are allowed an additional page. The workshop proceedings will be part of the ACL anthology. Accepted papers will also be given an opportunity with an extended version to be published as part of an edited book.
Submissions will be handled via the START Conference Manager. The submission link will be provided on the workshop website as soon as it becomes available.
All submissions should follow the LREC style guidelines. We strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX style files, OpenDocument, or Microsoft Word templates created for LREC: https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/. All papers must be anonymous, i.e., not reveal author(s) on the title page or through self-references. So, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 2020)”, should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith (2020) previously showed”.
LRE-Map and Sharing Language Resources
When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones).
Organization Committee:
Cengiz Acarturk, Jagiellonian University, Poland Jamal Nasir, University of Galway, Ireland Burcu Can, University of Stirling, Scotland, UK Cagri Coltekin, University of Tubingen, Germany