CoNLL 2026: 1st Call for Papers San Diego, California, United States, July 3-4, 2026 (co-located with ACL) https://www.conll.org/
SIGNLL invites submissions to the 30th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2026). The focus of CoNLL is on theoretically, cognitively and scientifically motivated approaches to computational linguistics. We welcome work targeting any aspect of language and its computational modeling, including: Computational Psycholinguistics, Cognition and Linguistics Computational Usage-Based Grammars (e.g., Construction Grammars) Computational Social Science and Sociolinguistics Interaction and Dialogue Language Acquisition, Learning, Emergence, and Evolution Multimodality and Grounding Typology and Multilinguality Speech and Phonology Syntax and Morphology Lexical, Compositional and Discourse Semantics Theoretical Analysis and Interpretation of ML Models for NLP Resources and Tools for Scientifically Motivated Research We do not restrict the topic of submissions to fall into this list. However, the submissions’ relevance to the conference’s focus on theoretically, cognitively and scientifically motivated approaches will play an important role in the review process.
Submissions
CoNLL will accept only direct submissions this year. Submission will be via OpenReview. We accept two types of submission: archival, and non-archival.
Non-archival submissions are not anonymous. We will accept submissions that fit into CoNLL’s scope (see above for a description) and have been published in 2024, 2025, and 2026 in relevant conferences (*ACL, COLING, NeurIPS, ICLR, CogSci, …) and journals (TACL, Computational Linguistics, other journals in the areas of interest for CoNLL).
Archival submissions must be anonymous and use the same template as the ACL 2026. Submitted papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content plus unlimited space for references. Authors of accepted papers will have an additional page to address reviewers’ comments in the camera-ready version (9 pages of content in total, excluding references). Optional anonymized supplementary materials and a PDF appendix are allowed. Please refer to the ACL website for more details on the submission format. Note that, unlike ACL, we do not mandate that papers have a discussion section of the limitations of the work. However, we strongly encourage authors to have such a section in the appendix.
Timeline
(All deadlines are 11:59pm UTC-12h, AoE) Submission deadline (archival and non-archival): February 19 2026 Notification of acceptance: April 21 2026 Camera-ready papers due: May 12 2026 Conference: July 3-4, 2026
Further information
Further information will be announced in the 2nd Call for Papers.
CoNLL 2026 Co-Chairs
Claire Bonial, DEVCOM U.S. Army Research Laboratory Yevgeni Berzak, Technion
Contact
Questions? E-mail conll.chairs@gmail.com