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Joint CODI CRAC 2026 Workshop: call for fast-track papers
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July 2026 - ACL 2026 - San Diego, USA
Deadline for CODI CRAC fast-track papers: May 1st 2026
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CODI-CRAC is officially endorsed by SIGDial, the ACL Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. More information about the workshop : https://sites.google.com/view/codi-crac2026/home https://sites.google.com/view/codi-crac2026/ �
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CODI-CRAC 2026 invites you to submit your accepted or rejected conference submission as a fast track paper in either the archival or non-archival track:
* We invite presentations of papers accepted at another main conference, workshop or journal. They will be included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings (non-archival). � * We also invite submissions of papers rejected at another main conference, workshop or journal. The reviews should be submitted along with the paper. If accepted, the papers will be presented during the workshop and included in the proceedings (archival). �
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Submission website
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All submissions must be anonymous and follow the ACL 2026 formatting instructions described here: https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp.
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Please indicate the type “non archival” if your paper has been accepted at another conference.
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Use the following link: https://softconf.com/acl2026/codi-crac2026/ https://softconf.com/acl2026/codi-crac2026/ �
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Topics of interest
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We welcome papers on symbolic and probabilistic approaches, corpus development and analysis, as well as machine and deep learning approaches to discourse. We appreciate theoretical contributions as well as practical applications, including demos of systems and tools. The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for the community of NLP researchers working on all aspects of discourse.
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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- discourse structure
- discourse connectives
- discourse relations
- long-form question answering
- annotation tools and schemes for discourse phenomena
- corpora annotated with discourse phenomena
- discourse parsing
- cross-lingual discourse processing
- cross-domain discourse processing
- anaphora and coreference resolution
- event coreference
- argument mining
- coherence modeling
- discourse and semantics
- discourse in applications such as machine translation, summarization, etc.
- evaluation methodology for discourse processing
- discourse pretraining tasks
- long-text modeling and generation
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Schedule
Important dates for the workshop are listed below:
* Pre-reviewed fast-track (with reviews, can be accepted or rejected): May 1st � * Notification of acceptance: May 8, 2026 * Student D&I Grant application: May 19, 2026 * Camera-ready paper due: May 19, 2026 * Pre-recorded video due: June 4, 2026 * Workshop dates: July 3 or 4, 2026
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All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth").
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Organizers
- Chloé Braud, CNRS-IRIT
- Christian Hardmeier, IT University of Copenhagen
- Chuyuan Li, � University of British Columbia
- Jessy Li, University of Texas, Austin
- Sharid Loáiciga, University of Gothenburg
- Vincent Ng, University of Texas at Dallas
- Michal Novák, Charles University, Prague
- Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences
- Massimo Poesio, Queen Mary University of London and University of Utrecht
- Michael Strube, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies
- Amir Zeldes, Georgetown University, Washington DC
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To contact the organizers, please send an email to: mailto:codi-crac-workshop@googlegroups.com codi-crac-workshop@googlegroups.com �
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