Hello all, here is our Call for Papers: VarDial 2027 - Fourteenth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects

VarDial 2027: https://aclsigvar.org/vardial2027

VarDial 2027 will be colocated with EACL 2027 in Athens, Greece, and will take place in a hybrid format (in person & online). We anticipate a discussion on computational methods and language resources for closely related languages, language varieties, and dialects.

We welcome papers dealing with one or more of the following topics: - Language resources and tools for similar languages, varieties and dialects; - Evaluation of language resources and tools applied to non-dominant language varieties; - Cross-lingual transfer and adaptation of models to similar languages, varieties and dialects; - Automatic identification of lexical variation; - Automatic classification of language varieties; - Machine translation between closely-related languages, language varieties and dialects; - Corpus-driven studies in dialectology and language variation; - Computational approaches to mutual intelligibility between dialects and similar languages; - Text similarity and adaptation between language varieties; - Linguistic issues in the adaptation of language resources and tools (e.g., cognate detection, semantic discrepancies, lexical gaps, false friends); - Studies focusing on related creole languages and their lexifier languages; - Studies focusing on diachronic language variation (e.g. phylogenetic methods, historical dialects).

Instructions for Authors

Submissions should be formatted according to the ACL Rolling Review template and submitted as a PDF. The review process will be double-blind. More information is on the website (https://aclsigvar.org/vardial2027/cfp).

Important Dates

- Direct Submission deadline: December 15, 2026 - Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: date TBD - Notification of acceptance: January 20, 2027 - Camera-ready paper due: January 29, 2027 - Workshop at EACL (hybrid): March 9-14, 2027 (exact date TBD)

Organizers

Verena Blaschke – University of Groningen (The Netherlands) Yves Scherrer – University of Oslo (Norway) Niyati Bafna – Johns Hopkins University (USA) Tommi Jauhiainen – University of Helsinki (Finland) Nikola Ljubešić – Jožef Stefan Institute (Slovenia) Preslav Nakov – Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (UAE) Alan Ramponi – Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Italy) Jörg Tiedemann – University of Helsinki (Finland) Marcos Zampieri – George Mason University (USA)

Contact: v.blaschke@rug.nl or yves.scherrer@ifi.uio.no

Cheers, Tommi — Tommi Jauhiainen Academy Research Fellow Department of Digital Humanities University of Helsinki

https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/tommi-jauhiainen