SIGHAN-DCLP 2027: Diversifying Chinese Language Processing Call for Papers

Co-located with ACL 2027, Kyoto, Japan Workshop: 18 or 19 August 2027; the assigned day will be confirmed Paper submission deadline: 17 April 2027 (Anywhere on Earth, UTC-12) Full CFP: https://sighan-dclp.github.io/dclp/cfp.html [1]

SIGHAN-DCLP 2027 invites original research that broadens Chinese language processing across linguistic varieties, specialized domains, historical periods, and geographic communities.

Topics include: - Linguistic diversity: Chinese dialects and varieties; Chinese and minority languages; historical Chinese; low-resource varieties; Chinese Sign Language, Braille, and other modalities. - Domain diversity: medicine, law, finance, education, manufacturing, cultural heritage, and other specialized domains; domain adaptation; datasets and benchmarks. - Temporal diversity: diachronic corpora; lexical, syntactic, and semantic change; alignment and translation across historical stages; semantic change detection. - Geographic diversity: regional Chinese varieties and corpora; regional language use; fairness, robustness, and generalization across communities.

The workshop will also host a shared task on Chinese Document-level Meaning Representation Parsing using Chinese UMR and document-level Chinese AMR datasets. Technical guidelines and data-access instructions will be released separately. Shared-task details: https://sighan-dclp.github.io/dclp/shared-task.html [2]

Submissions: - Long papers: up to 8 pages of main content. - Short papers: up to 4 pages of main content. - Shared-task system papers: up to 4 pages of main content, for participating teams. All paper types allow unlimited reference pages. Submissions must follow the ACL 2027 formatting guidelines, be anonymized for double-blind review, and report original, unpublished work that is not under review elsewhere. Presentation formats will be announced with acceptance decisions.

Direct submissions will be handled through OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2027/Workshop/SIGHAN [3] Submission opening and instructions will be announced on the workshop website.

Tentative dates: - Paper submissions: 17 April 2027 - Acceptance notifications: 16 May 2027 - Camera-ready papers: 6 June 2027 - Workshop: 18 or 19 August 2027 (assigned day to be confirmed) - Shared task: January-April 2027; details to be announced All submission deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (UTC-12).

Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings in the ACL Anthology.

Website: https://sighan-dclp.github.io/dclp/ [4] Contact: sighandclp@gmail.com

SIGHAN-DCLP 2027 Organizing Committee

Links: ------ [1] https://sighan-dclp.github.io/dclp/cfp.html [2] https://sighan-dclp.github.io/dclp/shared-task.html [3] https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2027/Workshop/SIGHAN [4] https://sighan-dclp.github.io/dclp/