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*Third Call for Papers*

*CHiPSAL 2026: Second Workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages* Extended submission date: *28 February 2026.* *Submit here: *https://softconf.com/lrec2026/CHiPSAL2026/

We are pleased to announce the Second Workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL 2026), to be held in hybrid mode on 16 May 2026, co-located with LREC 2026.

CHiPSAL 2026 invites substantial, original, and unpublished research on all areas of natural language processing, language resources, and evaluation—covering spoken, signed, and multimodal language—as well as system demonstrations. We welcome long and short papers addressing challenges, resources, tools, and innovations for South Asian languages. Topics include, but are not limited to:

- Encoding and Unicode issues - Orthographic complexities - Morphology and generation - Dialectal variation and standardisation - Code-mixing and multilingualism - Building linguistic resources - Speech recognition and synthesis - Technology for linguistic heritage preservation - Benchmarking models - Large language models for South Asian languages

*Important Dates (AoE)*

- Submission Deadline: 28 February 2026 - Notification of Acceptance: 20 March 2026 - Camera-ready Papers: 29 March 2026 - Workshop (Hybrid): 16 May 2026

*Submission Guidelines*

CHiPSAL 2026 accepts oral, poster, and poster+demo papers.

- Short papers: 4 pages - Long papers: 8 pages

(Excluding ethics/limitations, references, acknowledgements, and data/code availability statements)

*All submissions must:*

- Follow the LREC 2026 stylesheet: https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/ - Be fully anonymised for double-blind review - Include required ethics/limitations and data/code availability statements - Be self-contained (no appendices or supplementary files at submission) - Be relevant to South Asian language processing

Papers must report original, unpublished work. Concurrent submissions must be declared. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings.

CHiPSAL will also accept submissions that were not selected by ACL Rolling Review, the LREC main conference, and EACL 2026, provided they are accompanied by their reviews and are related to South Asian languages. Such submissions must be uploaded as a ZIP file in the submission system, including the review decision email and all reviews in a text file. Each submission will be reviewed again by the programme committee.

*More Information: https://sites.google.com/view/chipsal/ https://sites.google.com/view/chipsal/*

Do not miss the opportunity to submit your work, strengthen the South Asian NLP community, and support the development of language technology in one of the world’s most populous and linguistically diverse regions.

We look forward to your contributions.

Best regards, The CHiPSAL 2026 Organising Committee