*First Call for Main Conference Papers*

EACL 2027: 20th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics March 9-14, 2027, Athens, Greece Special Theme: The Human in Language ARR submission deadline: Aug 3, 2026 EACL commitment deadline: Oct 11, 2026 Details: https://2027.eacl.org/calls/papers/

*Overview*

EACL 2027 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research on Natural Language Processing. EACL 2027 has a goal of curating a diverse technical program. In addition to traditional research results, papers may contribute negative findings, survey an area, announce the creation of a new resource, argue a position, report novel linguistic insights derived using existing computational techniques, and reproduce (or fail to reproduce) previous results. We also introduce the Special Theme "The Human in Language", which we hope will stimulate exciting research contributions.

As in recent years, some of the presentations at the conference will be of papers accepted by the Transactions of the ACL (TACL) and the Computational Linguistics (CL) journals.

*Submission information*

EACL 2027 will use ACL Rolling Review (ARR) as its reviewing system, but final decisions will be made by the conference. Both the submission of articles for review and the commitment of reviewed articles to the conference will be handled via the OpenReview platform, in a two-step process:

* Authors submit articles to ARR, where submissions receive reviews and meta-reviews from ARR reviewers and action editors. * Authors commit their reviewed articles to a publication venue (e.g. EACL 2027), where Senior Area Chairs and Program Chairs make acceptance decisions from the ARR reviews and meta-reviews.

Papers must be submitted, at the latest, by the ARR 2026 August cycle. Papers that have received reviews and a meta-review from ARR (whether from the ARR 2026 August cycle or an earlier ARR cycle) may be committed to EACL via the commitment link. Dual submissions are not allowed; please check the ARR Call for Papers for details.

The reviewing process will continue to be double-blind. Reviewers will not see authors, nor will authors see reviewers, and reviews on ARR will not be made publicly visible. However, authors will be given the option through ARR to make their anonymized submitted articles publicly visible. Following the ACL and ARR policies, there is no anonymity period requirement.

During the commitment phase, it is not allowed to modify the author list (addition/deletion of authors is not allowed); however, modification of author order is possible.

The authors should contact ARR with any questions about the review process at editors [at] aclrollingreview.org. For questions about commitment and post-review topics, contact eacl2027-pcs [at] googlegroups.com.

*Important Dates*

* *ARR submission deadline (long & short papers)*: 3 August 2026 * *Reviewer registration deadline for ALL authors*: 5 August 2026 * *Author response period*: 14 - 19 September 2026 * *Reviewer engagement & author-reviewer discussion*: 20 - 24 September 2026 * *Meta-reviews released*: 8 October 2026 * *EACL 2027 commitment deadline*: 11 October 2026 * *Notification of acceptance (long & short papers)*: 12 November 2026 * *Camera-ready papers due (long & short)*: 26 November 2026 * *Main Conference (Workshops/Tutorials dates TBD)*: 9 - 14 March 2027 All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth").

*Important change*: For this cycle, author response and author-reviewer discussion are two separate stages. In the first (14-19 September 2026), authors take the time to respond to the reviewers; reviewers will not be engaged at this stage. In the second (20-24 September 2026), reviewers and authors engage in any necessary discussion and reviewers finalise their reviews. Further details will be provided in due time.

Mandatory Reviewing Workload

All authors are expected to sign up to review, or serve as an Area Chair or Senior Area Chair, with assignments subsequently based on qualifications. After submission, all authors must complete the author registration form by 5 August 2026 EoD AoE. If you receive assignments, reviews must be completed by 7 September, and meta-reviews by 2 October. In case of emergencies, the chairs should be warned via the emergency declaration form. Exemptions to this policy are detailed in the ARR Author Reviewer Exemption Policy page.

Highly irresponsible reviewers may be ineligible to (re-)submit or commit their work during the next ARR cycle. Submitting authors should (a) make sure all other authors are aware of this policy, and (b) check that everybody on their team(s) submits their (meta-)reviews on time and in accordance with the guidelines. Additional details on the definition of highly irresponsible reviewers and the corresponding ARR policy are available at https://aclrollingreview.org/incentives2025

*AI Reviewing Experiment (opt-in)*

The Program Committee plans to run an opt-in AI Reviewing Experiment to collect feedback from authors on the utility of AI Reviewers in the review process. The AI reviews for opted-in submissions will not inform any part of the conference decision process. The experiment will run under IRB approval, using open-weights models on in-house compute resources, or closed models that guarantee zero-data retention.

*Paper Submission Details*

Both long and short paper submissions should follow all ARR submission requirements, including instructions for two-way anonymized review; authorship; citation and comparison; the multiple submission, resubmission and withdrawal policies; ACL's Publication Ethics Policy and ARR's Ethics Policy (including the responsible NLP research checklist); ACL's Disclosure Policy; a dedicated Limitations section; writing assistance rules; paper templates; and optional supplementary materials. Please see the ARR CfP for full details (https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp).

*Contact Information*

General Chair:

* Isabelle Augenstein, University of Copenhagen

Program Chairs:

* Malvina Nissim, University of Groningen

* Roi Reichart, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

* Sara Tonelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler

For questions related to paper submission and the review process in general, email: editors [at] aclrollingreview.org

For questions about commitment and post-review related topics, email: eacl2027-pcs [at] googlegroups.com

Read more: https://2027.eacl.org/calls/papers/