Second 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*

The 20th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2027) invites the submission of long and short papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research on Natural Language Processing. EACL 2027 will take place in Athens, Greece, from March 9 to 14, 2027.

*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.

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

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.

*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/