HeaLing Workshop: Linguistic Analysis for Health at EACL 2026

Join the HeaLing Workshop at EACL 2026, exploring linguistic analysis in health contexts through a mix of qualitative and computational approaches.

The First International Workshop on Linguistic Analysis for Health (HeaLing’26) will be held in conjunction with EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco, on March 24-29, 2026. The workshop focuses on integrating qualitative and computational methods to examine the role of language in medicine.

Key topics include:

• Computational discourse analysis of health-related texts
• Metaphor and framing in illness narratives and public health messaging
• Narrative medicine and its effects
• Discourse studies of medical epistemologies
• Language, power, and inequality in health contexts

Submissions are open until December 19, 2025, for direct submissions and January 2, 2026, for pre-reviewed submissions via OpenReview.

Tags: HeaLing Workshop, Linguistic Analysis, Health Discourse, EACL 2026, NLP, Medical Humanities