VarDial 2026: 2nd Call for Papers – NLP for Similar Languages
VarDial 2026 invites papers on NLP for similar languages and dialects, co-located with EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco. Submission deadline: Dec 19, 2025.
The 13th Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial 2026) invites submissions on computational methods and language resources for closely related languages. The workshop will be held in conjunction with EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco.
Topics of interest include:
- Language resources and tools for similar languages and dialects
- Cross-lingual transfer and adaptation of models
- Automatic identification of lexical variation
- Machine translation between closely-related languages
- Corpus-driven studies in dialectology
Submissions should follow the ACL Rolling Review template and be submitted as a PDF. The review process is double-blind.
Important dates:
- Direct Submission deadline: December 19, 2025
- Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026
- Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026
A shared task on language modelling for dialectal Arabic (AMIYA) will be held, with more information available on the workshop website.
Tags: VarDial 2026, NLP, Similar Languages, Dialects, EACL 2026, Computational Linguistics, Language Resources