VarDial 2026: Call for Papers – NLP for Similar Languages
VarDial 2026 invites submissions on NLP for similar languages, varieties, and dialects. The workshop will be held with EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco. Submission deadline is December 19, 2025.
The Thirteenth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial 2026) is now calling for papers. The workshop will be held in conjunction with EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco.
Topics of interest include:
- Language resources and tools for similar languages, varieties, 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.
For more information and to submit a paper, visit the VarDial 2026 website. Important dates include a direct submission deadline of December 19, 2025, and a pre-reviewed submission deadline of January 2, 2026.
Tags: VarDial 2026, NLP, Similar Languages, EACL 2026, Computational Linguistics, Language Resources, Dialectology