VarDial 2026: Call for Papers – NLP for Similar Languages
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VarDial 2026 is calling for papers on NLP for similar languages, varieties, and dialects. The workshop will be held with EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco.
The Thirteenth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial 2026) is 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 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. More details can be found on the workshop website.
Important dates:
- Direct Submission deadline: December 19, 2025
- Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026
- Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026
For more information, contact yves.scherrer@helsinki.fi or tommi.jauhiainen@helsinki.fi.
Tags: NLP, VarDial 2026, EACL 2026, Similar Languages, Dialects, NLP for Dialects, Computational Linguistics