VarDial 2026: Call for Papers – NLP for Similar Languages
VarDial 2026 invites papers on NLP for similar languages and dialects. Submission deadline is December 19, 2025. The workshop is co-located with EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco.
The 2nd Call for Papers has been announced for VarDial 2026, the Thirteenth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects, co-located 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 are due by December 19, 2025, with a double-blind review process. More information is available on the workshop website.
A shared task on language modeling for dialectal Arabic (AMIYA) is also announced, with a training data release on November 30, 2025. For more details, visit the shared task page.
Tags: VarDial 2026, NLP, Similar Languages, Dialects, EACL 2026, Computational Linguistics, Language Resources