VarDial 2026: Call for Papers – NLP for Similar Languages
VarDial 2026 invites submissions on NLP for similar languages and dialects. 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. 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 are due by December 19, 2025, for direct submissions and January 2, 2026, for pre-reviewed submissions. For more information, visit https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2026/.
The workshop will also feature a shared task on language modeling for dialectal Arabic (DA). More details can be found at https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2026/shared-tasks.
Tags: VarDial 2026, NLP, Similar Languages, Dialects, EACL 2026, Computational Linguistics, Language Resources