VarDial 2026: Call for Papers – NLP for Similar Languages
VarDial 2026 invites submissions for the 13th Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects, to be held with EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco.
The 13th Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial 2026) is accepting paper submissions. The event 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. The review process is double-blind. More details are available on the workshop website.
Important dates:
- Direct Submission deadline: December 19, 2025
- Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026
A shared task on language modeling for dialectal Arabic (AMIYA) is also announced. For more information, visit the shared task page.
Tags: VarDial 2026, NLP, Similar Languages, EACL 2026, Dialectology, Computational Linguistics, Language Resources