<div dir="ltr"><div id="gmail-:fv" class="gmail-Am gmail-aiL gmail-Al editable gmail-LW-avf gmail-tS-tW gmail-tS-tY" aria-label="Message Body" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" tabindex="1" style="direction:ltr;min-height:224px" aria-controls=":ia" aria-expanded="false"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-774f58a1-7fff-0209-074f-1bdc1f7d7887"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:17pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(35,35,35);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Dear all,</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:17pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(35,35,35);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The deadline for submissions for FieldMatters workshop that will be co-located with EACL 2026, is extended until <b>January 8</b> (direct submission) and <b>January 10 </b>(ARR submission). </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:17pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(35,35,35);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Field linguistics plays a crucial role in the development of linguistic theory and universal language modeling, as it provides uncontested, the only way to obtain structural data about the rapidly diminishing diversity of natural languages. The Field matters workshop aims to bring together the urgent needs of field linguists and the vast community of NLP practitioners, developing up-to-date NLP tools for easier, faster, more reliable data collection and annotation. We encourage you to submit theses on this topic, although general submissions are also welcomed.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:17pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(35,35,35);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">We are particularly interested in the following topics:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(35,35,35);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Application of NLP to field linguistics workflow;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(35,35,35);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The impact, benefits and harms of NLP-assisted fieldwork;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(35,35,35);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Transfer learning for under-resourced language processing;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(35,35,35);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The use of fieldwork data to build NLP systems;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(35,35,35);backgr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nt-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:17pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">long archival submissions: 8-page papers that present new work.</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:17pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(35,35,35);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The special track submissions can be either long or short and either archival or non-archival.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:17pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(35,35,35);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">We offer the following ways of presenting the papers:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(35,35,35);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">the main section;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(35,35,35);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:17pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">poster sections.</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:17pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(35,35,35);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The way a paper will be presented will be determined during the review process.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:17pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(35,35,35);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">All submissions should be anonymized. We are subjected to the ACL Anonymity Policy. ACL changed its </span><a href="https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Policies_for_Review_and_Citation" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(195,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">policy for review and citation</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(35,35,35);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, and no anonymity period will be required. Dual submissions with the main conference are allowed, but authors must declare dual submission by entering the paper’s main conference submission id. The reviews for the submission for the main conference will be automatically forwarded to the workshop and taken into consideration when your paper is evaluated. Authors of dual-submission papers accepted to the main conference should retract them from the workshop by. Papers posted to preprint servers such as arxiv can be submitted without any restrictions on when they were posted.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:17pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(35,35,35);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The workshop will run its own review process, and papers can be submitted directly to the workshop via </span><a href="https://softconf.com/eacl2026/fieldmatters2026/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-color:transparent;font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cal-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 10, 2026</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Workshop dates: March 24-29, 2026</span></p></li></ul><h4 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:27pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(35,35,35);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Organizers</span></h4><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(35,35,35);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Oleg Serikov (KAUST, HSE University)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(35,35,35);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Tatiana Shavrina (Meta)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(35,35,35);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Elena Klyachko (HSE University)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(35,35,35);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Ekaterina Vylomova (University of Melbourne)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(35,35,35);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Éric Le Ferrand (University at Buffalo)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(35,35,35);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Ekaterina Voloshina (University of Gothenburg, Chalmers University of Technology)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(35,35,35);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:17pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Shu Okabe (</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Technische Universität München)</span></p></li></ul><div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size:14px">Best regards,</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size:14px">Katya Voloshina </span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size:14px">on the behalf of Organizing Committee </span></font></div></span></div></div>