<div dir="ltr"><p>Dear colleagues,</p><p>We are pleased to announce that the submission deadline for IWCLUL 2026, the 11th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages, has been extended to <strong>18 October 2026</strong>.</p><p>We welcome submissions on computational approaches to Uralic languages. The workshop will take place on 9–11 December 2026 at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany, and the proceedings will be published in the ACL Anthology.</p><p>For submission guidelines and further information, please visit:<br><a href="https://acl-sigur.github.io/iwclul2026.html">https://acl-sigur.github.io/iwclul2026.html</a></p><p>We look forward to receiving your submissions!</p><p>Best regards,<br>Ilya Egorov</p></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Sep 26, 2026 at 2:21 PM Ilia Egorov <<a href="mailto:i.m.jegorow@gmail.com">i.m.jegorow@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear colleagues,<br><br>We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for IWCLUL 2026, the 11th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages.<br><br>The workshop will be held as a self-standing event on December 9-11, 2026, at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Germany). Proceedings will be published in the ACL Anthology.<br><br>IWCLUL brings together researchers working on computational approaches to Uralic languages (Samoyedic, Ugric, Permic, Balto-Finnic, the Sami languages, Mordvin, and Mari). Topics of interest include, among others:<br><br>- Multilingual NLP approaches involving at least one Uralic language<br>- LLMs for endangered Uralic languages<br>- Parsers, analysers, and processing pipelines<br>- Lexical databases and electronic dictionaries<br>- End-user applications (spelling/grammar checkers, MT, speech processing)<br>- Evaluation methods, gold standards, tagged corpora, treebanks<br>- Language-independent or unsupervised methods<br>- Surveys and reviews on computational linguistics for Uralic languages<br>- Community engagement, revitalization campaigns, games with a purpose<br><br>Submission details:<br>- Short papers: up to 4 pages (+ unlimited references)<br>- Long papers: up to 8 pages (+ unlimited references)<br>- Submissions must follow the ACL stylesheet and be anonymized for double-blind review<br>- Submit via OpenReview<br>- No registration or publication fees<br>- Lightning talks: 750-word abstracts, for work in progress or ideas, published in separate lightning proceedings<br><br>Important dates (all times AoE):<br>- Paper submission (full and short): October 11, 2026<br>- Notification of acceptance: November 2, 2026<br>- Camera-ready deadline: November 15, 2026<br>- Workshop: December 9-11, 2026<br><br>Remote presentation is possible for those with valid reasons (visa or health issues, etc.).<br><br>More information and submission links: <a href="https://acl-sigur.github.io/iwclul2026.html" target="_blank">https://acl-sigur.github.io/iwclul2026.html</a><br><br>For questions, contact Jack Rueter (<a href="mailto:jack.rueter@helsinki.fi" target="_blank">jack.rueter@helsinki.fi</a>).<br><br>We look forward to your submissions!<br><br>Best regards,<div><div>On behalf of the organising committee,<br>Ilya Egorov</div></div></div>
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