36.3119, Confs: 1st International Workshop on Linguistic Analysis for Health (Morocco)

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Date: 15-Oct-2025
From: Murathan Kurfali [murathan.kurfali at ri.se]
Subject: 1st International Workshop on Linguistic Analysis for Health


1st International Workshop on Linguistic Analysis for Health
Short Title: HeaLing’26
Theme: Integrating qualitative and computational approaches to
language in medicine and public health (at EACL 2026)

Date: 24-Mar-2026 - 29-Mar-2026
Location: Rabat, Morocco
Contact Email: healing-workshop at googlegroups.com
Meeting URL: https://healing-workshop.github.io

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis;
Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 19-Dec-2025

The First International Workshop on Linguistic Analysis for Health
(HeaLing’26) will be held as a half-day workshop at EACL 2026 in
Rabat, Morocco, March 24–29, 2026.
Scope & Aims:
Language-oriented approaches—such as discourse and conversation
analysis, narrative medicine, and linguistic ethnography—have long
been central to understanding how medical knowledge is produced,
communicated, and experienced. Advances in NLP and AI now enable these
approaches to scale across large health-related datasets. HeaLing
invites contributions that integrate qualitative and computational
methods to examine how language informs and transforms medicine as a
social and scientific practice, with emphasis on the practical value
of interpretive insights. We welcome researchers from medical
humanities, social and historical studies of medicine, and
computational language sciences.
Topics of interest include (non-exhaustive):
- Computational + qualitative discourse analysis of clinical,
scientific, policy, and other health-related texts (media, guidelines,
patient narratives, clinical notes).
- Metaphor and framing in illness narratives, public health messaging,
and clinical communication.
- Narrative medicine, story-centered clinical interventions, and
evaluation of their effects.
- Historical and contemporary discourse studies of medical
epistemologies.
- Language, power, and inequality: how linguistic framing shapes
access, stigma, and policy.
- Methods for responsible use of NLP/LLMs in medical language research
(bias, explainability, mixed-methods validation).
- Digital humanities approaches: building and interrogating historical
corpora, archives, and born-digital records.
- Translational impact: case studies where interpretive insights led
to changes in practice, education, or policy.
Important Links:
Workshop website: https://healing-workshop.github.io
CFP & Submissions (OpenReview):
https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop/HeaLing
Contact: healing-workshop at googlegroups.com
Key Dates:
Direct submission deadline: December 19, 2025
Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026
Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026
Camera-ready due: February 3, 2026
Workshop dates: March 24–29, 2026 (half-day; exact day TBA within the
EACL window)



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