36.2630, Confs: Joint Call for Tutorial Proposals: EACL/ACL 2026 (Online)

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Date: 03-Sep-2025
From: ACL Announcements [announcements at aclweb.org]
Subject: Joint Call for Tutorial Proposals: EACL/ACL 2026

Joint Call for Tutorial Proposals: EACL/ACL 2026
Short Title: EACL/ACL 2026

Location: Online
Meeting URL: https://softconf.com/p/acl-tutorials2026

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 20-Oct-2025

The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and the European
Chapter  of the ACL  (EACL) invites proposals for tutorials in
conjunction with the ACL 
2026 and EACL 2026 conferences.  We welcome submissions covering all
areas of computational linguistics (CL) and natural language
processing (NLP), broadly  defined to include related disciplines. We
are soliciting proposals for two  types of tutorials:
 - Cutting-edge tutorials in CL/NLP*: Covering recent advances in
emerging areas not previously addressed in tutorials at EACL,
NAACL-HLT, ACL, or EMNLP.
 -  Introductory tutorials in related fields*: Offering overviews of
disciplines potentially relevant to the CL/NLP community, such as
linguistics, bioinformatics, machine learning, human-computer
interaction, or applications of large language models in non-English
languages.
In both cases, the primary goal is to help CL/NLP researchers
understand key  scientific challenges, their tractability, and their
theoretical and  practical implications. Presentations of specific
technologies or systems are welcome when used to illustrate broader
scientific insights.
Tutorials will be held at one of the following conference venues:
 - EACL 2026 (The 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the
Association for Computational Linguistics), which will be held as a
hybrid conference, and physically held in Rabat, Morocco, from March
24-29, 2026.
 - ACL 2026 (The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics), which will be held as a hybrid conference
and physically held in San Diego, California, from July 2-7, 2026.
Other calls will be made in the fall for tutorials colocated with
conferences  later in the year (e.g., EMNLP and AACL). This call thus
exclusively centers  EACL and ACL 2026.
Important Dates:
EACL/ACL 2026 shared dates:
Proposal submission deadline: October 20, 2025
Notification of acceptance: December 08, 2025
Tutorial slides + abstract + bibliography + any other materialsone
month prior to the date of the tutorial
All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”).
Fee Waivers:
Up to 3 instructors per tutorial can have their registration fees
waived  for the main conference and any subset of co-located tutorials
and workshops.
Diversity & Inclusion:
To foster an inclusive culture in our field, we particularly
encourage  submissions from members of underrepresented groups in
CL/NLP, i.e.,  researchers from any demographic or geographic
minority, researchers with disabilities, among others. The overall
diversity of the tutorial organizers and potential audience will be
taken into account to ensure that the conference program is varied and
balanced.
Tutorial proposals should describe and will be evaluated according to
how the tutorial contributes to *topics promoting diversity* (e.g.,
working on minority languages or groups), *participation diversity*
(e.g., coordinating with social affinity groups, providing subsidies,
making a promotional plan 
for the tutorial), and *representation diversity* among tutorial
presenters. For more information or advice, organizers may consult
resources such as the 
BIG directory [1], Black in AI [2], Disability in AI [3], Indigenous
AI [4], LatinX in AI [5], Masakhane [6], 500 Queer Scientists [7],
and Women-in-ML’s directory [8].
Submission Details:
Proposals should use the ACL paper submission format. Authors can
download [9] the LaTeX or Word template or use the Overleaf template
[10]. Proposals  should not exceed 4 pages of content (plus one page
for tutor biographies and unlimited pages for references), should be
submitted as PDF documents, and should contain the following:
 1) A title and authors, affiliations, and contact information.
 2) A brief description of the tutorial content and its relevance to
the CL/NLP community.
 3) Type of the tutorial: “cutting-edge in CL/NLP” vs ”introductory to
fields related to CL/NLP”.
 4) Briefly describe the target audience and any expected
prerequisites for the attendees, for example:
Math: e.g., “Understand derivatives and integrals as found in
introductory calculus”
Linguistics: e.g., “Be able to parse and generate text with dependency
grammars”
Machine Learning: e.g., “Understand ‘classical’ supervised methods
such as SVM and perceptron”
Neural Network: e.g., “Familiarity with transformers”
Programming or other tools: e.g., “Knowledge of PyTorch and
Unixcommand line tools”
 5) An outline of the tutorial structure and content, and how it will
becovered in a three-hour slot. In exceptional cases, six-hour
tutorial slots are available. These time limits do not include coffee
breaks,e.g., a three-hour tutorial in fact occupies a 3.5-hour slot,
and asix-hour tutorial occupies a 7-hour slot.
 6) Explain how the tutorial includes other people’s work. We
recommend that the tutorial cover work by the presenters as well as by
other researchers. The submission should explain how this breadth is
ensured. Tutorials should not be “self-invited talks”.
 7) Diversity considerations, e.g., use of multilingual data,
indications ofhow the described methods scale up to various languages
or domains, participation of both senior and junior instructors,
demographic and geographical diversity of the instructors, plans for
how to diversify audience participation, etc.
 8) Reading list. Work that you expect the audience to read before
thetutorial can be indicated by an asterisk. Recommended papers should
provide breadth of authorship and include work by other authors, as
well as work from other disciplines is welcomed if relevant.
 9) For each tutorial presenter, a one-paragraph statement of their
research interests and areas of expertise for the tutorial topic, as
well as experience in instructing an international audience.
 10) An estimate of the audience size for the tutorial. If the same or
a similar tutorial (or workshops, talks, etc.) has been given before,
include information on where any previous version of the tutorial was
given and how many attendees the tutorial attracted.
 11) A description of special requirements for technical equipment.
 12) We intend to make tutorial presentation materials publicly
available (e.g., tutorial slides, captioned video recording, as well
as software, data, or other resources as applicable) in the ACL
Anthology. If any of your tutorial materials cannot be shared, please
explain why this is the case.
 13) An ethics statement that discusses the ethical considerations
related to the topics of the tutorial.
 14) A description of any limitations that would restrict the tutorial
to a specific venue (EACL or ACL). For example: if the tutorial is
compatible with only one of these events, logistically, thematically
or otherwise, or if the tutorial cannot be held at a venue for
logistical reasons.
 15) OPTIONAL: We welcome proposals on the special conference themes.
If your tutorial proposal aligns with the special themes of EACL
(theme TBA) or ACL (theme TBA), then please explain why this is the
case.
 16) OPTIONAL: We invite tutorial instructors to include pedagogical
material that the audience can bring into classrooms or similar spaces
of discussion, to bring attention to the tutorial topic (e.g., a
hands-on exercise, discussion questions, a demo, or an assignment). If
you would like to provide this, then please explain why this is the
case.
Tutorial proposals should be submitted online using the softconf
system at  the following
link: https://softconf.com/p/acl-tutorials2026 [11]. Proposals  will
be reviewed jointly by the Tutorial Co-Chairs of the conferences and, 
optionally, by a group of external experts.
Evaluation Criteria:
Each tutorial proposal will be evaluated according to its clarity
and preparedness, novelty or timely character of the topic,
instructors’ experience, target audience, open access of the tutorial
instructional material, and diversity and inclusion.
Instructor Responsibilities:
Tutorial decisions along with reviews will be released by *Dec 08,
2025*. Accepted tutorial proposers must then provide abstracts for
inclusion in the  conference registration material by the specific
conference deadlines. The description should be in two formats: (a) an
ASCII version that can be included in email announcements and
published on the conference website, and (b) a PDF version for
inclusion in the electronic proceedings (detailed instructions will be
provided). Tutorial speakers must provide *tutorial materials (e.g.,
slides, a relevant list of papers) at least one month prior to the
start date of the hosting conference*. The final submitted
tutorial materials must minimally include copies of the course slides
and a bibliography for the material covered in the tutorial. After the
conference, the presenters will be invited to update their slides in
the ACL Anthology (if needed).
Tutorial Chairs:
EACL
 - Aline Paes, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil
 - Rodrigo Wilkens, University of Exeter, UK
 - Chenghua Lin, The University of Manchester, UK
ACL
 - Kenton Murray, Johns Hopkins University, USA
 - Jacob Andreas, MIT, USA
If you have any questions related to tutorial proposals, you can reach
us at 
eaclacl2026_tutorials [at] googlegroups.com.
Read more: 
https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/joint-call-tutorial-proposals-eaclacl-2026
[1] http://www.winlp.org/big-directory/
[2] https://blackinai.github.io/#/membership
[3] https://elesa.github.io/ability_in_AI/
[4] https://www.indigenous-ai.net/
[5] https://lxai.app/PUBLIC-DIRECTORY
[6] https://www.masakhane.io/
[7] https://500queerscientists.com/
[8] https://www.wiml.org/directory
[9] https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files
[10] https://www.overleaf.com/read/crtcwgxzjskr
[11] https://softconf.com/p/acl-tutorials2026

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