37.709, Calls: 3rd Workshop on Computation and Written Language (USA)

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Subject: 37.709, Calls: 3rd Workshop on Computation and Written Language (USA)

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Date: 19-Feb-2026
From: Kyle Gorman [kylebgorman at gmail.com]
Subject: 3rd Workshop on Computation and Written Language


Full Title: 3rd Workshop on Computation and Written Language
Short Title: CAWL

Date: 12-May-2026 - 12-May-2026
Location: Palma, Mallorca, USA
Contact Person: Kyle Gorman
Meeting Email: kylebgorman at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sigwrit.org/workshops/cawl2026/

Linguistic Field(s): Writing Systems

Call Deadline: 23-Feb-2026

Final Call for Papers:
The Third Workshop on Computation and Written Language (CAWL 2026)
will be held in conjunction with LREC 2026 as a half-day workshop on
May 12th in Palma, on the island of Mallorca, Spain. The workshop will
feature an invited talk, a tutorial on working with different writing
systems, and posters and presentations for submitted work. Annual CAWL
workshops are organized under the guidance of the ACL Special Interest
Group on Writing Systems and Written Language (SIGWrit).
We welcome submissions of scientific papers to be presented at the
workshop and archived in the ACL Anthology. Please see the submission
guidelines below and see the workshop webpage for additional relevant
information.
For the first time ever, CAWL will also feature a cash prize of $500
USD for the best student submission.
Most work in NLP focuses on language in its canonical written form.
This has often led researchers to ignore the differences between
written and spoken language or, worse, to conflate the two.
Furthermore, methods for dealing with written language issues (e.g.,
various kinds of normalization or conversion) or for recognizing text
input (e.g. OCR & handwriting recognition or text entry methods) are
often regarded as precursors to NLP rather than as fundamental parts
of the enterprise, despite the fact that most NLP methods rely
centrally on representations derived from text rather than (spoken)
language. This general lack of consideration of writing has led to
much of the research on such topics to largely appear outside of ACL
venues, in conferences or journals of neighboring fields such as
speech technology (e.g., text normalization) or human-computer
interaction (e.g., text entry).
This workshop will bring together researchers who are interested in
the relationship between written and spoken language, the properties
of written language, the ways in which writing systems encode
language, and applications specifically focused on characteristics of
writing systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
 - Writing systems for less-resourced, Indigenous, and minoritized
languages
 - Multi-writing system models
 - Text entry and tokenization
 - Processing abbreviations and homographs
 - Grapheme-to-phoneme conversion, transliteration, and diacritization
 - Text normalization for speech and for processing “informal'” genres
of text
 - Information-theoretic and machine-learning approaches to
decipherment
 - Optical character (incl. handwriting) recognition and historical
document processing
 - Orthography for unwritten languages
 - Spelling error detection and correction
 - Script normalization and encoding
 - Writing system typology and its relevance to speech and language
processing
 - Properties of written language
 - Applications specifically focused on characteristics of writing
systems
Important Dates (all deadlines anywhere-on-earth time):
Paper submission deadline: February 23, 2026
Notification of acceptance: March 17, 2026
Camera-ready paper due: March 30, 2026
Workshop date: May 12, 2026
Submission Guidelines:
Please submit short (4 page) or long (8 page) submissions in PDF
format. Both short and long paper submissions will be reviewed in the
same process. Authors should follow the formatting guidelines of LREC
2026, available in the authors’ kit. Note that, as with the main
conference, reviewing is double-anonymous, i.e., reviewers will not
know author identity and vice versa, hence no author information
should be included in the papers; self-reference that identifies the
authors should be avoided or anonymised. Accepted papers will appear
in the workshop proceedings in the ACL anthology.
Submissions will be accepted at a https://softconf.com/lrec2026/CAWL/
between now and February 23, 2026.
For questions about the submission guidelines, please contact the
workshop organizers.



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