37.139, Calls: 9th Universal Dependencies Workshop at LREC 2026 (Spain)

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Date: 11-Jan-2026
From: Cagri Coltekin [ccoltekin at sfs.uni-tuebingen.de]
Subject: 9th Universal Dependencies Workshop at LREC 2026


Full Title: 9th Universal Dependencies Workshop at LREC 2026
Short Title: UDW 2026

Date: 11-May-2026 - 16-May-2026
Location: Palma (Mallorca), Spain
Web Site: https://universaldependencies.org/udw26/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Linguistic Theories;
Morphology; Syntax

Call Deadline: 16-Feb-2026

Call for Papers:
Overview:
Universal Dependencies (UD) is a framework for cross-linguistically
consistent treebank annotation that has so far been applied to over
180 languages. The framework aims to capture similarities as well as
idiosyncrasies among typologically different languages (e.g.,
morphologically rich languages, pro-drop languages, and languages
featuring clitic doubling). The goal in developing UD was not only to
support comparative evaluation and cross-lingual learning but also to
facilitate multilingual natural language processing, enable
comparative linguistic studies, and provide resources for language
model understanding and evaluation.
The Universal Dependencies Workshop series was started to create a
forum for discussion of the theory and practice of UD, its use in
research and development, and its future goals and challenges. Some of
the previous workshops have been co-located with COLING, EMNLP, and
SyntaxFest. We invite papers on all topics relevant to UD, including
but not limited to:
 - Theoretical foundations and universal guidelines
 -  Linguistic analysis of specific languages and/or constructions
 - Language typology and linguistic universals
 - Treebank annotation, conversion, and validation
 - Word segmentation, morphological tagging and syntactic parsing
 - Use of UD data for evaluating or understanding language models
 -  Linguistic studies based on the UD data
Priority will be given to papers that adopt a cross-lingual
perspective.
Invited Speakers:
Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, UC Louvain
Stephen Mayhew, Duolingo
Important Dates:
Paper submission deadline: February 16, 2026
Notification of acceptance: March 16, 2026
Camera-ready version due: March 30, 2026
Workshop date: May 16, 2026
Submission Formats:
We invite submissions in two formats:
 - Regular (long) papers up to 8 pages of content (excluding
references and appendices). Regular papers should present substantial,
original, and unpublished research, including empirical evaluation
results where appropriate.
 - Short papers up to 4 pages of content (excluding references and
appendices). Short papers may offer smaller, focused contributions,
such as work in progress, negative results, surveys, or opinion
pieces.
We also welcome non-archival papers, defined as work that has already
been published or accepted for publication at another computational
linguistics venue. These papers may be presented at the workshop but
will not appear in the LREC 2026 Workshop Proceedings.
Accepted papers will be given one additional page to address reviewer
comments.
Paper Submission, Review Process and Selection Criteria:
Submissions will be handled via the START Conference Manager.
Submission link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/UDW2026/
Papers should describe original work; they should emphasise completed
work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state
of completion of the reported results. Submissions will be judged on
correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and
relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees.
All submissions should follow the two-column LREC style guidelines. We
strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX style files, OpenDocument, or
Microsoft Word templates created for LREC:
https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/. Unlike LREC main conference
submissions, UDW submissions are allowed to include appendices, and
the UDW makes a distinction between short (up to four pages) and long
papers (up to eight pages). All papers must be anonymous, i.e., not
reveal author(s) on the title page or through self-references. So,
e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 2020) …”, should be avoided.
Instead, use citations such as “Smith (2020) previously showed …”.
All papers will undergo a double-blind peer review process, with final
acceptance decisions made by the workshop chairs. Submissions that
violate the requirements above will be rejected without review.
LRE-Map and Sharing Language Resources:
When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to
provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e.
also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been
used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your
research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the
described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and
replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones).
Presentation Format:
Accepted papers will be presented as oral or poster presentations. The
mode of presentation will be determined by the workshop chairs and
does not reflect the quality of the submission.
UDW 2026 will primarily be an in-person event, but online
participation will also be possible for the participants who cannot
travel to the conference.
Accepted papers will be published in the LREC 2026 Workshop
Proceedings.
Website: https://universaldependencies.org/udw26/
Contact: udw26 at googlegroups.com
Organizing Committee:
Çağrı Çöltekin, Tübingen University
Kaja Dobrovoljc, University of Ljubljana & Jozef Stefan Institute
Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University



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