37.306, Confs: 1st Workshop on Computational Developmental Linguistics at ACL 2026 (USA)

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Date: 20-Jan-2026
From: Abdellah Fourtassi [abdellah.fourtassi at gmail.com]
Subject: 1st Workshop on Computational Developmental Linguistics at ACL 2026


1st Workshop on Computational Developmental Linguistics at ACL 2026
Short Title: CDL @ACL2026
Theme: Computational Developmental Linguistics

Date: 03-Jul-2026 - 04-Jul-2026
Location: San Diego, USA
Meeting URL: https://comp-dev-ling.github.io/

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics;
Language Acquisition

Submission Deadline: 20-Mar-2026

We are pleased to invite submissions to the First Workshop on
Computational Developmental Linguistics (CDL,
https://comp-dev-ling.github.io/), co-located with ACL 2026 in San
Diego, CA, USA. The workshop will take place between July 3rd and July
7th (exact date to be confirmed).
The workshop aims to bridge the conversation between modern machine
learning and developmental linguistics. We hope to draw inspiration
from both fields, identifying similarities and differences in the
(im)plausibilities of comparing LMs and human language learning, to
motivate better LM engineering and more rigorous computational
modeling of human language acquisition.
The scope and topics include, but are not limited to:
 - Computational models for developmental linguistics.
 - Learning dynamics in pretraining and post-training of LMs.
vComparisons of developmental linguistics in humans and machines.
 - Knowledge tracing and developmental diagnostics.
 - Applications of developmental insights in language education and
clinical NLP.
Important Dates:
Submission Due: March 20th, 2026
Review Due: April 22nd, 2026
Notification of Acceptance: May 1st, 2026
Camera-Ready Due (tentative): May 15th, 2026
Submission types include long papers (up to 8 pages, both archival and
non-archival), short papers (up to 4 pages, both archival and
non-archival), and ARR commitments (both archival and non-archival).
Archival papers will receive an additional page in the camera-ready
version to address reviewers' feedback and will be published in the
ACL Anthology.
Submission Portal:
https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2026/Workshop/CDL
If you are interested in reviewing for CDL, please fill in the form
here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdyPBKh2GZ6ETuUrQktqNYv6fLIsg7rUxZrE05Ce37K_WKjpg/viewform
CDL 2026 Organizers:
Martin Ziqiao Ma, Emmy Liu, Jing Liu, Tyler A. Chang, Abdellah
Fourtassi, Alex Warstadt, Michael Hahn, Weiwei Sun, and Freda Shi



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