37.2476, Calls: 20th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Greece)

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Date: 23-Jul-2026
From: EACL 2027 Organizing Committee [eacl2027.contact at gmail.com]
Subject: 20th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics


Full Title: 20th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association
for Computational Linguistics
Short Title: EACL 2027
Theme: The Human in Language

Date: 09-Mar-2027 - 14-Mar-2027
Location: Athens, Greece
Web Site: https://2027.eacl.org/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

Call Deadline: 03-Aug-2026

Call for Papers:
ARR submission deadline: Aug 3, 2026
EACL commitment deadline: Oct 11, 2026
Details: https://2027.eacl.org/calls/papers/
Overview:
EACL 2027 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring
substantial, original, and unpublished research on Natural Language
Processing. EACL 2027 has a goal of curating a diverse technical
program. In addition to traditional research results, papers may
contribute negative findings, survey an area, announce the creation of
a new resource, argue a position, report novel linguistic insights
derived using existing computational techniques, and reproduce (or
fail to reproduce) previous results. We also introduce the Special
Theme "The Human in Language", which we hope will stimulate exciting
research contributions.
As in recent years, some of the presentations at the conference will
be of papers accepted by the Transactions of the ACL (TACL) and the
Computational Linguistics (CL) journals.
Submission Information:
EACL 2027 will use ACL Rolling Review (ARR) as its reviewing system,
but final decisions will be made by the conference. Both the
submission of articles for review and the commitment of reviewed
articles to the conference will be handled via the OpenReview
platform, in a two-step process:
 - Authors submit articles to ARR, where submissions receive reviews
and meta-reviews from ARR reviewers and action editors.
 - Authors commit their reviewed articles to a publication venue (e.g.
EACL 2027), where Senior Area Chairs and Program Chairs make
acceptance decisions from the ARR reviews and meta-reviews.
Papers must be submitted, at the latest, by the ARR 2026 August cycle.
Papers that have received reviews and a meta-review from ARR (whether
from the ARR 2026 August cycle or an earlier ARR cycle) may be
committed to EACL via the commitment link. Dual submissions are not
allowed; please check the ARR Call for Papers for details.
The reviewing process will continue to be double-blind. Reviewers will
not see authors, nor will authors see reviewers, and reviews on ARR
will not be made publicly visible. However, authors will be given the
option through ARR to make their anonymized submitted articles
publicly visible. Following the ACL and ARR policies, there is no
anonymity period requirement.
During the commitment phase, it is not allowed to modify the author
list (addition/deletion of authors is not allowed); however,
modification of author order is possible.
The authors should contact ARR with any questions about the review
process at editors [at] aclrollingreview.org. For questions about
commitment and post-review topics, contact eacl2027-pcs [at]
googlegroups.com.
Important Dates:
 - ARR submission deadline (long & short papers): 3 August 2026
 - Reviewer registration deadline for ALL authors: 5 August 2026
 - Author response period: 14 - 19 September 2026
 - Reviewer engagement & author-reviewer discussion: 20 - 24 September
2026
 - Meta-reviews released: 8 October 2026
 - EACL 2027 commitment deadline: 11 October 2026
 - Notification of acceptance (long & short papers): 12 November 2026
 - Camera-ready papers due (long & short): 26 November 2026
 - Main Conference (Workshops/Tutorials dates TBD): 9 - 14 March 2027
All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth").
Important change: For this cycle, author response and author-reviewer
discussion are two separate stages. In the first (14-19 September
2026), authors take the time to respond to the reviewers; reviewers
will not be engaged at this stage. In the second (20-24 September
2026), reviewers and authors engage in any necessary discussion and
reviewers finalise their reviews. Further details will be provided in
due time.
Topics of Interest:
EACL 2027 aims to have a broad technical program. Relevant topics for
the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas
(in alphabetical order):
 - Clinical and Biomedical Applications
 - Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics
 - Dialogue and Interactive Systems
 - Discourse and Pragmatics
 - Efficient Methods for NLP
 - Ethics, Bias, and Fairness
 - Generation
 - Human-Centered NLP and Human-AI Interaction
 - Information Extraction
 - Information Retrieval and Text Mining
 - Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP
 - Language Modeling
 - LLM Agents
 - Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling, and Psycholinguistics
 - Machine Learning for NLP
 - Machine Translation
 - Multilingualism and Cross-Lingual NLP
 - Multimodality and Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond
 - NLP Applications
 - NLP and Code Models
 - NLP and Symbolic Reasoning
 - Phonology, Morphology, and Word Segmentation
 - Question Answering
 - Resources and Evaluation
 - Semantics: Lexical and Sentence-Level
 - Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining
 - Speech Recognition, Text-to-Speech and Spoken Language
Understanding
 - Summarization
 - Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing
 - Special Theme: The Human in Language
Special Theme: The Human in Language
Natural language processing has historically been grounded in the
scientific study of human language. Linguistics, psycholinguistics,
cognitive science, sociolinguistics, and related disciplines have
shaped many of the core concepts underlying NLP, including syntax,
semantics, discourse, pragmatics, language acquisition, and
communication. Yet, as modern NLP increasingly shifts toward
large-scale end-to-end learning and benchmark-driven evaluation, the
connection between language technologies and the broader scientific
understanding of human language is often becoming less explicit.
The EACL 2027 special theme, "The Human in Language", invites papers
that explore how the human sciences of language can inform and shape
NLP research across the full research cycle: model development,
representation learning, data collection and annotation, evaluation,
interpretability, interaction, and deployment. We also welcome work
that uses NLP methods and contemporary language models to advance the
scientific study of language, cognition, communication, and the brain,
while the central focus of the track remains on strengthening the role
of the language sciences as a source of scientific grounding,
methodological guidance, and conceptual insight for NLP itself.
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
 - Linguistically informed NLP - incorporating linguistic structure,
compositionality, pragmatics, discourse, multilinguality, or theories
of meaning into model architectures, representations, prompting
strategies, or training objectives.
 - Human-centered evaluation and annotation - evaluation methodologies
grounded in human communication and cognition; human-informed task
design; annotation frameworks derived from linguistic or
psycholinguistic theory; communicative grounding; and evaluation
beyond benchmark-centric notions of performance.
 - Language models and the scientific study of language - using NLP
models as tools for studying linguistic phenomena, language
acquisition, psycholinguistics, discourse, communication, and social
interaction; and understanding where current models align with or
diverge from human language behavior.
 - Language, the brain, and neuroscience - computational models of
language processing in the brain; neural and behavioral alignment
studies; multimodal studies of language understanding; and NLP methods
for studying cognition and communication in naturalistic settings.
 - Language, interaction, and society - conversational alignment,
communication in social contexts, language and identity, language and
emotion, behavioral modeling through language, and the role of
language technologies in human-centered applications.
 - Foundations of language and meaning - representation of meaning in
humans and machines; pragmatics, reference, grounding, ambiguity,
context dependence, and philosophical perspectives on language and
communication.
Long Papers:
Long paper submissions must describe substantial, original, completed
and unpublished work. Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of
content, plus unlimited pages for references and appendices. Upon
acceptance, long papers will be given one additional page of content
(i.e. up to 9 pages) in the proceedings so that reviewers' comments
can be taken into account.
Short Papers:
Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. A
short paper is not a shortened long paper; instead, short papers
should have a point that can be made in a few pages. Short papers may
consist of up to 4 pages of content, plus unlimited references and
appendices. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given one additional
page of content (i.e. up to 5 pages) in the proceedings so that
reviewers' comments can be taken into account.
Presentation at the Conference:
All accepted papers must be presented at the conference to appear in
the proceedings. The conference will include both in-person and
virtual presentation options. Papers without at least one presenting
author registered by the early registration deadline may be subject to
rejection. Long and short papers will be presented orally or as
posters, as determined by the program committee. While short papers
will be distinguished from long papers in the proceedings, there will
be no distinction in the proceedings between papers presented orally
and papers presented as posters.
Paper Integrity Policies at EACL:
There is growing concern in our community regarding unethical paper
submissions that overwhelm community resources, including but not
limited to thinly sliced contributions, submissions with hallucinated
citations, and entirely AI-generated papers (AI writing assistance is
permitted). EACL will take action against such submissions, as well as
submissions that violate the ACL Policy on Publication Ethics. Such
submissions may be desk rejected, and all authors involved may be
ineligible to commit their paper(s) to EACL 2027 and EACL 2028.
Commitment to other *CL conferences during this period might also be
forbidden.
Mandatory Reviewing Workload:
All authors are expected to sign up to review, or serve as an Area
Chair or Senior Area Chair, with assignments subsequently based on
qualifications. After submission, all authors must complete the author
registration form by 5 August 2026 EoD AoE. If you receive
assignments, reviews must be completed by 7 September, and
meta-reviews by 2 October. In case of emergencies, the chairs should
be warned via the emergency declaration form. Exemptions to this
policy are detailed in the ARR Author Reviewer Exemption Policy page.
Highly irresponsible reviewers may be ineligible to (re-)submit or
commit their work during the next ARR cycle. Submitting authors should
(a) make sure all other authors are aware of this policy, and (b)
check that everybody on their team(s) submits their (meta-)reviews on
time and in accordance with the guidelines. Additional details on the
definition of highly irresponsible reviewers and the corresponding ARR
policy are available at https://aclrollingreview.org/incentives2025
AI Reviewing Experiment (opt-in):
The Program Committee plans to run an opt-in AI Reviewing Experiment
to collect feedback from authors on the utility of AI Reviewers in the
review process. The AI reviews for opted-in submissions will not
inform any part of the conference decision process. The experiment
will run under IRB approval, using open-weights models on in-house
compute resources, or closed models that guarantee zero-data
retention.
Paper Submission Details:
Both long and short paper submissions should follow all ARR submission
requirements, including instructions for two-way anonymized review;
authorship; citation and comparison; the multiple submission,
resubmission and withdrawal policies; ACL's Publication Ethics Policy
and ARR's Ethics Policy (including the responsible NLP research
checklist); ACL's Disclosure Policy; a dedicated Limitations section;
writing assistance rules; paper templates; and optional supplementary
materials. Please see the ARR CfP for full details
(https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp).
Contact Information:
General Chair:
Isabelle Augenstein, University of Copenhagen
Program Chairs:
Malvina Nissim, University of Groningen
Roi Reichart, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Sara Tonelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
For questions related to paper submission and the review process in
general, email: editors [at] aclrollingreview.org
For questions about commitment and post-review related topics, email:
eacl2027-pcs [at] googlegroups.com
Read more: https://2027.eacl.org/calls/papers/



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