37.3330, Confs: 14th Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects at EACL 2027 (Greece)

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Date: 13-Oct-2026
From: Niyati Bafna [nbafna1 at jh.edu]
Subject: 14th Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects at EACL 2027


14th Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects at
EACL 2027
Short Title: VarDial 2027

Date: 09-Mar-2027 - 14-Mar-2027
Location: Athens, Greece
Contact: Verena Blaschke
Contact Email: v.blaschke at rug.nl
Meeting URL: https://aclsigvar.org/vardial2027

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 15-Dec-2026

VarDial 2027: https://aclsigvar.org/vardial2027
VarDial 2027 will be colocated with EACL 2027 in Athens, Greece, and
will take place in a hybrid format (in person & online). We anticipate
a discussion on computational methods and language resources for
closely related languages, language varieties, and dialects.
We welcome papers dealing with one or more of the following topics:
- Language resources and tools for similar languages, varieties and
dialects;
- Evaluation of language resources and tools applied to non-dominant
language varieties;
- Cross-lingual transfer and adaptation of models to similar
languages, varieties and dialects;
- Automatic identification of lexical variation;
- Automatic classification of language varieties;
- Machine translation between closely-related languages, language
varieties and dialects;
- Corpus-driven studies in dialectology and language variation;
- Computational approaches to mutual intelligibility between dialects
and similar languages;
- Text similarity and adaptation between language varieties;
- Linguistic issues in the adaptation of language resources and tools
(e.g., cognate detection, semantic discrepancies, lexical gaps, false
friends);
- Studies focusing on related creole languages and their lexifier
languages;
- Studies focusing on diachronic language variation (e.g. phylogenetic
methods, historical dialects).
Instructions for Authors:
Submissions should be formatted according to the ACL Rolling Review
template and submitted as a PDF. The review process will be
double-blind. More information is on the website
(https://aclsigvar.org/vardial2027/cfp).
Important Dates:
- Direct Submission deadline: December 15, 2026
- Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: date TBD
- Notification of acceptance: January 20, 2027
- Camera-ready paper due: January 29, 2027
- Workshop at EACL (hybrid): March 9-14, 2027 (exact date TBD)
Organizers:
Verena Blaschke – University of Groningen (The Netherlands)
Yves Scherrer – University of Oslo (Norway)
Niyati Bafna – Johns Hopkins University (USA)
Tommi Jauhiainen – University of Helsinki (Finland)
Nikola Ljubešić – Jožef Stefan Institute (Slovenia)
Preslav Nakov – Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial
Intelligence (UAE)
Alan Ramponi – Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Italy)
Jörg Tiedemann – University of Helsinki (Finland)
Marcos Zampieri – George Mason University (USA)
Contact: v.blaschke at rug.nl or yves.scherrer at ifi.uio.no



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