37.3381, Confs: 6th Workshop on NLP Applications to Field Linguistics at EACL 2027 (Greece)

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Date: 15-Oct-2026
From: Elena Klyachko on behalf of Field Matters Organizing Committee [fieldmattersworkshop at gmail.com]
Subject: 6th Workshop on NLP Applications to Field Linguistics at EACL 2027


6th Workshop on NLP Applications to Field Linguistics at EACL 2027
Short Title: Field Matters 2027

Date: 09-Mar-2027 - 14-Mar-2027
Location: Athens, Greece
Meeting URL: https://field-matters.github.io/cfp/cfp2027

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics;
Language Documentation; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology

Submission Deadline: 15-Dec-2026

We are happy to announce that The Sixth Workshop on NLP Applications
to Field Linguistics (Field Matters 2027) will take place at EACL 2027
on March 9-14 in Athens, Greece (online participants are also
welcome).
We accept papers on the following topics:
 - Application of NLP to field linguistics workflow;
 - The impact, benefits, and harms of NLP-assisted fieldwork;
 - Transfer learning for under-resourced language processing;
 - The use of fieldwork data to build NLP systems;
 - Modeling morphology and syntax of typologically diverse languages
in the low-resource setting;
 - Speech processing for under-resourced languages;
 - Machine-readable field linguistic datasets and computational
analysis of field linguistics datasets;
 - Using technology to preserve culture via language;
 - mproving ways of interaction with Indigenous communities.
Important Dates:
Direct Submission deadline: December 15, 2026
Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: December 22, 2026
Notification of acceptance: January 11, 2027
Camera-ready deadline: January 22, 2027
Workshop dates: March 9-14, 2027
You can find more information on the submission process and format
requirements on our website.
For our 2027 edition, Field Matters will organise a Shared Task on
Automatic Interlinear Glossing. More details can be found on the
dedicated page.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask them!
Organizers
Éric Le Ferrand (University at Buffalo)
Elena Klyachko (independent researcher)
Shu Okabe (TUM)
Oleg Serikov (independent researcher)
Ekaterina Voloshina (University of Gothenburg, Chalmers University of
Technology)
Karina Sheifer (UC Santa Barbara)



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