CfP2: EACL-2026 Workshop on Linguistic Analysis for Health (HeaLing’26)

[Vera Danilova]

Second CfP:

The First International Workshop on Linguistic Analysis for Health (HeaLing’26) will be held as a half-day workshop at EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco, March 24–29, 2026.

Scope & Aims:

Language-oriented approaches—such as discourse and conversation analysis, narrative medicine, and linguistic ethnography—have long been central to understanding how medical knowledge is produced, communicated, and experienced. Advances in NLP and AI now enable these approaches to scale across large health-related datasets. HeaLing invites contributions that integrate qualitative and computational methods to examine how language informs and transforms medicine as a social and scientific practice, with emphasis on the practical value of interpretive insights. We welcome researchers from medical humanities, social and historical studies of medicine, and computational language sciences.

Topics of interest include (non-exhaustive):

- Computational + qualitative discourse analysis of clinical, scientific, policy, and other health-related texts (media, guidelines, patient narratives, clinical notes).

- Metaphor and framing in illness narratives, public health messaging, and clinical communication.

- Narrative medicine, story-centered clinical interventions, and evaluation of their effects.

- Historical and contemporary discourse studies of medical epistemologies.

- Language, power, and inequality: how linguistic framing shapes access, stigma, and policy.

- Methods for responsible use of NLP/LLMs in medical language research (bias, explainability, mixed-methods validation).

- Digital humanities approaches: building and interrogating historical corpora, archives, and born-digital records.

- Translational impact: case studies where interpretive insights led to changes in practice, education, or policy.

📌Important Links: 

Workshop website: https://healing-workshop.github.io 

CFP & Submissions (OpenReview): https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop/HeaLing

Contact: healing-...@googlegroups.com

🗓️Key Dates:

Direct submission deadline: December 19, 2025

Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 5, 2026

Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026

Camera-ready due: February 3, 2026

Workshop dates: March 24–29, 2026 (half-day; exact day TBA within the EACL window)