[EACL 2027] First Call for Papers

[ACL Announcements]

*First Call for Main Conference Papers*

EACL 2027: 20th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association
for Computational Linguistics
March 9-14, 2027, Athens, Greece
Special Theme: The Human in Language
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substantial, original, and unpublished research on Natural Language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.

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/