Call for Papers and Challenges: FinNLP @ EMNLP 2026
Jimin Huang
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to announce FinNLP @ EMNLP 2026, the 11th Workshop on Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing, co-located with EMNLP 2026 in Budapest, Hungary, October 24–29, 2026.
As the annual workshop of ACL SIG-FinTech, FinNLP brings together researchers and practitioners working at the intersection of Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Large Language Models, finance, economics, and law.
FinNLP now invites both paper submissions and FinEval shared task proposals.
For the Call for Papers, we welcome submissions on financial NLP, financial LLMs, financial question answering, financial search, multimodal and tabular financial data, graph learning, ESG analysis, compliance monitoring, financial legal AI, auditing and regulatory reporting, hallucination evaluation and mitigation, privacy, interpretability, Responsible AI, benchmarks, datasets, and evaluation methods.
For the Call for Challenges / FinEval, we invite proposals for shared tasks that address important open problems in financial AI. Strong proposals should include a clear task definition, high-quality datasets or a concrete data construction plan, evaluation metrics, baselines, starter kits, evaluation scripts, and leaderboards.
Call for Papers
Submission system opens: July 1, 2026
Direct paper submission deadline: August 11, 2026 AoE
Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline: August 27, 2026 AoE
Author notification: September 1, 2026
Camera-ready deadline: September 10, 2026
Workshop day: October 28, 2026
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Call for Challenges / FinEval
Call for task proposals: June 6, 2026
Proposal submission deadline: June 20, 2026 AoE
Final task list announced: July 1, 2026
Training data and starter kits release: July 1, 2026
Test phase / final predictions: August 4, 2026 AoE
System paper submission: August 11, 2026 AoE
Workshop and awards: October 28, 2026
All deadlines are 11:59 PM Anywhere on Earth.
Accepted papers will be published in the ACL Anthology.
👥 Organizing Committee (General Chairs):
Chung-Chi Chen · Yongjae Lee · Jimin Huang · Sophia Ananiadou · Hsin-Hsi Chen · Hiroya Takamura
For more information, please visit: https://sigfintech.github.io/finnlp2026/ For questions, please contact: aclsig...@gmail.com
We look forward to receiving your submissions and task proposals.
Best regards, FinNLP Organizing Committee