1st call for papers: 6th International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change (LChange’26)
Syrielle Montariol
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First Call for Papers:
6th International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change (LChange’26)
Co-located with EACL 2026, Rabat, Morocco & Online | March 24–29, 2026
📌 Website: https://www.changeiskey.org/event/2026-eacl-lchange/
📧 Contact: lch...@changeiskey.org
About the Workshop
The LChange workshop brings together researchers interested in computational modeling of language change—both historical and synchronic. Following the success of LChange in 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, this sixth edition will be held as a hybrid half-day workshop at EACL 2026 in Rabat.
We welcome contributions addressing all aspects of computational approaches to language change. Our goal is to foster dialogue on state-of-the-art computational methodologies, resources, and theories that explore the dynamic, time-varying nature of language.
In addition to paper presentations and keynotes, we offer a mentorship program for students to engage with experienced researchers, regardless of whether they are submitting a paper or not.
Important Dates (tentative)
Direct Submission deadline: December 19, 2025
Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026
Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026
Camera-ready paper due: February 3, 2026
Workshop dates: March 24-29, 2026
Submission Information
We accept the following types of submissions:
- Long papers: up to 8 pages (+ references)
- Short papers: up to 4 pages (+ references). Dataset and model release papers should be submitted as short papers.
Final versions will be given one additional page of content so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account.
Review Process
Papers must be submitted anonymously.
All submissions will undergo double-blind peer review by at least three reviewers, with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organizers.
Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and presented orally or as posters.
Call for reviewers: If you have published in the field previously and are interested in helping out in the program committee to review papers, please email us at lch...@changeiskey.org!
Topics of Interest
We invite original research papers on (but not limited to):
Novel methods for detecting diachronic semantic change and lexical replacement
Automatic discovery and quantitative evaluation of laws of language change
Computational theories and generative models of language change
Sense-aware (semantic) change analysis
Diachronic word sense disambiguation
Novel methods for diachronic analysis of low-resource languages
Novel methods for diachronic linguistic data visualization
Novel applications and implications of language change detection
Quantification of sociocultural influences on language change
Cross-linguistic, phylogenetic, and developmental approaches to language change
Novel datasets for cross-linguistic and diachronic analyses of language
Organizers
Nina Tahmasebi, University of Gothenburg
Pierluigi Cassotti, University of Gothenburg
Syrielle Montariol, UC Berkeley, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Andrey Kutuzov, University of Oslo
Netta Huebscher, University of Gothenburg
Elena Spaziani, Sapienza University of Rome
Naomi Baes, University of Melbourne