Call for workshop proposals for the 2027 conference cycle

[ACL Announcements]

Joint Call for Workshops Proposals (EACL/COLING/NAACL/ACL/EMNLP) 2027

The Association for Computational Linguistics invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with one of the following conferences: EACL 2027, COLING 2027, NAACL 2027, ACL 2027, or EMNLP 2027. We solicit proposals in all areas of computational linguistics, broadly conceived to include related disciplines such as linguistics, speech, information retrieval, and multimodal processing.

Workshops will be held at one of the following conference venues:

• EACL 2027 (The 20th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics), which will be held as a hybrid conference, and physically held in Athens, Greece, from March 9-14, 2027.
• COLING 2027 (The 32nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics), which will be held as a hybrid conference, and physically held in Macau, China, from May 9-14.
• NAACL 2027 (The 2027 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics), which will be held as a hybrid conference, and physically held in San Francisco, USA, June 1-5, 2027.
• ACL 2027 (The 65th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics), which will be held as a hybrid conference in the summer of 2027, physically held in Japan August 17-22.
• EMNLP 2027 (The 2027 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing), which will be held as a hybrid conference, tentatively scheduled for early November 2027 and physically held in Mexico or Central America.

The workshop and tutorial co-chairs will work together to assign workshops to the conferences. They will take into account location preferences and technical constraints provided by the workshop proposers. 

This call is for all listed conferences occurring in 2027; unlike last year, there will not be a second call for workshops for this conference cycle.

Important Dates

ACL Conferences Workshop Proposals Shared Dates:

Proposal submission deadline	September 4th, 2026
Notification of acceptance	October 2nd, 2026

All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”).

Submission Information

Proposals should be submitted as PDF documents. Note that submissions should be ready to be turned into a Call for Papers to the workshop within one week of notification.

The proposals should be at most two pages for the main proposal and at most two additional pages for information about the organizers, program committee, and references. Please use the LaTeX template for your submission. Failure to comply with these formatting guidelines, or to provide the listed information below, will result in a desk rejection of your proposal.

The two pages for the main proposal must include:

• A title, short name / acronym, and a brief description of the workshop topic and content.
• Some conferences might take place only or partially virtually. We request submissions to contain a brief discussion of planned measures to make sure a workshop is successful and productive in case of a hybrid or virtual-only attendance.
• A description of special requirements and technical needs.
• If the workshop has been held before, details on: how many prior editions occurred, where previous workshops were held, how many submissions the workshop received in the last iteration and how many papers were accepted (also specify if they were not regular papers, e.g., shared task system description papers), and an estimate of how many in-person attendees the workshop attracted.
• Diversity and Inclusion Efforts (see more details below)
• (Optional/If Known) A list of invited speakers, with an indication of which ones have already agreed and which are tentative, and sources of funding for the speakers.
• (Optional) A description of any shared tasks associated with the workshop, and estimate of the number of participants. Having a shared task is optional.

The submission form will request information that does not factor into the decision process, but are necessary for logistical reasons: 

• An estimate of the maximum number of attendees at one given time
• Number of estimated in-person posters
• Preferred Venue (first and second preference). Providing a second preferred venue is optional; while we will do our best to adhere to these preferences, we cannot guarantee that they will be satisfied.
• Incompatible Venues. Please list any conferences that you will be unable to be co-located with for logistical reasons. We will assume that any venue that is not listed here is a viable location for your workshop, and withdrawing based on venue will result in a one-year ban on all organizers from submitting workshop proposals.
• Duration of the workshop (1-day / 2-day workshop)

Note that the only financial support available to workshops is a single free workshop registration for an invited speaker. The workshop organizers must bear all other costs independently, including registration for more than one invited speaker.

The two pages for information about organizers, program committee, and references must include:

• The names, affiliations, and email addresses of the organizers, with a brief statement (2-5 sentences) of their research interests, areas of expertise, and prior experience in organizing workshops and related events.
• A list of Program Committee members, with an indication of which members have already agreed. Organizers should do their best to estimate the number of submissions (especially for recurring workshops) in order to (a) ensure a sufficient number of reviewers so that each paper receives 3 reviews, and (b) anticipate that no one is committed to reviewing more than 3 papers. This practice is likely to ensure on-time and thoughtful reviews.
• An indication if the workshop will consider papers submitted through ACL Rolling Review (ARR); use OpenReview as a platform (both to take papers from ARR and for their own review); or whether the workshop will only use START as a platform, and will not use ARR. In making this choice, please pay careful attention to the ARR deadlines and conference notifications.
• References

Submission is electronic at the following link: https://softconf.com/p/acl-workshops2027/
If you are resubmitting a proposal from the previous call, please create a new submission to be considered in this review process.

Diversity and Inclusion

The proposals should describe the ways your workshop will support diversity in NLP. We suggest organizers consider the following points, while developing the proposal:

• Contribution to academic diversity: The proposals could explain how the subject matter of the workshop will contribute to the diversity of the field, e.g. use of multilingual data, indications of how the described methods scale up to various languages or domains, accessibility of resources, supporting underrepresented communities of NLP and so on.
• Diversifying representation: Following the WiNLP initiative, we recognize the current problems of demographic imbalance in the field. Therefore, we particularly encourage submissions including members of under-represented groups in computational linguistics. The proposals should describe how their selection of invited speakers, panelists, organizers, and program committee promotes diverse representation (for example, considering underrepresented demographics based on gender, ethnicity, nationality, and so on). We also suggest including speakers and panelists, who have not appeared as a keynote speaker or panelist in recent conferences.
• Diversifying participation: The proposals could describe how the call-for-papers and outreach will encourage people from marginalized groups to attend and submit to the workshop. Some examples include providing mentoring, subsidies, coordinating with affinity groups, diversifying the selection of papers and so on. Please note that the conferences' D&I Chairs focus on supporting main conference participants, and supporting and sponsoring workshop participants is the responsibility of the individual workshops.

Organizer Responsibilities

The organizers of the accepted proposals will be responsible for publicizing and running the workshop, including reviewing submissions, producing the camera-ready workshop proceedings, organizing the meeting days, and playing their part to ensure that all participants are aware of ACL’s anti-harassment policy. It is crucial that organizers commit to all deadlines. In particular, failure to produce the camera-ready proceedings on time will lead to the exclusion of the workshop from the unified proceedings and author indexes. Workshop organizers cannot accept submissions for publication that will be (or have been) published 

elsewhere, although they are free to set their own policies on simultaneous submission and review. However, it is worth noting that workshops may also accept non-archival submissions, such as findings papers, for presentation, which are allowed in this case. Since the conferences will occur at different times, the timelines for the submission and reviewing of workshop papers, and the preparation of camera-ready copies, will be different for each conference. Suggested timelines for each of the conferences are given below. The workshop organizers are free to deviate from the proposed schedule for all dates that are not marked as inflexible, though changes should be made in consultation with the relevant workshop chairs. 

In submitting a proposal, workshop chairs will be asked to agree to the workshop non-compliance policy. All workshops must agree to this policy, which states that egregious cases of not living up to the responsibilities of running a workshop will be penalized by a 1-year ban on the organizers from submitting another workshop proposal. Workshop proposals for which all authors do not agree to this policy will be desk-rejected.

The ACL has a set of policies on workshops. You can find the ACL’s general policies on workshops, the financial policy for workshops, and the financial policy for SIG workshops in the Conference Handbook.

Review Process

Workshop proposals will be holistically reviewed by a committee of workshop chairs and  the ACL workshop officers based on: their originality and impact, the experience of the Organizing and Program Committees, and adherence of the workshop proposal to ACL’s code of ethics, including a discussion of the ethical considerations for the workshop topic if relevant. In addition to the proposals themselves, acceptance decisions will take into account the diversity of accepted topics, particularly in areas underrepresented in main conference spaces, to ensure a well-balanced and relevant workshop program. A well-written proposal can be rejected if it does not bring a new perspective to the workshop program, and we may merge workshops that propose similar programs.

This committee will also allocate workshops to the conferences included in the call, taking into account the location preferences and technical constraints given in the workshop proposal. However, the aim of the review process is to accept as many high-quality, diverse workshops as possible. Given space limitations at conference venues and the increasing number of workshop proposals, the review committee can not guarantee that a proposal will be co-located with their preferred venue in lieu of extenuating circumstances.

Tentative Workshop Timelines

EACL 2027 (Athens, Greece)

First call for workshop papers	October 13, 2026
Second call for workshop papers	November 13, 2026
Direct paper submission deadline	December 15, 2026
Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline	December 22, 2026
Notification of acceptance	January 5, 2027
Camera-ready paper due	January 19, 2027
Proceedings due (hard deadline)	February 9, 2027
Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline)	February 12, 2027
Conference dates	March 9-14, 2027

COLING 2027 (Macau, China)

First call for workshop papers	November 21, 2026
Second call for workshop papers	December 21, 2026
Direct paper submission deadline	January 5, 2027
Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline	TBA
Notification of acceptance	February 6, 2027
Camera-ready paper due	March 5, 2027
Proceedings due (hard deadline)	April 5, 2027
Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline)	April 15, 2027
Conference dates	May 9-14, 2027

NAACL 2027 (San Francisco, USA)

First call for workshop papers	October 26, 2026
Second call for workshop papers	November 23, 2026
Third call for workshop papers (Optional)	January 4, 2027
Direct paper submission deadline	February 5, 2027
Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline	March 12, 2027
Notification of acceptance	March 26, 2027
Camera-ready paper due	April 16, 2027
Proceedings due (hard deadline; tentative)	May 7, 2027
Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline; tentative)	May 14, 2027
Conference dates	June 1-June 5, 2027

ACL 2027 (Kyoto, Japan) – all dates To Be Confirmed (TBC)

First call for workshop papers	December 6, 2026
Second call for workshop papers	January 17, 2027
Third call for workshop papers (Optional)	March 13, 2027
Direct paper submission deadline	April 25, 2027
Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline	April, 2027 TBC
Notification of acceptance	May 22, 2027
Camera-ready paper due	June 12, 2027
Proceedings due (hard deadline; TBC)	July 3, 2027
Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline; TBC)	July 18, 2027
Conference dates	August 17-22, 2027
Workshop dates	August 21-22, 2027

EMNLP 2027 (TBA)

Conference dates

TBA

Workshop Chairs

EACL

• Elena Cabrio (Université Côte d'Azur)
• Rico Sennrich (University of Zurich)
• Jörg Tiedemann (University of Helsinki)

COLING

• Nikhil Krishnaswamy (Colorado State University)
• Xin Zhao (Renmin University)

NAACL

• Jeremy Gwinnup (Air Force Research Laboratory) 
• Manling Li (Northwestern University)
• Freda Shi (University of Waterloo; Vector Institute)

ACL

• Naomi Saphra (Boston University)
• Karin Verspoor (RMIT University, Australia)
• Zhongyu Wei (Fudan University)

EMNLP

• TBA

ACL Workshop Officers

• Terra Blevins, Northeastern University
• Zeerak Talat, University of Edinburgh