Joint Call for Tutorial Proposals (EACL/ACL) 2026 - deadline approaching

[Aline Paes]

*Joint Call for Tutorial Proposals (EACL/ACL) 2026*

The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and the European Chapter 
of the ACL  (EACL) invite proposals for tutorials in conjunction with the ACL 
2026 and EACL 2026 conferences.  We welcome submissions covering all areas of 
computational linguistics (CL) and natural language processing (NLP), broadly 
defined to include related disciplines. We are soliciting proposals for two 
types of tutorials:

 * *Cutting-edge tutorials in CL/NLP*: Covering recent advances in emerging
   areas not previously addressed in tutorials at EACL, NAACL-HLT, ACL, or
   EMNLP.
 * *Introductory tutorials in related fields*: Offering overviews of
   disciplines potentially relevant to the CL/NLP community, such as
   linguistics, bioinformatics, machine learning, human-computer interaction,
   or applications of large language models in non-English languages.

In both cases, the primary goal is to help CL/NLP researchers understand key 
scientific challenges, their tractability, and their theoretical and 
practical implications. Presentations of specific technologies or systems are 
welcome when used to illustrate broader scientific insights.

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

 * *EACL 2026* (The 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the
   Association for Computational Linguistics), which will be held as a hybrid
   conference, and physically held in Rabat, Morocco, from March 24-29, 2026.
 * *ACL 2026* (The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
   Linguistics), which will be held as a hybrid conference and physically
   held in San Diego, California, from July 2-7, 2026.

Other calls will be made in the fall for tutorials colocated with conferences 
later in the year (e.g., EMNLP and AACL). This call thus exclusively centers 
EACL and ACL 2026.

*Important Dates*

EACL/ACL 2026 shared dates:

 * Proposal submission deadline: *October 20, 2025*
 * Notification of acceptance: December 08, 2025
 * Tutorial slides + abstract + bibliography + any other materials
   one month prior to the date of the tutorial

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

*Fee Waivers*

Up to *3 instructors per tutorial* can have their registration fees waived 
for the main conference and any subset of co-located tutorials and workshops.

*Diversity & Inclusion*

To foster an inclusive culture in our field, we particularly encourage 
submissions from members of underrepresented groups in CL/NLP, i.e., 
researchers from any demographic or geographic minority, researchers with 
disabilities, among others. The overall diversity of the tutorial organizers 
and potential audience will be taken into account to ensure that the 
conference program is varied and balanced.

Tutorial proposals should describe and will be evaluated according to how the 
tutorial contributes to *topics promoting diversity* (e.g., working on 
minority languages or groups), *participation diversity* (e.g., coordinating 
with social affinity groups, providing subsidies, making a promotional plan 
for the tutorial), and *representation diversity* among tutorial presenters. 
For more information or advice, organizers may consult resources such as the 
BIG directory [1], Black in AI [2], Disability in AI [3], Indigenous AI [4], 
LatinX in AI [5], Masakhane [6], 500 Queer Scientists [7], and 
Women-in-ML’s directory [8].

*Submission Details*

1Proposals should use the ACL paper submission format. Authors can download 
[9] the LaTeX or Word template or use the Overleaf template [10]. Proposals 
*should not exceed 4 pages of content* (plus one page for tutor biographies 
and unlimited pages for references), should be submitted as PDF documents, 
and should contain the following:

 1) A title and authors, affiliations, and contact information.
 2) A brief description of the tutorial content and its relevance to the
    CL/NLP community.
 3) Type of the tutorial: “cutting-edge in CL/NLP” vs ”introductory to
    fields related to CL/NLP”.
 4) Briefly describe the target audience and any expected prerequisites for
    the attendees, for example:
     * Math: e.g., “Understand derivatives and integrals as found in
       introductory calculus”
     * Linguistics: e.g., “Be able to parse and generate text with
       dependency grammars”
     * Machine Learning: e.g., “Understand ‘classical’ supervised
       methods such as SVM and perceptron”
     * Neural Network: e.g., “Familiarity with transformers”
     * Programming or other tools: e.g., “Knowledge of PyTorch and Unix
       command line tools”

 5) An outline of the tutorial structure and content, and how it will be
    covered in a three-hour slot. In exceptional cases, six-hour tutorial
    slots are available. These time limits do not include coffee breaks,
    e.g., a three-hour tutorial in fact occupies a 3.5-hour slot, and a
    six-hour tutorial occupies a 7-hour slot.
 6) Explain how the tutorial includes other people’s work. We recommend
    that the tutorial cover work by the presenters as well as by other
    researchers. The submission should explain how this breadth is ensured.
    Tutorials should not be “self-invited talks”.
 7) Diversity considerations, e.g., use of multilingual data, indications of
    how the described methods scale up to various languages or domains,
    participation of both senior and junior instructors, demographic and
    geographical diversity of the instructors, plans for how to diversify
    audience participation, etc.
 8) Reading list. Work that you expect the audience to read before the
    tutorial can be indicated by an asterisk. Recommended papers should
    provide breadth of authorship and include work by other authors, as well
    as work from other disciplines is welcomed if relevant.
 9) For each tutorial presenter, a one-paragraph statement of their research
    interests and areas of expertise for the tutorial topic, as well as
    experience in instructing an international audience.
 10) An estimate of the audience size for the tutorial. If the same or a
     similar tutorial (or workshops, talks, etc.) has been given before,
     include information on where any previous version of the tutorial was
     given and how many attendees the tutorial attracted.
 11) A description of special requirements for technical equipment.
 12) We intend to make tutorial presentation materials publicly available
     (e.g., tutorial slides, captioned video recording, as well as software,
     data, or other resources as applicable) in the ACL Anthology. If any of
     your tutorial materials cannot be shared, please explain why this is the
     case.
 13) An ethics statement that discusses the ethical considerations related to
     the topics of the tutorial.
 14) A description of any limitations that would restrict the tutorial to a
     specific venue (EACL or ACL). For example: if the tutorial is compatible
     with only one of these events, logistically, thematically or otherwise,
     or if the tutorial cannot be held at a venue for logistical reasons.
 15) OPTIONAL: We welcome proposals on the special conference themes. If your
     tutorial proposal aligns with the special themes of EACL (theme TBA) or
     ACL (theme TBA), then please explain why this is the case.
 16) OPTIONAL: We invite tutorial instructors to include pedagogical material
     that the audience can bring into classrooms or similar spaces of
     discussion, to bring attention to the tutorial topic (e.g., a hands-on
     exercise, discussion questions, a demo, or an assignment). If you would
     like to provide this, then please explain why this is the case.

Tutorial proposals should be submitted online using the softconf system at 
the following link: https://softconf.com/p/acl-tutorials2026 [11]. Proposals 
will be reviewed jointly by the Tutorial Co-Chairs of the conferences and, 
optionally, by a group of external experts.

*Evaluation Criteria*

Each tutorial proposal will be evaluated according to its clarity and 
preparedness, novelty or timely character of the topic, instructors’ 
experience, target audience, open access of the tutorial instructional 
material, and diversity and inclusion.

*Instructor Responsibilities*
Tutorial decisions along with reviews will be released by *Dec 08, 2025*. 
Accepted tutorial proposers must then provide abstracts for inclusion in the 
conference registration material by the specific conference deadlines. The 
description should be in two formats: (a) an ASCII version that can be 
included in email announcements and published on the conference website, and 
(b) a PDF version for inclusion in the electronic proceedings (detailed 
instructions will be provided). Tutorial speakers must provide *tutorial 
materials (e.g., slides, a relevant list of papers) at least one month prior 
to the start date of the hosting conference*. The final submitted tutorial 
materials must minimally include copies of the course slides and a 
bibliography for the material covered in the tutorial. After the conference, 
the presenters will be invited to update their slides in the ACL Anthology 
(if needed).

*Tutorial Chairs*

 * EACL
    * Aline Paes, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil
    * Rodrigo Wilkens, University of Exeter, UK
    * Chenghua Lin, The University of Manchester, UK

 * ACL
    * Kenton Murray, Johns Hopkins University, USA
    * Jacob Andreas, MIT, USA


If you have any questions related to tutorial proposals, you can reach us at 
eaclacl2026_tutorials [at] googlegroups.com.