Call for Student Research Workshops

Overview

AACL-IJCNLP 2026 (the 5th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing) invites the submission of student research workshop papers featuring various areas of Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. The workshop provides an excellent opportunity for participants to present their work and to receive mentorship and valuable feedback from the international research community. We invite papers in two different categories:

  • Thesis Proposals: This category is appropriate for PhD students who have decided on a thesis topic and wish to get feedback on their proposal and broader ideas for their continuing work.

  • Research Papers: Papers in this category can describe completed work, or work in progress with preliminary results. For these papers, the first author MUST BE a current student. Topics of interest for the SRW are the same as for the main AACL-IJCNLP 2026 conference.

Submissions (in both categories) may be archival or non-archival, based on the wish of the authors. All archival papers will be published in the AACL-IJCNLP 2026 SRW Proceedings. Non-archival papers may be submitted to any venue in the future except for another SRW. All accepted papers and thesis proposals will be presented either as oral presentations or during poster sessions.

Important Dates

Pre-Submission Mentorship Deadline TBD
Pre-Submission Mentorship Feedback TBD
Submission Deadline TBD
ARR Commitment Deadline TBD
Notification of Acceptance TBD
Camera Ready TBD
Grant Application Submission TBD
Grant Application Notification TBD
Main Conference November 6 - 10, 2026

Submission Guidelines

  • Long papers consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus an unlimited number of pages for references and supplementary material like the appendix. Upon acceptance, papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages).

  • Short papers consist of up to four (4) pages of content, plus an unlimited number of pages for references and supplementary material like the appendix. Upon acceptance, papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 5 pages).

  • Thesis proposals consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited references. The title must begin with “Thesis Proposal:”. Upon acceptance, they will be given nine (9) content pages in the proceedings.

Authors are encouraged to use the additional page to address reviewers’ comments.

Paper submissions must use the official ACL style templates, which are available either as an Overleaf template or via downloading LaTeX or Word files. We strongly encourage participants to use the LaTeX template. All submissions must be in PDF format and must conform to the official style guidelines, which are contained in these template files. For anonymity policy, we follow the ARR anonymity policy.

Scope of Submission

The SRW invites papers on topics related to computational linguistics, including but not limited to the following:

  • Computational Social Science and Social Media
  • Dialogue and Interactive Systems
  • Discourse and Pragmatics
  • Ethics and NLP
  • Information Extraction
  • Information Retrieval and Text Mining
  • Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP
  • Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics, and Beyond
  • Large Language Models
  • Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling, and Psycholinguistics
  • Machine Learning for NLP
  • Machine Translation and Multilinguality
  • NLP Applications
  • Phonology, Morphology, and Word Segmentation
  • Question Answering
  • Resources and Evaluation
  • Semantics: Lexical
  • Semantics: Sentence-level Semantics, Textual - Inference, and Other Areas
  • Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining
  • Speech and Multimodality
  • Summarization
  • Syntax: Tagging, Chunking, and Parsing
  • Thesis Proposals

Paper Submission Details

There are two routes for paper submission:

  • Direct Submission: The submission portal will be announced soon. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. The review process will follow the ARR review policy.
  • ACL Rolling Review (ARR) Papers: Papers which have already been reviewed through the ARR system can be committed to the SRW. These papers will not be re-reviewed. Program Chairs will make acceptance decisions based on the ARR reviews and meta-reviews. The ARR commitment portal will be announced soon.

Pre-Submission Mentorship Program

The SRW offers students the opportunity to receive feedback prior to submitting their work for review. The goal of the pre-submission mentorship program is to improve the quality of writing and presentation of the student’s work. Participation is optional but encouraged. The pre-submission mentorship is not anonymous.

Students wishing to participate in the pre-submission mentorship must submit their paper draft through the mentorship portal (to be announced) by the pre-submission mentorship deadline listed above. The paper needs to be anonymized. The organizers will check the formality of the paper including formatting before matching it with mentors.

The participants will be assigned a mentor who will review and provide feedback, which will be given by the pre-submission mentorship feedback date listed above. This mentor will not be the same person who will review the final submission. The feedback will be in the form of guidelines and suggestions to improve the overall writing, which should ideally be incorporated before the actual submission deadline.

You CAN submit a paper at the SRW submission deadline even if you did not participate in the pre-submission mentoring. If you did submit a draft for pre-submission mentoring, you will need to make a new submission for the final version of the paper.

Contact Information

Student Chairs:

Details will be announced soon.

Faculty Advisors:

Details will be announced soon.