Call for Papers – EACL 2026 Student Research Workshop (SRW)

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About the Student Research Workshop

The EACL 2026 Student Research Workshop (SRW) is a forum to bring together students investigating various areas of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. The workshop provides an excellent opportunity for participants to present their work and to receive mentorship and valuable feedback from the international research community. The workshop’s goal is to aid students at multiple stages of their education, including undergraduate, MSc/MA, junior and senior PhD students, in getting familiar with conducting and presenting their research.

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 student (undergraduate or graduate).

Topics of interest for the SRW are the same as for the main EACL 2026 conference: https://2026.eacl.org/calls/papers/.

Why Submit to EACL SRW?

  • Mentorship program: EACL SRW provides a unique opportunity for students to receive constructive feedback and advice from more senior researchers through our on-site mentorship program.
  • Improving your publication record: Publishing a paper as an undergraduate or as a Master student is beneficial when applying for a PhD program. Publishing a paper in an EACL SRW workshop can be really helpful for improving students’ publication records.
  • Negative results: we encourage the submission of studies with negative results providing insights on why and in which scenarios a particular method fails.

All accepted papers and thesis proposals will be presented in the main conference poster sessions, which will give students an opportunity to interact with and to present their work to a large and diverse audience, including top researchers in the field and assigned mentors.

Important Dates

  • Pre-submission mentorship deadline: October 27th, 2025
  • Pre-submission mentorship feedback due: December 1, 2025
  • Direct Workshop paper submission deadline: December 22, 2025
  • ARR Commitment deadline: TBC
  • Notification of acceptance: February 2, 2025
  • Camera-ready papers due: February 16, 2025
  • Grant application deadline: TBC
  • Grant application notification: TBC
  • Workshop dates: TBC (the same as the main conference)

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

Topics of Interest

  • Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics
  • Dialogue and Interactive Systems
  • Discourse and Pragmatics
  • Efficient/Low-resource methods in NLP
  • Ethics and NLP
  • Generation
  • Information Retrieval and Text Mining
  • Information Extraction
  • Interpretability and Model Analysis in NLP
  • Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond
  • Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics
  • Machine Learning for NLP
  • Machine Translation
  • Multilinguality and Language Diversity
  • 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

Submission Requirements

We accept both archival submissions (which will be included in the conference proceedings) and non-archival submissions (which will be presented at the workshop but will not be included in the proceedings). Non-archival papers may be submitted to any venue in the future except for another SRW.

Submissions must follow the restrictions of the main conference.

  • Short papers consist of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Upon acceptance, they will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings.
  • Long papers consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Upon acceptance, they will be given nine (9) content pages in the proceedings.
  • 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.

Paper submissions must use the official ACL style templates. The paper templates are available as an Overleaf template and can also be downloaded directly via https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp under ‘Paper Submission Process, Criteria and Templates’. All submissions must be in PDF format.

For anonymity policy, we follow the ARR anonymity policy:

Under the new policy, submissions will remain anonymous during peer review, but authors are free to post and discuss non-anonymous preprints at any time. To protect anonymity during peer review, ARR will take measures to prioritize reviews by reviewers who are not aware of the author identities. Authors are reminded that widely sharing the work will make it harder to recruit reviewers.

For additional submission instructions, please check the Author Guidelines and Frequently Asked Questions. Submissions that do not adhere to the author guidelines or ACL policies will be rejected without review.

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, not to critique the work itself. 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 by October 27th, 2025.

Note that even though the mentoring is not done anonymously, the paper needs to be anonymized. We will check for the formality of the paper including formatting before we match it with mentors.

The participants will be assigned a mentor who will review and will provide feedback by December 1, 2025. 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. The submission website will have separate tracks for pre-submission mentorship and the final paper submission.

The submission link for the Pre-submission Mentorship Program is https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/SRW_Mentorship.

How to submit

There are two routes for paper submission:

  • Direct Submission: Papers should be submitted through OpenReview. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. The review process will follow the ARR review policy. The submission link is https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/SRW.
  • 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. ARR papers should be committed through OpenReview. When making a new submission, you will be able to specify the details of the ARR paper that you want to commit, including the OpenReview ID of your paper. The commitment site link is [TBA].

Grants

We expect to have grants to offset some portion of students’ travel, conference registration, and accommodation expenses. Further details will be posted here.

Contact Information

For more information, please follow us on X/Twitter @eacl_srw.
To contact the organizers of the workshop, please email us at: eaclsrw@gmail.com.

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