[CogSci] 1st CfP for EMNLP Workshop on Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue (MINT)

[Esam Ghaleb]

We invite submissions to MINT: Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face
Dialogue, a workshop that brings together researchers from computational
linguistics, NLP, computer vision, HCI, robotics, and cognitive science
working on multimodal face-to-face communication.

Workshop website: https://mintworkshop.github.io/2026/

The Workshop will be co-located with EMNLP 2026 in Budapest, Hungary, October
24–29, 2026 (exact date within this period to be decided).

We welcome work on topics including:

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   computational models that integrate verbal and non-verbal cues such as
   speech, text, gesture, facial expression, gaze, and body pose;
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   cognitive and linguistic insights about face-to-face communication that
   can inform AI systems;
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   multimodal datasets with synchronized speech, video, and motion data;
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   evaluation methods for multimodal interaction;
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   applications and tools for embodied conversational agents, social
   robots, annotation, and behavioural analysis.


Papers should be prepared using the official ACL formatting guidelines and ACL
style files.

MINT welcomes both archival and non-archival papers:

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   Archival papers: Submissions must be anonymous and report original,
   unpublished research to appear in the workshop proceedings.
   -

   Non-archival papers: Submissions reporting previously published work,
   preliminary research, or demos to be presented at the workshop and not
   published in the MINT proceedings.


Papers may be submitted as long papers (up to 8 pages plus references) or
short papers (up to 4 pages plus references).

Non-archival submissions do not need to be anonymous.

We allow cross-submissions to other venues. However, to be included in the
proceedings, authors of accepted papers must withdraw them from any other
venue where they remain under consideration.

MINT will accept submissions through two channels:

   1.

   Direct submission: The dedicated OpenReview portal for this is available
   at https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/MINT. Archival
   papers submitted through this channel will be reviewed by the MINT
   programme committee.
   2.

   ACL Rolling Review (ARR): Authors may submit through ARR and commit
   their paper together with the ARR reviews to MINT later at
   https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/MINT_ARR_Commitment



Important dates (11:59 pm AOE)

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   ARR paper submission deadline: May 25, 2026
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   Direct paper submission deadline: July 8, 2026
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   Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline: August 24, 2026
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   Notification of acceptance: August 31, 2026
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   Camera-ready paper due: September 14, 2026


Accepted contributions will be required to be presented at the MINT
workshop as posters or talks.

The MINT workshop is sponsored by the Max Planck Institute for
Psycholinguistics: https://www.mpi.nl/

For questions, please contact: mint.organizers at gmail.com.

On behalf of the workshop organisers:

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   Raquel Fernández (University of Amsterdam)
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   Diego Frassinelli (LMU Munich)
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   Esam Ghaleb (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)
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   Bulat Khaertdinov (Maastricht University)
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   Asli Ozyurek (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics / Radboud
   University)
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   Ece Takmaz  (Utrecht University)
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   Zerrin Yumak (Utrecht University)
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