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<span style="font-weight: 700;">CoNLL 2026: 1st Call for Papers</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">San Diego, California, United States, July 3-4, 2026 (co-located with ACL)</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">SIGNLL invites submissions to the 30th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2026). The focus of CoNLL is on
</span><span style="font-weight: 700;">theoretically, cognitively and scientifically motivated approaches to computational linguistics</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">. We welcome work targeting any aspect of language and its computational modeling, including:</span></div>
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Computational Psycholinguistics, Cognition and Linguistics</div>
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Computational Usage-Based Grammars (e.g., Construction Grammars)</div>
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Computational Social Science and Sociolinguistics</div>
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Interaction and Dialogue</div>
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Language Acquisition, Learning, Emergence, and Evolution</div>
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Multimodality and Grounding</div>
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Typology and Multilinguality</div>
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Speech and Phonology</div>
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Syntax and Morphology</div>
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Lexical, Compositional and Discourse Semantics</div>
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Theoretical Analysis and Interpretation of ML Models for NLP</div>
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Resources and Tools for Scientifically Motivated Research</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">We do not restrict the topic of submissions to fall into this list. However,
</span><span style="font-weight: 700;">the submissions’ relevance to the conference’s focus on theoretically, cognitively and scientifically motivated approaches will play an important role in the review process.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Submissions</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">CoNLL will accept only </span><span style="font-weight: 700;">direct submissions</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> this year. Submission will be via OpenReview. We accept two types of submission: archival, and non-archival.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Non-archival</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> submissions are not anonymous. We will accept submissions that fit into CoNLL’s scope (see above for a description) and have been
</span><span style="font-weight: 700;">published</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in 2024, 2025, and 2026 in relevant conferences (*ACL, COLING, NeurIPS, ICLR, CogSci, …) and journals (TACL, Computational Linguistics, other journals in the areas of interest
for CoNLL). </span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Archival</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> submissions must be anonymous and use the same
<u><a style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWAed62197d-9e96-88f4-e653-d1fa52d75003" href="https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files">template</a></u> as the
<u><a style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA5fa1dad4-bc17-d1e7-6b29-c544ea379c2e" href="https://2026.aclweb.org/">ACL 2026</a></u>. Submitted papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content plus unlimited space for references. Authors of
accepted papers will have an additional page to address reviewers’ comments in the camera-ready version (9 pages of content in total, excluding references). Optional anonymized supplementary materials and a PDF appendix are allowed. Please refer to the
<u><a style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA97977726-afd3-d620-1b12-cb5680039b41" href="https://2026.aclweb.org/">ACL website</a></u> for more details on the submission format. Note that, unlike ACL, we do not mandate that papers have
a discussion section of the limitations of the work. However, we strongly encourage authors to have such a section in the appendix. </span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Timeline</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">(All deadlines are 11:59pm UTC-12h, AoE)</span></div>
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Submission deadline (archival and non-archival): February 19 2026</div>
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Notification of acceptance: April 21 2026</div>
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Camera-ready papers due: May 12 2026</div>
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Conference: July 3-4, 2026</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Further information</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Further information will be announced in the 2nd Call for Papers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">CoNLL 2026 Co-Chairs</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;"><u><a style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA5924426a-74bf-3abe-4c53-28294a74d681" href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Claire-Bonial">Claire Bonial</a></u>, DEVCOM U.S. Army Research Laboratory</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;"><u><a style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA5b226538-d893-9a0a-a117-ec1cbc6d1c55" href="https://people.csail.mit.edu/berzak/">Yevgeni Berzak</a></u>, Technion</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Contact</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Questions? E-mail conll.chairs@gmail.com</span></div>
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