<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><span id="m_-6584661059888273863m_-1868281764489125254m_8580975856080150618gmail-docs-internal-guid-832bb095-7fff-b80c-ad81-926e7143851d"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><b><font size="4">CFP: First Workshop on Computational Developmental Linguistics at ACL 2026</font></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">We are pleased to invite submissions to the First Workshop on Computational Developmental Linguistics (CDL, </span><a href="https://comp-dev-ling.github.io/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(204,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">https://comp-dev-ling.github.io/</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">), co-located with ACL 2026 in San Diego, CA, USA. The workshop will take place between July 3rd and July 7th (exact date to be confirmed).</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The workshop aims to bridge the conversation between modern machine learning and developmental linguistics. We hope to draw inspiration from both fields, identifying similarities and differences in the (im)plausibilities of comparing LMs and human language learning, to motivate better LM engineering and more rigorous computational modeling of human language acquisition.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The scope and topics include, but are not limited to:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Computational models for developmental linguistics.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Learning dynamics in pretraining and post-training of LMs.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Comparisons of developmental linguistics in humans and machines.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transpar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ize:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">If you are interested in reviewing for CDL, please fill in the form here: </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdyPBKh2GZ6ETuUrQktqNYv6fLIsg7rUxZrE05Ce37K_WKjpg/viewform" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(204,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdyPBKh2GZ6ETuUrQktqNYv6fLIsg7r...</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Warm regards,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">CDL 2026 Organizers: Martin Ziqiao Ma, Emmy Liu, Jing Liu, Tyler A. Chang, Abdellah Fourtassi, Alex Warstadt, Michael Hahn, Weiwei Sun, and Freda Shi</span></p></span></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>Abdellah Fourtassi<div><br><div>Maître de Conférences HDR (Associate Professor)<br>Laboratoire d’Informatique et des Systèmes (LIS)<br>Institute of Language, Communication, and the Brain<br>Aix-Marseille University, France<br><a href="https://afourtassi.github.io/" target="_blank">https://afourtassi.github.io/</a> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>