The Second Workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL) will take place in hybrid mode on 16 May 2026, co-located with LREC 2026. CHiPSAL 2026 invites substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of natural language and computation, language resources (LRs), and evaluation—covering spoken, signed, and multimodal language—as well as system demonstration papers. We welcome both long and short papers addressing challenges, resources, and innovations related to South Asian languages, including but not limited to the following topics:
Encoding and Unicode Issues in South Asian Scripts
Orthographic Complexities and Their Impact on Language Technology
Morphological Analysis and Generation in South Asian Languages
Dialectal Variations and Language Standardisation
Code-Mixing and Multilingualism in South Asian Contexts
Building Linguistic Resources for South Asian Languages
Speech Recognition and Synthesis for South Asian Languages
Preserving Linguistic Heritage through Technology
Benchmarking Models for South Asian Languages
Large Language Models for South Asian Languages
Important Dates
All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”).
First CFP: 15 December 2025
Submission Deadline: 20 February 2026
Notification of Acceptance: 20 March 2026
Camera-ready Papers: 30 March 2026
Workshop (Hybrid): 16 May 2026
Submission Details
CHiPSAL 2026 accepts oral papers, poster papers, and poster-plus-demo papers. Submissions must have:
4 pages (short paper) (excluding ethics/limitations statements, acknowledgements, references, and data/code availability statements).
8 pages (long paper) (excluding ethics/limitations statements, acknowledgements, references, and data/code availability statements).
Ethics/limitations statements and data/code availability statements must be included.
Follow the LREC stylesheet (see, https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/)
Be fully anonymised for double-blind review.
No author names or affiliations.
No links to non-anonymised repositories.
Anonymised code repositories or later supplementary material may be provided after acceptance.
Be self-contained, with no appendices or supplementary files allowed during initial submission.
Be relevant to the overall theme of South Asian language processing
Papers must present original, unpublished work. Concurrent submissions to other venues must be declared at submission time. If accepted to CHiPSAL 2026, the paper must be withdrawn from all other venues. If accepted elsewhere and the authors choose that venue, the CHiPSAL Programme Committee must be notified immediately.
There is no anonymity period for CHiPSAL 2026; authors may post preprints at any time.
Authors are also encouraged to share related language resources via the LRE Map (https://lremap.elra.info/), which provides metadata and links for community accessibility.
Accepted papers (oral, poster, or poster+demo) will appear in the official workshop proceedings. Presentation format will be assigned based on the optimal mode of communication for each paper.
More information about formatting is available here:
https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/
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