Call for Papers

VarDial deals with computational methods and language resources for closely related languages, language varieties, and dialects.

We welcome papers dealing with one or more of the following topics:

  • Corpora, resources, and tools for similar languages, varieties and dialects;

  • Adaptation of tools (taggers, parsers) for similar languages, varieties and dialects;

  • Evaluation of language resources and tools when applied to language varieties;

  • Reusability of language resources in NLP applications (e.g., for machine translation, POS tagging, syntactic parsing, etc.);

  • Corpus-driven studies in dialectology and language variation;

  • Computational approaches to mutual intelligibility between dialects and similar languages;

  • Automatic identification of lexical variation;

  • Automatic classification of language varieties;

  • Text similarity and adaptation between language varieties;

  • Linguistic issues in the adaptation of language resources and tools (e.g., semantic discrepancies, lexical gaps, false friends);

  • Machine translation between closely related languages, language varieties and dialects.

In addition to the topics listed above, we also welcome papers dealing with diachronic language variation (e.g. philogenetic methods, historical dialects).

Submission Information

We invite submissions of up to 9 pages of content plus unlimited pages for bibliography. Please note that the 9-page limit also holds for the camera-ready version.

Submissions should be formatted according to the COLING guidelines and submitted in PDF to START.

We strongly recommend you to prepare your manuscript using LaTeX. The review process will be double-blind.

Important Dates

Submission deadline: July 11, 2022 (anywhere on earth) EXTENDED TO July 22 (anywhere on earth)

Notification of acceptance: August 24, 2022

Camera-ready papers due: September 14, 2022

VarDial Workshop at COLING2022: October 16, 2022 (hybrid)