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

Authors of accepted EACL Findings papers: If you wish to present your paper at VarDial, please upload the camera-ready version to the VarDial Softconf page by March 6 and tick the checkbox stating that this is a Findings paper. We will send out acceptance notifications for all types of papers on March 16.

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 EACL guidelines and submitted in PDF to START:
softconf.com/eacl2023/VarDial2023/ 

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

Important Dates

Submission deadline: February 13 20, 2023 (anywhere on earth)
Pre-reviewed papers can be submitted until March 6 together with the ARR review.

Notification of acceptance: March 13 16, 2023

Camera-ready papers due: March 27, 2023

VarDial Workshop at EACL 2023:  May 5, 2023 (hybrid)