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:
Language resources and tools for similar languages, varieties and dialects;
Evaluation of language resources and tools applied to non-dominant language varieties;
Cross-lingual transfer and adaptation of models to similar languages, varieties and dialects;
Automatic identification of lexical variation;
Automatic classification of language varieties;
Machine translation between closely-related languages, language varieties and dialects;
Corpus-driven studies in dialectology and language variation;
Computational approaches to mutual intelligibility between dialects and similar languages;
Text similarity and adaptation between language varieties;
Linguistic issues in the adaptation of language resources and tools (e.g., cognate detection, semantic discrepancies, lexical gaps, false friends);
Studies focusing on related creole languages and their lexifier languages;
Studies focusing on diachronic language variation (e.g. phylogenetic methods, historical dialects).
In addition to the topics listed above, we also welcome papers dealing with diachronic language variation (e.g. phylogenetic methods, historical dialects).
Publication of call for papers: October 15, 2025
Paper submission deadline: December 19, 2025
Commitment deadline for pre-reviewed papers: January 2, 2026
Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026
Camera-ready papers due: February 3, 2026
Pre-recorded videos due: February 24, 2026
Workshop date: TBD (between March 24-29, 2026; hybrid)
We invite submissions of up to 8 pages of content, plus up to one page for ethical considerations and/or limitations, plus unlimited pages of references. We also welcome shorter contributions, but we do not make an explicit distinction between long and short papers.Â
Detailed submission guidelines available on the ARR site. All submissions must use the official ACL templates. Contributions must be submitted to Softconf: [link to come]
It will also be possible to submit rejected EACL main conference papers to VarDial 2026. Instructions on committing such papers to VarDial will be provided here at a later date.