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Call for papers now OPEN!
We welcome submissions of extended abstracts (2 pages for text + 1 for references and figures) of completed studies and/or substantial work-in-progress in any of the areas outlined in the workshop description.
Research themes include, but are not restricted to, these aspects pertaining to the production and perception of laughter and other non-verbal vocalisations in both spoken and signed languages:
Articulation, acoustics and perception
Gesture, sign, facial expressions and other bodily behaviour
Interaction and pragmatics
Affective and evaluative meanings
Social perception and organisation
Disfluency
Technology applications
Submissions in previous editions have included work on Conversation Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, Phonetics, Gesture Studies, Computer Science, Human-Robot and Human-Machine Interaction, Forensic Speech Science, Psychology, Sociolinguistics, L2 Learning, Health and Clinical applications.
Important dates
Call for paper opens: 1 September 2026
Submission deadline: 23 November 2026
Notification of outcomes: 18 January 2027
Camera-ready versions: 22 February 2027
Submission guidelines
The extension of the abstract should be of 3 pages maximum: two pages of text, plus one page for figures, acknowledgements, link to supplementary materials, declarations, and references. Submissions longer than this will be sent back to the authors for amendment.
Please use the Interspeech 2026 template and style guidelines therein
Submissions should be in PDF format, and anonymised.
If applicable, please declare any use of generative AI. Give the name and version of the tool used and state explicitly what it was used for. We expect authors to take full responsibility for the intellectual content and accuracy of the paper.
Submissions must be uploaded to the Microsoft CMT system. Authors will need to create a free account in the system in order to upload the files and access the revisions. We advise that all authors sign up to CMT in order to facilitate communication with all presenters.
Accepted submissions will be published in a book of proceedings (details tbc).
tl; dr
Use the Interspeech 2026 template (LaTeX -- Word) and style guidelines
Keep the abstract to 2 pages of text and 1 of figures/references
Submit your abstract as an anonymised PDF file.
Create an account and upload your extended abstract to the LW2027 CMT submission system
Scientific committee
Anastasia Bauer, Cologne University, Germany
Simon Betz, Bielefeld University, Germany
Marina Cantarutti, University of York, United Kingdom
Jessica Di Napoli, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Jonathan Ginzburg, Paris Cité University, France
Christine Howes, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Emily Hofstetter, Linköping University, Sweden
Leelo Keevallik, Linköping University, Sweden
Loulou Kosmala, Paris Est-Créteil University, France
Vladislav Maraev, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Carolyn McGettigan, University College London, United Kingdom
Richard Ogden, University of York, United Kingdom
Catherine Pelachaud, ISIR, Sorbonne University, France
Loredana Schettino, Federico II University, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Jürgen Trouvain, Saarland University, Germany
Khiet Truong, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Petra Wagner, Bielefeld University, Germany
Sally Wiggins, Linköping University, Sweden
Simon Wehrle, Cologne University, Germany
Meg Zellers, Stockholm University, Sweden
The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.
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