Workshops
To learn more about each workshop, including schedule & times, visit the workshop website via hyperlink on each workshop’s name.
Friday, July 3rd
Second Workshop on Customizable NLP: Progress and Challenges in Customizing NLP for a Domain, Application, Group, or Individual (CustomNLP4U)
Organizers: Sheshera Mysore, Sachin Kumar, Vidhisha Balachandran, Shirley Hayati, Hanane Moussa, Alireza Salemi, Faeze Brahman
Half-day workshop (morning)
Room: Old Town
Description: Workshop on Customizable NLP; Progress and Challenges in Customizing NLP for a Domain, Application, Group, or Individual (CustomNLP4U)
Seventh Workshop on Privacy in Natural Language Processing (PrivateNLP)
Organizers: Ivan Habernal, Sepideh Ghanavati, Sara Haghighi, Krithika Ramesh, Timour Igamberdiev, Shomir Wilson
Half-day workshop (morning)
Room: Balboa C
Description: Workshop on Privacy in Natural Language Processing (PrivateNLP)
5th Workshop on Advances in Language and Vision Research (ALVR 2026)
Organizers: TBA
Full-day workshop
Room: Harbor H&I
Description: TBA
ArgMining 2026, the 13th Workshop on Argument Mining and Reasoning (ArgMining)
Organizers: Mohamed Elaraby, Annette Hautli-Janisz, John Lawrence, Elena Musi, Julia Romberg, Federico Ruggeri
Full-day workshop
Room: Harbor E&F
Description: The 2026 edition of the ArgMining workshop focuses on understanding and evaluating arguments in both human and machine reasoning.
Joint Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse, Context and Document-Level Inferences (CODI) and Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference (CRAC)
Organizers: Chloé Braud, Christian Hardmeier, Chuyuan Li, Junyi Jessy Li, Sharid Loáiciga, Vincent Ng, Michal Novák, Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Massimo Poesio, Michael Strube, Amir Zeldes
Full-day workshop
Room: Regatta
Description: The CODI workshop has provided a platform for a broad range of research at the discourse level, while the CRAC workshop has been a primary venue for exploring computational modeling of reference, anaphora, and coreference. By coming together, CODI-CRAC aim to advance discourse-level research further, fostering discussions on the development of suitable datasets and robust evaluation methods. CODI-CRAC is an endorsed workshop of SIGDIAL.
The Sixth Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages (DravidianLangTech)
Organizers: Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Ruba Priyadharshini, Anand Kumar M, Sajeetha Thavareesan, Saranya Rajiakodi, Subalalitha CN, Dhivya Chinnappa, Balasubramanian Palani, Malliga Subramanian, Kogilavani Shanmugavadivel
Full-day workshop
Room: Virtual-only on Underline
Description: TBA
The 9th Workshop on Event Extraction and Understanding: Challenges and Applications (EEUCA 2026)
Organizers: Hristo Tanev
Full-day workshop
Room: Pier
Description: TBA
The 20th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW XX)
Organizers: Yang Janet Liu, Luke Gessler
Full-day workshop
Room: La Jolla
Description: The 20th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW XX) brings together researchers working on all aspects of linguistic annotation, with a special focus on errors in annotation.
The 1st International Workshop on Sustainable and Efficient Language, Vision, and Action Models (SELVA)
Organizers: Jian Cheng, Michele Magno, Zechun Liu, Olivera Kotevska, Yawei Li, Haotong Qin
Full-day workshop
Room: Virtual-only on Underline
Description: SELVA workshop focuses on the efficiency and sustainability of Language, Vision, and Action models. It brings together NLP, CV, robotics, and systems researchers to develop computationally efficient, environmentally responsible, and accessible methods across model architecture, compression, training/inference optimization, embodied AI efficiency, and transparent efficiency metrics.
SURGeLLM: Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM Era
Organizers: Vivek Gupta, Kaize Ding, Harsha Kokel, Yue Zhao, Amit Agarwal, Yu Wang, Michael Glass, Yu Zhang, Kavitha Srinivas, Xiusi Chen, Oktie Hassanzadeh, Qi Zhu, Shuaichen Chang, Yuan Luo
Full-day workshop
Room: Harbor D
Description: SURGeLLM is 1st workshop to bring together NLP, IR, data management, and visualization researchers for advancing structure-aware understanding, retrieval, generation, and evaluation in the era of LLMs.
The 1st Workshop on Stereotypes Across Cultures in Language Technologies (StereACuLT)
Organizers: Weicheng Ma, Soroush Vosoughi, Rolando Coto Solano, Nabeel Gillani
Half-day workshop (afternoon)
Room: Balboa C
Description: The 1st Workshop on Stereotypes Across Cultures in Language Technologies (StereACuLT) focuses on the examination and mitigation of stereotypes in language technologies across diverse cultural contexts. It brings together researchers concerned with the ethical and safe deployment of large language models to develop culturally grounded evaluation methods and more robust, context-aware safeguards.
4th Workshop on Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models (KnowFM)
Organizers: Canyu Chen, Yuji Zhang, Zoey Sha Li, Zihan Wang, Qineng Wang, Priyanka Kargupta, Sara Vera Marjanović, Jeff Z. Pan, Mohit Bansal, Isabelle Augenstein, Jiawei Han, Heng Ji, Manling Li
Time: TBA
Room: Virtual-only on Underline
Description: Our workshop focuses on systematically exploring the origin, scope, reliability, and correction of knowledge within large language models, covering knowledge emergence, injection, updating, and probing to advance a comprehensive understanding of the knowledge lifecycle in foundation models.
Friday, July 3rd and Saturday, July 4th
Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL)
Organizers: Rob Voigt, Alex Warstadt, Naomi Feldman, Tal Linzen
Full-day workshop
Room: Promenade
Description: TBA
ACL-IWSLT 2026: 23rd International Conference on Spoken Language Translation Organized by ACL/ISCA SIGSLT
Organizers: Marcello Federico, Alex Waibel, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Matteo Negri, Luisa Bentivogli, Marco Gaido, Jan Niehues, Sebastian Stüker, Elizabeth Salesky, Atul Kr. Ojha
Full-day workshop
Room: Gaslamp C&D
Description: The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) is the leading annual scientific conference dedicated to all aspects of spoken language translation. The conference hosts several major evaluation campaigns in the field and features presentations of scientific papers as well as system descriptions from the teams participating in these campaigns.
SemEval-2026: The 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
Organizers: Debanjan Ghosh, Kai North, Shervin Malmasi, Ekaterina Kochmar, Mamoru Komachi, Marcos Zampieri
Full-day workshop
Room: Harbor C
Description: TBA
BioNLP 2026 and Shared Tasks (BioNLP-ST 2026)
Organizers: Dina Demner-Fushman, Sophia Ananiadou, Kirk Roberts, Jun-ichi Tsujii
Full-day workshop
Room: Balboa A&B
Description: The BioNLP workshop organized by the ACL SIGBIOMED special interest group is an established primary venue for presenting research in language technologies for the biomedical and clinical domains. The workshop has been running every year since 2002. This year marks its 25th anniversary. BioNLP is a generalist that truly encompasses the breadth of the domain and brings together researchers in biomedical and clinical NLP from all over the world.
*SEM 2026
Organizers: TBA
Time: TBA
Room: Harbor A on Friday, July 3rd; Virtual-only on Underline on Saturday, July 4th
Description: TBA
The 21st Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2026)
Organizers: Ekaterina Kochmar, Bashar Alhafni, Stefano Bannò, Marie Bexte, Jill Burstein, Andrea Horbach, Ronja Laarmann-Quante, Anaïs Tack, Victoria Yaneva, Zheng Yuan
Full-day workshop
Room: Virtual-only on Underline on Friday, July 3rd; Harbor D on Saturday, July 4th
Description: The BEA Workshop is a leading venue for NLP innovation in the context of educational applications and one of the oldest and largest workshops at ACL.
CoNLL 2026: The SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning
Full-day workshop
Room: Harbor B
Description: 30th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning
Saturday, July 4th
The 6th Workshop on Trustworthy NLP (TrustNLP 2026)
Organizers: Kai-Wei Chang
Half-day workshop (morning)
Room: Harbor G
Description: TrustNLP workshop at ACL 2026, inviting participants and papers that focus on developing models that are explainable, fair, privacy-preserving, causal, and robust.
The Big Picture 2026: Crafting a Research Narrative v2 (BigPicture)
Organizers: Yanai Elazar, Allyson Ettinger, Nora Kassner, Sebastian Ruder
Half-day workshop (morning)
Room: Gaslamp A&B
Description: The Big Picture Workshop provides a venue for exploring and distilling broader NLP research narratives. We invite researchers to reflect on how their individual contributions fit within the overall research landscape and what stories they are telling with their bodies of research.
The First Workshop on Multilingual Report Generation via Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG4Reports)
Organizers: Dawn Lawrie, Sean MacAvaney, James Mayfield, Luca Soldaini, Eugene Yang, Andrew Yates
Half-day workshop (morning)
Room: Harbor A&B
Description: RAG4Reports focuses on developing systems and evaluation methods for the Multilingual Report Generation, which is a multilingual long-form generation task with complex information need.
The Sixth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP)
Organizers: Manuel Mager, Arturo Oncevay, Abteen Ebrahimi, Minh Duc Bui, Shruti Rijhwani, Luis Chiruzzo, Robert Pugh, Rolando Coto-Solano, John E. Ortega, Katharina von der Wense
Half-day workshop (morning)
Room: La Jolla
Description: AmericasNLP promotes the research of NLP for the indigenous languages of the American continent.
Sixth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (LTEDI)
Organizers: Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Bharathi B, Durairaj Thenmozhi, Salud María Jiménez Zafra, Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras
Full-day workshop
Room: Virtual-only on Underline
Description: TBA
The Second Workshop on Multimodal Augmented Generation via Multimodal Retrieval (MAGMaR)
Organizers: Reno Kriz; Kenton Murray; Andrew Yates; Desmond Elliott; Francis Ferraro; Xiang Xiang; William Walden; Jeremy Gwinnup; Joel Brogan; Alexander Martin
Full-day workshop
Room: Old Town
Description: TBA
GEM: Natural Language Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics
Organizers: Simon Mille, Sebastian Gehrmann, Patrícia Schmidtová, Ondřej Dušek, Marzieh Fadaee, Kyle Lo, Enrico Santus, Gabriel Stanovsky
Full-day workshop
Room: Harbor E&F
Description: The 5th GEM Workshop on Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics focuses on the evolving challenges of evaluating increasingly powerful language models, examining new metrics, benchmarks, LM-based evaluators, and evaluation in real-world settings.
The 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for the Digital Humanities (NLP4DH)
Organizers: Sil Hamilton, Emily Öhman, Rebecca M. M. Hicke, Yuri Bizzoni, Axel Bax, Jacob A. Matthews, Mika Hämäläinen
Full-day workshop
Room: Regatta
Description: The 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for the Digital Humanities (NLP4DH)
The Ninth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-9)
Organizers: Sarah Moeller; Godfred Agyapong; Antti Arppe
Full-day workshop
Room: Balboa C
Description: ComputEL explores the interface and intersection of computational linguistics, documentary linguistics, and community-based efforts in language revitalization and reclamation
Seventh Workshop on NLP and Computational Social Science (NLP+CSS)
Organizers: Dallas Card, Anjalie Field, Katie Keith, Julia Mendelsohn
Full-day workshop
Room: Gaslamp A&B
Description: This workshop aims to advance the joint computational analysis of social sciences and language by explicitly involving social scientists, NLP researchers, and industry partners. Our focus is on NLP for social sciences - to continue the progress of CSS, and to integrate CSS with current trends and techniques in NLP.
Eleventh Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology (CLPsych)
Organizers: Aya Zirikly,Kfir Bar, Sean MacAvaney, Molly Ireland, Yaakov Ophir, Dana Atzil-Slonim, Vasudha Varadarajan, Steven Bedrick, and Bart Desmet
Full-day workshop
Room: Harbor H&I
Description: The 11th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: Moving Beyond Labels to Understand Mental Health Dynamics.
Beyond Alignment: Transdisciplinary Conversations on Human-AI Futures (BATCH)
Organizers: Matthew Stone, Malihe Alikhani, Camille Gagnier, Lauren M. E. Goodlad, Dan Roth, Mark Sammons
Full-day workshop
Room: Pier
Description: TBA
The 1st Workshop on Computational Developmental Linguistics (CDL)
Organizers: Martin Ziqiao Ma, Emmy Liu, Jing Liu, Tyler Chang, Abdellah Fourtassi, Alex Warstadt, Michael Hahn, Weiwei Sun, Freda Shi
Half-day workshop (afternoon)
Room: Harbor G
Description: The first workshop on computational developmental linguistics (CDL) invites interdisciplinary contributions broadly in the topic of computational developmental linguistics.
Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP (C3NLP) 2026
Organizers: Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Sunipa Dev, Luciana Benotti, Daniel Hershcovich, Yong Cao, Ife Adebara, Li Zhou
Half-day workshop (afternoon)
Room: La Jolla
Description: The 4th Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP (C3NLP)
Second Workshop on Evaluating Evaluations (EvalEval): Examining Best Practices for Utilizing and Developing Generative Model Evaluations
Organizers: Jennifer Mickel, Ichhya Pant, Mubashara Akhtar, Jan Batzner, Zeerak Talat, Avijit Ghosh
Half-day workshop (afternoon)
Room: Harbor A
Description: TBA
Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language Models (MeLLMs)
Organizers: Fengran Mo, Xue Zhang, Pinzhen Chen, Zheyuan Liu, Kaiyu Huang, Zhiqi Huang, Koel Dutta Chowdhury, Barry Haddow, Meng Jiang, Alexandra Birch, Jian-Yun Nie
Half-day workshop (afternoon)
Room: Gaslamp A&B
Description: The 1st Workshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language Models is to develop equitable language technologies for the world's languages to satisfy the needs of users across the globe.