*First Call for Main Conference Papers*

*EACL 2027*: 20th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

March 9-14, 2027, Athens, Greece
*Special Theme*: The Human in Language
*ARR submission deadline*: Aug 3, 2026
*EACL commitment deadline*: Oct 11, 2026
*Details*: https://2027.eacl.org/calls/papers/

*Overview*
The 20th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (EACL 2027) invites the submission of long and
short papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research on Natural
Language Processing. EACL 2027 will take place in Athens, Greece, from March
9 to 14, 2027.

*Submission information*
EACL 2027 will use ACL Rolling Review (ARR) as its reviewing system, but final
decisions will be made by the conference. Both the submission of articles for
review and the commitment of reviewed articles to the conference will be
handled via the OpenReview platform, in a two-step process:
* Authors submit articles to ARR, where submissions receive reviews and
meta-reviews from ARR reviewers and action editors.
* Authors commit their reviewed articles to a publication venue (e.g. EACL
2027), where Senior Area Chairs and Program Chairs make acceptance decisions
from the ARR reviews and meta-reviews.

Papers must be submitted, at the latest, by the ARR 2026 August cycle. Papers
that have received reviews and a meta-review from ARR (whether from the ARR
2026 August cycle or an earlier ARR cycle) may be committed to EACL via the
commitment link. Dual submissions are not allowed.
The authors should contact ARR with any questions about the review process at
editors [at] aclrollingreview.org. For questions about commitment and
post-review topics, contact eacl2027-pcs [at] googlegroups.com.

*Important Dates*
* *ARR submission deadline (long & short papers)*: 3 August 2026
* *Reviewer registration deadline for ALL authors*: 5 August 2026
* *Author response period*: 14 - 19 September 2026
* *Reviewer engagement & author-reviewer discussion*: 20 - 24 September 2026
* *Meta-reviews released*: 8 October 2026
* *EACL 2027 commitment deadline*: 11 October 2026
All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth").
*Important change*: For this cycle, author response and author-reviewer
discussion are two separate stages. In the first (14-19 September 2026),
authors take the time to respond to the reviewers; reviewers will not be
engaged at this stage. In the second (20-24 September 2026), reviewers and
authors engage in any necessary discussion and reviewers finalise their
reviews. Further details will be provided in due time.

*Topics of Interest*
EACL 2027 aims to have a broad technical program. Relevant topics for the
conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas (in
alphabetical order):

* Clinical and Biomedical Applications
* Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics
* Dialogue and Interactive Systems
* Discourse and Pragmatics
* Efficient Methods for NLP
* Ethics, Bias, and Fairness
* Generation
* Human-Centered NLP and Human-AI Interaction
* Information Extraction
* Information Retrieval and Text Mining
* Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP
* Language Modeling
* LLM Agents
* Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling, and Psycholinguistics
* Machine Learning for NLP
* Machine Translation
* Multilingualism and Cross-Lingual NLP
* Multimodality and Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond
* NLP Applications
* NLP and Code Models
* NLP and Symbolic Reasoning
* Phonology, Morphology, and Word Segmentation
* Question Answering
* Resources and Evaluation
* Semantics: Lexical and Sentence-Level
* Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining
* Speech Recognition, Text-to-Speech and Spoken Language Understanding
* Summarization
* Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing

*Special Theme: The Human in Language*
The EACL 2027 special theme, "The Human in Language", invites papers that
explore how the human sciences of language can inform and shape NLP research
across the full research cycle: model development, representation learning,
data collection and annotation, evaluation, interpretability, interaction, and
deployment. We also welcome work that uses NLP methods and contemporary
language models to advance the scientific study of language, cognition,
communication, and the brain, while the central focus of the track remains on
strengthening the role of the language sciences as a source of scientific
grounding, methodological guidance, and conceptual insight for NLP itself.

*Long Papers*
Long paper submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and
unpublished work. Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus
unlimited pages for references and appendices. Upon acceptance, long papers
will be given one additional page of content (i.e. up to 9 pages) in the
proceedings so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account.

*Short Papers*
Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. A short
paper is not a shortened long paper; instead, short papers should have a point
that can be made in a few pages. Short papers may consist of up to 4 pages of
content, plus unlimited references and appendices. Upon acceptance, short
papers will be given one additional page of content (i.e. up to 5 pages) in the
proceedings so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account.

*Presentation at the Conference*
All accepted papers must be presented at the conference to appear in the
proceedings. The conference will include both in-person and virtual
presentation options. Papers without at least one presenting author registered
by the early registration deadline may be subject to rejection. Long and short
papers will be presented orally or as posters, as determined by the program
committee. While short papers will be distinguished from long papers in the
proceedings, there will be no distinction in the proceedings between papers
presented orally and papers presented as posters.

*Contact Information*
General Chair:
* Isabelle Augenstein, University of Copenhagen

Program Chairs:
* Malvina Nissim, University of Groningen
* Roi Reichart, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
* Sara Tonelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
For questions related to paper submission and the review process in general,
email: editors [at] aclrollingreview.org

For questions about commitment and post-review related topics, email:
eacl2027-pcs [at] googlegroups.com
Read more: https://2027.eacl.org/calls/papers/