The 15th edition of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2026) will be co-located with the fifteenth biennial Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026), at the Palau de Congressos de Palma in Palma, Mallorca, Spain, on May 16, 2026.

CMCL 2026: 1st Call for Papers
Deadline: Feb. 25; Workshop: May 16 (co-located with LREC)

We invite submissions to the 15th edition of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2026). CMCL invites papers on cognitive modeling, cognitively-inspired natural language processing, and more broadly, the alignment of language models with human cognition. Specific topics include, but are not limited to:

Analysis of computational models that process linguistic data to yield insights into human language comprehension, production, or acquisition.
Presentation and/or analysis of language resources that can yield insights into human language comprehension, production, or acquisition.
Aligning computational models with human subject data to understand what computations underlie language comprehension, production, or acquisition.
Modeling conditions and pressures that shape the emergence of human-like communicative systems.
Forward-looking positions about what and how the cognitive science, linguistics, and NLP fields can (or should) contribute to one another.


CMCL will only accept direct submissions through the START platform (submission link TBA). We invite three types of submissions, formatted according to the LREC guidelines:

Archival, regular workshop submissions that present original, unpublished research that are between 4 to 8 pages in length.
Non-archival submissions of extended abstracts that present preliminary results (from 2 to 4 pages + references).
Non-archival cross-submissions of long/short papers that present relevant research submitted/published elsewhere.

Only archival papers will be included in the proceedings, but all types of papers will be presented at the workshop.

Important Dates:

February 25, 2026: Paper submission deadline
March 23, 2026: Notification of acceptance
March 30, 2026: Camera-ready paper due
May 16, 2026: Workshop date

Deadlines are at 11:59 pm AOE.

The CMCL workshop is supported by the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL).

For questions, please contact cmclworkshop.organizers@gmail.com