2nd CfP - Extended Deadline: First Workshop on Language Technologies for Crisis Preparedness and Response (LT4CPR) at AACL 2026

LT4CPR - 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS: Extended Deadline

Important Dates

• Direct submission deadline — EXTENDED: August 31, 2026 (previously August 24, 2026)
• ARR commitment deadline: August 31, 2026
• Notification of acceptance: October 1, 2026
• Camera-ready version due: October 10, 2026
• Workshop day: November 9, 2026

All deadlines are 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth).

The language technologies (LTs) that were applied in response to the Haitian
earthquake of 2010 showed to the world the life-saving potential for these technologies,
where their application was responsible for saving 1,000s of lives. Most concerning is
that in a world that is hit by more than 350 disasters in an average year, the most
severe of these disasters occur in regions where English is not spoken. With the
development of massively popular AI systems used as general-purpose machines, the
potential of LTs in disaster preparedness and response has rapidly grown.
In response, the focus of this workshop is on the direct application of LTs in crisis
preparedness and response, including recent work on multilingual and multimodal LT.

We invite submissions to the First Workshop on Language Technologies for Crisis
Preparedness and Response (LT4CPR) at AACL 2026. The workshop focuses on
advancing speech and language technologies that support crisis preparedness, crisis
response, communication in crises and disaster risk reduction, and aims to bring
together LT research communities with crisis management stakeholders (such as
practitioners, NGOs, and industry) to bring to the fore interdisciplinary solutions that
have real-world impact.

In this first edition, we especially welcome work on:

• Identifying Community Needs: The crisis ecosystem is quite diverse, composed
  by affected populations, policy-makers, NGOs, industry, public officers,
  and emergency management.
• Interdisciplinary approaches for analysis, design, and evaluation of LT systems:
  insights from communication studies, social sciences, psychology, among others,
  on how to design and evaluate trustworthy crisis technology that fits stakeholders needs.
• Translating LT research into operational tools: how to go beyond AI model
  development to user adoption of technology in high-stakes scenarios.
• Ethics and societal implications of AI in crisis communication and management.

Topics of Interest

We invite submissions that fall under the following list (but not limited to):

• Research work on AI for crisis response, such as information extraction (e.g., NER and geolocation), situational awareness (e.g., automated triage), and more
• Qualitative studies to understand user needs and guide technology design
• Multilingual and multimodal research on crisis and humanitarian initiatives
• Evaluation and deployment considerations
• Automatic approaches to enhance or facilitate communication from and to communities during crisis (e.g., computational social media and news analysis, summarization, translation, etc.)
• Position papers and literature surveys on current trends, challenges and future directions
• Abstracts for talk proposals or field reports from practitioners, NGOs, humanitarian organizations, and field experts, including experience reports

Submission Types

The workshop will accept two types of papers:

1. Archival submissions: Papers of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited
   pages for limitations, references and appendices. Accepted papers will be given an
   additional page of content to address reviewer comments. Previously published papers
   cannot be accepted.
2. Non-Archival submissions: Up to 8 pages, excluding references, to
   summarise and showcase in-progress work and work published elsewhere. These papers
   may be presented at the workshop but will not appear in the proceedings.

Submission Tracks

The workshop offers two submission tracks. All deadlines are 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth).

Submission Tracks

The workshop offers two submission tracks. All deadlines are 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth).

Track 1 · Direct Submissions

Via OpenReview

For new work submitted directly to the LT4CPR workshop, authors may submit
archival or non-archival papers through OpenReview. The submission URL will be
provided in the next call for papers.

• Submission deadline — EXTENDED: August 31, 2026 (previously August 24, 2026)

Track 2 · ARR Commitment

Via ACL Rolling Review (ARR) and OpenReview

Authors can commit their ARR submissions to the workshop through OpenReview.
Please include the ARR reviews and meta-reviews with the submission.

• Commitment deadline: August 31, 2026

Submission Instructions

• All submissions must follow the ACL 2026 style guidelines and must be anonymized for double-blind review.
• Archival submissions must not be under review at another venue during the
  LT4CPR review period.
• We follow the ACL Code of Ethics . We encourage authors to include an Ethical Considerations section
  before the References section. This section does not count toward
  the page limit.

Please feel free to circulate this announcement among interested colleagues,
students, research groups, and relevant mailing lists.

We look forward to your participation.

Best regards,

LT4CPR 2026 Organizers
First Workshop on Language Technologies for Crisis Preparedness and Response
AACL-IJCNLP 2026