SIGTURK—
The Second Workshop on
Natural Language Processing for Turkic Languages
At EACL 2026
Rabat, Morocco
March 28-29, 2026[1]
# Introduciton
We are excited to announce the Second Meeting of the ACL Special
Interest Group on Turkic Languages, held in conjunction with The 19th
Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (EACL 2026), Rabat, Morocco.
Our primary aim is to provide a venue to foster research on
computational linguistics and natural language processing in Turkic
languages. By co-locating with EACL, we seek to facilitate interaction
among researchers from diverse backgrounds, encouraging the exchange of
ideas and the presentation of cutting-edge work in natural language
processing (NLP) specific to Turkic languages. The main objectives of
the workshop are:
- Promote the creation, curation, and evaluation of foundational
resources that will accelerate progress and enable reproducible
research for the entire Turkic language family,
- Motivate and promote researchers from Turkic nations to attend
EACL/ACL and other related conferences and follow state-of-the-art
research and results on NLP and computational linguistics,
- Host a shared task that establishes strong baselines and foster
collaboration on key challenges in Turkic NLP,
- Provide a venue for discussing the formulation and analysis of NLP
models suitable for the typological features of Turkic languages,
and
- Strengthen collaborations between researchers in academia and
industry with an interest enlarging connections across the community
and allow rapid development of NLP methods and tools that are
applicable to a wide range of Turkic languages.
# Important Dates
- Direct paper submission deadline: December 19, 2025
- Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026
- Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026
- Camera-ready submission deadline: February 3, 2026
- Workshop date: March 28-29, 2026
- Note: All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h (“anywhere on Earth”).
# Topics of interest
We invite submissions on all aspects Turkic computational linguistics
and NLP. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Creation and curation of datasets, corpora, and benchmarks for
monolingual or multilingual tasks in Turkic languages,
- Studies on computational models for Turkic languages (morphology,
syntax, semantics).
- Novel NLP applications of Turkic languages.
- Software libraries, tools and large language models for Turkic NLP,
- Proper evaluation of large-language models in Turkic languages, and
- Cross-lingual transfer between Turkic languages or from/to
high-resource languages.
The workshop will also host a shared task on Terminology-Aware Machine
Translation for English–Turkish Scientific Texts. Details will be posted
at sigturk.org shortly.
# Submissions
We invite novel research contributions as long papers following the EACL
2026 long paper format (anonymized with 8 pages excluding references and
an additional page for the camera-ready versions for the accepted
papers), and shared task system descriptions (4-6 pages excluding
references). Submissions should use the ACL Paper Styles available at
https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files (Latex and Word).
We will accept either direct submissions through our own submission
page, or submissions to the general ACL Rolling Review. Direct
submissions will be made via openreview.net. The exact URL will be
available shortly at the workshop website link on https://www.sigturk.org.
All accepted papers will be published as part of our workshop
proceedings and will be presented either through oral presentations or
poster sessions.
# Event details and registration
The workshop will be conducted in person at EACL and the presentation
will be held at Rabat, Morocco. Further details will come shortly.
Details regarding registration can be found on the main conference
website https://2026.eacl.org.
# Organizers
Kemal Oflazer, Carnegie Mellon University, USA (General Chair)
Abdullatif Köksal, Google DeepMind, UK (Program Committee Co-Chair)
Onur Varol, Sabancı University, Turkey (Program Committee Co-Chair)
Jonne Sälevä - Brandeis University, USA (Publicity Chair)
Gözde Gül Şahin - Koç University, Turkey (Shared-Task Chair)
## Program Committee (confirmed)
Emre Can Açıkgöz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Mehmet Fatih Amasyalı, Yıldız Technical University
İnanç Arın, Sabancı University
Nimet Beyza Bozdağ, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Cem Bozşahin, Boğaziçi University
Necva Bölücü, CSIRO
Çağrı Çöltekin, University of Tübingen
Seza Doğruöz, Ghent University
Gülşen Eryiğit, Istanbul Technical University
Tunga Güngör, Boğaziçi University
Dilek Hakkani-Tür, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Jafar Isbarov, Virginia Tech
Dilara Keküllüoğlu, Sabancı University
Aykut Koç, Bilkent University
Murathan Kurfalı, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
Constantine Lignos, Brandeis University
Arzucan Özgür, Boğaziçi University
Adnan Öztürel, Google
Anar Rzayev, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
Lütfi Kerem Şenel, TNG Technology Consulting
A. Cüneyd Tantuğ, Istanbul Technical University
Çağrı Toraman, Middle East Technical University
Gökhan Tür, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Jonathan Washington, Swarthmore College
Reyyan Yeniterzi, GenAIus Technologies
Süveyda Yeniterzi, GenAIus Technologies
Deniz Yuret, Koç University
Kerem Zaman, UNC-Chapel Hill
Deniz Zeyrek, Boğaziçi University
# More information
For further details and updates, see sigturk.org. For any questions
please send an email to sigturk.secretary@gmail.com .
# Footnotes
[1] Exact slot TBD.