The 1st Workshop on Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue (MINT)
Workshop website: https://mintworkshop.github.io/2026/
MINT 2026 will be co-located with the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing EMNLP 2026) in Budapest, Hungary. The workshop date is within the EMNLP 2026 conference dates of October 24–29, 2026.
Workshop Description
Human communication is inherently multimodal: meaning is conveyed not only through words and speech, but also through prosody, gesture, facial expression, gaze, and body pose. Yet much multimodal NLP still treats these signals as peripheral context or as outputs generated only after linguistic content has already been decided. MINT addresses this gap by focusing on multimodal interaction as a core part of communication.
Scope and Topics
We invite submissions to MINT: Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue. The workshop brings together researchers from computational linguistics, NLP, computer vision, HCI, robotics, and cognitive science working on multimodal face-to-face communication.
We welcome work on topics including:
- computational models that integrate verbal and non-verbal cues such as speech, text, gesture, facial expression, gaze, and body pose;
- cognitive and linguistic insights about face-to-face communication that can inform AI systems;
- multimodal datasets with synchronised speech, video, and motion data;
- evaluation methods for multimodal interaction;
- applications and tools for embodied conversational agents, social robots, annotation, and behavioural analysis.
Invited Speakers
- Judith Holler (Radboud University & Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)
- Vera Demberg (Saarland University & Max Planck Institute for Informatics)
Important Dates
ARR paper submission deadline: May 25, 2026
Direct paper submission deadline: July 8, 2026
Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline: August 24, 2026
Notification of acceptance: August 31, 2026
Camera-ready paper due: September 14, 2026
Deadlines are at 11:59 pm AOE. The timeline may change slightly.
Workshop Submissions
MINT welcomes both archival and non-archival contributions and will accept submissions through:
- Direct submission: MINT will also accept direct submissions. The dedicated OpenReview portal can be found here https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/MINT
- ARR commitment: Authors may submit through the current ACL Rolling Review (ARR) cycle and commit their paper later to MINT at https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/MINT_ARR_Commitment
Submission types
We invite two types of submissions:
1. Archival papers: Original, unpublished research to appear in the workshop proceedings. Submissions must be anonymous.
2. Non-archival papers: Previously published work, preliminary research, or demos to be presented at the workshop.
Papers may be submitted as long papers (up to 8 pages plus references) or short papers (up to 4 pages plus references).
Non-archival submissions do not need to be anonymous.
We allow cross-submissions to other venues. However, to be included in the proceedings, authors of accepted papers must withdraw them from any other venue where they remain under consideration.
Workshop Organizers
* Raquel Fernández (University of Amsterdam)
* Diego Frassinelli (LMU Munich)
* Esam Ghaleb (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)
* Bulat Khaertdinov (Maastricht University)
* Asli Ozyurek (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics / Radboud University)
* Ece Takmaz (Utrecht University)
* Zerrin Yumak (Utrecht University)
Contact
For any other questions, please contact us at mint.organizers [at] gmail.com.
Sponsors
The MINT workshop is sponsored by the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics: https://www.mpi.nl/