### Call for Papers
The Student Research Workshop (SRW) provides a venue for student researchers to present their work in computational linguistics and natural language processing. Students receive feedback from the general conference audience as well as from mentors specifically assigned according to the topic of their work.
We invite papers in two different categories:
Thesis Proposals: This category is appropriate for Masters or PhD students who have decided on a thesis topic and wish to get feedback on their proposal and broader ideas for their continuing work.
Research Papers : Papers in this category can describe completed work, or work in progress with preliminary results. For these papers, the first author must be a current student. Topics of interest for the SRW are the same as for the ACL main conference. See the list of topics there.
### Submissions
Papers should be submitted through OpenReview by March 18, 2026 for general submissions (link: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2026/SRW_Direct_Submission), or February 4, 2026 for feedback through the mentorship program (link: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2026/SRW_Pre-submission_M...)
Submissions (in both categories) may be archival or non-archival, based on the wish of the authors. All archival papers will be published in the ACL 2026 SRW Proceedings. Non-archival papers may be submitted to any venue in the future except for another SRW. Please note that submissions marked as non-archival cannot be changed to archival after acceptance.
All submissions (archival and non-archival) must follow the anonymity period and the restrictions of the main conference.
-- Long papers consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus an unlimited number of pages for references and supplementary material like the appendix. Upon acceptance, papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages).
-- Short papers consist of up to four (4) pages of content, plus an unlimited number of pages for references and supplementary material like the appendix. Upon acceptance, papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 5 pages).
The Author Guidelines contain detailed submission instructions (https://acl2026-srw.github.io/author). Not following the author guidelines may result in your paper being desk-rejected.
### Website
Please see our CfP on the website for more details:
https://acl2026-srw.github.io/
Contact Information
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The co-chairs of the workshop can be contacted by email at: acl2026srwchairs@gmail.com
Organization
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Student Chairs:
* Ona de Gibert, University of Helsinki
* Juan Diego Rodriguez, University of Texas at Austin
* Santosh T.Y.S.S, Technical University of Munich & Amazon
Faculty Advisors:
* Yves Scherrer, University of Oslo
* Elias Stengel-Eskin, University of Texas at Austin
* Snigdha Chaturvedi, University of North Carolina