Computational Linguistics invites submissions to a Special Issue on the Ethics of Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics.
Submission deadline: 27 November 2026
Notification: February 2027
Expected publication: October 2027
Full call for papers: https://submissions.cljournal.org/index.php/cljournal/announcement/view/18
Submit: https://submissions.cljournal.org/index.php/cljournal/submission
When submitting, select the section "Special Issue: Ethics in NLP and CL" and state the paper type (long, short, survey or position paper) in your cover letter. Formatting and page limits: https://submissions.cljournal.org/index.php/cljournal/about/submissions
We welcome theoretical and technical contributions that reflect on the ethics of language technologies, including bias and fairness, algorithmically mediated harms, power relationships, multilingual and decolonial perspectives, environmental impacts, and data labour. Inter-, cross- and transdisciplinary submissions are particularly encouraged.
Guest editors: Karën Fort (Université de Lorraine / LORIA), Margot Mieskes (University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt), Zeerak Talat (University of Edinburgh)
Questions: cl_si_ethics [at] inria.fr
Computational Linguistics is the flagship journal of the ACL (impact factor 13.4, ranked #1 in Linguistics), published by MIT Press as a diamond open access journal: no fees to publish, and all content is free to read.