Call for Papers: VarDial 2027 – The Fourteenth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects
VarDial 2027: https://aclsigvar.org/vardial2027
VarDial 2027 will be colocated with EACL 2027 in Athens, Greece, and will take place in a hybrid format (in person & online). We anticipate a discussion on computational methods and language resources for closely related languages, language varieties, and dialects.
We welcome papers dealing with one or more of the following topics:
- Language resources and tools for similar languages, varieties and dialects;
- Evaluation of language resources and tools applied to non-dominant language varieties;
- Cross-lingual transfer and adaptation of models to similar languages, varieties and dialects;
- Automatic identification of lexical variation;
- Automatic classification of language varieties;
- Machine translation between closely-related languages, language varieties and dialects;
- Corpus-driven studies in dialectology and language variation;
- Computational approaches to mutual intelligibility between dialects and similar languages;
- Text similarity and adaptation between language varieties;
- Linguistic issues in the adaptation of language resources and tools (e.g., cognate detection, semantic discrepancies, lexical gaps, false friends);
- Studies focusing on related creole languages and their lexifier languages;
- Studies focusing on diachronic language variation (e.g. phylogenetic methods, historical dialects).
** Instructions for Authors **
Submissions should be formatted according to the ACL Rolling Review template and submitted as a PDF. The review process will be double-blind. More information is on the website (https://aclsigvar.org/vardial2027/cfp).
** Important Dates **
- Direct Submission deadline: December 15, 2026
- Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: date TBD
- Notification of acceptance: January 20, 2027
- Camera-ready paper due: January 29, 2027
- Workshop at EACL (hybrid): March 9-14, 2027 (exact date TBD)
** Organizers **
Verena Blaschke – University of Groningen (The Netherlands)
Yves Scherrer – University of Oslo (Norway)
Niyati Bafna – Johns Hopkins University (USA)
Tommi Jauhiainen – University of Helsinki (Finland)
Nikola Ljubešić – Jožef Stefan Institute (Slovenia)
Preslav Nakov – Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (UAE)
Alan Ramponi – Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Italy)
Jörg Tiedemann – University of Helsinki (Finland)
Marcos Zampieri – George Mason University (USA)
Contact: v.blaschke [at] rug.nl or yves.scherrer [at] ifi.uio.no