COLING 2027: First Call for Papers

Website: https://2027.coling-iccl.org/

The 32nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2027) will take place in Macau, China, May 9-14 2027. COLING 2027 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of computational linguistics and natural language processing.

Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

Benchmarking and Evaluation
Computational Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics
Computational Social Science and Sociolinguistics
Cross-lingual and Multilingual NLP (including Machine Translation)
Dialogue and Interactive Systems
NLP for Digital Humanities and Cultural Analytics
Discourse and Pragmatics
Ethics, Bias, Fairness, Alignment and Security
Human-AI Interaction and Social Impact of AI systems (including User Studies)
Information Extraction and Retrieval
Interpretability and Analysis of NLP Models
Knowledge-based NLP and Reasoning
Language Acquisition, Learning and Evolution
Language Diversity and NLP for Low-resourced/Less-studied Languages
Language Modeling, including Novel Architectures
Language Resources
Linguistic Theories and Language Modeling for Linguistic Insights
Machine Learning, including Resource-efficiency and Explainability
Agent-based LLM systems
Morphology and Syntax: Segmentation, Tagging, Chunking and Parsing
Multimodality and Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond
Natural Language Generation, Summarization and Simplification
NLP and LLM Applications
Phonology and Speech: Recognition, Synthesis, Spoken Language Modeling
Semantics: Lexical and Sentence-Level
Sentiment Analysis, Opinion and Argument Mining, Offensive Language Detection

COLING 2027 will also feature a special theme track devoted to uses of NLP/LLMs in service of linguistic research, with a particular focus on linguistic diversity. A more detailed description of the special theme will be distributed in mid-August.
Submission Details

All papers must be submitted through ACL Rolling Review (ARR). The latest possible time to submit is the ARR 2026 October cycle, but papers that have already received reviews and a meta-review from ARR from earlier cycles can also be committed to COLING 2027. Please note that the October ARR cycle is shared between COLING 2027 and NAACL 2027 and that authors will be able to choose which conference they want to commit their paper to (only) after the meta-reviews have been released.



COLING 2027 invites the submission of long papers of up to eight (8) pages and short papers of up to four (4) pages. These page limits only apply to the main body of the paper. At the end of the paper (after the conclusion but before the references) papers need to include a mandatory section discussing the limitations of the work and, optionally, a section discussing ethical considerations. Papers can include unlimited pages of references and an unlimited appendix. Authors should follow the general instructions for COLING 2027 proceedings, which will be published on the conference website together with submission templates.
Important Dates

ARR submission deadline (long & short papers): October 12, 2026
Commitment after meta-reviews: December 23, 2026
Notification of acceptance: February 10, 2027
Main Conference: May 9–14, 2027

General Chairs

Katrin Erk, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Chengqing Zong, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Program Chairs

Minlie Huang, Tsinghua University
Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University

Alexis Palmer, University of Colorado Boulder
Sina Zarrieß, University of Bielefeld

For questions about submissions: coling2027-pcchairs@googlegroups.com