First CfP for EMNLP Workshop on Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue (MINT)

We invite submissions to MINT: Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue, a workshop that brings together researchers from computational linguistics, NLP, computer vision, HCI, robotics, and cognitive science working on multimodal face-to-face communication.

Workshop website: https://mintworkshop.github.io/2026/

The Workshop will be co-located with EMNLP 2026 in Budapest, Hungary, October 24–29, 2026 (exact date within this period to be decided).

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 synchronized speech, video, and motion data;
- evaluation methods for multimodal interaction;
- applications and tools for embodied conversational agents, social robots, annotation, and behavioural analysis.

Papers should be prepared using the official ACL formatting guidelines and ACL style files.

MINT welcomes both archival and non-archival papers:
- Archival papers: Submissions must be anonymous and report original, unpublished research to appear in the workshop proceedings.
- Non-archival papers: Submissions reporting previously published work, preliminary research, or demos to be presented at the workshop and not published in the MINT proceedings.

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.

MINT will accept submissions through two channels:
1. Direct submission: The dedicated OpenReview portal for this is available at https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/MINT. Archival papers submitted through this channel will be reviewed by the MINT programme committee.
2. ACL Rolling Review (ARR): Authors may submit through ARR and commit their paper together with the ARR reviews to MINT later at https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/MINT_ARR_Commitment

**Important dates (11:59 pm AOE)**
- 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

Accepted contributions will be required to be presented at the MINT workshop as posters or talks.

The MINT workshop is sponsored by the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics: https://www.mpi.nl/

For questions, please contact: mint.organizers@gmail.com

On behalf of the workshop organisers:
- 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)