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First Call for Papers: 6th International Workshop on Computational
Approaches to Historical Language Change (LChange’26)
Co-located with EACL 2026, Rabat, Morocco & Online | March 24–29, 2026
📌 Website: https://www.changeiskey.org/event/2026-eacl-lchange/
📧 Contact: [email protected]
== About the Workshop ==
The LChange workshop brings together researchers interested in
computational modeling of language change — both historical and
synchronic. Following the success of LChange in 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023
and 2024, this sixth edition will be held as a hybrid half-day workshop
at EACL 2026 conference in Rabat.
We welcome contributions addressing all aspects of computational
approaches to language change. Our goal is to foster dialogue on
state-of-the-art computational methodologies, resources, and theories
that explore the dynamic, time-varying nature of language.
In addition to paper presentations and keynotes, we offer a mentorship
program for students to engage with experienced researchers, regardless
of whether they are submitting a paper or not.
== Important Dates (tentative) ==
Direct Submission deadline: December 19, 2025
Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026
Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026
Camera-ready paper due: February 3, 2026
Workshop dates: March 24-29, 2026
== Submission Information ==
We accept the following types of submissions:
- Long papers: up to 8 pages (+ references)
- Short papers: up to 4 pages (+ references). Dataset and model
release papers should be submitted as short papers.
Final versions will be given one additional page of content so that
reviewers' comments can be taken into account.
== Review Process ==
Papers must be submitted anonymously.
All submissions will undergo double-blind peer review by at least three
reviewers, with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organizers.
Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and
presented orally or as posters.
Call for reviewers: If you have published in the field previously and
are interested in helping out in the program committee to review papers,
please email us at [email protected]!
== Topics of Interest ==
We invite original research papers on (but not limited to):
- Novel methods for detecting diachronic semantic change and lexical
replacement
- Automatic discovery and quantitative evaluation of laws of language
change
- Computational theories and generative models of language change
- Sense-aware (semantic) change analysis
- Diachronic word sense disambiguation
- Novel methods for diachronic analysis of low-resource languages
- Novel methods for diachronic linguistic data visualization
- Novel applications and implications of language change detection
- Quantification of sociocultural influences on language change
- Cross-linguistic, phylogenetic, and developmental approaches to
language change
- Novel datasets for cross-linguistic and diachronic analyses of language
== Organizers ==
Nina Tahmasebi, University of Gothenburg
Pierluigi Cassotti, University of Gothenburg
Syrielle Montariol, UC Berkeley, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Andrey Kutuzov, University of Oslo
Netta Huebscher, University of Gothenburg
Elena Spaziani, Sapienza University of Rome
Naomi Baes, University of Melbourne
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Andrey
Language Technology Group (LTG)
University of Oslo
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