Call for Papers & Mentors
NAACL 2027 Student Research Workshop
San Francisco, California, USA

Pre-submission mentorship deadline: November 16, 2026
Direct paper submission deadline: January 11, 2027
Workshop website: https://naacl27-srw.github.io/

Overview

The Student Research Workshop invites student researchers in computational linguistics and natural language processing to present their work and receive feedback from the conference community and mentors matched to their research topics.

Submission Categories

- Thesis proposals: for PhD students seeking feedback on their thesis direction, research plan, and framing.
- Research papers: completed work or work in progress with preliminary results. The first author must be a current student or have completed the work while a student.

Submission Information

Papers should be submitted through OpenReview. Long papers may contain up to 8 content pages and short papers up to 4, with additional pages permitted for references and supplementary material.

Authors may choose archival or non-archival submission. Archival papers will appear in the NAACL 2027 SRW Proceedings. A non-archival submission cannot be changed to archival after acceptance.

Consult the workshop website and author guidelines for complete submission instructions and policies.

Call for Mentors

We also invite volunteers to mentor student researchers. To express interest, please complete:
https://forms.gle/5P2Mz69UwriMKkLJ6

Contact
naacl27-srw@googlegroups.com

Student Chairs
Dayeon (Zoey) Ki, University of Maryland, College Park
Cheng Qian, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Belu Ticona, George Mason University