VarDial 2027 – The Fourteenth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects

The Fourteenth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial) 2027 will be co-located with EACL 2027 in Athens, Greece, in March 2027. It will take place in a hybrid format (in person & online). The call for papers with the timeline is available here.

VarDial is a well-established series of workshops promoting a forum for scholars working on a range of topics related to the study of diatopic language variation from a computational perspective. VarDial 2027 is supported by the newly established ACL Special Interest Group on Similar Languages, Varieties, and Dialects (SIGVAR).

The workshop deals with 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).

Papers presented at the past editions of VarDial focused on machine translation between closely related languages and language varieties, adaptation of POS taggers and parsers for similar languages and language varieties, compilation of corpora, spelling normalization, computational approaches to the study of mutual intelligibility, and the automatic identification of similar languages and dialects.

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 æt rug.nl · yves.scherrer æt ifi.uio.no