SIGTURK 2026 Workshop
Call for Papers
SIGTURK—
The Second Workshop on
Natural Language Processing for Turkic Languages
At EACL 2026
Rabat, Morocco
March 28-29, 2026[1]
Introduction
We are excited to announce the Second Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group on Turkic Languages, held in conjunction with The 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2026), Rabat, Morocco.
Our primary aim is to provide a venue to foster research on computational linguistics and natural language processing in Turkic languages. By co-locating with EACL, we seek to facilitate interaction among researchers from diverse backgrounds, encouraging the exchange of ideas and the presentation of cutting-edge work in natural language processing (NLP) specific to Turkic languages. The main objectives of the workshop are:
Promote the creation, curation, and evaluation of foundational resources that will accelerate progress and enable reproducible research for the entire Turkic language family,
Motivate and promote researchers from Turkic nations to attend EACL/ACL and other related conferences and follow state-of-the-art research and results on NLP and computational linguistics,
Host a shared task that establishes strong baselines and foster collaboration on key challenges in Turkic NLP,
Provide a venue for discussing the formulation and analysis of NLP models suitable for the typological features of Turkic languages, and
Strengthen collaborations between researchers in academia and industry with an interest enlarging connections across the community and allow rapid development of NLP methods and tools that are applicable to a wide range of Turkic languages.
Important Dates
Direct paper submission deadline: December 19, 2025
Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026
Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026
Camera-ready submission deadline: February 3, 2026
Workshop date: March 28-29, 2026
Note: All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h (“anywhere on Earth”).
Topics of interest
We invite submissions on all aspects Turkic computational linguistics and NLP. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Creation and curation of datasets, corpora, and benchmarks for monolingual or multilingual tasks in Turkic languages,
Studies on computational models for Turkic languages (morphology, syntax, semantics).
Novel NLP applications of Turkic languages.
Software libraries, tools and large language models for Turkic NLP,
Proper evaluation of large-language models in Turkic languages, and
Cross-lingual transfer between Turkic languages or from/to high-resource languages.
The workshop will also host a shared task on Terminology-Aware Machine Translation for English–Turkish Scientific Texts. Details will be posted at sigturk.org shortly.
Submissions
We invite novel research contributions as long papers following the EACL 2026 long paper format (anonymized with 8 pages excluding references and an additional page for the camera-ready versions for the accepted papers), and shared task system descriptions (4-6 pages excluding references). Submissions should use the ACL Paper Styles available at https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files (Latex and Word).
We will accept either direct submissions through our own submission page, or submissions to the general ACL Rolling Review. Direct submissions will be made via openreview.net. The exact URL will be available shortly at the workshop website link on sigturk.org.
All accepted papers will be published as part of our workshop proceedings and will be presented either through oral presentations or poster sessions.
Event details and registration
The workshop will be conducted in person at EACL and the presentation will be held at Rabat, Morocco. Further details will come shortly. Details regarding registration can be found on the main conference website 2026.eacl.org .
Organizers
Kemal Oflazer, Carnegie Mellon University, USA (General Chair)
Abdullatif Köksal, Google DeepMind, UK (Program Committee Co-Chair)
Onur Varol, Sabancı University, Turkey (Program Committee Co-Chair)
Jonne Sälevä - Brandeis University, USA (Publicity Chair)
Gözde Gül Şahin - Koç University, Turkey (Shared-Task Chair)
Program Committee (confirmed):
Emre Can Açıkgöz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Mehmet Fatih Amasyalı, Yıldız Technical University
İnanç Arın, Sabancı University
Nimet Beyza Bozdağ, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Cem Bozşahin, Boğaziçi University
Necva Bölücü, CSIRO
Çağrı Çöltekin, University of Tübingen
Seza Doğruöz, Ghent University
Gülşen Eryiğit, Istanbul Technical University
Tunga Güngör, Boğaziçi University
Dilek Hakkani-Tür, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Jafar Isbarov, Virginia Tech
Dilara Keküllüoğlu, Sabancı University
Aykut Koç, Bilkent University
Murathan Kurfalı, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
Constantine Lignos, Brandeis University
Arzucan Özgür, Boğaziçi University
Adnan Öztürel, Google
Anar Rzayev, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
Lütfi Kerem Şenel, TNG Technology Consulting
A. Cüneyd Tantuğ, Istanbul Technical University
Çağrı Toraman, Middle East Technical University
Gökhan Tür, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Jonathan Washington, Swarthmore College
Reyyan Yeniterzi, GenAIus Technologies
Süveyda Yeniterzi, GenAIus Technologies
Deniz Yuret, Koç University
Kerem Zaman, UNC-Chapel Hill
Deniz Zeyrek, Boğaziçi University
More information
For further details and updates, see sigturk.org. For any questions please send an email to sigturk.secretary@gmail.com .