The Workshop on Multi-modality and Multi-lingual Language Learning

Submission Guidelines

General Policy

The workshop is archivable, and its proceedings will be published in the ACL Anthology. All accepted and presented papers will appear in the workshop proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop and present the work at the hybrid 1-day event at AACL-IJCNLP 2026.

All submissions must follow ACL Policy on Publication Ethics, including ACL's Guidelines for Generative Assistance in Authorship. Dual submissions are not allowed. Submissions are editable, including authorship, until the deadline; no authorship changes are allowed after submission.

Paper Submissions

The workshop solicits double-blind paper submissions on multi-modal and multilingual language learning. We welcome submissions in the form of research ideas, empirical studies, deployed systems, benchmark or evaluation papers, review papers, best-practice papers, and lessons learned from real-world applications.

Workshop paper submissions may be up to 8 pages in the main body, with unlimited but reasonable references and appendices. Papers must include a mandatory section on the Limitations of the Work, placed after the conclusions and before the references. Authors must also include a mandatory Declaration on Generative AI section in the paper. Authors may optionally include a section discussing ethical considerations and concerns regarding their research.

Submission Format

1. Submissions are required to use the official ACL style template, available here. Please follow the paper formatting guidelines general to "*ACL" conferences available here. Authors may not modify these style files or use templates designed for other conferences.
2. Each submission shall be one single PDF file, including the references and appendices.
3. Supplementary materials of reasonable number and size may be included, but they are optional, and reviewers are not required to review these materials.
4. Submissions that do not adhere to the specified styles, including paper size, font size restrictions, and margin width, will be desk-rejected.
5. The reviewing process will be double-blind, wherein each paper will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. A meta-review will be provided in case of any disagreements. The final decision of acceptance/rejection will be made in consensus by the Chairs.

ARR Papers Resubmission

In addition to the workshop paper submissions specified in this CFP, we welcome resubmissions from ACL Rolling Review (ARR), as long as the topics are relevant to our workshop. Authors of papers that were submitted to ARR and have their meta review ready may submit their papers and reviews for consideration for the workshop by the ARR commitment deadline.

Authors can resubmit their reviewed papers from any previous 2026 ARR cycles. Reviewed and rejected submissions from ACL flagged conferences happening during 2026 and going through ARR 2026 cycles are welcome. Authors will be notified by the Notification of Acceptance date.

Submission Link

All submissions will be managed through OpenReview via dedicated submission websites:

• Workshop paper submissions should be submitted to AACL-IJCNLP 2026 Workshop Multi-LLL.
• ARR-reviewed paper submissions shall be committed through AACL-IJCNLP 2026 Workshop Multi-LLL ARR Commitment.

Note: Please be aware of OpenReview's moderation policy when creating new profiles without an institutional email.

Presentation

All accepted papers shall be presented as oral presentations at the conference, either in-person or remotely.