CoNLL 2026

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#CoNLL, the Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (co-located with ACL 2026) conll.org July 3 & 4, 2026

Finally: our community discussion session. Program chair Claire Bonial introduces this year's new tracks, "Language and the Brain" and "Usage-based approaches (incl. Construction Grammars)". Both will receive a steady home at CoNLL and SIGNLL.

Today at CoNLL (paper links in thread): 1️⃣ 2:00 - 3:30 poster session (Harbor C): Zhenghao Herbert Zhou on what children's filler-gap input looks like! 2️⃣ 4:00 - 5:30 talk session (Harbor C): Claire Hobbs on how input statistics can support the learning of abstract syntactic rules!

Schedule for some presentations at CoNLL:
2:00 - 3:30 poster session in Harbor C: "What exactly do children receive in language acquisition? A case study on CHILDES with automated detection of filler-gap dependencies"
4:00 - 5:30 talk session in Harbor C: "Collocational bootstrapping: A hypothesis about the learning of subject-verb agreement in humans and neural networks"

Hallucinated references are the talk of the town now. How did we go about paper submissions with "hallucinated" references? At CoNLL, we viewed incorrect references as a violation of fundamental scholarly standards, and papers with such references were not sent for review.

What makes CoNLL special? Well many things, but one of them is that we just released the notifications of acceptance two days before the deadline! So, possibly for the first time in NLP history, no author will be spending a day refreshing an Open Review page!