Deadline Extension and Final Call for Papers: 7th AfricaNLP Workshop @ EACL 2026 (Rabat, Morocco) Theme: Multilingual Multimodal LLMs Website: https://sites.google.com/view/africanlp2026/home Submission URL: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop/AfricaNLP
The AfricaNLP workshop at EACL 2026 invites papers related to any aspect of NLP for African languages. In the current landscape, large language models (LLMs) have seen widespread use and significant innovation, yet African languages remain underrepresented. To address this disparity, the theme for the 2026 workshop is Multilingual Multimodal LLMs. We believe this is an especially timely theme as LLMs are becoming more multilingually capable, but their performance across other modalities such as images and speech continues to lag behind. This workshop invites research and discussion on how multilingual and multimodal systems can better reflect the diversity of African languages and communities. Key Dates (all deadlines Anywhere on Earth time zone) - Direct Submission: December 22nd, 2025 (extended) - ARR Submission: January 9th, 2026 - Acceptance Notification: January 23, 2026 - Workshop: day-long event during EACL 2026 (March 24-29, 2026) Submission Formats - Full Papers: 4–8 pages (archival or non-archival) - Extended Abstracts: up to 2 pages (non-archival) - ARR Submissions: Papers from the October 2025 ARR cycle (or earlier) with completed reviews and metareview AfricaNLP aspires to bring together a diverse group of researchers to explore solutions, collaborations, and innovation around enhancing LLMs’ capabilities in African languages and ensuring cultural awareness in their applications. We particularly welcome first-time authors, collaborative efforts, and work connecting multiple modalities — text, speech, or vision — for the benefit of African communities. *Contact: *[email protected] Constantine Lignos Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics Pronouns: he/him/his
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