BEA 2026 Call for Papers
The BEA 2026 Workshop (co-located with ACL in San Diego, California, United States, on July 2nd or 3rd, 2026) invites submissions to the main track, including both long and short papers. Accepted submissions will be considered for oral or poster presentations.
Topics
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the application of NLP techniques in educational settings such as:
- automated evaluation of written and spoken open-ended responses
- game-based learning and assessment methods
- educational data mining
- exploring the role and impact of generative AI in education
- intelligent tutoring systems
- collaborative and social learning platforms
- peer assessment and review tools
- grammar error detection and correction
- learner cognition modeling
- spoken dialogue systems
- multimodal educational applications
- annotation standards and linguistic schemas
- tools for teachers, learners, and assessment developers
- corpus-based educational tools and systems
Submission
We rely on the ACL submission guidelines and the START conference system, accessible at https://softconf.com/acl2026/bea2026/. All submissions undergo review by the program committee. For more information, see the Submission page.
Important Dates
All deadlines are 11:59pm UTC-12 (anywhere on earth). Please note that these deadlines are preliminary and may change slightly.
| Event | Date |
|---|---|
| Submission Deadline | March 23, 2026 |
| Notification of Acceptance | April 28, 2026 |
| Camera-ready Papers Due | May 12, 2026 |
| Pre-recorded Videos Due | June 4, 2026 |
| Workshop | July 2-3, 2026 |
Contact
For questions, please contact: bea.nlp.workshop@gmail.com