The 19th Conference of the European Chapter
of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Rabat, Morocco
March 24-29, 2026

Welcome!

Welcome to the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL). EACL 2026 will be held in Rabat, Morocco, from March 24–29, 2026. As the flagship European conference in the field of computational linguistics, EACL welcomes European and international researchers covering a broad spectrum of research areas concerned with computational approaches to natural language. Here are some of our events and news.

News

Important Dates

(All deadlines 23:59 AoE)

• Commitment deadline for EACL 2026: December 14, 2025
• Notification of acceptance: January 3, 2026
• Overall Conference: March 24–29, 2026

EACL 2026 Anti-Harassment Policy

EACL 2026 adheres to the ACL’s code of ethics, ACL’s anti-harassment policy, and ACL’s code of conduct. Violations of the code of ethics as well as complaints raised under the anti-harassment policy should be brought to the Professional Conduct Committee, who can be reached during the conference via the PCC channel in RocketChat, or you may also contact any current member of the EACL Executive Board. Please be assured that if you approach the PCC or EACL board members, your concerns will be kept in strict confidence, and we will consult with you on any actions taken.

Statement from ARR and EACL 2026 Organizers re OpenReview data leakage

As noted in the ACL’s Nov 29 announcement, OpenReview was notified on Nov 27 of a software bug that allowed unauthorized access to authors, reviewers, and area chairs. The ACL announcement details how any use of the leaked information may result in severe consequences. Thankfully, the OpenReview team was able to fix the issue quickly.

After analyzing the server logs, OpenReview leadership met with ARR and informed us that the impact on ARR was very minor in comparison to other conferences hosted by OpenReview (especially ICLR). Since nearly all reviews had been finalized when the incident happened, only a small number of very late third reviews could have possibly been unduly influenced. However, there were nine papers where the area chair or senior area chair’s identity had been compromised. Consequently, we decided to replace the ACs and/or SACs of these papers to ensure that they received objective meta-reviews and to reduce the risk of retaliation against the AC or SAC for a negative meta-review. Please note though that we have no evidence that the unauthorized queries were issued by the authors, so the action we took was out of precaution.

For the next few cycles, ARR will additionally ensure that resubmissions receive new reviewers if the identities of the earlier submission’s reviewers were leaked.

The ARR October 2025 Editors-in-Chief and EACL 2026 Program Chairs