Long papers (archival)
Up to 8 pages of content, unlimited references; accepted papers will appear in ACL Anthology proceedings.
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GroundLM 2026
Grounding Language Models: Learning Faithfully and Efficiently @ EMNLP 2026
Oct 29 2026Official conference site Site reachable
GroundLM 2026 is a one-day workshop co-located with EMNLP 2026, focused on grounding in language models with emphasis on faithfulness, efficiency, and real-world reliability. It invites research on retrieval-augmented generation, knowledge grounding, factuality, hallucination, and evaluation benchmarks, offering both archival and non-archival submission tracks to foster community discussion and publication.
Key deadlines
Verified September 9, 2026Full paper
July 8, 2026
AoE
Conference timeline
Submission and decisions
Full paperKey deadline
July 8, 2026 · AoE
Paper fit
Contribution paths
A strong submission should clearly identify its contribution and evaluate it appropriately.
Short papers (archival)
Up to 4 pages of content, unlimited references; accepted papers will appear in ACL Anthology proceedings.
Non-archival papers
No page limit (4-8 pages standard); presented at the workshop but not included in proceedings.
Research areas in scope
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Scope and Topics of Interest
retrieval-augmented generationknowledge groundingfactualityhallucinationefficient training, adaptation, and inference methods for grounded LLMsevaluation frameworks and benchmarks for grounding and faithfulness
Policies worth checking twice
- All submissions must follow ACL 2026 style guidelines and be anonymized for double-blind review.
- Track 1 archival submissions must not be under review at other venues during the GroundLM review period.
- Authors must omit names and affiliations for double-blind reviewing.
- Authors are expected to attest to ethical considerations in accordance with the ACL Code of Ethics.
- Non-archival submissions may overlap with previously published or concurrently submitted work.
- Preprints may be posted publicly at any time without violating anonymity.
- ARR commitment track requires submission of reviews and meta-reviews from ARR May 2026 cycle or earlier, or from rejected conference submissions.
Official sources
Compiled from the official call for papers. The organizers’ pages remain authoritative.
Last verified September 9, 2026