Long papers
Must not exceed eight (8) pages of content; references, limitation and ethical consideration sections, and appendices do not count against the limit.
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LAW 2026
The 20th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW XX) - ARR Commitment
LAW XX (2026) is the 20th Linguistic Annotation Workshop, co-located with ACL 2026 in San Diego, serving as the annual forum for the ACL and ELRA Special Interest Group on Annotation (SIGANN). It focuses on innovative research in linguistic annotation, including annotation schemes, methods for manual and automatic annotation, annotation software, data representation, and interoperability, with a special theme on errors in annotation—addressing objectively incorrect annotations in both human- and LLM-generated datasets.
Key deadlines
Verified September 9, 2026Full paper
March 24, 2026
AoE
Workshop timeline
Submission and decisions
Full paperKey deadline
March 24, 2026 · AoE
Paper fit
Contribution paths
A strong submission should clearly identify its contribution and evaluate it appropriately.
Short papers
Must not exceed four (4) pages of content; references, limitation and ethical consideration sections, and appendices do not count against the limit.
Demonstrations
Must not exceed four (4) pages of content; references, limitation and ethical consideration sections, and appendices do not count against the limit.
Posters
Related to the special theme or any aspect of linguistic annotation; presented during the hybrid poster session.
Position papers
Substantiated position papers are invited, particularly regarding the special theme on errors in annotation.
Research areas in scope
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General Linguistic Annotation Topics
Creation and evaluation of annotation schemesMethods for automatic and manual annotationUse and evaluation of annotation software and frameworksRepresentation of linguistic data and annotationsSemi-supervised 'human in the loop' methods of annotationCrowd-sourcing approachesAnnotation evaluationInter-annotator agreement and other evaluation metricsQualitative evaluation of linguistic representationsInnovative means to evaluate annotation qualityAnnotation access and useRepresentation formats/structures for annotations of different phenomenaAnnotation schemes, guidelines and standardsNew and innovative annotation schemesComparison of annotation schemesMethodologies and resources for annotation scheme developmentBest practices for annotation procedures and documentationInteroperability of annotation formats and frameworksResults from application and evaluation of standards for linguistic annotationDevelopment, evaluation and innovative use of annotation software frameworks
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Special Theme: Errors in Annotation
Annotation error detectionAnnotation error correctionError type classificationError detection and correction in crowd-sourced annotationsErrors in LLM-generated annotationsRole of error analysis in improving data qualityTechniques or tools to quantify data quality
Policies worth checking twice
- Submissions must be original and unpublished research.
- Papers must not have been or be submitted to other meetings with publicly available proceedings.
- Reviewing is double-blind: authors' names, affiliations, and self-references revealing identity must be omitted.
- Long papers are limited to 8 pages of content; short papers and demonstrations to 4 pages; references, optional limitation/ethical sections, and appendices do not count against limits.
- Appendices must not contain essential details needed to understand or review the paper.
- All submissions must be in PDF format.
- Authors must disclose if papers are submitted to or will be submitted to other meetings or publications.
- Accepted papers must be presented at the workshop (in-person or virtually).
Official sources
Compiled from the official call for papers. The organizers’ pages remain authoritative.
Last verified September 9, 2026