INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
PAPER TYPES AND FORMAT
Long papers must describe substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. Where appropriate, authors should include concrete evaluation and analysis, analysis of the impact of theories on technologies, and/or contributions of technologies to the advancement of theory. In-depth analysis and discussion of errors made in the experiments described and the influence of linguistically-motivated features on the performance of the methods and/or models applied will receive additional credit toward the overall evaluation score.
Long papers may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited pages of references and appendices in the accepted format. Final versions will be given one additional page of content (up to nine (9) pages), so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account.
Short papers must describe original and unpublished work dealing with a small, focused contribution that may be presented with sufficient level of detail within the allotted space.
Short papers may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited pages of references and appendices. Final versions of short papers will be given one additional page of content (up to five (5) pages), so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account.
CLIB 2026 also solicits submissions presenting project reports, new data resources, system demonstrations, position papers.
A Special Session on Wordnets, Framenets and Ontologies will take place at CLIB 2026. The Special Session aims at bringing together researchers interested in the principles, theory, practice and applications of wordnets, ontologies, related linguistic resources and their interoperability and seeks to establish a dedicated community and to foster joint initiatives in this particular field.
TEMPLATES
CLIB 2026 Guidelines for anonymised submission: PDF
Word template (anonymised) | Word template (camera-ready)
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
While papers should emphasise completed or well-advanced ongoing research rather than intended work, submissions describing a small, focused contribution or work in progress with promising results are also invited. Papers should clearly indicate the state of completion of the reported results.
Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, meaningful comparison, thoroughness, contributions to research resources, relevance to the conference, and interest to attendees.
Papers must be submitted anonymously in English.
Reviewing will use a double-blind procedure. Each submission will be reviewed by at least two anonymous reviewers.
Original submissions must be properly anonymised: they must not include authors’ names, affiliations, or acknowledgements. Self-references that could reveal the authors’ identities must be avoided. For example, instead of “We previously showed (XYZ, 2023) …”, write “XYZ previously showed (XYZ, 2023) …”.
Submissions should avoid links to non-anonymised repositories; code should be submitted as a link to an anonymised repository. Authors must ensure that identifying meta-information is removed from all files submitted for review. Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review.
All accepted papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings.
PAPER SUBMISSION
Submission and review are electronic, using the EasyChair conference management system via the CLIB 2026 EasyChair account. Submissions must be uploaded to the EasyChair system by the submission deadline: 15 April 2026, 23:59 EEST (UTC/GMT+3). Submissions made after that time will not be reviewed.
LICENCE AGREEMENT
Licence agreement: The works in the Proceedings are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. International Licence (CC BY 4.0). By submitting a paper for publication in the Proceedings, authors confirm that they accept the terms and conditions of the Licence.