Call for Papers
SURGeLLM invites submissions on structured understanding, retrieval, generation, and evaluation in the era of LLMs — with structured artifacts (tables, charts, maps, flowcharts, diagrams) treated as first-class citizens.
Contact: surgellm@googlegroups.com. See Important Dates.
We welcome submissions in two categories: Proceedings (Archival) and Non-Proceedings (Non-Archival).
Submission
Main Submission (Archival)
Accepted papers are published in the ACL Anthology.
Non-Proceedings (Non-Archival)
Presentation-only track for cross-presentation of ACL 2026 Findings and other recently accepted work (not published in the workshop proceedings).
- We welcome both long (up to 8 pages) and short (up to 4 pages) submissions in ACL format (excluding references and appendices).
- At submission time, authors must indicate whether the paper is intended for archival (proceedings) or non-archival presentation.
- ARR-reviewed papers can be submitted via the commitment form if they have not been accepted/published elsewhere.
- ACL Findings / main-conference papers may request cross-presentation via the non-archival track (subject to capacity).
- We welcome a broad spectrum of contributions: position papers, datasets/benchmarks, systems reports, ablations, and negative results (when well-supported).
- If you rely on non-public resources (e.g., proprietary data), ensure results are responsibly summarized and compliant with ACL policies.
Main Submission (Archival)
Papers accepted in this category will be published in the ACL Anthology.
- Submissions may be under review elsewhere at the time of submission.
- Upon acceptance, authors must make a binding commitment to publish the paper in exactly one venue.
- Archival submissions must present substantially new and original work and comply with ACL policy on overlap/self-plagiarism.
- If you plan to submit your work to a future venue, choose the non-archival track instead.
Submit:
Non-Proceedings (Non-Archival)
This category is intended for presentation and discussion only; papers will not appear in the workshop proceedings.
We welcome cross-presentation of ACL 2026 Findings papers (and other recently accepted work), subject to capacity.
Submit:
What we’re looking for
We welcome a broad spectrum of contributions, including:
- New tasks, benchmarks, and evaluation frameworks for structured reasoning/retrieval/generation.
- Models and training recipes (prompting, fine-tuning, structure-specialized embeddings, agentic pipelines).
- Systems and deployment lessons (DataOps, governance, reliability, throughput/latency, human factors).
- Careful ablations, negative results, and reproducibility studies that illuminate failure modes and trade-offs.
Formatting and length
- We welcome both long (up to 8 pages) and short (up to 4 pages) papers in ACL format (excluding references and appendices).
- Submissions should be consistent with ARR submission requirements: https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#paper-submission-information
- If anonymization is required for your track, do not include author names/affiliations in the submitted PDF.
Submission checklist
- Pick a track: archival (proceedings) vs non-archival (presentation only).
- Use ACL format; stay within page limits (excluding references/appendix).
- Follow ARR/ACL anonymization rules when applicable.
- Include enough experimental detail to support reproducibility (and clearly state any non-public resources).
Topics
See the topics list on the home page: /acl2026/#topics.
Important dates
See /acl2026/dates/.
Mentoring and accessibility
- We plan a student mentoring lunch session and community Q&A (details TBD).
- If you have accessibility needs or questions about hybrid participation, email surgellm@googlegroups.com.
Multiple submission & cross-presentation
- At submission time, authors must clearly indicate whether their submission is intended for archival (proceedings) or non-archival presentation.
- Only papers not committed to any other venue are eligible for archival publication in the ACL Anthology.
- Papers previously accepted elsewhere are eligible only for non-archival presentation.
- Authors intending to submit their work to future conferences/journals should select the non-archival track.
- ACL Findings / main-conference papers may request cross-presentation via the non-archival track (subject to capacity).