📰 VarDial 2026 — accepted papers

VarDial 2026 is the 2026 edition of the Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial), held in Rabat, Morocco, March 2026 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 32 papers of it; our library holds 18 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

All accepted papers (32)

The most cited first; 18 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. Dialect Matters: Cross-Lingual ASR Transfer for Low-Resource Indic Language Varieties ↗Akriti Dhasmana, Aarohi Srivastava, David Chiang2 citations
2. A Closed-Track System for Palestinian Arabic in the AMIYA Shared TaskKhaleel Hamad, Ahmad Al-Najjarour summary
3. A Subword Embedding Approach for Variation Detection in Luxembourgish User CommentsAnne-Marie Lutgen, Alistair Plum, Christoph Purschkeour summary
4. AMIYA Shared Task: Arabic Modeling In Your Accent at VarDial 2026Nathaniel R. Robinson, Shahd Abdelmoneim, Anjali Kantharuban et al.our summary
5. Aladdin-FTI @ AMIYA Three Wishes for Arabic NLP: Fidelity, Diglossia, and Multidialectal GenerationJonathan Mutal, Perla Al Almaoui, Simon Hengchen et al.our summary
6. Ara-HOPE: Human-Centric Post-Editing Evaluation for Dialectal Arabic to Modern Standard Arabic TranslationAbdullah Alabdullah, Lifeng Han, Chenghua Linour summary
7. Bridging Dialectal Variation: A Phonetic Transcription Tool for Tamil ↗Ahrane Mahaganapathy, Sumirtha Karunakaran, Kavitha Navakulan et al.
8. Building ASR Resources for the Hutsul Dialect of Ukrainian ↗Roman Kyslyi, Artem Orlovskyi, Pavlo Khomenko et al.
9. Crowdsourcing Piedmontese to Test LLMs on Non-Standard OrthographyGianluca Vico, Jindřich Libovickýour summary
10. Curriculum Learning and Pseudo-Labeling Improve the Generalization of Multi-Label Arabic Dialect Identification ModelsAli Mekky, Mohamed El Zeftawy, Lara Hassan et al.our summary
11. Do Large Language Models Adapt to Language Variation across Socioeconomic Status? ↗Elisa Bassignana, Mike Zhang, Dirk Hovy et al.
12. Effects of Speaker Bias in Dialect Identification and Automatic Transcription with Self-Supervised Speech Models ↗Olli Kuparinen
13. Evaluation Framework for Transfer Learning between Closely Related Lects: A Case Study of Lemko ↗Ilia Afanasev
14. Extending ASR Evaluation Resources for Modern Greek DialectsChara Tsoukala, Stavros Bompolas, Antigoni Margariti et al.our summary
15. Far Out: Evaluating Language Models on Slang in Australian and Indian English ↗Deniz Kaya Dilsiz, Dipankar Srirag, Aditya Joshi
16. From FusHa to Folk: Exploring Cross-Lingual Transfer in Arabic Language Models ↗Abdulmuizz Khalak, Abderrahmane Issam, Gerasimos Spanakis
17. German-English Code-Switching in Large Language Models ↗Firat Cem Aksüt, Stefan Hillmann, Pia Knoeferle et al.
18. How Should We Model the Probability of a Language? ↗Rasul Dent, Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Thibault Clérice et al.
19. Improving Dialect Robustness in Large Language Models via LoRA and Mixture-of-ExpertsSanjh Maheshwari, Aniket Singh Rajpoot, Oana Cocarascu et al.our summary
20. Indic-TunedLens: Interpreting Multilingual Models in Indian LanguagesMihir Panchal, Deeksha Varshney, Mamta et al.our summary
21. Language Mixture to Develop Accurate Galician Dependency Parsers: An Exploration of Its EffectsXabier Irastortza-Urbieta, José M. García-Miguel, Marcos Garciaour summary
22. MBZUAI at AMIYA Shared Task 2026: Adapting Open-Source LLMs for Dialectal Arabic ↗Rana Gaber, Yara Allam, Serag Amin et al.
23. Maastricht University at AMIYA: Adapting LLMs for Dialectal Arabic using Fine-tuning and MBR DecodingAbdulhai Alali, Abderrahmane Issamour summary
24. NUS-IDS at AMIYA/VarDial 2026: Improving Arabic Dialectness in LLMs with Reinforcement LearningSujatha Das Gollapalli, Mouad Hakam, Mingzhe Du et al.our summary
25. OcWikiDialects: A Wikipedia Dataset With Rich Metadata for Occitan Dialect IdentificationOriane Nédey, Rachel Bawden, Thibault Clérice et al.our summary

See all 32 papers in VarDial 2026 — accepted papers →

📄 Papers with our summary in our library (18)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. Extending ASR Evaluation Resources for Modern Greek DialectsWorkshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)Chara Tsoukala, Stavros Bompolas, Antigoni Margariti, et al.2026 · 4 citations
2. Ara-HOPE: Human-Centric Post-Editing Evaluation for Dialectal Arabic to Modern Standard Arabic TranslationWorkshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)Abdullah Alabdullah, Lifeng Han, Chenghua Lin2026 · 2 citations
3. NUS-IDS at AMIYA/VarDial 2026: Improving Arabic Dialectness in LLMs with Reinforcement LearningWorkshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)Sujatha Das Gollapalli, Mouad Hakam, Mingzhe Du, et al.2026 · 1 citation
4. A Closed-Track System for Palestinian Arabic in the AMIYA Shared TaskWorkshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)Khaleel Hamad, Ahmad Al-Najjar2026 · 1 citation
5. Improving Dialect Robustness in Large Language Models via LoRA and Mixture-of-ExpertsWorkshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)Sanjh Maheshwari, Aniket Singh Rajpoot, Oana Cocarascu, et al.2026 · 1 citation
6. OcWikiDialects: A Wikipedia Dataset With Rich Metadata for Occitan Dialect IdentificationWorkshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)Oriane Nédey, Rachel Bawden, Thibault Clérice, et al.2026 · 1 citation
7. Syllable Structures Across Arabic VarietiesWorkshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)Abdelrahim Qaddoumi, Jordan Kodner, Salam Khalifa, et al.2026 · 1 citation
8. AMIYA Shared Task: Arabic Modeling In Your Accent at VarDial 2026Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)Nathaniel R. Robinson, Shahd Abdelmoneim, Anjali Kantharuban, et al.2026 · 1 citation
9. Maastricht University at AMIYA: Adapting LLMs for Dialectal Arabic using Fine-tuning and MBR DecodingWorkshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)Abdulhai Alali, Abderrahmane Issam2026
10. SDNLP at AMIYA 2026: Syrian Arabic Dialect Modeling with LoRAWorkshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)Hasan Alkhder, Mohammad Abboush2026
11. A Subword Embedding Approach for Variation Detection in Luxembourgish User CommentsWorkshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)Anne-Marie Lutgen, Alistair Plum, Christoph Purschke2026
12. Onomasiological Sense Alignment Across Dialect Dictionaries. A Taxonomy-Constrained LLM ClassificationWorkshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)Nathalie Mederake, Nico Urbach, Hanna Fischer, et al.2026
13. Curriculum Learning and Pseudo-Labeling Improve the Generalization of Multi-Label Arabic Dialect Identification ModelsWorkshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)Ali Mekky, Mohamed El Zeftawy, Lara Hassan, et al.2026
14. Aladdin-FTI @ AMIYA Three Wishes for Arabic NLP: Fidelity, Diglossia, and Multidialectal GenerationWorkshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)Jonathan Mutal, Perla Al Almaoui, Simon Hengchen, et al.2026
15. Indic-TunedLens: Interpreting Multilingual Models in Indian LanguagesWorkshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)Mihir Panchal, Deeksha Varshney, Mamta, et al.2026
16. Regional Variation in the Performance of ASR Models on Croatian and SerbianWorkshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)Tanja Samardžić, Peter Rupnik, Nikola Ljubešić2026
17. Language Mixture to Develop Accurate Galician Dependency Parsers: An Exploration of Its EffectsWorkshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)Xabier Irastortza-Urbieta, José M. García-Miguel, Marcos Garcia2026
18. Crowdsourcing Piedmontese to Test LLMs on Non-Standard OrthographyWorkshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)Gianluca Vico, Jindřich Libovický2026

🧭 Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

Semitic languages (9)🧠Language models & pretraining (5)🎙️Speech & spoken language (2)📏Evaluation & benchmarks (2)🌳Dependency parsing (1)🔁Machine translation (1)🌍Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (1)✂️Tokenization & segmentation (1)

📚 Fields

🎭Arts and Humanities (18)🖥️Computer Science (18)💭Psychology (2)

🧑‍🔬 Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

🏛️ Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

🎓Brigham Young UniversityProvo · United States1 work here🎓University of GenevaGeneva · Switzerland1 work here🎓Indian Institute of Technology PatnaPatna · India1 work here🔬Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numériqueLe Chesnay-Rocquencourt · France1 work here🎓Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore · United States1 work here🎓Philipps University of MarburgMarburg · Germany1 work here🎓National University of SingaporeSingapore · Singapore1 work here🎓University of the Basque CountryLeioa · Spain1 work here🎓Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore · Singapore1 work here🎓King's College LondonLondon · United Kingdom1 work here🎓University of LuxembourgLuxembourg · Luxembourg1 work here🎓Universidade de Santiago de CompostelaSantiago de Compostela · Spain1 work here

Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library.

↑ back to top

This page in Markdown → https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/2026/