Overview

At a Glance

Why submit?

  • Reach a multidisciplinary audience spanning NLP, ML, and IR communities.
  • Publish archival proceedings papers or present non-archival work for community discussion.
  • Showcase new benchmarks, datasets, systems, and lessons learned — including negative results.
  • Interact with leading researchers tackling faithfulness and grounding challenges.

Who should submit?

  • Students, researchers, and practitioners in NLP, IR, and ML.
  • Work on retrieval-augmented generation, knowledge grounding, factuality, and hallucination.
  • Efficient training, adaptation, and inference methods for grounded LLMs.
  • Evaluation frameworks and benchmarks for grounding and faithfulness.

Workshop format

  • Full-day workshop with invited keynote talks.
  • Panel discussion on open challenges in grounding.
  • Contributed oral presentations and poster session.
  • Student mentoring and networking session.
Scope

Topics of Interest

Submissions

Call for Papers

We invite submissions of original research on all aspects of grounding in language models, with a particular emphasis on faithfulness, efficiency, and real-world reliability. We welcome both archival papers (to appear in proceedings) and non-archival papers (will not appear in the workshop proceedings).

Paper Types

  • Long papers (archival): Up to 8 pages of content, unlimited references. Will appear in ACL Anthology proceedings.
  • Short papers (archival): Up to 4 pages of content, unlimited references. Will appear in ACL Anthology proceedings.
  • All accepted archival and non-archival papers are eligible for oral or poster presentation.

Submission Instructions

  • All submissions must follow the ACL 2026 style guidelines and be anonymized for double-blind review.
  • Submit via OpenReview (link coming soon).
  • Reviewing is double-blind. Author names and affiliations must be omitted.
  • Submissions must not be under review at other venues for the duration of the review period.
  • We follow the ACL Code of Ethics. Authors are expected to attest to the ethical considerations in their work.

Dual Submission & Preprints

Non-archival submissions may overlap with previously published or concurrently submitted work. Preprints may be posted publicly at any time without violating the anonymity policy.

Best Paper Award

Outstanding submissions will be recognized with a Best Paper Award, selected by the program committee. We particularly encourage strong empirical work, novel theoretical contributions, and resource papers.

Submit on OpenReview →
Timeline

Important Dates

All deadlines are end-of-day in Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time.

EventDate

Exact workshop date will be confirmed upon finalization of the EMNLP 2026 schedule.

Keynotes

Invited Speakers

More speakers to be announced. Check back soon.

Team

Organizers

Questions? Contact us at groundlm2026@googlegroups.com

Schedule

Program

The detailed program will be available after acceptance notifications (June 2026). The schedule below is a tentative outline.

Workshop Day — November 2026 (TBD)

Location

Venue

EMNLP 2026

GroundLM 2026 is co-located with EMNLP 2026. The venue and exact location will be announced by the EMNLP 2026 organizing committee.

EMNLP (Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing) is one of the premier annual conferences in NLP. The 2026 edition will take place in November 2026. Details to follow.

For travel and accommodation information, please refer to the EMNLP 2026 website once it becomes available.

Accessibility

We are committed to making GroundLM 2026 accessible and inclusive. Please contact us if you have specific accessibility needs.

Venue TBD — EMNLP 2026 November 2026
Questions

FAQ