Student Session - Call for Papers

 

The Student Session of the 37th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI) will take place at ESSLLI 2026, on August 3-14, 2026, Charles University in Prague, Czechia.  We invite submissions of original, unpublished work from students in any area at the intersection of Logic & Language, Language & Computation, or Logic & Computation in the form of long or short papers. Submissions will be reviewed by several experts in the field. Accepted long papers will be presented as talks, while short papers will be presented as posters. This is an excellent opportunity to receive valuable feedback from expert readers and to present your work to a diverse audience. Short papers are especially suited for smaller or in-progress research works.

 

Submission Policies

All authors must be students, i.e., authors should not have received their PhD degree before August 2026. Authors can submit at most one single-author work and can be involved, as author or co-author, in at most two submissions. Papers must be submitted via OpenReview at https://openreview.net/group?id=ESSLLI.eu/2026/Student_Session. Authors cannot submit the same abstract to the Student Session and another workshop hosted by ESSLLI 2026. Submissions should be no longer than 8 pages for an oral presentation and 4 pages for a poster presentation (including examples, figures, references, appendixes, etc.). Submissions must be in PDF format. We strongly recommend using the LNCS Springer class files for LaTeX2e, since accepted papers will have to be written in this format for the proceedings. If you do not use this template, make sure that your submission meets the following criteria: DINA4 (21 cm x 29.7 cm), 4.5 cm top margin, 4 cm right margin, 6.5 cm bottom margin, 5 cm left margin, 10pt font. The review process will be double-blind, therefore all submissions must be fully anonymised. All submissions not satisfying these rules may be desk rejected.

 

Publication policies

Accepted papers must be written in LaTeX in standard LNCS format (10 pts), using the Springer class files for LaTeX2e. Authors of accepted papers are expected to improve their papers according to the reviewers’ comments and suggestions. To do so, they are granted 2 more pages, i.e., the published version may be up to 10 pages long (including examples, figures, references, appendixes, etc.). Moreover, accepted papers must be presented during ESSLLI 2026 Student Session by the author or one of the co-authors. The presenting author/co-author must be registered to ESSLLI 2026.

All accepted authors will be invited to contribute their paper to the post-proceedings, which will be published as a special issue of the Journal of Logic, Language and Information.

 

Prizes

For both long and short papers, the best contributions (submission plus presentation) will receive an award. As in previous years Springer has offered to support the ESSLLI Student Session by offering prizes of vouchers for Springer books. These prizes will be awarded based on the content and quality of the paper and the presentation at ESSLLI. The ideas presented should be novel and promising. The presentation at ESSLLI should be adapted to the wide variety of backgrounds that ESSLLI participants come from: everybody should be able to learn/understand something new.

 

Registration

Participation, including presentation, in the Student Session requires an ESSLLI 2026 registration.

Fee waivers

Student Session authors can apply for a registration fee waiver for up to one author per submitted paper. Only accepted authors will be considered, and priority will be given to those for whom the cost would place a significant barrier to attendance. 

For more information about the fee waivers, or to submit an application for a waiver, visit Travel grants and fee-waivers

Important Dates

• Paper submission deadline: March 1, 2026 March 15, 2026
• Notification of acceptance: May 10, 2026 May 15, 2026
• Camera-ready submission: June 1, 2026 June 30, 2026
• Event: August 3-14, 2026

Submission on OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=ESSLLI.eu/2026/Student_Session

Please, if you don’t have an OpenReview account yet, consider creating one in advance with your institutional email at least 24 hours before your effective submission since the activation of the account can take some time. Should you encounter any technical issues, don’t hesitate to write us an email.

 

Contacts

Student Session Chairs:

• Ari Joshi, Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, Germany – joshi@leibniz-zas.de
• David Müller, University of Geneva, Switzerland – david.mueller@unige.ch

 

Student Session Committee

Session chairs

Ari Joshi (Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics)
David R. Müller (University of Geneva)

 

Language and Computation (LaCo): 

İbrahim Ethem Deveci (Middle East Technical University)
Marika Sarzotti (University of Trento)

 

Language and Logic (LaLo): 

Marina Pérez del Valle (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Woxuan Zhou (ILLC Amsterdam)

 

Logic and Computation (LoCo): 

Wei Wang (Tsinghua University)
Alberto Paparella (University of Ferrera)