From: Tristan.Miller@umanitoba.ca   
      
   Call for papers: 2nd Workshop on Computational Humor (CHum 2026)   
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   The 2nd Workshop on Computational Humor (CHum 2026) will take place   
   virtually on July 3 or 4, 2026 as part of the 64th Annual Meeting of the   
   the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026).   
      
   Scope and topics   
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   CHum 2026 aims to foster further work on modeling the processes of humor   
   with current methods in computational linguistics and natural language   
   processing, against the theoretical backdrop of humor research and with   
   reference to relevant corpora of textual, visual, and multimodal   
   materials. A principal goal of the workshop is to unite researchers who   
   can together probe the limits of various meaning representations --   
   symbolic, neural, and hybrid -- for humor processing.   
      
   We welcome contributions on any topic relevant to the computational   
   processing of humor, including but not limited to the following:   
      
   * LLMs, knowledge representation   
   * Resources and evaluation   
   * Human-computer interaction   
   * Computer-mediated communication   
   * Assisted content creation   
   * Machine and computer-assisted translation   
   * Digital humanities applications   
   * Formal modeling of humor   
   * Proof-of-concept humor detection and classification   
      
   Particularly encouraged are submissions describing inter- or   
   multi-disciplinary work, whether completed or in progress, and position   
   papers that critically discuss the past, present, and future of   
   computational humor systems.   
      
   Submission instructions   
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   Long and short papers should be formatted according to the same   
   guidelines for the main ACL 2026 conference papers   
   .  Submission   
   instructions will be added to a future version of this call and also   
   posted to the workshop website .   
      
   Important dates   
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   All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth").   
      
   * Initial submission: March 5, 2026   
   * Notification of acceptance: April 28, 2026   
   * Camera-ready submission: May 12, 2026   
   * Workshop: July 3 or 4, 2026   
      
   Organizers   
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   * Christian F. Hempelmann, East Texas A&M University   
   * Julia Rayz, Purdue University   
   * Ori Amir, Fulbright University Vietnam   
   * Tristan Miller, University of Manitoba   
   * Tiansi Dong, University of Cambridge   
      
   Further information   
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   * Website:    
   * E-mail: chum@groups.io   
      
   --   
   Dr. Tristan Miller, Assistant Professor   
   Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba   
   https://clam.cs.umanitoba.ca/ | Tel. +1 204 474 6792   
      
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