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DocInsights 2026

Workshop on Document Intelligence and Understanding

Beyond Plain Text: Bridging NLP and Document AI

A full-day workshop for structure-aware, evidence-grounded, multimodal, and deployable document intelligence.

Submit Direct Paper August 2, 2026 Long, short, archival, and non-archival submissions. Commit ARR Paper August 30, 2026 Commit eligible ARR-reviewed papers to DocInsights. Read CFP Topics, formats, review process, and policies.

Why DocInsights

Documents are structured visual-textual evidence, not just plain text.

Real-world documents in science, healthcare, law, finance, government, and enterprise settings combine natural language with tables, forms, figures, charts, lists, layout cues, and cross-page relationships. Reliable document intelligence requires models and systems that reason across these elements while staying grounded in document evidence.

DocInsights 2026 brings together researchers and practitioners across NLP, Document AI, multimodal learning, information retrieval, knowledge representation, and human-centered systems to advance trustworthy, scalable document understanding.

Scope

Research Themes

Structure-aware modeling

Layout, reading order, hierarchy, and relations across text, tables, forms, figures, charts, and multi-page documents.

Reasoning and grounding

Evidence selection, verification, numerical and temporal reasoning, attribution, and hallucination mitigation for document QA and generation.

Multimodal document understanding

Joint text-layout-vision modeling, OCR-free document models, charts, infographics, forms, and complex visual-textual evidence.

Long and cross-document intelligence

Linking, synthesis, retrieval, and reasoning across long documents, collections, and document-centered workflows.

Evaluation and robustness

Benchmarks, diagnostic analysis, uncertainty, stress tests, OCR/layout noise, and realistic failure modes.

Deployment and governance

Legal, financial, healthcare, scientific, enterprise, and government documents with privacy, auditability, and human-centered review.

Workshop Format

Program Preview

Exact timing, room, accepted papers, and confirmed speakers will be announced after the EMNLP workshop program and decisions are finalized.

Invited talks

Agenda-setting talks from leaders in document AI, multimodal NLP, retrieval, grounding, and evaluation.

Oral presentations

Selected accepted papers presented as talks, with final timing determined after acceptance decisions.

Poster and demo session

Interactive discussion for accepted papers, systems, demos, diagnostic studies, and work in progress.

Shared task spotlight

Shared task details will be announced once the scope, timeline, and participation instructions are final.

Panel

Discussion on trustworthy document intelligence in science, legal, finance, healthcare, government, and enterprise settings.

Early-career spotlights

Short invited highlights and moderation opportunities for emerging work in document-centered NLP.

Shared Task

Shared task details will be announced soon

We are finalizing the shared task scope, timeline, participation instructions, and evaluation details. The dedicated page will be updated once the announcement is ready.

View shared task announcement

Submission Tracks

DocInsights welcomes direct archival and direct non-archival submissions, plus eligible ARR commitments through a separate OpenReview group.

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Timeline

Important Dates

All submission deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 ("Anywhere on Earth") unless otherwise noted. OpenReview is the submission system of record for exact system timestamps.

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Direct Submission Deadline

August 2, 2026

11:59 PM UTC-12:00

Direct submissions may be archival or non-archival.

Submit Direct Paper
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ARR Commitment Deadline

August 30, 2026

11:59 PM UTC-12:00

For eligible papers with completed ACL Rolling Review reviews and meta-review.

Commit ARR Paper
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Acceptance Notifications

September 13, 2026

Notification date

Decisions will be released through OpenReview.

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Camera-ready Deadline

September 27, 2026

Final version deadline

Applies to accepted archival papers.

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Workshop Schedule

EMNLP 2026, October 24-29, 2026

Exact workshop schedule pending

EMNLP central program details for workshops and tutorials are not final yet.

EMNLP 2026 Program

Updates

Latest News

OpenReview submission links are live

Direct submissions and ARR commitments are available through separate OpenReview groups.

DocInsights is listed as an accepted EMNLP 2026 workshop

The workshop is officially listed as "DocInsights - Workshop on Document Intelligence and Understanding."

Website launched

Initial workshop information, CFP details, and organizer information were published.

Contact

Questions about the workshop?

Reach the organizing team by email, or follow DocInsights for updates as speakers, program details, and shared task instructions are announced.