Structure-aware modeling
Layout, reading order, hierarchy, and relations across text, tables, forms, figures, charts, and multi-page documents.
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
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.
Challenges
DocSem and Dr.DocBench
Two complementary challenge tracks cover evidence-grounded quantitative reasoning and expert-level document parsing. DocSem runs August 3–September 10; Dr.DocBench runs August 10–October 10, 2026.
Explore both challengesUSD 5,000+ total prize pool
Challenge participants can submit system papers for workshop consideration, with winning and selected contributions invited to present at DocInsights 2026.
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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.
Direct Submission Deadline
August 2, 2026 Original deadline
August 10, 2026
12:59 PM UTC (UTC+00:00)
The direct submission deadline has been extended. Submissions may be archival or non-archival.
Submit Direct PaperARR 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 PaperAcceptance Notifications
September 13, 2026
Notification date
Decisions will be released through OpenReview.
Camera-ready Deadline
September 27, 2026
Final version deadline
Applies to accepted archival papers.
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 ProgramUpdates
Latest News
Shared-task paper submissions are open
Submit an archival or non-archival DocSem or Dr.DocBench system paper through OpenReview by September 15, 2026 at 11:59 PM UTC.
Dr.DocBench is live on EvalAI
The expert-level document parsing challenge is open through October 10, 2026 at 12:59 PM UTC, with up to USD 3,000 in prizes.
Direct submission deadline extended to August 10
Direct papers are now due August 10, 2026 at 12:59 PM UTC (UTC+00:00). The previous August 2 deadline has been superseded.
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 on speakers, program details, and challenge releases.