Call for Papers

Topics of Interest

We welcome submissions on a broad range of topics related to document intelligence and understanding, including but not limited to:

• Structure-aware document modeling
• Layout-aware and reading-order-aware representations
• Multimodal document understanding
• Reasoning over tables, forms, figures, and charts
• Grounding, attribution, and hallucination mitigation in document QA and generation
• Robustness to OCR, parsing, and layout noise
• Long-document and multi-page reasoning
• Multi-document reasoning and document collections
• Document retrieval, extraction, and summarization
• Knowledge integration for document interpretation and verification
• Evaluation benchmarks and diagnostic analysis for document intelligence
• Human-in-the-loop and interactive systems for document understanding
• Multilingual and low-resource document understanding
• Scientific, legal, financial, healthcare, and enterprise document processing
• Trustworthy and practical applications of document AI

Types of Contributions

• Position papers
• Benchmark and dataset papers
• System papers and demos
• Reproducibility studies
• Negative results and diagnostic analyses

Submission Guidelines

We invite submissions describing original and unpublished work, as well as ongoing research and system-oriented contributions relevant to document intelligence and understanding.

Long Papers: Up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited references and appendices

Short Papers: Up to 4 pages of content, plus unlimited references and appendices

Authors may choose whether their submission is archival or non-archival.

• Archival papers will be included in the workshop proceedings.
• Non-archival papers will not appear in the proceedings and may be submitted elsewhere in the future, subject to the policies of those venues.

Submissions must be fully self-contained. Any supplementary material should be included in the appendix, and reviewers are not required to assess separate supplementary files.

Submission Requirements

Submissions must follow the official ACL style templates and be submitted as PDF files in the standard two-column ACL format. All submissions must be anonymized for double-blind review.

Multiple Submission Policy

Archival submissions to DocInsights must not be under review at another conference or workshop during the DocInsights review period. Submitted work must not substantially overlap with previously published work or work under review elsewhere.

Non-archival submissions may be submitted to other venues in the future, provided they comply with the policies of those venues.

ARR Commitment

In addition to direct submissions, DocInsights 2026 welcomes commitments of papers reviewed through ACL Rolling Review (ARR), subject to EMNLP 2026 workshop policies and timelines.

Papers that have already received ARR reviews and a meta-review may be committed to the workshop through the designated ARR commitment process. These papers will not be re-reviewed from scratch. Instead, acceptance decisions will be made based on the existing ARR reviews and meta-review, together with the paper’s relevance and fit to the workshop.

ARR-committed papers must still satisfy the workshop’s formatting, anonymization, and topical relevance requirements.

Submission Links

• Direct Submission: OpenReview
• ARR Commitment: OpenReview

Important Dates