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 PaperTimeline
Submission and workshop milestones
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.
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 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 Day
Thursday, October 29, 2026
Room F3
The full schedule, shared-task sessions, and poster session are on the program page.
View ProgramChallenge Season
Competition milestones
DocSem concluded on September 10 and its final test leaderboard is public. Dr.DocBench closes October 10 at 12:59 PM UTC. The official challenge portals are the system of record for exact submission status.
DocSem Competition
August 3–September 10, 2026
The competition concluded on September 10. The final test leaderboard was released on September 11, using each Hugging Face account's best eligible attempt.
View final test leaderboardDr.DocBench Competition
August 10–October 10, 2026
12:59 PM UTC deadline
Submit through EvalAI. Final evaluation runs October 11–23, with winners announced at DocInsights 2026.
View challengesDocSem Training Data Update
August 31, 2026
Seven annotation inconsistencies were corrected in the training split following community feedback. The task definition and data format are unchanged.
View challengesDocSem Validation GT Refresh
September 3, 2026
Three organizer-only validation ground-truth labels have now been corrected following additional data review. All existing submissions were rescored and the leaderboard updated.
View challengesDocSem Test Data Release
September 5, 2026
1,730 held-out test tasks and PDFs were released without labels. The test submission window ran September 5–10 Anywhere on Earth and is now closed.
Download test dataDocSem Final Test Leaderboard Release
September 11, 2026
The final test leaderboard is public, showing each Hugging Face account's best eligible attempt and Joint Exact Accuracy.
View final test leaderboardShared-task Paper Submission Deadline
September 15, 2026
11:59 PM UTC
Submit a system paper for DocSem or Dr.DocBench. Authors may indicate an archival or non-archival preference; the review committee will make the final archival/non-archival decision.
Submit on OpenReviewSchedule Note
EMNLP 2026 is scheduled for October 24-29, 2026 in Budapest, Hungary. The central EMNLP program still lists workshop and tutorial timing as pending, so DocInsights will publish the exact workshop day, room, and participation details after they are confirmed.