Call for Papers

Topics of Interest

Submissions can cover a wide range of topics related to speech and audio language models, including but not limited to:

• Discrete and continuous audio representations
• Audio tokenization and codec-based modeling
• Hierarchical and multilingual speech representations
• Encoder-decoder and decoder-only speech/audio language models
• End-to-end, streaming, and low-latency inference
• Self-supervised, weakly supervised, and multimodal pre-training
• Scaling laws and synthetic data pipelines
• Instruction tuning and preference optimization
• Speech prompting and in-context learning
• Retrieval-augmented decoding
• Domain adaptation and personalization
• Spoken semantics, pragmatics, and discourse
• Prosody and paralinguistics
• Conversational grounding, turn-taking, and full-duplex dialogue
• Controllable and expressive speech generation
• Audio and music generation
• Low-resource, multilingual, and accessibility-focused applications
• Benchmarks and human-centered or interactive evaluation
• Robustness, interpretability, and probing
• Privacy, consent, and dataset governance
• Bias, fairness, and inclusivity
• Voice cloning, impersonation, and misuse risks
• Efficiency and responsible deployment

Types of Contributions

• Work-in-progress papers
• Previously published work (non-archival)
• Position and theory papers
• Benchmark and dataset papers
• Survey papers
• Reproducibility studies
• Negative results and diagnostic analyses

Submission Guidelines

Long Papers: Up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited references and appendices. An additional content page is permitted upon acceptance.

Short Papers: Up to 4 pages of content, plus unlimited references and appendices. An additional content page is permitted upon acceptance.

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

• Archival papers will be published in the EMNLP 2026 SALMA Proceedings.
• Non-archival papers may be submitted to other venues in the future, except for another SALMA workshop.

Submissions must be fully self-contained. Supplementary materials may be included only in the appendix, and reviewers are not required to review them.

Submission Requirements

Submissions must adhere to 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 must not be under review at another venue during the SALMA review period and must not overlap significantly with previously published work.

Non-archival submissions may be submitted to other venues in the future, but may not be submitted simultaneously to another SALMA workshop.

ARR Commitment

SALMA 2026 welcomes commitments of papers reviewed through ACL Rolling Review (ARR). Papers with existing ARR reviews and meta-review may be committed through the designated OpenReview ARR commitment site. Acceptance decisions will be based on existing reviews plus fit to the workshop scope.

Submission Links

• Direct Submission: OpenReview
• ARR Commitment: OpenReview

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