First Call for Papers
LangCode 2027: The First Language and Code Workshop
NAACL 2027, San Francisco, USA, June 1-5, 2027
https://langcode2027.github.io/
LangCode brings together NLP and software engineering researchers working on secure, trustworthy, robust, and multilingual code generation.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
* Secure code generation: guardrails, adversarial attacks, agentic coding safety
* Trustworthiness: interpretability, hallucination, contamination-aware evaluation
* Robustness: paraphrased and code-mixed prompts, low-resource and legacy languages
* Multilinguality: non-English prompts, cross-lingual transfer
* Applications: efficient models, computing education
Shared tasks (training data out October 30, 2026):
* Task 1: Multilingual Code Generation
* Task 2: Adversarial Prompt Detection
Submissions:
Long (8 pages), short (4 pages), and system papers (4 pages), double-blind, via OpenReview.
ARR-reviewed papers can be committed. All accepted papers appear in the ACL Anthology.
Details: https://langcode2027.github.io/submission/
Important dates (AoE):
* Submission deadline: February 5, 2027
* ARR commitment: March 12, 2027
* Notification: March 26, 2027
* Camera-ready: April 16, 2027
Organizers:
Nishat Raihan, Beatrice Casey, David Chiang, Joanna C. S. Santos (University of Notre Dame);
Kevin Moran (University of Central Florida); Ziyu Yao, Marcos Zampieri (George Mason University)
Contact: mraihan [at] nd.edu