COMMA 2026

Papers

We invite submission of original and unpublished work. Parallel submission to journals or other conferences or workshops with published proceedings is not permitted. The conference includes a Regular Track and an Innovative Applications Track. As to the latter, we encourage the submission of original papers about innovative applications, e.g., in law, medicine, e-democracy, risk assessment, intelligent user interfaces, recommender systems, argument mining, scientific discovery, etc. Innovative applications papers will be assessed in an equally rigorous reviewing procedure as regular track papers.

The proceedings of the conference will be published by IOS Press as an open‐access book. Authors should prepare their manuscripts following the instructions given by IOS Press: author guidelines . The reviewing process is single blind. The length of each submission for both Regular and Innovative Applications papers must not exceed 12 pages.

Paper submission, in PDF format, will be managed through EasyChair with a submission deadline of 18 April 2026 (all dates are 23:59 UTC-12, ‘anywhere on Earth’).

Demonstrations

We also invite submissions of system and tool demonstrations. Authors of accepted demos will present during a dedicated demonstration session.

Anyone intending to demonstrate a system should inform the demonstrations coordinator, Vicent Costa (vicent@iiia.csic.es — subject: COMMA-2026-Demonstration), by email no later than two weeks before the general CFP deadline, indicating also whether or not the demonstration is linked to a paper in the main conference track.

If the demonstration is not associated with a paper in the conference, a two-page extended abstract describing the system must be submitted by the general paper submission deadline of 18 April 2026. The submission site, format, and deadlines for extended abstracts are the same as those for regular papers. Accepted extended abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings.

For demonstrations connected to a paper in the conference, no separate abstract needs to be submitted.