15^th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (NLP 2026)

August 22 ~ 23, 2026, Dubai, UAE

Hybrid -- Registered authors can present their work online or face to face.

Scope & Topics

15^th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (NLP 2026) is a programmed approach to analyze text that is based on both a set of theories and a set of technologies. This forum aims to bring together researchers who have designed and build software that will analyze, understand, and generate languages that humans use naturally to address computers.


Authors are solicited to contribute to the conference by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in the following areas, but are not limited to.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following

Large Language Models, Foundation Models & Generative AI


• Large Language Models & Foundation Models
  
• Prompt Engineering & Instruction Tuning
  
• Fine Tuning, Distillation & Compression
  
• Agentic LLMs & Autonomous Language Agents
  
• Tool Using & API Augmented LLMs
  
• Memory Augmented LLMs
  
• LLMs for Code, Math & Scientific Reasoning
  
• Hallucination Detection & Trustworthy LLMs
  
• Continual & Lifelong Learning
  
• Robustness to Distribution Shift
  
• Safety, Alignment & Responsible NLP
  
  Core NLP, Linguistic Processing & Language Understanding
  
  
• Tokenization, Morphology & Phonology
  
• POS Tagging, Chunking & Parsing
  
• Syntactic & Semantic Parsing
  
• Lexical Semantics & WSD
  
• Discourse, Pragmatics & Dialogue Structure
  
• Commonsense & World Knowledge Reasoning
  
• Chain of Thought & Structured Reasoning
  
• Cognitive Modeling & Human Language Understanding
  
  Multilingual NLP, Machine Translation & Cross Lingual Technologies
  
  
• Neural Machine Translation
  
• Multilingual & Cross Lingual Models
  
• Low Resource & Zero Shot NLP
  
• Code Switching & Multilingual Speech/Text
  
• Language Documentation & Revitalization
  
  Information Extraction, Retrieval, Knowledge & Reasoning Systems
  
  
• Information Extraction & Event Extraction
  
• Neural Search & Information Retrieval
  
• Text Mining & Knowledge Discovery
  
• Entity Linking, Coreference & Relation Extraction
  
• Ontology Learning & Knowledge Graphs
  
• Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
  
• Neuro Symbolic & Hybrid Reasoning
  
• Fact Checking & Misinformation Detection
  
  Speech, Multimodal, Dialogue & Interactive NLP
  
  
• Automatic Speech Recognition & Synthesis
  
• Spoken Language Understanding
  
• Multimodal Learning (Text Audio Vision)
  
• Vision Language Models (VLMs)
  
• Video LLMs & Temporal Multimodal Understanding
  
• Embodied AI & Robotics NLP Integration
  
• Multi Agent Communication & Coordination
  
• Task Oriented & Open Domain Dialogue
  
• Human in the Loop Dialogue Systems
  
• Collaborative Writing, Coding & Creativity
  
  Data Centric NLP, Evaluation, Ethics & Applied NLP
  
  
• Data Centric & Evaluation
  
• Synthetic Data & Data Augmentation
  
• Dataset Curation, Bias & Data Quality
  
• Weak Supervision & Self Supervised Learning
  
• Human Evaluation of Generative Models
  
• Cross Cultural & Demographic Evaluation
  
• Reproducibility & Open Science
  
  Ethics, Governance & Social Impact
  
  
• Bias, Fairness & Ethical NLP
  
• AI Governance, Policy & Regulation
  
• Red Teaming & Jailbreak Prevention
  
• Privacy Preserving NLP
  
• NLP for Mental Health & Well Being
  
• Civic Tech & Policy Analysis
  
• Cultural & Narrative Analysis
  
  Applied NLP
  
  
• Biomedical & Clinical NLP
  
• Legal NLP & Regulatory Text Processing
  
• Financial NLP & Market Intelligence
  
• Scientific NLP & Scholarly Document Processing
  
• Regulatory Compliance & Risk Analysis
  
  
  

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit papers through the conference Submission System by August 01, 2026 . Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this conference. The proceedings of the conference will be published by The proceedings of the conference will be published by Computer Science Conference Proceedings (H index 46) in Computer Science & Information Technology (CS & IT) series (Confirmed).

Selected papers from NLP 2026, after further revisions, will be published in the special issue of the following journals.

• International Journal on Computational Science & Applications (IJCSA)
  
• International Journal on Natural Language Computing (IJNLC)
  
• International Journal of Web & Semantic Technology (IJWesT)) - IS indexed
  
  
  

Important Dates

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***** The invited talk proposals can be submitted to nlp@aria2026.org