9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Papers
Abbreviated Title: 
ICNLSP 2025
Friday, 25 September 2026 to Saturday, 26 September 2026
Country: 
Italy
City: 
Trento
Contact: 
A. Freihat
M. Abbas
Submission Deadline: 
Saturday, 30 May 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS
ICNLSP 2026 welcomes contributions on both the theoretical foundations and applied aspects of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Speech Processing. The conference will feature regular sessions, along with keynote talks delivered by distinguished international researchers.
We invite authors to submit their work on topics relevant to ICNLSP 2026 and contribute to advancing research in the field.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
We invite contributions on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Generative AI
Large language models (LLMs)
Cognition and NLP
Machine translation
Text categorization
Summarization
Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
Computational social web
Under-resourced languages: tools and corpora
NLP tools for software requirements and engineering
Text annotation tools
Knowledge fundamentals and knowledge management systems
Information extraction
Data mining and information retrieval
Lexical semantics and knowledge representation
Visualization for nlp
Knowledge graphs.
Speech Processing
Signal processing and acoustic modeling
Speech recognition (architecture, search methods, lexical modeling, language modeling, adaptation, multimodal systems, applications in education and learning, zero-resource speech recognition, etc.)
Speech analysis
Paralinguistics in speech and language (perception of paralinguistic phenomena, speaker states and traits analysis, etc.)
Spoken dialogue systems and conversational analysis
Speech translation
Speech synthesis
Speaker verification and identification
Language identification
Speech coding, enhancement, and intelligibility
Speech perception and production
Brain studies on speech
Phonetics, phonology, and prosody
Speech and hearing disorders
Paralinguistics of pathological speech and language
Speech technology for disordered speech and hearing

IMPORTANT DATES
All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”).
Submission deadline: May 30, 2026 11:59 PM
Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2026.
Camera-ready paper due: August 6, 2026.
Conference dates: September 25-26, 2026.

PUBLICATION
1- All accepted papers will be published in ACL Anthology.
2- Selected papers will be published (after extension) in: Signals and Communication Technology (Springer), indexed in Scopus and zbMATH.