9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED)

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Papers
Abbreviated Title: 
ICNLSP 2026
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Friday, 25 September 2026 to Saturday, 26 September 2026
Country: 
Italy
City: 
Trento
Contact: 
A. Freihat
M. Abbas
Submission Deadline: 
Monday, 22 June 2026

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: June 22, 2026 11:59 PM (extended)
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.