12th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (NATP 2026)

Scope Call for Participation
12^th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (NATP 2026) will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of Natural Language Processing. The conference looks for significant contributions to all major fields of the applications of Natural Language Processing Technology in theoretical and practical aspects.

Call for Papers

12^th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (NATP 2026) will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of Natural Language Processing. The conference looks for significant contributions to all major fields of the applications of Natural Language Processing Technology in theoretical and practical aspects.

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, Generative AI & Foundation Models

Pre‑training, fine‑tuning, adaptation
Prompting, instruction tuning, alignment
Reasoning, planning & tool‑use
Emergent behaviors in LLMs
Safety, ethics, bias & responsible NLP

Machine Translation, Multilinguality & Low‑Resource NLP

Neural & LLM‑based MT
Cross‑lingual transfer
Low‑resource & endangered languages
Community‑driven resource creation
Linguistic typology & multilingual modeling

Information Extraction, Retrieval & Knowledge‑Augmented NLP

Relation & event extraction
Dense/neural retrieval
Retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG)
Knowledge graphs & structured knowledge integration

Question Answering, Text Understanding & Reasoning

Open‑domain QA
Reading comprehension
Multi-hop reasoning
Fact verification & truthfulness

Dialogue Systems, Conversational AI & Agentic NLP

Task‑oriented dialogue
Open‑domain conversation
LLM‑based agents & tool‑use
Multi‑agent communication
Human–AI collaboration

Semantics, Discourse, Pragmatics & Text Generation

Semantic parsing & structured meaning
Discourse modeling & long‑context understanding
Paraphrasing, entailment & generation
Grounded semantics & world modeling
Formal semantics & logical approaches

Speech, Multimodal & Embodied Language Processing

End‑to‑end ASR/TTS
Speech‑text models
Vision‑language & audio‑language models
Video‑language understanding
Embodied agents & multimodal reasoning

Linguistic Resources, Corpora, Annotation & Evaluation

Dataset creation & annotation
Human‑subject studies & annotation psychology
Evaluation of LLMs
Benchmarking & reproducibility
Robustness & adversarial testing

Computational Linguistics, Language Structure & Cognitive Modeling

Morphology, phonology & syntax
Cognitive modeling & psycholinguistics
Human sentence processing
Language acquisition & memory
Mathematical linguistics

NLP for Humanities, Social Sciences & Cultural Analytics

Computational social science
Digital humanities
Cultural and historical text analysis
Social media analysis
Political discourse & narrative modeling

Applied NLP, Education Technology & NLP for Social Good

Healthcare, legal, financial, educational NLP
Intelligent tutoring systems
Automated essay scoring
Crisis informatics
Climate & environmental NLP
Societal impact & policy implications

Efficiency, Optimization & Deployment of NLP Systems

Model compression & distillation
Efficient inference & hardware‑aware NLP
Edge deployment
Scalable training & serving
Toolkits, infrastructure & open‑source ecosystems

Creativity, Narrative & Computational Arts

Story generation
Computational poetry
Humor generation
Co‑creative writing systems
Creative multimodal generation

Theoretical Foundations & Analysis of NLP Models

Theory of transformers & neural architectures
Probing & interpretability
Limits & capabilities of language models
Formal models of computation for NLP

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit papers through the conference Submission System by Closed. 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 Computer Science Conference Proceedings in Computer Science & Information Technology (CS & IT) series (Confirmed).

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

Important Dates

Second Batch : (Submissions after December 29, 2025)

Submission Deadline

Closed

Authors Notification

February 24, 2026

Registration & camera - Ready Paper Due

February 25, 2026

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Proceedings

Hard copy of the proceedings will be distributed during the Conference. The softcopy will be available on AIRCC Digital Library

Welcome to NATP 2026