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

NATP 2025

URL: https://acsty2026.org/natp/index
Event Date: 2026-02-27 ~ 2026-02-28
Submission Date: 2026-02-07
Organizer: NATP 2026
Location: Vancouver, Canada

Artificial Intelligence

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

February 27 ~ 28, 2026, Vancouver, Canada

https://acsty2026.org/natp/index

Scope

12^thInternational 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.

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 February 07, 2026 (Final Call). 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.