Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS 2026)
The Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS 2026) invites researchers, practitioners, industry experts, and students to participate in this international forum dedicated to the latest advances in NLP, Artificial Intelligence, and Cyber Security. The will take place in Alicante, Spain, on 11–12 June 2026.
The list of accepted papers is published at: https://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es/ . Further details about keynote speakers, and submissions are also available on the official conference website. The conference programme will be announced shortly.
Researchers and attendees interested in participating are encouraged to register as soon as possible to secure the reduced rates and join the NLPAICS 2026 community. Early registration must be completed before Monday, 25 May 2026 in order to benefit from the discounted registration fees. Special fee rates are also available for participants attending NLPAICS + Summer School: “The Paradigm Shift: From Rules to Models in Natural Language Processing” (https://summer-school.gplsi.es/) that will be held from 15-17 June 2026 in Alicante.
For updates and additional information, please visit the official conference website.
Best Regards
Organising committee, NLPAICS
10 days left to apply for AthNLP 2026 (Sept 2-8, Athens)!
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
ATHNLP 2026 - 4TH ATHENS NLP SUMMER SCHOOL
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We invite everyone interested in Natural Language Processing and Machine
Learning to participate in the 4th Athens Natural Language Processing
Summer School taking place in Athens, Greece at NCSR Demokritos Campus
between 2-8 September 2026: https://athnlp.github.io/2026/
Important Dates
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* Application Deadline: May 31, 2026
* Decision Announcement: June 10, 2026
* Registration: June 30, 2026
* Summer School: September 2-8, 2026
Description
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Following successful AthNLP editions in 2019, 2024, and 2025, AthNLP
2026 returns to the campus of NCSR Demokritos in Athens. The summer
school is organized jointly by RC "Athena", NCSR "Demokritos", Athens
University of Economics and Business (Department of Informatics),
Heriot-Watt University, Archimedes Unit / Athena RC, and ELLIS -
University of Manchester, in close collaboration with LxMLS (Lisbon,
20-25 July 2026).
The school focuses on Machine Learning methods for NLP, especially Deep
Learning and Large Language Models (LLMs), offering: Morning lectures on
theory, afternoon hands-on lab sessions, evening research talks, poster
sessions, and demos.
Our target audience is:
* Students and researchers in NLP/Computational Linguistics and Machine
Learning;
* Computer scientists with interest in NLP and ML;
* Industry professionals seeking deeper understanding of these fields.
While previous experience with the topics will be helpful, the school
assumes no previous knowledge of Natural Language Processing and Machine
Learning. The only background assumed is basic mathematics and Python
programming.
Features of AthNLP:
* Attendance at the Social Event, daily lunch as well as morning and
afternoon coffee breaks are included in the registration fee.
* Lecturers are leading researchers in Machine Learning and NLP.
* Students will be able to (optionally) show their current work in
poster sessions during coffee breaks.
Confirmed Speakers
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* Antonis Anastasopoulos, George Mason Computer Science
* Isabelle Augenstein, University of Copenhagen
* Desmond Elliott, University of Copenhagen
* Nizar Habash, NYU Abu Dhabi
* Lingpeng Kong, University of Hong Kong
* Julia Kreutzer, Cohere
* Ryan McDonald
* Dong Nguyen, Utrecht University
* Anna Rogers, IT University of Copenhagen
* Emine Yilmaz, University College London
Participation
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To apply, please fill this [1] form:
https://ijerm0co.forms.app/athens-nlp-2026-summer-school-final
The fees are the following:
* 300 EUR for students
* 400 EUR for university professors or researchers at a public institute
* 500 EUR for everyone else
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Translating and Interpreting in the Era of Algorithms (TIERA)
Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting
Ionian University, Corfu, Greece
9–11 October 2026
As translation and interpreting practices are reshaped by the accelerating advances of artificial intelligence, neural networks, and automation, new questions arise: What remains distinctly human in the act of translation? How can creativity and critical reflection coexist with algorithmic efficiency?
Organised by the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting and the MA Science of Translation of the Ionian University, this international conference — Translating and Interpreting in the Era of Algorithms (TIERA)— invites scholars, researchers, professionals, and students to explore the emerging interfaces between technology, translation and interpreting, and language mediation in the 21st century.
The event is held within the framework of the 40th anniversary of the Department’s founding, marking four decades of innovation, education, and scholarship in translation and interpreting.
📝 Submit your abstract for papers, posters and panels by 20 June 2026 here: https://conferences.ionio.gr/tiera/en/submission/
📍 Corfu, Greece
📅 9–11 October 2026
See more: https://conferences.ionio.gr/tiera/en/about/
We can't wait to welcome you to Corfu!
Join us in Corfu, 9–11 October 2026, to celebrate this milestone and collectively explore the future of translation and interpreting.
Dr Vilelmini Sosoni
Associate Professor
Associate Head of the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting
Director of the Laboratory for Specialised Translation and Language Technologies
Ionian University
Ippokratis Building, Chr. Tsirigotis Square
49100 Corfu
Greece
M: +306932623733
Email: Vilelmini(a)hotmail.com<mailto:Vilelmini@hotmail.com>, sosoni(a)ionio.gr<mailto:sosoni@ionio.gr>
Skype: vilelmini.sosoni
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vilelmini-sosoni-74000910/
NLPAICS 2026: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing and
Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS 2026)
The Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing and
Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS 2026) invites
researchers, practitioners, industry experts, and students to
participate in this international forum dedicated to the latest advances
in NLP, Artificial Intelligence, and Cyber Security. The conference will
take place in Alicante, Spain, on 11-12 June 2026.
The list of accepted papers is published at:
https://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es/accepted-papers/ [1]. Further details about
keynote speakers, and submissions are also available on the official
conference website https://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es/ [2]. The conference
programme will be announced shortly.
Researchers and attendees interested in participating are encouraged to
register as soon as possible to secure the reduced rates and join the
NLPAICS 2026 community. Early registration must be completed before
Monday, 25 May 2026 in order to benefit from the discounted registration
fees. Special fee rates are also available for participants attending
NLPAICS + Summer School: "The Paradigm Shift: From Rules to Models in
Natural Language Processing" (https://summer-school.gplsi.es/ [3]) that
will be held from 15-17 June 2026 in Alicante.
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Amal Haddad Haddad (She/her)
Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación
Universidad de Granada |https://www.ugr.es/personal/amal-haddad-haddad
Lexicon Research Group |http://lexicon.ugr.es/haddad
Co-Convenor, BAAL SIG 'Humans, Machines,
Language'|https://r.jyu.fi/humala
Event Coordinator, BAAL SIG 'Language, Learning and Teaching'
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Are you stressfully working for the May 25th ARR deadline?
Don't worry, you can relax afterwards by writing a short paper on work in
progress and blue sky ideas over Mechanistic Interpretability and
Neuro-symbolic Approaches by-design (
<https://sites.google.com/view/memo-workshop/> MeMo Workshop) (deadline:
31/5/2026 12:00 PM AoE)
Are you surprised about the ability of LLMs to perform complex reasoning
tasks?
Do you have a particular keenness for cracking the code of their inner
workings?
If the answer to the three questions is yes,
this is the workshop for you!
Observing properties and understanding the inner workings are two sides of
the same coin. Another way is possible (e.g.,
<https://aclanthology.org/2025.findings-acl.785/> Position Paper: MeMo:
Towards Language Models with Associative Memory Mechanisms - ACL Anthology)!
The workshop aims to accept focused contributions on:
* Mechanistic Interpretability by-design
* Neuro-symbolic approaches by-design
Work in progress and blue sky ideas are in the spirit of the workshop.
Your contribution must be between four pages and six pages, excluding
references, and should be prepared using the
<https://www.overleaf.com/read/gyxkgssbstfr#85e729> Overleaf Submission
Template. The proceedings will be submitted to <http://ceur-ws.org/>
CEUR-WS.org for online publication. Please submit your contribution via
EasyChair at the designated submission
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=memomina2026> link. The reviewing
process is single-blind.
Submission Deadline: 31/5/2026 12:00 PM AoE
Acceptance Notification Date: 14/6/2026
Camera ready: 21/6/2026
Workshop Date: 26/6/2026 (MODIFIED, so that you can plan your WE in Rome)
Venue: University of Rome Tor Vergata (Rome, Italy) & Online
Registration fees: cheaper than cheap (it's free)
Web Site: <https://sites.google.com/view/memo-workshop/> MeMo Workshop
*First Call for Papers*
TokShop: Second Tokenization Workshop (COLM 2026) https://tokenization-workshop.github.io
**Important days**
- Deadline for submissions is June 23, 2026, at 11:59 pm (anywhere on earth)
- Notifications of acceptance will be sent out on July 24, 2026
- Camera-ready papers will be due shortly afterward at 11:59 pm (anywhere on earth)
The workshop will take place at the Hilton Union Square in San Francisco, CA, USA on October 9, 2026.
***Workshop Description***
The Second Tokenization Workshop (TokShop) at COLM 2026 aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from across machine learning to explore tokenization in its broadest sense. We will discuss innovations, challenges, and future directions for tokenization across diverse data types and modalities.
***Call for Papers***
Topics of interest include:
- Subword Tokenization in NLP: Analysis of techniques such as BPE, WordPiece, and UnigramLM, as well as improvements for efficiency, interpretability, and adaptability.
- Multimodal Tokenization: Tokenization strategies for images, audio, video, and other modalities, including methods to align representations across different types of data.
- Multilingual Tokenization: Development of tokenizers that work robustly across languages and scripts, and investigation into failure modes tied to tokenization.
- Tokenizer Modification Post-Training: Methods for updating tokenizers after model training to boost performance and/or efficiency without retraining from scratch.
- Alternative Input Representations: Exploration of non-traditional tokenization approaches, such as byte-level, pixel-level, or patch-based representations.
- Statistical Perspectives on Tokenization: Empirical analysis of token distributions, compression properties, and correlations with model behavior.
By broadening the scope of tokenization research beyond language, this workshop seeks to foster cross-disciplinary dialogue and inspire new advances at the intersection of representation learning, data efficiency, and model design.
***Submission Guidelines***
Our author guidelines follow the COLM requirements unless otherwise specified.
- Paper submission is hosted on OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=colmweb.org/COLM/2026/Workshop/TokShop#tab-…
- We accept non-archival submissions of two types:
- Research papers (up to 9 pages, not including references or appendices)
- Extended abstracts (up to 2 pages)
- Please use the provided LaTeX template (Style Files) for your submission. Please follow the general paper formatting guidelines for COLM, as specified in the style files.
- You may use as many pages of references and appendix as you wish, but reviewers are not required to read the appendix.
- Posting papers on preprint servers like ArXiv is permitted.
- We encourage each submission to discuss the limitations as well as ethical and societal implications of their work, wherever applicable (but neither are required). These sections do not count towards the page limit.
- The paper should be anonymized and uploaded to OpenReview as a single PDF.
- The review process will be double-blind.
Read more: https://tokenization-workshop.github.io/
Second CfP for EMNLP Workshop on Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue (MINT)
We invite submissions to MINT: Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue, a workshop that brings together researchers from computational linguistics, NLP, computer vision, HCI, robotics, and cognitive science working on multimodal face-to-face communication.
Workshop website: https://mintworkshop.github.io/2026/
The Workshop will be co-located with EMNLP 2026 in Budapest, Hungary, October 24–29, 2026 (exact date within this period to be decided).
We welcome work on topics including:
- computational models that integrate verbal and non-verbal cues such as speech, text, gesture, facial expression, gaze, and body pose;
- cognitive and linguistic insights about face-to-face communication that can inform AI systems;
- multimodal datasets with synchronized speech, video, and motion data;
- evaluation methods for multimodal interaction;
- applications and tools for embodied conversational agents, social robots, annotation, and behavioural analysis.
Papers should be prepared using the official ACL formatting guidelines and ACL style files.
MINT welcomes both archival and non-archival papers:
- Archival papers: Submissions must be anonymous and report original, unpublished research to appear in the workshop proceedings.
- Non-archival papers: Submissions reporting previously published work, preliminary research, or demos to be presented at the workshop and not published in the MINT proceedings.
Papers may be submitted as long papers (up to 8 pages plus references) or short papers (up to 4 pages plus references).
Non-archival submissions do not need to be anonymous.
We allow cross-submissions to other venues. However, to be included in the proceedings, authors of accepted papers must withdraw them from any other venue where they remain under consideration.
MINT will accept submissions through two channels:
1. Direct submission: The dedicated OpenReview portal for this is available at https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/MINT. Archival papers submitted through this channel will be reviewed by the MINT programme committee.
2. ACL Rolling Review (ARR): Authors may submit through ARR and commit their paper together with the ARR reviews to MINT later at https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/MINT_ARR_Commitment
**Important dates (11:59 pm AOE)**
- ARR paper submission deadline: May 25, 2026
- Direct paper submission deadline: July 8, 2026
- Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline: August 24, 2026
- Notification of acceptance: August 31, 2026
- Camera-ready paper due: September 14, 2026
Accepted contributions will be required to be presented at the MINT workshop as posters or talks.
The MINT workshop is sponsored by the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics: https://www.mpi.nl/
For questions, please contact: mint.organizers(a)gmail.com
On behalf of the workshop organisers:
- Raquel Fernández (University of Amsterdam)
- Diego Frassinelli (LMU Munich)
- Esam Ghaleb (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)
- Bulat Khaertdinov (Maastricht University)
- Asli Ozyurek (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics / Radboud University)
- Ece Takmaz (Utrecht University)
- Zerrin Yumak (Utrecht University)
Dear colleagues,
We are happy to announcea new scholarship opportunity for MA students
<https://esudh.github.io/ScholarshipsandFunding/#graduate-school-translation…>coming
to European Summer University in Digital Humanities from African and
European universities. Ten scholarships will cover the participation fee
and are offered by the newly established graduate programme
“Translation” at the Université Marie et Louis Pasteur in Besançon.
To give students time for their applications, we are extending the
deadline to May 31 2026. Apply for school and scholarships via ConfTool
<https://www.conftool.org/esudh2026/>. Please find more about the
workshop offer and application process on our website
<https://esudh.github.io/WorkshopsandLectures/>.
ESU DH will be held at the Université Marie et Louis Pasteur in
Besançon, France, from July 6 to July 18.
We look forward to welcoming you in Besançon.
On behalf of Prof. Frederic Spagnoli, Head of the ESU 2026,
Dr. Artjoms Šeļa, Chair of the ESU Steering Committee
HiTZ Chair of Artificial Intelligence and Language Technology
It is a pleasure to inform you that *registration* for the online
training courses organized by the HiTZ center is now open. The courses,
offered in June and July, include:
*_Deep Learning for NLP (code: DL4NLP)_
*June 01th to 05th, 20 hours (2 ECTS). 15th edition.
*
_Large Language Models (code: LLMS)_
*June 15th to 19th, 20 hours (2 ECTS). 15th edition.
*
_Generative Playground: LLMs made easy (code: GPLLMME) _
*June 29th to July 03th, 20 hours (2 ECTS). 3th edition.
*
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*_Deep Learning for Speech Processing (code: DL4SP)_*
July 13th to 16th, 10 hours (1 ECTS). 1st edition.
For further information and registration
<https://www.hitz.eus/training/>: https://www.hitz.eus/training/
Best regards,
Olatz Arregi
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HiTZ Chair of Artificial Intelligence and Language Technology
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Eneko Agirre
HiTZ Hizkuntza Teknologiako Zentroa - Ixa Taldea
Centro Vasco de Tecnología de la Lengua - Grupo Ixa
Basque Center for Language Technology - Ixa NLP Group
University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
hitz.ehu.eus/eneko <https://hitz.ehu.eus/eneko>
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*CLiC-it 2026 – Twelfth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics*
*14–16 September 2026 | Palermo, Italy*
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Conference Website: https://clic2026.unipa.it/
Contact Email: clicit2026(a)unipa.it
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*Submission deadline: 29 May 2026 05 June 2026 (23:59 CEST) *🚨
Notification to authors: 10 July 2026
Camera-ready due: 31 July 2026
Conference: 14–16 September 2026
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We announce that the *submission deadline* for *CLiC-it 2026*, the
*Twelfth Italian
Conference on Computational Linguistics*, has been extended.
*New Submission deadline: 05 June 2026 23:59 CEST *
*CLiC-it 2026 *will be held in *Palermo* from the *14th to the 16th of
September 2026* and is *organized by AILC* (http://www.ai-lc.it/).
Over the years, CLiC-it has evolved into an *important forum* for the
*Italian community* of researchers in *Computational Linguistics *(CL)
and *Natural
Language Processing* (NLP). The conference aims to promote and
disseminate *high-quality,
original research* covering different aspects of automatic language
processing, involving both written and spoken language, and seeks to
showcase cutting-edge theoretical findings, experimental methodologies,
technologies, and application perspectives.
CLiC-it has an inclusive spirit, bringing together researchers from
Computational Linguistics, NLP, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Machine
Learning, Computer Science, Knowledge Representation, Information
Retrieval, and Digital Humanities.
Contributions in all languages are welcome, with a particular emphasis on
Italian.
*TOPICS*
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Machine Learning and Modeling for NLP
- Large Language and Foundation Models
- Interpretability, Analysis, and Explainability of NLP Models
- Resources, Benchmarks, and Evaluation
- Syntax, Morphology, and Phonology
- Semantics, Discourse, and Pragmatics
- Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling, and Psycholinguistics
- Natural Language Generation and Summarization
- Dialogue Systems and Conversational AI
- Question Answering and Reading Comprehension
- Creativity, Style, and Narrative Generation
- Information Extraction and Text Mining
- Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining, and Argumentation
- Multilingual and Cross-Lingual NLP
- Low-Resource NLP and Linguistic Diversity
- Computational Historical Linguistics, Social Science, and Cultural
Analytics
- Speech and Spoken Language Processing
- Multimodal and Grounded Language
- Applied NLP and NLP Systems
- Ethics, Fairness, and Societal Impacts of NLP
*SUBMISSIONS*
*Regular Papers.* Original, complete, and unpublished work. Up to 11 pages
of main content (with unlimited references/appendix). One additional page
will be granted upon acceptance. Short vs. Regular paper classification
will be upon publication, based on paper length (short papers are typically
5-9 pages, regular papers are 10+ pages).
Papers may be in English or Italian, with an English abstract. Accepted
papers will be published in the proceedings and presented orally or as a
poster during the conference.
*Research Communications. *Outstanding papers accepted in 2025–2026 at
major CL/NLP venues (A* CORE, Q1 SCImago, ANVUR Class A) may be submitted
as a one-page abstract for presentation at the conference (not included in
proceedings).
All Submissions via START: https://softconf.com/p/clic-it2026
Select the "Papers and Research Communications" track.
*Note*: All submissions must be compatible with CEUR (https://ceur-ws.org/)
and include the CEUR Declaration on Generative AI section (
https://ceur-ws.org/GenAI/Policy.html). Papers missing this section will be
desk rejected.
*Templates:*
- LaTeX:
https://clic2026.unipa.it/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/CLiC_it_2026_CEURART_L…
- ODT:
https://clic2026.unipa.it/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/CLiC_it_2026_CEURART_O…
- Overleaf (read-only): https://www.overleaf.com/read/qmhnsrbyqskw#96f442
*AWARDS*
*Best Paper Award *— for papers with a Master's or PhD student as first
author and presenter. Recipients of the award will be invited to submit an
extended version of the paper to IJCoL.
*"Emanuele Pianta" Prize* — for the best Master's Thesis (Tesi di Laurea
Magistrale) in Computational Linguistics submitted at an Italian university
and supervised by an AILC member. Prize: €500 + free AILC membership + free
CLiC-it registration.
*ORGANIZATION*
*Conference Chairs:*
Valerio Basile (University of Torino)
Danilo Croce (University of Roma Tor Vergata)
Lucia Passaro (University of Pisa)
Roberto Pirrone (University of Palermo)
*Senior Program Committee:*
Pierpaolo Basile, Alessandro Bondielli, Cristina Bosco, Tommaso Caselli,
Gloria Gagliardi, Gianluca E. Lebani, Elisa Leonardelli, Eleonora Litta,
Marta Marchiori Manerba, Martina Miliani, Simonetta Montemagni, Giovanni
Puccetti, Giulia Rambelli, Rachele Sprugnoli, Fabio Tamburini
*Local Organizing Committee (University of Palermo):*
Irene Siragusa (Lead), Germano Ammirata, Salvatore Contino, Luca Cruciata,
Francesco Foderà
*Publicity and Social Media Chairs:*
Alessandro Bondielli (University of Pisa)
Pierluigi Cassotti (University of Gothenburg)
Daniel Russo (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)
*Proceedings Chairs:*
Francesca Grasso (University of Torino)
Eliana Di Palma (University of Torino)
*Web Chairs:*
Salvatore Contino, Luca Cruciata, Irene Siragusa
*CONTACTS *
Website: https://clic2026.unipa.it/
Email: clicit2026(a)unipa.it
We look forward to seeing you in Palermo!
*The CLiC-it 2026 Organizing Committee*
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