Call-for-papers : Natural Language Processing, Text Mining and Applications (NPL-TeMA’26) Track of EPIA’26
NLN-TeMA’26 will be held at the 25th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2026) taking place in Colégio dos Jesuítas do Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, from 2-4 September 2026. This track is organized under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA). EPIA 2026 . URL https://epia2026.web.uma.pt/
This announcement contains the following: [1] Track description; [2] Topics of interest; [3] Important dates; [4] Paper submission; [5] Track fees; [6] Organizing Committee; and [7] Contacts.
[1] Track Description The Track on Natural Language, Text Mining and Applications (NLP-TeMA 2026) brings together researchers and practitioners working in Human Language Technologies, including Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics (CL), Natural Language Engineering (NLE), Text Mining (TM), Information Retrieval (IR), Large Language Model Research and Applications (LLMs), and related areas. As text remains the primary medium for creating and sharing knowledge, vast amounts of natural language data are generated daily across the Web and other digital platforms. This continuous growth presents significant opportunities—and challenges—for developing methods that can effectively understand, analyze, and extract value from textual information. Advances in NLP, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning have strengthened the role of language technologies in transforming semi-structured and unstructured data into actionable knowledge. NLP-TeMA 2026 welcomes contributions addressing both theoretical foundations and practical applications, fostering research that connects methodological innovation with real-world impact.
Authors are invited to submit their papers on any of the issues identified in section [2]. Revision of the papers will be double-blind by the members of the Program Committee. All accepted papers will be published by Springer in a volume of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) corresponding to the proceedings of the 25th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2026.
[2] Topics of Interest
Theories, Algorithms and Models • Language and Cognitive Modeling • Tagging, Chunking and Parsing • Morphology and Word Segmentation • Natural Language Generation • Discourse and Pragmatics • Semantics and Text Inference • Language Resources: Acquisition and Lexical Knowledge • Textual Entailment and Paraphrase • Entity Recognition and Word Sense Disambiguation • Natural Language Understanding • Language Modeling • Mathematical Properties of Language • NLP for Low-Resource Languages Text Mining and NLP Applications • Text Clustering, Classification and Summarization • Sentiment Analysis and Argument Mining • Computational Social Science • Multi-Word Units • Machine Learning for NLP and Text Mining • Spatio-Temporal and Large-Scale Text Mining • Machine Translation and Cross-Lingual Approaches • Algorithms and Data Structures for Text Mining • Information Retrieval and Information Extraction • Question-Answering and Dialogue Systems • Text-Based Prediction and Forecasting • Web Content Annotation • Domain-Specific Text Mining Applications (Health, Biomedical, Legal, etc.) • Large Language Models: Architectures, Tokenization, Prompting and Adaptation • Offensive Speech Detection and Analysis
[3] Important dates Abstract submission deadline: May 15, 2026 Paper submission deadline: May 29, 2026 (AoE) (strict deadline – no extensions will be granted) Notification of paper acceptance: Julyy 12, 2026 Camera-ready papers: July 25, 2026 (AoE) Conference dates: September 2-4, 2026
[4] Paper submission Submissions must be full technical papers on substantial, original, and previously unpublished research. Papers can have a maximum length of 12 pages, including references. All papers should be prepared according to the formatting instructions of Springer’s author guidelines. Authors should omit their names from the submitted papers and should take reasonable care to avoid indirectly disclosing their identity. References to own work may be included in the paper, as long as referred to in the third person. All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the conference management website at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=epia2026
[5] Track Fees: Track participants must register at the main EPIA 2026 conference.
[6] Organizing Committee: Joaquim Silva, jfs@fct.unl.pt, DI – FCT/UNL, Quinta da Torre, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal; (+351) 910 211 766 (Contact person). Pablo Gamallo, Pablo.gamallo@usc.gal, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Praza do Obradoiro, 0, 15705 Santiago de Compostela, Spain; (+34) 881816426 . Alípio Jorge, amjorge@fc.up.pt, Dep. Ciência de Computadores, Fac. Ciências, Universidade do Porto; 351 220402 959 .
[7] Contacts: Joaquim Francisco Ferreira da Silva, DI/FCT/UNL, Quinta da Torre, 2829‐516, Caparica, Portugal. Tel: (+351) 21 294 8536 (ext. 10732) / (+351) 910 211 766 ‐ Fax: (+351) 21 294 8541 ‐ E‐mail: jfs [at]fct [dot] unl [dot] pt