The 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP 2026), will take place at the University of Trento, Italy, on September 25–26, 2026. ICNLSP 2026 will be a hybrid conference. We invite authors to submit their work on topics relevant to ICNLSP 2026 and contribute to advancing research in the field.
We welcome contributions on both the theoretical foundations and applied aspects of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Speech Processing.
IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: June 15, 2026 11:59 PM Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2026. Camera-ready paper due: August 6, 2026. Conference dates: September 25-26, 2026. All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”).
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
PUBLICATION
All accepted papers will be published in ACL Anthology. For more information, please, check the conference website: https://www.icnlsp.org/2026welcome/