We are delighted to invite you to ICNLSP 2024 https://www.icnlsp.org/2024welcome/, the 7th edition of the International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing, which will be held at University of Trento from October 19th to 20th, 2024 (*HYBRID*).

*Topics*

- Signal processing, acoustic modeling. - Speech recognition (Architecture, search methods, lexical modeling, language modeling, language model adaptation, multimodal systems, applications in education and learning, zero-resource speech recognition, etc.). - Speech Analysis. - Paralinguistics in Speech and Language (Perception of paralinguistic phenomena, analysis of speaker states and traits, etc.). - Spoken Dialog Systems and Conversational Analysis - Speech Translation. - Speech synthesis. - Speaker verification and identification. - Language identification - Speech coding. - Speech enhancement - Speech intelligibility - Speech Perception - Speech Production - Brain studies on speech - Phonetics, phonology and prosody. - Speech and hearing disorders. - Paralinguistics of pathological speech and language. - Speech technology for disordered speech/hairing. - Cognition and natural language processing. - Machine translation. - Text categorization. - Summarization. - Sentiment analysis and opinion mining. - Computational Social Web. - Arabic dialects processing. - Under-resourced languages: tools and corpora. - Large language models. - Arabic OCR. - NLP tools for software requirements and engineering. - Knowledge fundamentals. - Knowledge management systems. - Information extraction. - Data mining and information retrieval. - Lexical semantics and knowledge representation. - Requirements engineering and NLP. - NLP for Arabic heritage documents.

*Submission*

Papers must be submitted via the link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICNLSP2024/ https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICNLSP2024/

Each submitted paper will be reviewed by three program committee members.The reviewing process is double-blind. Authors can use the *ACL format*: *Latex https://www.icnlsp.org/ACL%202023%20Proceedings%20Template.zip*or Word. Authors have the choice to submit their papers as a full or short paper. Long papers consist of up to 8 pages of content + references. Short papers, up to 4 pages of content + references.

*Important dates*

*Submission deadline:* *30 June 2024 11:59 PM (GMT*) *Notification of acceptance:* 15 September 2024 *Camera-ready paper due:* 25 September 2024 *Conference dates:* 19, 20 October 2024

*Publication*

*1- All accepted papers will be published in **ACL Anthology https://aclanthology.org/**.*

*2- Selected papers will be published (after extension) in:*

* 2-a-* A *SPECIAL ISSUE* https://www.mdpi.com/journal/make/special_issues/POB4VNE0QP of Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction Journal https://www.mdpi.com/journal/make (MAKE), indexed in *Web of Science https://mjl.clarivate.com/search-results*, *Scopus* https://www.scopus.com/sources.uri, etc.

*Special issue title*: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/make/special_issues/POB4VNE0QP https://www.mdpi.com/journal/make/special_issues/POB4VNE0QP*Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models. https://www.mdpi.com/journal/make/special_issues/POB4VNE0QP*

* 2-b-* Signals and Communication Technology (Springer), indexed in *Scopus* https://www.scopus.com/ and *zbMATH* https://zbmath.org/.