Dear Colleagues, Submission deadline extended to 5 November 2026. Expanded scope: Language-model applications across disciplines are welcome. Three optional journal special issues with APC discounts for extended versions of accepted papers. ================================================================== ACLing 2026 ================================================================== 8th International Conference on AI in Computational Linguistics 25–26 November 2026 | Multi-Site Hybrid Conference 📍 The British University in Dubai (BUiD), Dubai, UAE 📍 Jadara University, Jordan 🌐 Virtual participation worldwide Conference website: https://acling.org/ Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acling2026 ================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS ACLing 2026 invites researchers, academics, practitioners, and industry professionals to submit original research in computational linguistics, natural language processing (NLP), and the development, evaluation, and application of language models. The conference welcomes both advances in language technologies and interdisciplinary research using pretrained language models, large language models (LLMs), or vision-language models to address problems in other fields. Applications in healthcare, education, cybersecurity, business, engineering, agriculture, and environmental sustainability are encouraged. Application papers do not need to introduce a new language model or linguistic theory. Language models should play a central methodological role, and submissions should present a clear scientific contribution supported by appropriate evaluation. Research on any natural language is welcome, including Arabic, multilingual, cross-lingual, code-switching, and low-resource settings. Papers and presentations must use English; this requirement does not restrict the language studied. ACLing 2026 connects two physical conference hubs with virtual participation through one unified scientific program. Authors may present in Dubai, Jordan, or online, subject to the final program and session allocation. Two Countries. Two Physical Hubs. One International Research Community. ================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES — UPDATED • Paper Submission Deadline: 5 November 2026 • Acceptance Notification: 10 November 2026 • Camera-Ready Submission: 14 November 2026 • Author Registration: 15 November 2026 • Conference: 25–26 November 2026 Rolling review: Submissions are reviewed as they arrive to provide prompt feedback and decisions. Authors are encouraged to submit early. ================================================================== PUBLICATION & RESEARCH VISIBILITY Accepted papers meeting the camera-ready, registration, and presentation requirements will be submitted for publication in Procedia Computer Science (ISSN: 1877-0509), Elsevier, subject to the publisher’s requirements and approval. Publication provides open-access availability on ScienceDirect and a DOI for each article. For current indexing and ranking information, consult the source records linked on the conference website. Previous ACLing proceedings include the 2017, 2018, 2021, 2024, and 2025 editions and are catalogued in DBLP: https://dblp.org/db/conf/acling/index.html ================================================================== OPTIONAL EXTENDED JOURNAL PUBLICATION — THREE SPECIAL ISSUES Authors of accepted ACLing 2026 papers may prepare a substantially extended version for submission to one of the following MDPI journal special issues, according to the manuscript’s scope:

1. Computation Special Issue: Recent Advances on Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing—2nd Edition https://www.mdpi.com/journal/computation/special_issues/844FZG56H7 2. Cryptography Special-issue scope and submission information: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/cryptography/special_issues/AZ7402BU21 3. Computers Special-issue scope and submission information: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/computers/special_issues/SK9R9137L0 The same extension, discount, and review conditions apply to all three opportunities: • An APC discount is available for substantially extended versions of accepted ACLing 2026 papers. Contact the organizing team for the applicable discount and claiming procedure. • Extended manuscripts must add substantial new contributions, cite the conference paper, and clearly explain the additional contribution. • Each manuscript must fit the chosen special issue’s scope and meet the journal’s submission and publication requirements. • All journal submissions undergo separate peer review. Conference acceptance does not guarantee journal acceptance. • Journal APCs are separate from conference registration. Authors should check the chosen special issue’s deadline and confirm the applicable fees before submitting. Further information: https://acling.org/call-for-papers/ ================================================================== TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics include, but are not limited to: • Pretrained and Large Language Models: Architecture, Optimization, and Applications • Language-Model Applications Across Disciplines • Generative AI and Emerging Language Technologies • Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Knowledge Grounding, and Information Retrieval • Language-Model Agents, Tool Use, and Multi-Agent Systems • Domain Adaptation, Fine-Tuning, and Efficient Language Models • Language Models for Decision Support and Scientific Discovery • Question Answering and Knowledge Extraction • Statistical and Neural Language Modeling • Machine Translation and Cross-Lingual NLP • Multilinguality, Code-Switching, and Low-Resource Languages • Speech Technologies, Dialogue Systems, and Conversational AI • Vision-Language Models and Multimodal AI • Domain-Specific NLP • Syntax, Parsing, Semantics, Pragmatics, and Commonsense Reasoning • Emotion Recognition and Sentiment Analysis • NLP for Social Media and Computational Social Science • Text Summarization and Natural Language Generation • Text Classification, Topic Modeling, and Document Understanding • Text Mining and Knowledge Discovery • Responsible, Ethical, Interpretable, and Human-Centered AI • Reliability, Robustness, Bias, and Hallucinations in Language Models • Benchmarking, Application Evaluation, and Explainability • Prompt Engineering and Reinforcement Learning for Language Models • AI-Augmented Writing, Reading, and Translation Tools Theoretical contributions, algorithms, architectures, applications, resources, datasets, benchmarks, and evaluation studies are welcome, alongside rigorous surveys and position papers. ================================================================== SUBMISSION & REVIEW • Submit original, unpublished work that is not under consideration elsewhere. • Prepare a complete manuscript using the official ACLing 2026 single-column Word or LaTeX template. • Initial manuscripts must be anonymized for double-blind peer review. • Standard length: 3–8 pages, including figures, tables, and references. • Up to two additional pages are permitted, for a maximum of 10 pages, with an additional charge for pages 9 and 10. • Abstract-only submissions are not accepted. • At least one author must register and present each accepted paper for inclusion in the proceedings. Submit through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acling2026 Templates and submission guidelines: https://acling.org/submission/ ================================================================== CONFERENCE CHAIRS • Prof. Khaled Shaalan — The British University in Dubai, UAE • Prof. Samhaa R. El-Beltagy — New Giza University, Egypt ================================================================== CONTACT Khaled Shaalan: khaled.shaalan@buid.ac.ae Taher M. Ghazal: taher.ghazal@ieee.org Samhaa R. El-Beltagy: samhaa@computer.org General inquiries: acling2026@gmail.com ================================================================== We look forward to receiving your contributions and welcoming you to ACLing 2026. Please circulate this call among interested colleagues, research groups, students, and professional networks. ACLing 2026 | 25–26 November 2026 Dubai • Jordan • Worldwide Online https://acling.org/