Dear all,

The registration to the 2026 edition of the Lectures on Computational Linguistics is open. It will close on May 27, or earlier — as soon as the maximum number of participants (150) is reached.

https://www.ai-lc.it/en/lcl-registration-procedure/

The 2026 edition is organized by the Italian Association of Computational Linguistics (AILC) together with the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Education) and EURAC Research Center. It focuses on Natural Language Processing for the Society, covering topics from Low Resources Languages, Speech and Text, Embodied AI, Interpretability and Small Language Models for education in schools. Featuring frontal classes, evening lectures and hands-on labs, it provides both a high-level overview of the field as well as an introduction to specific topics, and practical experiences.

SPEAKERS Tutorials: Barbara Plank (LMU Munich) Elia Bruni (University of Osnabrück) Barbara Schuppler (TU Graz)

Evening Lectures: Julia Hockenmaier (University of Illinois) Aurelie Herbelot (Denotation UG)

Labs: Loredana Schettino and Alessandro Vietti (Faculty of Education, UNIBZ) Leonardo Bertolazzi (University of Trento) Egon Stemle and Luca Ducceschi (EURAC Research Center)

The detailed programme is available at: https://www.ai-lc.it/en/lectures-2/lectures-2026/program/

Student Presentations Students wishing to present aspects of their work in the "Student Presentations" sessions are asked to send a 500-word abstract to ailc.lectures@gmail.commailto:ailc.lectures@gmail.com by May 16, 2026. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by May 23, 2026.

Scientific Committee Pierpaolo Basile, University of Studi di Bari Aldo Moro Raffaella Bernardi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Tommaso Caselli, University of Groningen Elisabetta Fersini, University of Milano-Bicocca Elisabetta Jezek, University of Pavia

Local Organizing Committee Raffaella Bernardi, Faculty of Engineering, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Alessandro Vietti, Faculty of Education, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Luca Ducceschi, EURAC Research Center

Contacts: ailc.lectures@gmail.commailto:ailc.lectures@gmail.com

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