Dear Colleagues, FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS – Extended deadline: 5 November 2026 Rolling review: decisions by 10 November 2026 ACLing 2026: 8th International Conference on AI in Computational Linguistics 25–26 November 2026 | Hybrid | Dubai (UAE) – Jordan – Online Hosted by The British University in Dubai (BUiD) and Jadara University, Jordan Website: https://acling.org/ Submit: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acling2026 ------------------------------------------------------------------ WHY SUBMIT TO ACLING 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------------

* Fast decisions: papers are reviewed as they arrive, and all decisions * are issued by 10 November. * Elsevier publication: accepted and presented papers will be submitted * to Procedia Computer Science (Elsevier, ISSN 1877-0509). Articles are open access on ScienceDirect, and each receives a DOI. * Journal pathway: substantially extended versions may be submitted to * one of three MDPI special issues with an APC discount. * Broad scope: core NLP research AND applications of language models in * any discipline are welcome. * Flexible participation: present in Dubai, in Jordan, or online. * Established series: 8th edition; previous proceedings are listed in * DBLP (https://dblp.org/db/conf/acling/index.html).

------------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------------------------------------------ Paper submission (extended): 5 November 2026 Acceptance notification: 10 November 2026 Camera-ready submission: 14 November 2026 Author registration: 15 November 2026 Conference: 25–26 November 2026 Early submission is encouraged because of rolling review. ------------------------------------------------------------------ SCOPE ------------------------------------------------------------------ We invite original research on computational linguistics, natural language processing (NLP), and the development, evaluation, and application of language models. NEW THIS YEAR: Applications of pretrained language models, LLMs, and vision-language models to problems in other fields are welcome. Examples include healthcare, education, cybersecurity, business, engineering, agriculture, and environmental sustainability. Application papers do not need to propose a new model. However, the language model must play a central methodological role, and the paper must make a clear scientific contribution supported by appropriate evaluation. Work on any language is welcome, including Arabic, multilingual, cross-lingual, code-switching, and low-resource settings. Papers and presentations must be in English. ------------------------------------------------------------------ TOPICS (including but not limited to) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Language Models and Generative AI Pretrained models and LLMs (architecture, optimization, applications); fine-tuning, domain adaptation, and efficient models; prompt engineering and reinforcement learning; RAG and knowledge grounding; agents, tool use, and multi-agent systems Applications Across Disciplines Language models for decision support and scientific discovery; domain-specific NLP; AI-augmented writing, reading, and translation tools Core NLP Syntax, parsing, semantics, pragmatics, and commonsense reasoning; statistical and neural language modeling; question answering and knowledge extraction; summarization and generation; text classification, topic modeling, and document understanding; text mining and information retrieval Multilingual, Speech, and Multimodal Machine translation and cross-lingual NLP; multilinguality, code-switching, and low-resource languages; speech, dialogue, and conversational AI; vision-language models and multimodal AI Social and Affective Computing Sentiment analysis and emotion recognition; social media NLP and computational social science Trustworthy and Responsible AI Robustness, bias, and hallucination; interpretability and explainability; benchmarking and evaluation; ethical and human-centered AI Accepted paper types: theory, algorithms, architectures, applications, resources, datasets, benchmarks, evaluation studies, rigorous surveys, and position papers. ------------------------------------------------------------------ SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ------------------------------------------------------------------

* Original, unpublished work not under review elsewhere * Full papers only (abstract-only submissions are not accepted) * Official ACLing 2026 single-column template (Word or LaTeX): * https://acling.org/submission/ * Length: 3–8 pages, including figures, tables, and references. * Up to 2 extra pages (10 maximum) are allowed for an additional fee. * Double-blind review: manuscripts must be anonymized * At least one author must register and present the paper for it to * appear in the proceedings

------------------------------------------------------------------ EXTENDED JOURNAL PUBLICATION – THREE MDPI SPECIAL ISSUES ------------------------------------------------------------------ Authors of accepted papers may submit a substantially extended version to one of these special issues, according to scope:

1. Computation – Recent Advances on Computational Linguistics and * Natural Language Processing (2nd Edition) Best fit: core NLP and computational linguistics research https://www.mdpi.com/journal/computation/special_issues/844FZG56H7

1. Cryptography – Cryptographic and Data-Driven Techniques for Secure * Business Technology, Cyber Resilience, and Forensics Best fit: language models for cybersecurity, threat intelligence, fraud detection, and AI-assisted digital forensics https://www.mdpi.com/journal/cryptography/special_issues/AZ7402BU21

1. Computers – Trustworthy and Efficient Large Language Models: * Methods, Systems and Applications Best fit: LLM reliability, efficiency, systems, and applications https://www.mdpi.com/journal/computers/special_issues/SK9R9137L0

Conditions:

* An APC discount applies; contact the organizers for details. * The extended paper must add substantial new contributions, cite the * conference paper, and explain what is new. * Journal submissions undergo separate peer review. Conference * acceptance does not guarantee journal acceptance. * Journal APCs are separate from conference registration. Please check * each special issue's deadline and fees.

Details: https://acling.org/call-for-papers/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ CONFERENCE CHAIRS ------------------------------------------------------------------ Prof. Khaled Shaalan – The British University in Dubai, UAE Prof. Samhaa R. El-Beltagy – New Giza University, Egypt CONTACT General inquiries: acling2026@gmail.com Prof. Khaled Shaalan: khaled.shaalan@buid.ac.ae Dr. Taher M. Ghazal: taher.ghazal@ieee.org Prof. Samhaa R. El-Beltagy: samhaa@computer.org ------------------------------------------------------------------ Please forward this call to colleagues, research groups, and students who may be interested. We apologize if you receive multiple copies. ACLing 2026 | 25–26 November 2026 | Dubai – Jordan – Online https://acling.org/