*Call for papers:* *NLDB 2026: 31st Annual International Conference on Natural Language & Information Systems* 17-19 June 2026 | Norwegian University of Science and Technology | Trondheim, Norway Website: https://www.ntnu.edu/nldb2026/ * /Objectives:/* Recent advances in AI have increased the expectations for users when it comes to information access systems. With powerful LLMs, users engage with information using natural language instead of artificial query languages. At the same time, this raises not only technical but also ethical concerns, such as sustainability, reliability, and privacy. NLDB has established itself as a venue to discuss precisely the intersection of natural language and information systems. We invite researchers and practitioners to contribute.

/*Important Dates:*/

Paper Submission: 6 February 2026, Anywhere on Earth

Author Notification: 20 March 2026

Camera-ready Deadline: 2 April 2026

/*Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to):*/ - Multimodality - AI safety and ethics - Interactivity and Natural Language Interfaces - Social Media and Web Data - eXplainable AI - Interpretability and Model Analysis in NLP - Generative models, Large Language Models -  Information Retrieval and Text Mining - Discourse and Pragmatics, Sentiment Analysis, Argument Mining - Question Answering, Dialogue, and Interactive Systems - NLP Applications - Efficient/Low-resource methods in NLP - Big Data and Scalability * /Paper Submission/* Detailed instructions covering formatting, submission procedures, and all relevant requirements are available on the conference website. Submission system: Manuscripts must be submitted in PDF format via Microsoft CMT: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/NLDB2026/ Author guidelines: Authors should follow the LNCS format. Submissions that do not adhere to these requirements will be desk-rejected. Paper categories and length limits: - Full papers: up to 15 pages, including references and appendices - Short papers: up to 11 pages, including references and appendices - Demo papers: up to 6 pages, including references