Dear All,

We are pleased to invite submissions to the special issue of Natural Language Engineering, now called *Natural Language Processing* (Cambridge University Press), on the theme: "*Revolutionising Natural Language Processing with Quantum Computing*"

*Cambridge NLE - Special Issue*

*Revolutionising Natural Language Processing with Quantum Computing*

*The deadline for submissions is November 30, 2025.*

*Call for Papers*

We welcome papers dealing with one or more of the following topics:

- Quantum computing Platforms for Algorithm execution - Quantum-enhanced NLP models and embeddings - Quantum Algorithms towards Natural Language Processing - Design and Development of Quantum Machine Learning Hybrid quantum-classical Models - Applications of Quantum Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing - Future Direction of Quantum Machine Learning in Natural Language Processing - Quantum Large Language Models - Architectures and Mechanisms and Challenges - Quantum Machine Learning for Low-Resource Language Modeling - Hybrid Quantum-Classical LLMs for Low-Resource Languages - Quantum transformers and compression of large language models - Quantum cognitive NLP for contextual and semantic understanding - Quantum dialogue systems and conversational AI - Quantum knowledge graphs for reasoning and inference - Quantum semantic search and information retrieval - Quantum adversarial learning and robustness in NLP - *any other, which is related to Quantum Computing*

*Important Dates:*

- *Deadline for submissions*: November 30, 2025 - *First-round author notification*: Between April 30, 2026 and May 30, 2026 - *Submission of revised versions*: Between July 30, 2026 and August 30, 2026 - *Second-round author notification*: Between Nov 30, 2026 and Dec 30, 2026 - *Submission of revised second versions*: Between Dec 31, 2026 and Feb 28, 2027 - *Final Version*: Between April 30, 2027 and May 30, 2027

*Submissions:*

Instructions for preparing your manuscript for the *Journal of Natural Language Engineering* are available https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/natural-language-engineering/information/instructions-contributors here https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/natural-language-engineering/information/instructions-contributors .

Please submit your article through the NLE https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nlemanuscript submission system https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nle. When submitting your manuscript, please select "*Revolutionising Natural Language Processing with Quantum Computing"* in the field *Special Issue Section.*

*Any questions: *Dr. Partha Pakray National Institute of Technology Silchar, India Email: partha@cse.nits.ac.in *[Guest Editor]* Thanks & Regards, Thanks & Regards, *Dr. Partha Pakray* Associate Professor Department of Computer Science & Engineering National Institute of Technology Silchar Silchar, Assam, India partha@cse.nits.ac.in