Dear colleagues, The paper submission deadline for ACLing 2026 has been extended to 5 November 2026. The acceptance notification, camera-ready submission, and author registration deadlines have also been updated. We invite you to submit your work and share this call with interested colleagues. ============================================================ 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 Publication: Procedia Computer Science by Elsevier Conference website: https://acling.org/ ============================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS The 8th International Conference on AI in Computational Linguistics (ACLing 2026) invites researchers, academics, practitioners, and industry professionals worldwide to submit original research in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML), and Computational Linguistics. ACLing 2026 will take place on 25–26 November 2026 as a multi-site hybrid conference, connecting physical hubs in Dubai, UAE, and Jordan with synchronous virtual participation worldwide. Authors may present in person at The British University in Dubai or Jadara University, or participate virtually from anywhere in the world. Two Countries. Two Physical Hubs. One International Research Community. ============================================================ UPDATED IMPORTANT DATES ============================================================ • 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 ============================================================ PUBLICATION & VISIBILITY ============================================================ All accepted and presented papers will be published in Procedia Computer Science (ISSN: 1877-0509) by Elsevier. Peer-reviewed research articles published in Procedia Computer Science are published open access on ScienceDirect, assigned a DOI, indexed in Scopus, ranked by SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), and covered by major scholarly indexing and abstracting services. Previous ACLing proceedings have also been catalogued in DBLP. ACLing proceedings published by Elsevier include ACLing 2017, 2018, 2021, 2024, and 2025. ============================================================ TOPICS OF INTEREST ============================================================ ACLing 2026 welcomes original research on theoretical foundations, algorithms, architectures, resources, evaluation, and practical applications in AI, NLP, and Computational Linguistics. Topics include, but are not limited to: • Large Language Models (LLMs): architecture, optimization, and applications • Generative AI and emerging language technologies • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and information retrieval • Conversational AI, dialogue systems, and AI agents • Question answering and knowledge extraction • Statistical and neural language modeling • Machine translation and cross-lingual NLP • Multilingual NLP, code-switching, and low-resource languages • AI for resource-poor and endangered languages • Speech technologies and multimodal language interfaces • Vision-language models and multimodal AI • Domain-specific NLP: legal, biomedical, scientific, and educational • Syntactic analysis, tagging, and 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 large-scale knowledge discovery • Responsible, ethical, and interpretable AI • Human-centered NLP • Benchmarking, evaluation metrics, and explainability • Prompt engineering and reinforcement learning for NLP • AI-augmented writing, reading, and translation tools Interdisciplinary contributions and innovative applications of AI to language technologies are particularly encouraged. ============================================================ SUBMISSION & REVIEW ============================================================ ACLing 2026 welcomes original, unpublished work that is not currently under review by another conference or journal. Submissions will undergo peer review by experts in the field. Paper length: • Regular papers: 3–8 pages, including figures, tables, and references • Extended papers: Up to 10 pages, subject to the applicable additional-page fee Each accepted paper must be presented by at least one author for inclusion in the conference proceedings. Submit your paper through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acling2026 Submission guidelines: https://acling.org/submission/ ============================================================ WHY ACLing 2026? ============================================================ ACLing provides an international forum for researchers working at the intersection of AI and language technologies. Its multi-site hybrid format offers opportunities for international research collaboration, interaction with researchers in AI, NLP, and Computational Linguistics, and flexible physical and virtual presentation. ============================================================ CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS ============================================================ • Prof. Khaled Shaalan — The British University in Dubai, UAE • Prof. Samhaa R. El-Beltagy — Newgiza University, Egypt ============================================================ USEFUL LINKS ============================================================ Conference website: https://acling.org/ Call for papers: https://acling.org/call-for-papers/ Paper submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acling2026 Submission guidelines: https://acling.org/submission/ Previous proceedings: https://dblp.org/db/conf/acling/index.html ============================================================ CONTACT ============================================================ General inquiries: ACLing2026@gmail.com Prof. Khaled Shaalan: khaled.shaalan@buid.ac.ae Prof. Samhaa R. El-Beltagy: samhaa@computer.org Dr. Taher M. Ghazal: taher.ghazal@ieee.org ============================================================ We look forward to receiving your research contributions and welcoming you to ACLing 2026. Please circulate this updated call among interested colleagues, research groups, students, and professional networks. ACLing 2026 25–26 November 2026 Dubai • Jordan • Worldwide Online https://acling.org/