12th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (NATP 2026)

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12th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (NATP 2026) February 27 ~ 28, 2026, Vancouver, Canada https://acsty2026.org/natp/index Scope 12th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (NATP 2026) will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of Natural Language Processing. The conference looks for significant contributions to all major fields of the applications of Natural Language Processing Technology in theoretical and practical aspects.Authors are solicited to contribute to the Conference by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in the following areas, but are not limited to. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following Large Language Models, Generative AI & Foundation Models Pre‑training, fine‑tuning, adaptation Prompting, instruction tuning, alignment Reasoning, planning & tool‑use Emergent behaviors in LLMs Safety, ethics, bias & responsible NLP   Machine Translation, Multilinguality & Low‑Resource NLP Neural & LLM‑based MT Cross‑lingual transfer Low‑resource & endangered languages Community‑driven resource creation Linguistic typology & multilingual modeling Information Extraction, Retrieval & Knowledge‑Augmented NLP Relation & event extraction Dense/neural retrieval Retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) Knowledge graphs & structured knowledge integration Question Answering, Text Understanding & Reasoning Open‑domain QA Reading comprehension Multi-hop reasoning Fact verification & truthfulness Dialogue Systems, Conversational AI & Agentic NLP   Task‑oriented dialogue Open‑domain conversation LLM‑based agents & tool‑use Multi‑agent communication Human–AI collaboration Semantics, Discourse, Pragmatics & Text Generation Semantic parsing & structured meaning Discourse modeling & long‑context understanding Paraphrasing, entailment & generation Grounded semantics & world modeling Formal semantics & logical approaches Speech, Multimodal & Embodied Language Processing End‑to‑end ASR/TTS Speech‑text models Vision‑language & audio‑language models Video‑language understanding Embodied agents & multimodal reasoning Linguistic Resources, Corpora, Annotation & Evaluation   Dataset creation & annotation Human‑subject studies & annotation psychology Evaluation of LLMs Benchmarking & reproducibility Robustness & adversarial testing Computational Linguistics, Language Structure & Cognitive Modeling Morphology, phonology & syntax Cognitive modeling & psycholinguistics Human sentence processing Language acquisition & memory Mathematical linguistics NLP for Humanities, Social Sciences & Cultural Analytics Computational social science Digital humanities Cultural and historical text analysis Social media analysis Political discourse & narrative modeling Applied NLP, Education Technology & NLP for Social Good   Healthcare, legal, financial, educational NLP Intelligent tutoring systems Automated essay scoring Crisis informatics Climate & environmental NLP Societal impact & policy implications Efficiency, Optimization & Deployment of NLP Systems Model compression & distillation Efficient inference & hardware‑aware NLP Edge deployment Scalable training & serving Toolkits, infrastructure & open‑source ecosystems Creativity, Narrative & Computational Arts Story generation Computational poetry Humor generation Co‑creative writing systems Creative multimodal generation Theoretical Foundations & Analysis of NLP Models   Theory of transformers & neural architectures Probing & interpretability Limits & capabilities of language models Formal models of computation for NLP Paper Submission Authors are invited to submit papers through the conference Submission System by January 17, 2026. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this conference. The proceedings of the conference will be published by Computer Science Conference Proceedings in Computer Science & Information Technology (CS & IT) series (Confirmed). Selected papers from NATP 2026, after further revisions, will be published in the special issue of the following journal. International Journal of Web & Semantic Technology (IJWesT) – IS Indexed International Journal on Natural Language Computing (IJNLC) Information Technology in Industry (ITII) Important Dates   Submission Deadline: January 17, 2026 Authors Notification : February 10, 2026 Registration & Camera-Ready Paper Due : February 17, 2026 Contact Us Here’s where you can reach us : This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (or) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.