4th International Conference on Speech and NLP (SPNLP 2026)

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4th International Conference on Speech and NLP (SPNLP 2026) May 30 ~ 31, 2026, Virtual Conference https://spnlp2026.org/index Scope4th International Conference on Speech and NLP (SPNLP 2026) will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and results in the theory, methodology, and applications of Speech Processing and Natural Language Processing (NLP). As speech, language, and multimodal intelligence continue to advance at an unprecedented pace, the conference aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, and industry experts to exchange innovative ideas, discuss emerging challenges, and explore cutting edge developments shaping the future of human–machine communication. SPNLP 2026 welcomes significant contributions that address both foundational research and practical implementations across all major areas of speech and NLP. The conference encourages submissions that present novel research results, experimental studies, system prototypes, survey articles, and industrial experiences that demonstrate meaningful progress in the field. Authors are invited to contribute by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works, and industrial experiences describing significant advances in the following areas, but not limited to:Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following   NLP, Linguistics and LanguageFoundational NLP and Linguistics Morphology, Phonology, Syntax and Semantics Parsing, Structured Prediction and Grammatical Formalisms Lexical Semantics and Word Sense Disambiguation Discourse, Pragmatics and Dialogue Structure Linguistic Resources, Corpora, Annotation and Benchmarking Computational Linguistics and Formal Models of Language Multilingual NLP, Cross Lingual Transfer and Low Resource NLP Sociolinguistic NLP: Dialects, Code Switching and Language VariationModern NLP ParadigmsLarge Language Models (LLMs) and Foundation Models Instruction Tuning, Preference Optimization (DPO, PPO, ORPO) Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and Knowledge Augmented NLP   Long Context Models and Memory Augmented LLMs Reasoning Models: Chain of Thought, Tool Use and Planning Neuro Symbolic NLP and Hybrid Reasoning Continual, Lifelong and Incremental NLP Personalized NLP and User Modeling Efficient NLP: Distillation, Quantization, Pruning, TinyNLP and TinyLLMsSpeech, Audio and Multimodal IntelligenceSpeech and Spoken Language Processing Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Text to Speech (TTS) and Speech Synthesis Spoken Dialogue Systems and Conversational AI Speech Understanding, Emotion Recognition and Prosody Speech Translation and Cross Modal Speech Text Models Robust Speech Processing and Noise Resilient Models   Speech Foundation Models and Speech Language Joint Models Voice Cloning, Voice Conversion and Speech Editing Speaker Diarization, Attribution and Multi Speaker Modeling On Device and Real Time Speech Models (TinySpeech)Audio Intelligence and Generative AudioAudio Diffusion Models and Generative Audio Sound Event Detection, Classification and Generation Audio Language Models (ALMs) Audio Forensics and Deepfake Speech DetectionMultimodal and Embodied AIVision Language Models (VLMs) Audio Language Vision Models Vision Language Action (VLA) Models Video Language Models and Video Reasoning 3D Multimodal Models and Embodied 3D Reasoning   Language Grounding in Vision, Robotics and Embodied Agents Sign Language Processing and Gesture Language Integration NLP Applications, Generation and Knowledge TechnologiesNLP Applications Information Extraction, Text Mining and Knowledge Extraction Information Retrieval, Neural IR and Search Systems Question Answering, Reading Comprehension and Open Domain QA Summarization (Extractive, Abstractive, Multimodal) Machine Translation and Cross Lingual Generation Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining and Argument Mining NLP for Healthcare, Finance, Education and Social Media NLP for Accessibility and Assistive Technologies NLP for Misinformation, Disinformation and Digital Trust   NLP for Policy, Governance and Societal Impact Text Generation and Language ModelingParaphrasing, Entailment and Natural Language Generation (NLG) Controlled Generation, Style Transfer and Content Manipulation Narrative Generation, Storytelling and Creative NLP Safety Aware Generation and Toxicity Mitigation Knowledge Enhanced NLPKnowledge Graphs, Ontologies and Semantic Web Knowledge Grounded Dialogue and QA Commonsense Reasoning and World Knowledge Integration Symbolic Neural Hybrid Models Machine Learning for NLP and Model AnalysisML Techniques for NLP Deep Learning Architectures for NLP   Transformers, Attention Mechanisms and Sequence Modeling Reinforcement Learning for Language Tasks Continual Learning, Meta Learning and Transfer Learning Statistical NLP (modernized) and Hybrid ML Approaches Model Evaluation, Interpretability and SafetyInterpretability, Explainability and Model Transparency Evaluation Metrics, Benchmarks and Human Evaluation Bias, Fairness, Ethics and Responsible NLP Robustness, Adversarial Attacks and Defenses Hallucination Detection and Mitigation in LLMs Safety, Alignment and Red Teaming for NLP Models Holistic Evaluation of LLMs and Multimodal Models Agent Based Evaluation and Real World Task Evaluation   Emerging Topics in Speech and NLPAgentic NLP Systems and Autonomous Language Agents Multi Agent Communication, Coordination and Social Simulation Multilingual LLMs and Universal Speech Language Models Low Resource and Zero Shot Speech/NLP Synthetic Data for Speech and NLP Human AI Collaboration and Co Creation Cognitive NLP and Psycholinguistic Modeling Theory of Mind (ToM) in NLP and Language Reasoning Real World Deployment, Efficiency and Scalability of NLP Systems NLP for Safety, Security and Digital Trust   Paper Submission   Authors are invited to submit papers through the conference Submission System by May 16, 2026 (Final Call). 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 International Journal on Cybernetics & Informatics (IJCI) (Confirmed). Selected papers from SPNLP 2026, after further revisions, will be published in the special issue of the following journal. International Journal on Natural Language Computing (IJNLC) International Journal of UbiComp (IJU) International Journal of Data Mining & Knowledge Management Process (IJDKP) International Journal of Grid Computing & Applications (IJGCA) Signal & Image Processing : An International Journal (SIPIJ) Important Dates Second Batch : Submissions after April 21, 2026 Submission Deadline; May 16, 2026 (Final Call) Authors Notification; May 21, 2026 Registration & camera – Ready Paper Due; May 25, 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.