12th International Conference on Natural Language Computing (NATL 2026)
December 19 ~ 20, 2026, Sydney, Australia
https://dmdbs.org/natl/index
Scope
12th International Conference on Natural Language Computing (NATL 2026) will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of Natural Language Computing. The Conference looks for significant contributions to all major fields of the Natural Language Computing 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
· Parsing and Grammatical Formalisms
· Chunking and Shallow Parsing
· Phonology, Morphology and Lexical Semantics
· Discourse, Pragmatics and Semantic Processing
· Linguistic Resources and Annotation
· Information Extraction
· Information Retrieval
· Text Mining and Knowledge Discovery
· Machine Translation
· Question Answering
· Paraphrasing, Entailment and Text Generation
· Dialog Systems and Conversational AI
· Spoken Language Processing
· Speech Recognition and Synthesis
· Large Language Models and Foundation Models
· Instruction Tuning, Alignment and RLHF
· Prompt Engineering and RAG
· Generative NLP and Text to X Models
· LLM Reasoning, Chain of Thought and Planning
· LLM Tool Use, API Calling and Agentic Workflows
· Multimodal Language Models
· Audio Language and Video Language Models
· Multilingual, Low Resource and Under Represented Languages
· Fairness, Bias, Ethics and Responsible NLP
· Safety, Robustness and Red Teaming
· Evaluation, Benchmarks and Metrics
· Synthetic Data, Data Quality and Curation
· Efficient LLM Inference, Compression and FMOps
· Knowledge Graphs, Ontologies and Neuro Symbolic NLP
· NLP for Code, Program Synthesis and Software Engineering
· Cognitive NLP and Brain Language Models
· NLP for Robotics and Embodied AI
· Quantum NLP
Paper Submission
Authors are invited to submit papers through the conference Submission System by September 20, 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 NATL 2026, after further revisions, will be published in the special issue of the following journal.
· International Journal of Computer Networks & Communications (IJCNC) - Scopus Indexed
· International journal of computer science & information Technology (IJCSIT) - INSPEC Indexed
· International Journal on Natural Language Computing (IJNLC)
· International Journal on Information Theory (IJIT)
· International Journal on Computational Science & Applications (IJCSA)
· International Journal of Web & Semantic Technology (IJWesT)
Important Dates
· Submission Deadline : September 20, 2026
· Authors Notification : October 10, 2026
· Final Manuscript Due : October 17, 2026
Contact Us
Here's where you can reach us : [email protected] or [email protected]
Paper Submission URL
https://csea2026.org/submission/index.php
Event venue
Sydney, Australia
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