ICNLSP 2026 · 9TH EDITION

International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing

A premier venue bringing together researchers, academics, students and industry in Natural Language Processing and Speech Processing.

🗓 September 25–26, 2026 · 📍 University of Trento, Italy

Submission deadline: June 22, 2026 (extended)

About the Conference

ICNLSP provides a dynamic platform to share insights and stay up to date with the latest advancements in NLP and Speech Processing. Building on the success of previous editions, it aims to present a high level of scientific content comparable to leading international events such as INTERSPEECH, ACL, EMNLP and COLING.

Natural Language Processing

Advanced research in text understanding, generation and multilingual NLP.

Speech Processing

Speech recognition, synthesis and spoken language technologies.

Publication & Indexing

Accepted papers published and indexed in reputable venues.

In the spirit of leading venues

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Important Dates

Key milestones for ICNLSP 2026

Paper Submission

Deadline: June 22, 2026 (extended)

Conference

September 25–26, 2026

Venue

University of Trento, Italy

Publication & Indexing

Accepted papers are published and indexed in reputable venues.

Keynote Speakers

Distinguished scholars who shaped past editions of ICNLSP.

ICNLSP 2025

Prof. Dr. Barbara Plank

LMU Munich, Germany

Human-Centered LLMs for Inclusive Language Technology

Prof. Dr. Anders Søgaard

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Prof. Peter Schneider-Kamp

SDU, Denmark

ICNLSP 2024

Prof. Gérard Chollet

Télécom-SudParis, France

An Introduction to Large Language Models

ICNLSP 2023

Prof. Dr. Alex Waibel

Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Transcending Communication Barriers: From Machine Translation to Language Transparence

Dr. Najim Dehak

Johns Hopkins University, USA

ICNLSP 2022

Eric Laporte

Gustave Eiffel University

Hybrid natural language processing in the deep learning era

Jan Niehues

Karlsruhe Institute of Technolgy

Plug-and-Play Abilities for Neural Machine Translation

Ahmed Ali

QCRI

Multilingual and Code-Switching Speech Recognition

ICNLSP 2021

Valia Kordoni

University of Humboldt

Figurative Language Analysis

Ahmed Abdelali

QCRI

Understanding Arabic Transformer Models

Hussein Al-Natsheh

Beyond Limits

AI Technology Commercialization: From Research to Product Innovation

Kareem Darwish

aIxplain

Bring All Your Features: Arabic Diacritic Recovery Using a Feature-Rich Recurrent Neural Model

ICNLSP 2019

Fausto Giunchiglia

University of Trento, Italy

One world - seven thousand languages

Preslav Nakov

QCRI, Qatar

Detecting the "Fake News" before they were even written

ICNLSP 2018

Gérard Chollet

Intelligent Voice, UK

Privacy Preserving Speech Processing

Djamel Bouchaffra

CDTA, Algeria

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Challenges

ICNLSP 2015

Stephan Vogel

QCRI, Qatar

Speech Translation: from Research to Applications

Jean Paul Haton

Lorraine Univ., France

Present and Future of Automatic Speech Recognition

A Growing Scientific Legacy

From 2015 to today — explore every edition of ICNLSP in one place.

SEPTEMBER 25–26, 2026 · TRENTO, ITALY

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