CALL FOR PAPERS

ICNLSP 2026 welcomes contributions on both the theoretical foundations and applied aspects of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Speech Processing. The conference will feature regular sessions, along with keynote talks delivered by distinguished international researchers.
We invite authors to submit their work on topics relevant to ICNLSP 2026 and contribute to advancing research in the field.

Paper Submission Information

Topics of Interest

We invite contributions on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:

Natural Language Processing (NLP)

• Generative AI
• Large language models (LLMs)
• Cognition and NLP
• Machine translation
• Text categorization
• Summarization
• Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
• Computational social web
• Under-resourced languages: tools and corpora
• NLP tools for software requirements and engineering
• Text annotation tools
• Knowledge fundamentals and knowledge management systems
• Information extraction
• Data mining and information retrieval
• Lexical semantics and knowledge representation
• Visualization for nlp
• Knowledge graphs.

Speech Processing

• Signal processing and acoustic modeling
• Speech recognition (architecture, search methods, lexical modeling, language modeling, adaptation, multimodal systems, applications in education and learning, zero-resource speech recognition, etc.)
• Speech analysis
• Paralinguistics in speech and language (perception of paralinguistic phenomena, speaker states and traits analysis, etc.)
• Spoken dialogue systems and conversational analysis
• Speech translation
• Speech synthesis
• Speaker verification and identification
• Language identification
• Speech coding, enhancement, and intelligibility
• Speech perception and production
• Brain studies on speech
• Phonetics, phonology, and prosody
• Speech and hearing disorders
• Paralinguistics of pathological speech and language
• Speech technology for disordered speech and hearing

Submission Guidelines

Papers must be submitted via CMT: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICNLSP2026/ 

Each submission will undergo a double-blind review process conducted by three program committee members.

Authors should format their papers using the ACL template, available in LaTeX.

Submissions can be made in one of the following categories:

• Long Papers

Long paper submissions must present substantial, original, and completed research that has not been previously published. Where applicable, submissions should include concrete evaluation and analysis.

Length: Up to 8 pages of content, with unlimited pages for references and appendices.

Upon acceptance, authors will be allowed one additional page (up to 9 pages) to incorporate reviewers’ feedback.

• Short Papers

Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished research. Unlike long papers, short papers are not intended to be condensed versions of long papers. Instead, they should present focused contributions that can be effectively communicated within a few pages.

Length: Up to 4 pages of content, with unlimited pages for references and appendices.

Upon acceptance, authors will be allowed one additional page (up to 5 pages) to incorporate reviewers’ feedback.

Important dates

All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”).

Submission deadline: May 30, 2026 11:59 PM
Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2026.
Camera-ready paper due: August 6, 2026.
Conference dates: September 25-26, 2026.

Anonymity Period

ICNLSP 2026 will follow the ACL Anonymity Policy. As a result, no anonymity period will be required, although authors are still cautioned against extensive advertising. The submissions themselves must still be fully anonymized.