Full name: 2026 10th International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval (NLPIR 2026)

Abbreviation: NLPIR 2026

Website: http://www.nlpir.net/ 

Date: December 11-13, 2026

Held in: Nara, Japan

Call for papers:

Topic 1: Core NLP & Data Science

1. Foundations of Language Processing

Data/text mining, corpus linguistics, and psycholinguistic modeling

Basic NLP pipelines: tokenization, POS tagging, lemmatization, dependency parsing, and semantic role labeling

Low-resource language engineering and cross-lingual adaptation

2. Linguistic Analysis & Understanding

Syntax, semantics, discourse analysis, and pragmatics

Multimodal speech recognition/synthesis (ASR/TTS) and conversational AI

Diachronic corpora, temporal reasoning, and evolving language models

3. Knowledge Systems & Semantics

Automated knowledge acquisition, ontology generation/alignment, and semantic web technologies

Neuro-symbolic integration: combining logic-based reasoning with neural networks

4. Content Analysis & IR

Topic modeling, event/anomaly detection, and sentiment/emotion analysis

Document summarization, plagiarism detection, and authorship attribution

Dynamic/personalized IR, adversarial retrieval, and cross-language systems

5. Social & Multimedia Analysis

Personality/emotion detection in social media, misinformation tracking

Multimodal IR (text, image, video) and virality prediction

Topic 2: AI-Driven Methods & Innovations

1. Large Language Models (LLMs) & Transformers

Architectures (BERT, GPT, T5, LLaMA) for NLU, generation, and few-shot learning

Domain-specific LLMs (e.g., BioGPT, Codex) and tools like ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Claude

Ethical challenges: bias mitigation, hallucination control, and AI-generated content detection

2. Generative AI & Automation

Abstractive summarization, synthetic data generation, and conversational agents

Multimodal LLMs (e.g., GPT-4V) for vision-language tasks

3. Graph & Deep Learning

GNNs for co-occurrence graphs, knowledge graph completion, and dynamic networks

Swarm intelligence hybridized with transformer architectures

4. Efficiency & Scalability

Model compression (pruning, quantization), federated learning, and edge NLP

Distributed training frameworks for trillion-parameter models

Topic 3: Cross-Cutting Themes

1. Human-Centric NLP

Interactive AI: chatbots, dynamic query resolution, and personalized recommendation systems

Explainability (XAI) and visualization of attention mechanisms

2. Machine Translation & Multilinguality

Zero-shot translation, LLM-driven low-resource adaptation, and post-editing workflows

3. Decentralized & Collaborative Systems

Blockchain for decentralized knowledge graphs, federated search, and privacy-preserving NLP

4. Ethics & Governance

AI safety, fairness audits, and regulatory compliance (e.g., EU AI Act)

Combatting misinformation and deepfakes in social/content platforms

Topic 4: Emerging Frontiers

AI for Science: LLMs in biomedical NLP, climate text analysis, and legal document processing

Embodied AI: Language models integrated with robotics and real-world interaction

Self-Supervised Learning: Pre-training paradigms beyond transformers

Publication:

All peer-reviewed and presented papers from NLPIR 2026 will be published as post-proceedings in a volume of the Springer book series: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, indexed by Ei Compendex, Scopus, etc.

NLPIR 2018-2025 Conference Proceedings has been published online, and indexed by Ei Compendex and Scopus already.

NLPIR 2025 Springer: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS, volume 1904)

NLPIR 2024 ACM Digital Library (ISBN: 979-8-4007-1738-3)

NLPIR 2023 ACM Digital Library (ISBN: 979-8-4007-0922-7)

NLPIR 2022 ACM Digital Library (ISBN: 978-1-4503-9762-9)

NLPIR 2021 ACM Digital Library (ISBN: 978-1-4503-8735-4)

NLPIR 2020 ACM Digital Library (ISBN: 978-1-4503-7760-7) 

NLPIR 2019 ACM Digital Library (ISBN: 978-1-4503-6279-5)

NLPIR 2018 ACM Digital Library (ISBN: 978-1-4503-6551-2)

Submission:

1. Submitted papers should be prepared according to the paper template and the length should be at least 10 pages (Single column)

2. The submitted paper is requested to be written in complete English.

Paper Template for Docx: https://nlpir.net/splnproc1703.docm

Paper Template for LaTex: https://nlpir.net/Latex-template.zip

Electronic Submission System Link: https://www.zmeeting.org/submission/NLPIR2026

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