About us

The 9th Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence (NL4AI 2026) aims to explore the role of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing in AI applications. The workshop facilitates discussions on integrating advanced NLP techniques with wider AI contexts, focusing on theoretical models, applied techniques, and research in progress.

Important Dates

Mon, Jun 29, 2026
Paper Submission deadline
Fri, Jul 31, 2026
Notification to authors
Wed, Aug 26, 2026
Camera-ready due
Tue, Oct 6, 2026
Workshop start date
Fri, Oct 9, 2026
Workshop end date

Call For Paper

Semantics
NLP and AI Applications (health, legal domain, social media and journalism, etc.)
Natural Language Interfaces for Human Robot Interaction
Resources, Benchmarks, and Evaluation
Discourse and Pragmatics
Natural Language Generation
Creativity, Style, and Narrative Generation
Summarization
Information Extraction in AI Applications
Machine Learning for NLP
LLMs, Foundation Models and Applications
Interpretability, Explainability and Analysis of Models for NLP
Natural Language Inference
Question Answering and Reading Comprehension
Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining, and Argumentation
Abusive Language Detection and Analysis
NLP for Fact Checking, Fake News Detection and Analysis
Conversational Agents in Human-Computer Interaction
Speech and Spoken Language Processing
Language and other Multimodality
Multimodal (text-image) data sources
Machine Translation and Multilinguality
Low-Resource NLP and Linguistic Diversity
Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics
Computational Historical Linguistics, Social Science, and Cultural Analytics
Ethics, Fairness, and Societal Impacts of NLP
NLP and Industrial Challenges

We encourage original submissions that describe new theoretical models, applied techniques, and research in progress. We invite short/demo papers (max 6 pages + 2 pages references) and regular papers (max 12 pages + 2 pages references). Submissions must be peer-reviewed and follow the CEUR-ART 1-column style.

Committee

Workshop Organizers

Alessandro Bondielli

University of Pisa

Giovanni Bonetta

Fondazione Bruno Kessler

Elisa Leonardelli

Fondazione Bruno Kessler

Irene Siragusa

University of Palermo