First Call for Papers
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NooJ 2026 International Conference
Naples, Italy
June 24-26, 2026
https://nooj2026.sciencescall.org/resource/page/id/2
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Important dates:
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Abstract submission: 31 January 2026
Notification of acceptance: 25 March 2026

Registration: until 13 April 2026
Conference dates: 24-26 June 2026
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University of Naples "L'Orientale" and the NooJ association organize the 20th NooJ Conference in Naples, Italy from 24-26 June, 2026.

NooJ is a linguistic development environment that allows linguists to formalize several levels of linguistic phenomena: orthography and spelling; lexicons of simple words, multiword units and frozen expressions; inflectional, derivational and agglutinative morphology; local, constituent and dependency syntax; transformational grammars and semantic analysis. For each phenomenon, NooJ provides linguists with formal tools specifically adapted to facilitate the description, using the four types of Chomsky-Schützenberger formal grammars (regular, context-free, context-sensitive and unrestricted). This approach distinguishes NooJ from most computational linguistic frameworks which provide a single formalism.

NooJ is also a corpus processing tool, used in the digital humanities (in History, Literature, Psychology and Sociolinguistics) as it allows users to apply sophisticated linguistic resources to large corpora and build indices and concordances, annotate texts automatically, perform various statistical analyses, etc.

NooJ is freely available and linguistic modules can already be freely downloaded for over 30 languages, see https://nooj.univ-fcomte.fr
A Web demo is available for English, French, Spanish and Ukrainian at: https://webnooj.univ-fcomte.fr

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The conference intends to:
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* give NooJ users and researchers in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics and in the Digital Humanities the opportunity to meet and share their experience as developers, researchers and teachers;

* present to NooJ users the latest linguistic resources and NLP applications developed for/with NooJ, its latest functionalities, as well as its future developments;

* offer researchers and graduate students an advanced tutorial dedicated to the automatic transformational analysis/generation of texts.

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Topics of interest:
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* Lexical resources
* Computational morphology
* Syntactic analysis
* Semantic analysis
* Linguistic-based NLP applications

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Submission:
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We invite the submission of abstracts in English until 31 January 2026. The abstracts should contain the title, name and email of the author(s) and their institutions. Abstracts should not exceed one page (between 400 and 600 words) and should be sent to nooj2026@gmail.com. All proposals will be reviewed by the members of the scientific committee; authors will be given notice of acceptance of their papers no later than 25 March 2026.

Further information about the conference can be found at https://nooj2026.sciencescall.org/resource/page/id/5. You can also contact the organizing committee at nooj2026@gmail.com for any additional information.

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Scientific Committee:
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Marco Angster, University of Zadar, Croatia
Anabela Barreiro, INESC-ID, Portugal
Anita Bartulović, University of Zadar, Croatia
Magali Bigey, Université de Franche-Comté, France
Xavier Blanco, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Christian Boitet, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
Maria Pia Di Buono, Università degli Studi di Napoli l'Orientale, Italy
Héla Fehri, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Zoe Gavriilidou, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Yuras Hetsevich, National Academy of Sciences, Belarus
Agata Jackievicz, Université Paul Valéry, France
Agnieszka Kaliska, Poznan University, Poland
Kristina Kocijan, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Walter Koza, National, University of General Sarmiento, Argentina
Svetlana Krylosova, INALCO, France
Mathieu Lafourcade Université de Montpellier, France
Laetitia Leonarduzzi, Université d’Aix-Marseille, France
Stefania Maci, Università di Bergamo, Italy
Samir Mbarki, IbnTofail University, Morocco
Linda Mijić, University of Zadar, Croatia
Johanna Monti, Università degli Studi di Napoli l'Orientale, Italy
Kamal Naït-Zerrad, INALCO, France
Thierry Poibeau, Laboratoire Lattice, CNRS, France
Andrea Rodrigo, University of Rosario, Argentina
Olena Saint-Joanis, INALCO, France
Max Silberztein, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, France
Marko Tadić, University of Zagreb, Croatia
François Trouilleux, Université Clermont Auvergne, France

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Organizing Committee:
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* Johanna Monti, Università di Napoli L'Orientale, Italy
* Maria Pia di Buono, Università di Napoli L'Orientale, Italy
* Max Silberztein, Université de Franche-Comté, France