Dear Colleagues,



We're delighted to announce that the call for paper for the 24th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association - ALTA 2026



Details are available on our website at https://alta2026.alta.asn.au/calls/papers and a summary follows.



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Important Dates

- Submission open: 16 July 2026

- Submission deadline (long and short papers): 11 September 2026

- Submission deadline for presentation abstracts and non-archival papers: 9 October 2026.

- Author notification: 23 October 2026

- ALTA 2026: 30 November - 2 December 2026





Overview



The 24th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA 2026) will be held in person at Deakin University Downtown Campus, Melbourne, from 30 November to 2 December 2026.

ALTA is the key local forum for presenting and discussing research results in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Linguistics (CL). The workshop will feature presentations, posters, and demonstrations from students, industry, and academic researchers. As in previous years, we strongly encourage submissions and participation from industry and government researchers. Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings, published online in the ACL Anthology and on the ALTA website. Papers will be presented either as oral or poster presentations at the workshop. Note that ALTA is listed in the CORE 2026 Conference Rankings as Australasian C.



Topics



- Commonsense Reasoning.

- Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics.

- Dialogue and Interactive Systems.

- Discourse and Pragmatics.

- Efficient Methods for NLP.

- Ethics in NLP.

- Information Extraction.

- Information Retrieval and Text Mining.

- Interpretability, Interactivity and Analysis of Models for NLP.

- Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond.

- Language Modeling and Analysis of Language Models.

- Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics.

- Machine Learning for NLP.

- Machine Translation.

- Multilinguality and Linguistic Diversity.

- Natural Language Generation.

- NLP Applications.

- Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation.

- Question Answering.

- Resources and Evaluation.

- Semantics: Lexical, Sentence level, Document Level, Textual Inference, etc.

- Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining.

- Speech and Multimodality.

- Summarisation.

- Syntax, Parsing and their Applications.



We particularly encourage submissions that broaden the scope of our community by considering practical applications of language technology and multidisciplinary research. We also specifically encourage submissions from the industry.



Format and instructions for authors



We welcome long (8 pages) and short (4 pages) Archival Submissions, and Non-Archival Submissions.

Please refer to our CfP webpage for specifics.



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With kind regards, on behalf of the ALTA 2026 Team:



Dr Bahadorreza Ofoghi, General Chair



Prof Massimo Piccardi, Program Chair

Dr Ming Liu, Program Chair

Dr Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek, Program Chair

Dr Zhuang Li, Publication Chair

Mong Yuan Sim, PhD candidate, Publication Chair

Aymen Rayane Khouas, PhD candidate, Technology Chair

Dr Fatima Ansarizadeh, Sponsorship Chair

Sara Mirabi, PhD candidate, Local Chair

Saeedeh Javadi, PhD candidate, Local Chair

A/Prof Wei (Emma) Zhang, Publicity Chair