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NL4AI 2026 – 9th Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence, at the 24th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2026)
6–9 October 2026 | Perugia, Italy
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Website: http://sag.art.uniroma2.it/NL4AI/
Contact Email: nl4ai2026@gmail.com

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Paper Submission deadline: 29 June 2026 🚨
Notification to authors: 31 July 2026
Camera-ready due: 26 August 2026
Workshop Dates: 6–9 October 2026
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We are pleased to invite submissions to NL4AI 2026, the Ninth Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence, to be held in Perugia from the 6th to the 9th of October 2026, within the 24th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2026), and supported by AILC (http://www.ai-lc.it/).

The goal of NL4AI is to explore the role of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence applications. We believe that new technological challenges and opportunities arise at the boundary between NLP and AI. On the one hand, AI applications benefit from a deeper understanding of problems related to Natural Language, and thus the integration of advanced NLP techniques. On the other hand, NLP benefits greatly from being used in wider areas of AI where problems and methodologies related to NL can be evaluated in new contexts.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics include but are not limited to:
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
Semantics
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

Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings via CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Depending on the number and quality of papers received, we will consider proposing a special issue in relevant journals. The Program Committee will select the Best Workshop Paper from the accepted papers.

SUBMISSIONS

We encourage original submissions that describe new theoretical models, applied techniques, and research in progress. Substantial extensions to works already published or presented in other locations are welcome as well.

We invite two kinds of submissions:
Short/Demo Paper. Maximum length of 6 pages + up to 2 pages of references
Regular Papers. Maximum length of 12 pages + up to 2 pages of references

Please note that papers with less than 25000 characters will be considered short papers in the CEUR proceedings.

Submissions Evaluation. Submissions will be peer-reviewed (single-blind) by the program committee members. Evaluation criteria will include novelty, significance for theory/practice, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Note that reviewers will not be required to evaluate appendices providing a review of the papers. Appendices are intended for including details for reproducibility and/or additional results.

How to Submit. Proceedings shall be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication and all papers must follow the 2022 CEUR-ART - 1 Column paper style.
The LaTeX template can be downloaded as source file from the NL4AI website or accessed as a Template in Overleaf.
All the papers should be submitted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nl4ai2026
Note: All submissions must be compatible with CEUR (https://ceur-ws.org/) and include the CEUR Declaration on Generative AI section (https://ceur-ws.org/GenAI/Policy.html). Papers missing this section will be desk rejected.


WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

Alessandro Bondielli (University of Pisa)
Giovanni Bonetta (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)
Elisa Leonardelli (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)
Irene Siragusa (University of Palermo)

FURTHER INFORMATION
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Website: http://sag.art.uniroma2.it/NL4AI/
Mail: nl4ai2026@gmail.com