Call for papers for issue 78 of the journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural

http://www.sepln.org/en/journal

http://www.sepln.org/en/journal/author-guidelines

Submission site: https://openreview.net/group?id=SEPLN.org/2027/78_March

Introduction

The aim of the journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural is to provide a forum for the publication of scientific-technical articles in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), for both the national and international scientific community. The articles must be unpublished and cannot be simultaneously submitted for publication in other journals or conference proceedings. The journal also aims to promote the development of areas related to NLP, disseminate research carried out, identify future guidelines for basic research, and present software applications in this field. Every year the Sociedad Española de Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN) (Spanish Society for the Natural Language Processing) publishes two issues of the journal, including original articles, summaries of the shared tasks of Iberlef, and summaries of PhD theses.

The scientific quality of the Journal is supported by the 2025 JCR index (JIF: 0.9, JCI: 0.42, Q3-Linguistics - Q4-Computer Sciences, Artificial Intelligence ESCI), the SCImago Journal Ranking (2025 SJR: 0.367, Q3-Computer Science Applications, Q1-Linguistics and Language), the Scopus Index (2025 CiteScore: 5.6) and the index SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) with 0.878 points. More information at: http://www.sepln.org/en/journal/quality.

Topics

NLP for low-resource languages

Efficient and sustainable NLP methods

Ethics, Bias and Fairness in NLP

Trustworthy and explainability in NLP

Security and privacy in NLP

Text and Multimodal Generation

Multimodality and Language Grounding to Vision

Knowledge and common sense

Computational lexicography and terminology

Linguistic theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics

Morphological and Syntactic analysis

Corpus linguistics

Development of linguistic resources and tools

Semantics, pragmatics, and discourse

Machine translation

Speech synthesis and recognition

Audio indexing and retrieval

Dialogue systems and interactive systems/ Conversational assistants

Monolingual and multilingual information extraction and retrieval

Question answering systems

Automatic textual content analysis

Sentiment analysis, opinion mining and argument mining

Plagiarism detection

Negation and speculation processing

Text summarization

Text simplification

Image retrieval

NLP in specific domains (Medicine, Law, Education)

Submission Information

The proposal must be submitted by November 15th, 2026 and must meet certain format and style requirements indicated at the author guidelines webpage: https://www.sepln.org/en/journal/author-guidelines.

All submissions must be in PDF format and submitted electronically using the OpenReview system.

Submitted papers will be subjected to a double-blind review by at least three members of the program committee.

Categories of papers

Regular papers with original contributions.

Summary of PhD thesis.

Information for Authors

The regular papers can be written in Spanish or English and should be at most 10 A4-size pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references, and 4 pages maximum for summaries of PhD theses.

The papers must include the following sections:

The title of the communication (in English and Spanish).

An abstract in English and Spanish (maximum 150 words).

A list of four keywords or related topics (in English and Spanish).

The documents must not include headers or footers.

As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors’ names and affiliation. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author’s identity should be avoided. The articles should only include the title, the abstract, the keywords and the proposal.

We recommend using the LaTeX and Word templates that can be downloaded from the SEPLN web (author guidelines have been updated): http://www.sepln.org/index.php/en/journal/author-guidelines

Note on camera ready

The final version of the paper (camera ready) should be submitted together with a cover letter explaining how the suggestions of the reviewers were implemented in the final version. This cover letter will be considered in order to accept or finally reject the selected paper.

The authors have to submit the final version of the PDF file of the manuscript and the source files (Latex or Microsoft Word).

Preprint policy

The Journal allows the publication of preprints (non-refereed paper posted online, such as ArXiv) anytime, but during the review period the preprint must indicate that the paper it is “under review” in the Journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural. Likewise, if the paper is accepted, the preprint must be updated with the DOI, name of the Journal and the bibliographic information of the paper.

Important dates

Submission deadline: November 16th, 2026 (GMT-6)

Notification of acceptance: January 27th, 2027

Camera ready: February 8th, 2027 (GMT-6)

Publication: March 2027

Contact person: Aitziber Atutxa (aitziber.atucha@ehu.eus)

Editorial Committee of the Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural