NATL 2026

12th International Conference on Natural Language Computing (NATL 2026)
December 19 ~ 20, 2026, Sydney, Australia

https://dmdbs.org/natl

SCOPE

12th International Conference on Natural Language Computing (NATL 2026) will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of Natural Language Computing. The Conference looks for significant contributions to all major fields of the Natural Language Computing in theoretical and practical aspects

Authors are solicited to contribute to the conference by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in the following areas, but are not limited to.

Topics of interest

Parsing and Grammatical Formalisms
Chunking and Shallow Parsing
Phonology, Morphology and Lexical Semantics
Discourse, Pragmatics and Semantic Processing
Linguistic Resources and Annotation
Information Extraction
Information Retrieval
Text Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Machine Translation
Question Answering
Paraphrasing, Entailment and Text Generation
Dialog Systems and Conversational AI
Spoken Language Processing
Speech Recognition and Synthesis
Large Language Models and Foundation Models
Instruction Tuning, Alignment and RLHF
Prompt Engineering and RAG
Generative NLP and Text to X Models
LLM Reasoning, Chain of Thought and Planning
LLM Tool Use, API Calling and Agentic Workflows
Multimodal Language Models
Audio Language and Video Language Models
Multilingual, Low Resource and Under Represented Languages
Fairness, Bias, Ethics and Responsible NLP
Safety, Robustness and Red Teaming
Evaluation, Benchmarks and Metrics
Synthetic Data, Data Quality and Curation
Efficient LLM Inference, Compression and FMOps
Knowledge Graphs, Ontologies and Neuro Symbolic NLP
NLP for Code, Program Synthesis and Software Engineering
Cognitive NLP and Brain Language Models
NLP for Robotics and Embodied AI
Quantum NLP
Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit papers through the conference Submission System by September 13, 2026 . Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this conference. The proceedings of the conference will be published by Computer Science Conference Proceedings in Computer Science & Information Technology (CS & IT) series (Confirmed).

Selected papers from NATL 2026, after further revisions, will be published in the special issue of the following journals.

International Journal of Computer Networks & Communications (IJCNC) – Scopus Indexed
International journal of computer science & information Technology (IJCSIT) – INSPEC Indexed
International Journal on Natural Language Computing (IJNLC)
International Journal on Information Theory (IJIT)
International Journal on Computational Science & Applications (IJCSA)
International Journal of Web & Semantic Technology (IJWesT)
Important Dates

Submission Deadline : September 13, 2026
Authors Notification : October 10, 2026
Registration & Camera-Ready Paper Due : October 17, 2026
Contact Us

Here’s where you can reach us : natl@dmdbs2026.org