Call for Papers

9th Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence (NL4AI) at the
24th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA2026)
October 6th – 9th, 2026 (Perugia, Italy)

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IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: 7th August, 2026
Notification of paper acceptance: 31th July, 2026
Camera-ready version deadline: 26th August, 2026

Early registration deadline: 4th September, 2026
Workshop (at AIxIA 2026): October 6th-9th, 2026

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INTRODUCTION

The goal of the NL4AI workshop 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

We invite papers that pertain to the workshop theme including, but 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. All papers must follow the 2022 CEUR-ART – 1 Column paper style.The LaTeX template can be downloaded from http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip or accessed as a Template in Overleaf.

The submission platform will be announced soon on the Workshop Website and in a Second Call for Papers.

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.

CONTACTS 

Email:   nl4ai2026@gmail.com

nl4ai2026_info@googlegroups.com

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

  • Alessandro Bondielli, University of Pisa, Italy
  • Giovanni Bonetta, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
  • Elisa Leonardelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
  • Irene Siragusa, University of Palermo, Italy