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<https://alta2026.alta.asn.au/calls/papers> for 
specifics.

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You can follow ALTA on social media at the following links:
LinkedIn (page): 
https://www.linkedin.com/company/australasian-language-technology-association/
LinkedIn (group): https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1849979/
X: https://x.com/altanlp
Mastodon: https://sigmoid.social/@ALTAnlp


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

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