Dear Colleagues,

Submission deadline extended to 5 November 2026.
Expanded scope: Language-model applications across disciplines are welcome.

ACLing 2026
8th International Conference on AI in Computational Linguistics
25–26 November 2026 | Multi-Site Hybrid Conference

📍 The British University in Dubai (BUiD), Dubai, UAE
📍 Jadara University, Jordan
🌐 Virtual participation worldwide

Conference website: https://acling.org/
Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acling2026

CALL FOR PAPERS

ACLing 2026 invites researchers, academics, practitioners, and industry 
professionals to submit original research in computational linguistics, natural 
language processing (NLP), and the development, evaluation, and application of 
language models.

The conference welcomes both advances in language technologies and 
interdisciplinary research using pretrained language models, large language 
models (LLMs), or vision-language models to address problems in other fields. 
Applications in healthcare, education, cybersecurity, business, engineering, 
agriculture, and environmental sustainability are encouraged.

Application papers do not need to introduce a new language model or linguistic 
theory. Language models should play a central methodological role, and 
submissions should present a clear scientific contribution supported by 
appropriate evaluation.

Research on any natural language is welcome, including Arabic, multilingual, 
cross-lingual, code-switching, and low-resource settings. Papers and 
presentations must use English; this requirement does not restrict the language 
studied.

ACLing 2026 connects two physical conference hubs with virtual participation 
through one unified scientific program. Authors may present in Dubai, Jordan, 
or online, subject to the final program and session allocation.

Two Countries. Two Physical Hubs. One International Research Community.

IMPORTANT DATES — UPDATED

• Paper Submission Deadline: 5 November 2026
• Acceptance Notification: 10 November 2026
• Camera-Ready Submission: 14 November 2026
• Author Registration: 15 November 2026
• Conference: 25–26 November 2026

Rolling review: Submissions are reviewed as they arrive to provide prompt 
feedback and decisions. Authors are encouraged to submit early.

PUBLICATION & RESEARCH VISIBILITY

Accepted papers meeting the camera-ready, registration, and presentation 
requirements will be submitted for publication in Procedia Computer Science 
(ISSN: 1877-0509), Elsevier, subject to the publisher’s requirements and 
approval.

Publication provides open-access availability on ScienceDirect and a DOI for 
each article. For current indexing and ranking information, consult the source 
records linked on the conference website.

Previous ACLing proceedings include the 2017, 2018, 2021, 2024, and 2025 
editions and are catalogued in DBLP:
https://dblp.org/db/conf/acling/index.html

OPTIONAL EXTENDED JOURNAL PUBLICATION

Authors of accepted papers may submit a substantially extended article to the 
Computation (MDPI) special issue, Recent Advances on Computational Linguistics 
and Natural Language Processing—2nd Edition.

Eligibility depends on the article’s fit with the special issue’s scope and 
independent journal peer review. Conference acceptance does not guarantee 
journal acceptance. A special APC discount is available for ACLing authors; 
contact the organizing team for details. Journal APCs are separate from 
conference registration.

Details: https://acling.org/call-for-papers/

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Pretrained and Large Language Models: Architecture, Optimization, and 
Applications
• Language-Model Applications Across Disciplines
• Generative AI and Emerging Language Technologies
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Knowledge Grounding, and Information Retrieval
• Language-Model Agents, Tool Use, and Multi-Agent Systems
• Domain Adaptation, Fine-Tuning, and Efficient Language Models
• Language Models for Decision Support and Scientific Discovery
• Question Answering and Knowledge Extraction
• Statistical and Neural Language Modeling
• Machine Translation and Cross-Lingual NLP
• Multilinguality, Code-Switching, and Low-Resource Languages
• Speech Technologies, Dialogue Systems, and Conversational AI
• Vision-Language Models and Multimodal AI
• Domain-Specific NLP
• Syntax, Parsing, Semantics, Pragmatics, and Commonsense Reasoning
• Emotion Recognition and Sentiment Analysis
• NLP for Social Media and Computational Social Science
• Text Summarization and Natural Language Generation
• Text Classification, Topic Modeling, and Document Understanding
• Text Mining and Knowledge Discovery
• Responsible, Ethical, Interpretable, and Human-Centered AI
• Reliability, Robustness, Bias, and Hallucinations in Language Models
• Benchmarking, Application Evaluation, and Explainability
• Prompt Engineering and Reinforcement Learning for Language Models
• AI-Augmented Writing, Reading, and Translation Tools

Theoretical contributions, algorithms, architectures, applications, resources, 
datasets, benchmarks, and evaluation studies are welcome, alongside rigorous 
surveys and position papers.

SUBMISSION & REVIEW

• Submit original, unpublished work that is not under consideration elsewhere.
• Prepare a complete manuscript using the official ACLing 2026 single-column 
Word or LaTeX template.
• Initial manuscripts must be anonymized for double-blind peer review.
• Standard length: 3–8 pages, including figures, tables, and references.
• Up to two additional pages are permitted, for a maximum of 10 pages, with an 
additional charge for pages 9 and 10.
• Abstract-only submissions are not accepted.
• At least one author must register and present each accepted paper for 
inclusion in the proceedings.

Submit through EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acling2026

Templates and submission guidelines:
https://acling.org/submission/

CONFERENCE CHAIRS

• Prof. Khaled Shaalan — The British University in Dubai, UAE
• Prof. Samhaa R. El-Beltagy — New Giza University, Egypt

CONTACT

Prof. Khaled Shaalan: [email protected]
Dr. Taher M. Ghazal: [email protected]
Prof. Samhaa R. El-Beltagy: [email protected]
General inquiries: [email protected]

We look forward to receiving your contributions and welcoming you to ACLing 
2026.

Please circulate this call among interested colleagues, research groups, 
students, and professional networks.

ACLing 2026 | 25–26 November 2026
Dubai • Jordan • Worldwide Online
https://acling.org/
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