37.1437, Confs: Conference on Natural Language Processing / Konferenz zur Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache 2026 (Germany)

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Subject: 37.1437, Confs: Conference on Natural Language Processing / Konferenz zur Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache 2026 (Germany)

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Date: 14-Apr-2026
From: Heike Zinsmeister [heike.zinsmeister at uni-hamburg.de]
Subject: Conference on Natural Language Processing / Konferenz zur Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache 2026

Conference on Natural Language Processing / Konferenz zur Verarbeitung
natürlicher Sprache 2026
Short Title: KONVENS 2026

Date: 14-Sep-2026 - 17-Sep-2026
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Contact Email: info.konvens2026 at gscl.org
Meeting URL: https://konvens2026.uni-hamburg.de/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 30-Apr-2026

We are delighted to share the second call for papers with you for
Konferenz zur Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache (KONVENS) 2026,
organized under the auspices of the GSCL, the DGfS-CL, the ÖGAI, and
SwissNLP. This year’s KONVENS will take place in Hamburg, September 14
– 17 under the special theme “Context Matters: NLP Beyond Text”. The
conference will include a diverse program including talks by our two
keynote speakers:
 - Dr. Valentin Hoffmann, Allen Institute for AI
 - Prof. Dr. Barbara Plank, LMU Munich.
We invite the submission of long and short papers featuring
substantial, original, and unpublished research on Natural Language
Processing and Computational Linguistics, to be archived in the ACL
Anthology, as well as abstract submissions that describe research in
progress or published elsewhere. Beyond standard research
contributions, submissions are welcome that present negative results,
survey an area, introduce new resources, articulate a position, report
novel linguistic insights obtained using existing computational
methods, or reproduce (successfully or not) previous findings.
We welcome the following types of paper submissions:
 - Long papers (up to 8 pages plus references), describing original
research with substantial new results.
 - Short papers and demos (up to 4 pages plus references), including
small and focused contributions, work in progress, as well as
descriptions of projects, systems and resources.
 - Abstracts (1 page, non-archival), which will be presented at the
poster session and printed in the proceedings, but which will be
non-archival. We especially invite submission on ongoing projects,
student projects, past or ongoing bachelor and master theses, ongoing
or recently completed PhD theses, and opinion pieces in this category
to foster interaction and discussion in our community.
Papers can be submitted either to the main conference track or to the
special track “Context Matters”.
Context Matters Track:
The widespread use of large language models (LLMs) and other types of
language technology in research and real-world applications has
fundamentally reshaped how natural language processing (NLP) systems
interact with people and their environments. As NLP systems
increasingly operate in socially embedded, high-impact settings like
search, conversational agents and recommendation systems in business,
education, medicine, law, and beyond, it becomes crucial to move
beyond text in isolation and to account for the many forms of context
that shape language use and interpretation. These include user-related
factors (e.g., identity aspects like socio-demographic characteristics
and the resulting perspectival differences), cultural and societal
context, interaction history, application constraints, and signals
from other modalities.
The “Context Matters” track focuses on how different forms of context
influence NLP systems, their design, their behavior, and their use. We
invite work that studies NLP not as decontextualized text processing,
but as situated technology embedded in human, social, disciplinary,
and multimodal environments. Here, disciplines and application domains
are important not only as areas of use, but as sources of structured
contextual knowledge, perspectives, and methodological traditions —
particularly from the social sciences and humanities, but also law,
education, psychology, economics, and the natural sciences.
In particular, the special theme includes:
 - Research that models user- and group-related context, such as
identity aspects, socio-demographic variables, cultural background, or
perspectival differences, and examines how these factors affect
language use, system behavior, or system impact
 - Work that draws on or operationalizes concepts from other
disciplines like the social sciences and related fields (e.g., social
theory, cultural analysis, behavioral perspectives) to better
understand linguistic phenomena, system outputs, or evaluation
settings
 - Research analyzing social, societal, and institutional context,
including norms, power structures, and real-world deployment
environments, especially with respect to ethics, bias, and societal
consequences
 - Studies of application context, where domain-specific constraints
(e.g., in education, law, public administration, or the natural
sciences) shape both language use and system requirements
 - Approaches that move beyond text-only processing and integrate
multiple modalities (e.g., vision, audio, video, sensor data), with
attention to the distinct contextual signals these modalities
introduce
 - Work incorporating interactional context, such as dialogue history,
user intent, and evolving human–AI interaction dynamics
While the modelling component should include language, we especially
encourage contributions that treat language as part of a broader
contextual ecosystem, aiming toward more grounded, adaptive, and
socially aware NLP systems.
Papers must be in English and formatted in accordance with the ACL
style sheet and submitted via the submission link
:https://openreview.net/group?id=GSCL.org/KONVENS/2026/Conference
Please consider the OpenReview policy for new accounts:
 - New profiles created without an institutional email will go through
a moderation process that can take up to two weeks.
 - New profiles created with an institutional email will be activated
automatically.
KONVENS also adopts the ACL policies for submission, review, and
citation, the ACL privacy policy, and the ACL code of ethics.
Further information can be found on the conference website:
https://konvens2026.uni-hamburg.de/
Submissions need to be anonymized to ensure double-blind review.
However, we allow for pre-prints to be posted any time before or
during the review period. We strongly encourage authors to use LaTeX
in preparing their document.
Important Dates:
April 30 2026 - Paper Submission Deadline
July 12 2026 - Notification of Acceptance
August 01 2026 - Camera-Ready Deadline
September 14– 17 2026 - KONVENS in Hamburg
Conference Chairs:
Chris Biemann, Anne Lauscher, and Heike Zinsmeister

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