Call for papers

Recent advances in AI have increased the expectations for users when it comes to information access systems. With powerful LLMs, users engage with information using natural language instead of artificial query languages. At the same time, this raises not only technical but also ethical concerns, such as sustainability, reliability, and privacy. NLDB has established itself as a venue to discuss precisely the intersection of natural language and information systems. We invite researchers and practitioners to contribute.

Important Dates:

Paper Submission: 20 February 2026, Anywhere on Earth

Author Notification: 20 March 2026

Camera-ready Deadline: 2 April 2026

Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to):

Multimodality
AI safety and ethics
Interactivity and Natural Language Interfaces
Social Media and Web Data
eXplainable AI
Interpretability and Model Analysis in NLP
Generative models, Large Language Models
Information Retrieval and Text Mining
Discourse and Pragmatics, Sentiment Analysis, Argument Mining
Question Answering, Dialogue, and Interactive Systems
NLP Applications
Efficient/Low-resource methods in NLP
Big Data and Scalability

Conference tracks

Main

The main track solicits novel and significant research contributions addressing theoretical aspects, algorithms, applications, architectures, resources, and other aspects of NLP, as well as survey and discussion papers. We welcome work describing original and replicable research showing evidence of significant contribution to the NLP community.

Industry

The industry track covers all aspects of innovative commercial or industrial-strength NLP technologies in order to showcase the state of adoption. It welcomes contributions about case studies of success stories, discussion reports of obstacles that stand in the way of adoption of NLP technologies, and experience reports in applying recent research advances to relevant industry problems. We encourage results and ideas from companies small and large.

To the submission site

Publication

The conference proceedings will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, Springer).

Contact

Questions about submissions should be emailed to: nldb2026@idi.ntnu.no

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Instructions for submissions

Authors should follow the LNCS format and submit their manuscripts in pdf via Microsoft CMT using the following link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/NLDB2026/. Papers that do not adhere to the format will be desk-rejected.

Papers can be submitted to either the main conference or for the industry session.

Submissions can be full papers (up to 15 pages including references and appendices), short papers (up to 11 pages including references and appendices) or papers for a demo (6 pages including references). The program committee may decide to accept some full papers as short papers or demo papers. Concurrent submissions are NOT allowed: a paper to be presented at NLDB must be withdrawn from other conferences and workshops.

Papers presented at NLDB 2026 must represent new work that has not been previously published. It is the responsiblity of the author to inform the chairs of any potential problem with respect to this requirement, as noted in the following guidelines.

Papers that have appeared at a conference with published proceedings constitute previously published work.
Papers that overlap other papers that have appeared at a conference with published proceedings must contain significant new results. Authors must include on the title page a list of any previous papers that the current paper overlaps or extends, and must identify the significant new results contained in the new submission. The program chairs have the final decision about what constitutes significant new results.
Papers that have appeared at a workshop do not constitute previously published work, as long as the paper submitted to NLDB is an extension of the workshop paper. Extensions might include new results, more in-depth analysis, evaluation that was not part of the workshop paper, or further experiments. Authors must include on the title page a list of any previous workshop papers that the current paper extends, and must identify how the current submission extends the previous workshop papers. The program chairs have the final decision about whether the NLDB submission represents an extension of the workshop papers.

The reviewing process of NLDB 2026 is double-blind, i.e., submissions to the main track and to the industry track must not contain author names or other identifying information, such as funding sources, acknowledgments and must use the third person to refer to work the authors have previously undertaken.

All questions about submissions should be emailed to nldb2026@idi.ntnu.no

CMT Acknowledgement

The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.