Call for papers for the NLP Doctoral Symposium held as part of the SEPLN 2026

INTRODUCTION AND SUBMISSION OF CONTRIBUTIONS

 

The Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing organizes the Doctoral Symposium on Natural Language Processing that will be held in León as part of the XLII International Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN 2026). The date of the Symposium will be the 24th of September.

 

The Doctoral Symposium intends to provide a venue for student researchers in Natural Language Processing to present their work. Students will receive constructive feedback and guidance from researchers with experience in their area of work.

 

All PhD students pursuing studies in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing are invited to submit short papers (5-9 pages) written in English, describing their thesis project. The submissions will be made through the following Google Form.

 

The paper submitted will be a starting point and will be the subject of discussion during the Symposium. To this end, the paper should include, among others, the following sections:

• Reason for the proposed research;
• Background and related work (including important references);
• Description of the proposed research, including the main hypotheses for research;
• Methodology and the proposed experiments (if necessary);
• Specific issues of research to be discussed;
• References.

 

Papers for the Doctoral Symposium will be reviewed by a specific Committee Program and they will be selected according to their quality and potential impact on future research within the field of Natural Language Processing. The selected works will be included in an electronic version of the Symposium proceedings that will be submitted to CEUR Workshop Proceedings for publication.

 

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

 

• Papers must be signed by a single person (predoctoral candidate) and must conform to the CEUR format. For this purpose, the CEUR template in LaTeX or Word format or the template provided through Overleaf (1 column format) should be used.
• Papers should be between 5 and 9 pages in length (including references) and should be written in English.
• The conference name should be replaced by: \conference{Doctoral Symposium on Natural Language Processing, 24 September 2026, León, Spain.}
• The author's name will be formed by the full name (without initials), e.g. "María Pérez" instead of "M. Pérez".
• The title should be written using the emphasizing capitalized style, e.g. "Filling an Author Agreement by Autocompletion" instead of "Filling an author agreement by autocompletion".
• Authors must complete and sign by hand this agreement, which will be sent with the paper through the following Google Form. Regarding the information requested in the agreement, the name of the event will be indicated as "Doctoral Symposium on Natural Language Processing 2026" and as editors the names of the organizers: "Ángela Almela Sánchez-Lafuente, Beatriz Botella Gil, Elena Lloret Pastor, M. Dolores Molina González, Salud María Jiménez Zafra”.
• The Copyright year should be updated: 2026 Copyright for this paper by its authors. Use permitted under Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
• IMPORTANT: The author's name and the title of the work appearing in the CEUR agreement must be exactly the same as those indicated in the paper.

 

TOPICS

 

PhD students are encouraged to submit their communications in any of the following subject areas:

 

• Mathematical and psycholinguistic language models
• Machine Learning in NLP
• Computer Lexicography and Terminology
• Corpus linguistics
• Development of linguistic resources and tools
• Grammars and formalisms for morphological and syntactic analysis
• Semantics, pragmatics and discourse
• Resolution of lexical ambiguity
• Monolingual and multilingual text generation
• Automatic translation
• Speech recognition and synthesis
• Dialogue systems
• Auto-indexation
• Monolingual and multilingual information retrieval and extraction
• Search systems for answers
• Evaluation of NLP systems
• Automatic analysis of text content
• Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
• Plagiarism detection
• Negation processing and speculation
• Text mining in the blogosphere and social networks
• Automatic text simplification
• Language generation
• Image recovery
• NLP in the biomedical field
• Generation of educational resources based on NLP
• NLP for languages with limited resources
• NLP industrial applications
• Ontology development

 

IMPORTANT DATES

 

• Proposals submission: May 18, 2026
• Review period: May 18 - June 12, 2026
• Notification of review: June 15, 2026
• Camera-ready: June 30, 2026
• Doctoral Symposium (SEPLN 2026): September 24, 2026
• Publication of proceedings in CEUR: October, 2026

 

 

CONTACT

 

For questions about the Doctoral Symposium, please send an email to the following addresses: maria.miro [at] ua.es, angelalm [at] um.es, beatriz.botella [at] ua.es, mdmolina [at] ujaen.es and sjzafra [at] ujaen.es  

 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

 

Maria Miró Maestre. Universidad de Alicante (España)

Ángela Almela Sánchez-Lafuente. Universidad de Murcia (España)

Beatriz Botella Gil. Universidad de Alicante (España)

Elena Lloret Pastor. Universidad de Alicante (España)

M. Dolores Molina González. Universidad de Jaén (España)

Salud María Jiménez Zafra. Universidad de Jaén (España)