𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀

𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀
𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻: 20 February 2026, Anywhere on Earth
Author Notification: 20 March 2026
Camera-ready Deadline: 2 April 2026

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.

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

𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻
Authors should follow the LNCS format (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines) 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.
The conference proceedings will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, Springer).

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 Concurrent submissions are NOT allowed: a paper to be presented at NLDB must be withdrawn from other conferences and workshops.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.
All questions about submissions should be emailed to nldb2026@idi.ntnu.no