ICNLSP 2021, the fourth edition of the International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing, will be hosted by the university of Trento if the sanitary conditions improve, otherwise it will be organized virtually.
ICNLSP aims to attract contributions related to natural language and speech processing in basic theories and applications as well. Regular and posters sessions will be organized, in addition to keynotes presented by senior international researchers.
The second edition of NSURL workshop will be colocated with ICNLSP 2021.
Authors are invited to present their work relevant to the topics of the conference.

TOPICS:
The following list includes the topics of ICNLSP 2021 but not limited to:

Signal processing, acoustic modeling
Architecture of speech recognition system
Deep learning for speech recognition
Analysis of speech
Paralinguistics in Speech and Language
Pathological speech and language
Speech coding
Speech comprehension
Summarization
Speech Translation
Speech synthesis
Speaker and language identification
Phonetics, phonology and prosody
Cognition and natural language processing
Text categorization
Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
Computational Social Web
Arabic dialects processing
Under-resourced languages: tools and corpora
New language models
Arabic OCR
Lexical semantics and knowledge representation
Requirements engineering and NLP
NLP tools for software requirements and engineering
Knowledge fundamentals
Knowledge management systems
Information extraction
Data mining and information retrieval
Machine translation

PUBLICATION:
1- All accepted papers will be published in ACL Anthology, and indexed in DBLP.
2- Selected papers will be published in Signals and Communication Technology (Springer) (https://www.springer.com/series/4748), indexed in Scopus.

INDEXING
1. Scopus
2. Dblp
3. Worldcat

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
PD Dr. Valia Kordoni, Humboldt University, Germany.
Dr. Ahmed Abdelali, QCRI, Qatar.
Dr. Hussein Al-Natsheh, Beyond Limits.
Dr. Kareem Darwish, QCRI, Qatar.

SUBMISSION
Papers must be submitted via the online paper submission system Easychair.
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icnlsp2021
Each submitted paper will be reviewed by three program committee members.
Authors can use the ACL format: Latex or Doc.
Authors have the choice to submit their papers as a full or short paper.

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: 20 July 2021
Notification of acceptance: 30 September 2021
Camera-ready paper due: 15 October 2021
Conference dates: 12, 13 November 2021