22 October 2026 · Panum

Copenhagen
NLP Symposium

The second edition of the Copenhagen NLP Symposium takes place on 22 October 2026 as a pre-EMNLP event. It brings together researchers, students, and industry practitioners working across natural language processing, featuring international keynotes and participants from leading institutions including Google, Princeton, Carnegie Mellon University, and many other leading institutions, alongside poster sessions and dedicated time for exchanging ideas and discussing cutting-edge work across the field.

Nyhavn Canal by European Commission · CC BY 4.0

Programme at a glance

09:00 – 09:10 Welcome from the organizers

09:15 – 09:55 Gabriella Lapesa

10:00 – 10:40 Yanai Elazar

10:45 – 12:15 Poster session 1 + Coffee break

12:15 – 13:15 Lunch

13:20 – 14:00 Niloofar Mireshghallah

14:05 – 14:45 Sunipa Dev

14:50 – 16:20 Poster session 2 + Coffee break

16:25 – 17:05 Danqi Chen

17:05 – 18:00 Closing remarks and networking reception

Keynote speakers

Text understanding · Knowledge representation & reasoning · Question answering

Danqi Chen ↗

Associate Professor researching natural language processing, text understanding, knowledge representation and reasoning, and question answering.

Safe & inclusive AI · Cross-cultural evaluation

Sunipa Dev ↗

Research Scientist building safe, beneficial, and inclusive AI for global populations.

Interpretability · Data attribution · Generative models

Yanai Elazar ↗

Assistant Professor working on interpretability, data attribution, and the evaluation of generative models.

Present your work

We invite researchers to present posters on any topic related to Natural Language Processing. Posters may showcase recently published work (e.g., at conferences or in journals) or ongoing research. The registration form contains a dedicated section to express an interest in presenting a poster. Please include the poster title, an abstract, and—if applicable—details about the publication venue.

Poster submission deadline29 September 2026Notifications6 October 2026

Topics include but are not limited to

Safety and Alignment in LLMs
AI/LLM Agents
Human–AI Interaction and Cooperation
Retrieval-Augmented Language Models
Mathematical, Symbolic, and Logical Reasoning
Computational Social Science and NLP for Social Good
Interpretability, Model Editing, Transparency, and Explainability
Dialogue, Pragmatics, and Reasoning
Ethics, Bias, and Fairness
Machine Translation and Multilinguality
Speech Processing and Spoken Language Understanding
Resources, Evaluation, Semantics, Syntax, and NLP Applications

Submission and registration deadlines for 2026 will be announced soon.

Plan your visit

Date

22 October 2026

Venue

Niels K. Jerne – Mærsk auditorium
Panum Building
Blegdamsvej 3B
2200 Copenhagen
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Registration

How to get there

The closest station is Nørreport station (metro and S Train). For tickets and travel cards, you can either buy them at any station or use the Rejsekort app for convenient access to public transport.