Date
22 October 2026
22 October 2026 · Panum Building
Copenhagen
NLP Symposium
A pre-EMNLP event for research, ideas, and practical conversation in natural language processing.
Register for the symposium ↗A focused day for language research
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 on natural language processing, with international keynotes, a poster session, and dedicated time to discuss work across the field.
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 Keynote 3
14:05 – 14:45 Keynote 4
14:50 – 16:20 Poster session 2 + Coffee break
16:25 – 17:05 Keynote 5
17:05 – 18:00 Closing remarks and networking reception
Keynote speakers
Voices shaping NLP
Bar-Ilan University
Yanai Elazar ↗
Assistant Professor working on interpretability, data attribution, and the evaluation of generative models.
GESIS · Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Gabriella Lapesa ↗
Junior Professor for Responsible Data Science and Machine Learning, and Data Science Methods team lead at GESIS.
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 deadline22 September 2026Notifications29 September 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
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.
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People behind the symposium
Anna RogersIT University Copenhagen
Desmond ElliottUniversity of Copenhagen
Johannes BjervaAalborg University Copenhagen
Ernests LavrinovicsAalborg University Copenhagen
Russa BiswasAalborg University CopenhagenWith thanks to our sponsors
Stay in touch
Please send all enquiries to cphnlpsymposium@gmail.com or contact any of the organisers via their email addresses.
Previous edition · CPH NLP 2025 ↗