Welcome
Texas NLP Symposium is a one-day workshop featuring invited talks, oral presentations, and poster sessions. Our goal is to bring together NLP researchers across Texas to share and discuss ongoing or published research, as well as to foster future collaborations. Participants from outside Texas are also welcome.
Important Dates
Submission Deadline: February 20, 2026
Acceptance Notification: March 6, 2026
Registration Deadline: March 20, 2026
Symposium Day: April 3, 2026
Call for Papers
We invite contributions from a wide range of domains that apply computational methods to explore various aspects of natural language processing, large language models, and related fields. Submissions reporting planned, ongoing, or completed research projects are welcome, including previously published results, current work, and negative findings. The symposium is non-archival and will not publish proceedings. All accepted submissions will be presented as either oral presentations or posters.
Submission Deadline: February 20 (11:59pm AoE), 2026 [Submission Portal]
Acceptance Notification: March 6, 2026
- Authors are required to submit a two-page short paper (including abstract, introduction, and main sections), with an unlimited-page appendix, in the ACL format. However, submissions of a longer length will also be considered.
- If the paper is published in a recent conference or journal, you can directly submit the paper without modification. Please indicate where the paper is published in Abstract when submitting the paper.
- The review process is single-blind, meaning that reviewers remain anonymous while authors’ identities are visible.
Invited Speakers
TBD
Schedule (Tentative)
| Time | Location | Session |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00am–9:30am | EABB 106 | Breakfast & Registration |
| 9:30am–10:00am | EABB 106 | Opening Remarks |
| 10:00am–11:00am | EABB 106 | Invited Talk 1 |
| 11:00am–11:30pm | EABB 106 | Oral Presentations 1 & 2 |
| 11:30am–12:30pm | EABB 113 | Poster Session 1 |
| 12:30pm–2:00pm | EABB 106 | Lunch |
| 2:00pm–3:00pm | EABB 106 | Invited Talk 2 |
| 3:00pm–3:30pm | EABB 106 | Oral Presentations 3 & 4 |
| 3:30pm–4:30pm | EABB 113 | Poster Session 2 |
| 4:30pm–5:00pm | EABB 106 | Closing Remarks & Awards |
Venue
📍 EABB 106 & 113, Engineering Activities Building B (EABB), Texas A&M University
🅿️ Parking: University Center Garage (6-min walk to EABB), Daily Rate: $15
Organizers
Kuan-Hao Huang
Texas A&M Univeristy
Yu Zhang
Texas A&M Univeristy
Ruihong Huang
Texas A&M Univeristy
James Caverlee
Texas A&M Univeristy
Sponsors
Contact
If you need accommodations or have questions or comments, please contact us at khhuang@tamu.edu.