International Workshop
Computational Linguistics (CompLing–2026)
June 22–24, 2026, St. Petersburg, Russia
Working languages: Russian and English.
Information about the Russian track of the seminar — CompLing–2026 in Russian.
Seminar format: in-person. If it is impossible for foreign participants to arrive, their participation in the online format is considered by the organizers on an individual basis.
Seminar location: St. Petersburg, Russia (Congress Center of ITMO University at Lomonosova Street, 9)
International Seminar Computational Linguistics (CompLing-2026) is focused on discussing cutting-edge research and applied developments in the fields of computational modeling and natural language processing, information retrieval, automated knowledge extraction from text corpora, and speech technologies. A key task of the seminar is the integration of scientific approaches in computational linguistics with machine learning techniques and neural network models. Thus, the seminar serves as a platform for interaction among computational linguists, AI researchers, and NLP industrial projects, stimulating interdisciplinary exchange of knowledge and innovations.
Papers Submission Deadline – 15 Mar 2026
The key topics of the workshop are the following:
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
- Borko KOVAČEVIĆ, Doctor of Linguistics, Professor, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, Serbia (co-chair)
- Anna CHIZHIK, PhD, Associate Professor of the Information Systems in Art and Humanities Department at the Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia (co-chair)
- Maria ZAKHAROVA, Expert, NP “PRIOR North-West”, Russia
- Maria TIMOFEEVA, Doctor of Philology, Professor, Department of Applied and Fundamental Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, Novosibirsk State University
- Alexander ANTOPOLSKY, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Chief Researcher, Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
- Elena YAGUNOVA, Doctor of Philology, Professor, Faculty of Arts, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
- Katarina COKRLIC, University of Bologna, Italy
- Olga MITROFANOVA, PhD, Associate Professor of the Mathematical Linguistics Department at the Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia
- Anatoly FEFELOV, Candidate of Philology, Expert at NP “PRIOR North-West”
- Olga LYASHEVSKAYA, PhD, Professor of the School of Linguistics at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia
- Mikhail ALEXANDROV, PhD, Associate Professor, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy, Russia
- Natalia LOUKACHEVITCH, Doctor of Sciences, Leading Researcher of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
- Alexander PIPERSKI, PhD, Research Associate, University of Erlangen–Nuremberg, Germany
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
- Anna CHIZHIK, PhD in Cultural Studies, Associate Professor of the Information Systems in Art and Humanities Department at the Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia (chair)
(ims-CompLing@yandex.ru) - Olga MITROFANOVA, PhD, Associate Professor of the Mathematical Linguistics Department at the Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia
SUBMISSION
- The contributions must be submitted in form of Full research paper (12–15 pages) and present original unpublished work from the authors
- Manuscripts submitted to the CompLing–2026 workshop must be prepared using the Springer template
- All submissions must be done via the Microsoft CMT system
All submitted papers and abstracts will undergo double-blind peer review by the Program Committee. The authors of accepted papers will need to improve their paper on the basis of reviewers’ comments and will be asked to send a camera-ready version of their manuscripts.
At least one author of each paper accepted to CompLing–2026 must pay a full registration, attend the workshop and present the work.
PROCEEDINGS
The accepted and presented papers will be included in the IMS-2026 Proceedings and indexed in Scopus.
More information is available at:
IMS-2026: https://ims.itmo.ru/eng/; e-mail: ims@itmo.ru