KONVENS 2026: Context matters - NLP beyond Text

KONVENS 2026, themed Context Matters: NLP beyond Text, is the leading German-language conference on natural language processing and computational linguistics, organized by the Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (GSCL). The 2026 edition pushes the boundaries of NLP by foregrounding context—multimodal, social, cultural, and situational—as a first-class research concern rather than an afterthought.

The conference covers language models, text mining, speech processing, dialogue systems, and real-world NLP applications, with particular attention to phenomena that purely text-based approaches miss. Researchers, engineers, and students working on language technology, information retrieval, and applied linguistics are encouraged to attend. KONVENS 2026 is an ideal venue for presenting work that integrates linguistic theory with computational practice, especially when context shapes meaning in ways that challenge current architectures.

natural language processing computational linguistics language technology text mining language models NLP applications speech processing