First Call for Papers ***************** NooJ 2026 International Conference Naples, Italy June 24-26, 2026 https://nooj2026.sciencescall.org/resource/page/id/2 ******************* Important dates: ******************* Abstract submission: 31 January 2026 Notification of acceptance: 25 March 2026 Registration: until 13 April 2026 Conference dates: 24-26 June 2026 *********************************************** University of Naples "L'Orientale" and the NooJ association organize the 20th NooJ Conference in Naples, Italy from 24-26 June, 2026. NooJ is a linguistic development environment that allows linguists to formalize several levels of linguistic phenomena: orthography and spelling; lexicons of simple words, multiword units and frozen expressions; inflectional, derivational and agglutinative morphology; local, constituent and dependency syntax; transformational grammars and semantic analysis. For each phenomenon, NooJ provides linguists with formal tools specifically adapted to facilitate the description, using the four types of Chomsky-Schützenberger formal grammars (regular, context-free, context-sensitive and unrestricted). This approach distinguishes NooJ from most computational linguistic frameworks which provide a single formalism. NooJ is also a corpus processing tool, used in the digital humanities (in History, Literature, Psychology and Sociolinguistics) as it allows users to apply sophisticated linguistic resources to large corpora and build indices and concordances, annotate texts automatically, perform various statistical analyses, etc. NooJ is freely available and linguistic modules can already be freely downloaded for over 30 languages, see https://nooj.univ-fcomte.fr A Web demo is available for English, French, Spanish and Ukrainian at: https://webnooj.univ-fcomte.fr ****************************** The conference intends to: ****************************** * give NooJ users and researchers in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics and in the Digital Humanities the opportunity to meet and share their experience as developers, researchers and teachers; * present to NooJ users the latest linguistic resources and NLP applications developed for/with NooJ, its latest functionalities, as well as its future developments; * offer researchers and graduate students an advanced tutorial dedicated to the automatic transformational analysis/generation of texts. ******************* Topics of interest: ******************* * Lexical resources * Computational morphology * Syntactic analysis * Semantic analysis * Linguistic-based NLP applications *************** Submission: *************** We invite the submission of abstracts in English until 31 January 2026. The abstracts should contain the title, name and email of the author(s) and their institutions. Abstracts should not exceed one page (between 400 and 600 words) and should be sent to [email protected]. All proposals will be reviewed by the members of the scientific committee; authors will be given notice of acceptance of their papers no later than 25 March 2026. Further information about the conference can be found at https://nooj2026.sciencescall.org/resource/page/id/5. You can also contact the organizing committee at [email protected] for any additional information. ************************ Scientific Committee: ************************ Marco Angster, University of Zadar, Croatia Anabela Barreiro, INESC-ID, Portugal Anita Bartulović, University of Zadar, Croatia Magali Bigey, Université de Franche-Comté, France Xavier Blanco, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain Christian Boitet, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France Maria Pia Di Buono, Università degli Studi di Napoli l'Orientale, Italy Héla Fehri, University of Sfax, Tunisia Zoe Gavriilidou, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Yuras Hetsevich, National Academy of Sciences, Belarus Agata Jackievicz, Université Paul Valéry, France Agnieszka Kaliska, Poznan University, Poland Kristina Kocijan, University of Zagreb, Croatia Walter Koza, National, University of General Sarmiento, Argentina Svetlana Krylosova, INALCO, France Mathieu Lafourcade Université de Montpellier, France Laetitia Leonarduzzi, Université d’Aix-Marseille, France Stefania Maci, Università di Bergamo, Italy Samir Mbarki, IbnTofail University, Morocco Linda Mijić, University of Zadar, Croatia Johanna Monti, Università degli Studi di Napoli l'Orientale, Italy Kamal Naït-Zerrad, INALCO, France Thierry Poibeau, Laboratoire Lattice, CNRS, France Andrea Rodrigo, University of Rosario, Argentina Olena Saint-Joanis, INALCO, France Max Silberztein, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, France Marko Tadić, University of Zagreb, Croatia François Trouilleux, Université Clermont Auvergne, France ************************** Organizing Committee: ************************** * Johanna Monti, Università di Napoli L'Orientale, Italy * Maria Pia di Buono, Università di Napoli L'Orientale, Italy * Max Silberztein, Université de Franche-Comté, France