SoCal NLP Symposium 2026

Welcome

The goal of the Southern California Natural Language Processing Symposium is to gather researchers from the southern California region with broad expertise in machine learning and natural language processing. The symposium will provide a participatory environment where attendees from a variety of fields can share and discuss their latest findings.

Important Dates

Submission deadline: Nov 5, 2026 11:59pm AOE [OpenReview Submission Portal]
Acceptance notification: Nov 10, 2026 11:59pm AOE
Registration deadline: Nov 15, 2026 11:59pm AOE [Registration Link (🚨 Limited due to venue constraints 🚨) ]
Symposium date: Nov 20, 2026 (Friday)
Submission format:

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 the Abstract when submitting the paper.
For papers that have not been previously published, we recommend submitting an extended summary spanning no more than two pages, formatted according to the ACL guidelines, However, submissions of a longer length will also be considered.
All submissions are single-blind reviewed.

Venue

Location: USC Ginsburg Hall Auditorium

Parking information: The closest parking structure to Ginsburg Hall (GCS) is Downey Way Parking Structure (formely PSA). Guests arriving by vehicle should enter the University Park Campus via Gate 6 on Vermont Avenue across from 36th Place. Parking on campus currently costs $20 per day. Metered parking is available on Vermont Avenue.

Schedule (Tentative)

09:00am - 09:45am Breakfast, Registration & Social

09:45am - 10:00am Opening Remarks
10:00am - 10:40am Keynote 1
10:40pm - 11:20am Keynote 2
11:20am - 11:30am Mini Break

11:30am - 12:30pm Poster Session 1

12:00pm - 02:00pm Lunch Reception
01:30pm - 02:30pm Poster Session 2
02:30pm - 02:40pm Mini Break

02:40pm - 03:40pm Keynote 3
04:00pm - 04:40pm Keynote 4
04:40pm - 05:20pm Keynote 5
05:20pm - 05:30pm Closing Remarks & Awards