Important Dates – KONVENS 2026
| Activity | Date |
|---|---|
| Main Conference Dates | September 14 – 17, 2026 |
| Workshop & Tutorial Proposal Deadline | February 14, 2026 |
| Workshop & Tutorial Notification of Acceptance | February 25, 2026 |
| GermEval (Shared Task) Proposal Deadline | October 30, 2025 |
| GermEval Notification of Acceptance | November 15, 2025 |
| Conference Paper – Submission Deadline | |
| Conference Paper – Notification of Acceptance | July 10, 2026 |
| Conference Paper – Camera-Ready Deadline | August 1, 2026 |
| Workshop & Shared Task Camera-Ready Deadline | August 15, 2026 |
Program
Keynote Speakers
Dr. Valentin Hofmann
is a postdoc at the Allen Institute for AI and the University of Washington. His work broadly focuses on the intersection of NLP, linguistics, and computational social science, with specific interests in tokenization and socially aware language models. Previously, he was a PhD student at the University of Oxford and a research assistant at LMU Munich. During his PhD, he also spent time as a research intern at DeepMind and as a visiting scholar at Stanford University.
Prof. Dr. Barbara Plank
Barbara Plank is Full Professor of AI and Computational Linguistics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Co-Director of the Center for Information and Language Processing, and Head of the MaiNLP (Munich AI and NLP) Lab. She is an ELLIS Fellow and ERC grantee. Barbara is actively involved in international research communities, including the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and the European Chapter of the ACL (EACL). Her research combines data-centric and human-inspired approaches in Natural Language Processing to make NLP more inclusive and fair.
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Location: University of Hamburg, Germany