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 | April 30, 2026 |
| 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 a renowned computer scientist and professor of artificial intelligence and computational linguistics at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU). Her work focuses on “human-facing NLP”—the development of more robust and inclusive language models. Barbara Plank is an ELLIS Fellow and has received numerous awards, including the ACL 2024 Area Chair Paper Award and the 2025 Imminent Research Grant for her research on language data.
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Location: University of Hamburg, Germany