COLING 2022 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of natural language and computation. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following (in alphabetical order):

    Applications (including BioNLP and eHealth, NLP for legal purposes, NLP for Social Media and Journalism, etc.)
    Dialogue and Interactive Systems
    Discourse and Pragmatics
    Document classification, topic modeling, information retrieval and cross-lingual retrieval
    Ethics and NLP
    Language Modeling
    Information Extraction, Text Mining, and Knowledge Graph Derivation from Texts
    Language Resources and Evaluation
    CL/NLP and Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics
    Machine Learning for CL/NLP
    Machine Translation and translation aids
    Morphology and Word Segmentation
    Offensive speech detection and analysis
    Semantics
    Sentiment Analysis, Opinion and Argument Mining
    Speech recognition and synthesis and spoken language understanding
    Natural Language Generation, Summarization and Simplification
    Tagging, Chunking, Syntax and Parsing
    Textual Inference and Question Answering
    Vision, Robotics, Multimodal and Grounded Language Acquisition

Papers targeting any of these topics from the perspective of the Sustainability Goals of the UN are especially welcome. In order to promote research in Computational Linguistics that contributes to sustainable development, COLING 2022 will define a number of Grand Challenges for which best paper awards will be granted.