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Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a field of AI that powers machines to read, understand, and derive meaning from human languages. Recent advances in NLP are making their way into accurate text analytics, sentiment analysis, conversational AI, and many other applications.
Today, NLP is thriving due to significant advances in data access and computational power, which enable practitioners to achieve meaningful results in fields such as healthcare, media, finance, and human resources, among others. To simplify the complexities of NLP, here are the Top Natural Language Processing (NLP) Conferences to attend in 2021.
April
- April 6-7, 2021
- Online
- Industry Conference
The inaugural virtual Healthcare NLP Summit will highlight NLP best practices, real-world case studies, challenges in applying deep learning and transfer learning in practice. Besides, the latest open-source libraries, models, and transformers available to NLP practitioners today. It aims to bring together members of the growing NLP community interested in building language understanding applications used in healthcare, life science, finance, eCommerce, media, recruiting, and more.
International Conference on Natural Language Computing and Semantic Processing ICNLCSP
- April 8-9, 2021
- Online
- Academic Conference
The International Conference on Natural Language Computing and Semantic Processing will bring together leading academic scientists, researchers, and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results in Natural Language Computing and Semantic Processing. It will offer a premier interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners, and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, practical challenges encountered, and solutions adopted in Natural Language Computing and Semantic Processing.
International Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing ICEMNLP
- April 12-13, 2021
- Online
- Academic
The International Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing seeks to bring leading academic scientists, researchers, and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research findings on all aspects of Empirical Methods in NLP.
It also serves as a premier interdisciplinary forum for researchers, practitioners, and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, concerns, and practical challenges encountered and solutions implemented in Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.
16th conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)
- April 19-23, 2021
- Online
- Academic
Termed as the flagship European conference in the field of computational linguistics, EACL hosts poster sessions, tutorials, workshops, and demonstrations and welcomes European and international researchers covering a broad spectrum of research areas concerned with computational approaches to Natural Language Processing.
International Conference on Semantic Technology and Natural Language Processing ICSTNLP
- April 22-23, 2021
- New York, United States
- Academic
The International Conference on Semantic Technology and Natural Language Processing brings together leading academic scientists, researchers, and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research findings on all aspects of Semantic Technology and Natural Language Processing. Besides, it will facilitate a premier interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners, and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, practical challenges encountered, and solutions adopted in Semantic Technology and Natural Language Processing.
NLPA 2021: 2nd International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Applications
- April 24-25, 2021
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- Academic
The 2nd International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Applications will facilitate an international forum for sharing knowledge and results in Natural Language Computing theory, methodology, and applications. The Conference seeks significant contributions to all fields of Natural Language Processing in theoretical and practical aspects.
International Conference on Natural Language Computing and Spoken Language Processing ICNLCSLP
- April 29-30, 2021
- Jerusalem, Israel
- Academic
International Conference on Natural Language Computing and Spoken Language Processing brings together leading academic scientists, researchers, and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research findings on all aspects of Natural Language Computing and Spoken Language Processing. The conference will also serve as a premier interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners, and educators to present and discuss recent innovations, trends, and concerns, besides the practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in Natural Language Computing and Spoken Language Processing.
May
NLPCL 2021: 2nd International Conference on Natural Language and Computational Linguistics
- May 29-30, 2021
- Vancouver, Canada
- Academic
The second International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and results in Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics theory, methodology, and applications. The Conference seeks significant contributions in theoretical and practical aspects to all significant fields of Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics.
June
ACLing2021 — The Fifth International Conference on AI in Computational Linguistics
- June 4-5, 2021
- Online
- Academic
The ACLing 2021 conference aims to bring together leading academicians, scientists, researchers, and practitioners around the world to exchange new ideas and results in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing (NLP). This conference’s purpose and scope are to concentrate on the theory and practice of all aspects of AI/ML in Computational Linguistics.
IEEE ICASSP 2021 — IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
- June 6-11, 2021
- Toronto, Canada
- Industry and Academic
ICASSP offers an excellent opportunity for networking with a diverse group of like-minded professionals from academia, industry, and government organizations. The 46th ICASSP will feature keynote addresses by eminent international speakers, cutting-edge tutorial topics, and forward-thinking special sessions.
NAACL 2021 — North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
- June 6-11, 2021
- Mexico City, Mexico (might be moved to a virtual or hybrid format)
- Academic
NAACL-HLT seeks to bring together researchers interested in the design and study of natural language processing technology and its applications to new problem areas. NAACL-HLT 2021 aims for a diverse technical program, with papers that may present negative findings, survey an area, announce the creation of a new resource, argue a position, report novel linguistic insights derived using existing techniques, and reproduce, or fail to reproduce, previous results.
SwissText 2021 — 6th Swiss Text Analytics Conference
- June 14-16, 2021
- Brugg, Switzerland (The conference will be moved to online/ hybrid format if the current epidemiological situation does not allow physical location)
- Industry and Academic
SwissText is an annual conference that brings together industry and academic text analytics experts. With the backing of more than ten universities and scientific organizations, SwissText 2021 is part of the “Networking Event Series – Natural Language Processing” funded by InnoSuisse, the Swiss Innovation Agency.
July
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
- Jul 18, 2021-22, 2021
- Online
- Academic
The annual International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) is the flagship conference of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and the International Neural Network Society. It covers a wide range of neural network topics, from biological neural network modeling to artificial neural computation.
August
- August 2-6, 2021
- Online
- Academic
The joint conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 10th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2021) will present a poster session, tutorials, workshops, and demonstrations in addition to the main conference.
October
- October 5-8
- Online
- Industry
The NLP Summit will showcase two weeks of immersive, industry-focused content. Week one will feature over 30 distinct sessions, including a special track on NLP in Healthcare. The second week will include beginner to advanced training workshops with certifications. Attendees can also participate in a marathon and engage in coffee chats with speakers, committers, and industry experts.
November
EMNLP 2021 — Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
- Nov 7-11, 2021
- Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
- Academic
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, or EMNLP, is a premier Natural Language Processing conference. The ACL special interest group on linguistic data organizes EMNLP (SIGDAT). EMNLP was founded in 1996 as a follow-up to a previous conference series called the Workshop on Very Large Corpora (WVLC).
ICNLP 2021: International Conference on Natural Language Processing
- Nov 4-5, 2021
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Academic
The purpose of the International Conference on Natural Language Processing is to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers, and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of Natural Language Processing. It also provides a premier interdisciplinary forum for researchers, practitioners, and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns, along with practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the fields of Natural Language Processing.
December
- Dec 3-5, 2021
- Beijing, China
- Academic
CLNLP 2021 aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers, and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results in the field of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing under the theme “Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing.” Leading researchers and industry experts from around the world will present the most recent studies through papers and oral presentations.
Conclusion
As NLP technology becomes more mainstream and gains new capabilities, the future will witness a change for good. The above-mentioned not-to-be-missed conferences open a new door to opportunities in this exciting and emerging technology field, and we hope to see you there.
