Position Papers
2-page papers including research overview, short biography, questions for senior researchers, and roundtable discussion topics; unlimited references allowed; no anonymity required; optional publication in proceedings.
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YNLG 2026
The 2nd Workshop for Young Researchers in Natural Language Generation
YNLG 2026 is the second workshop for early-career researchers in Natural Language Generation, held in conjunction with INLG 2026 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. It provides a platform for PhD students, Master's students, and postdocs to present work-in-progress research through position papers, engage in roundtable discussions, and participate in a hackathon, all aimed at fostering community and feedback among emerging NLG researchers.
Paper fit
Contribution paths
A strong submission should clearly identify its contribution and evaluate it appropriately.
Research areas in scope
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Topics of Interest
Large Language Models (LLMs) for NLGEvaluation and error analysis of NLG systemsExplainability and trustworthiness of NLG systemsBias and fairness in NLG systemsData-to-text, concept-to-text, text-to-text, and vision-to-text approachesGrounded language generationNLG in dialogue systems and chatbotsStorytelling and narrative generationSummarization and paraphrasingMultimodal and multimedia generationNLG for low-resourced languagesEthical considerations in NLGNLG applications and real-world deploymentComputational efficiency of NLG modelsContent and text planningSurface realization and lexicalization
Policies worth checking twice
- Submissions are not anonymized; participants are encouraged to share their research backgrounds.
- Papers must be 2 pages long (excluding unlimited references).
- Submissions must be prepared using the Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems Overleaf template and submitted as PDF files.
- Submissions are reviewed for topic fit and receive at least two feedback reviews from the program committee.
- Participants are responsible for securing their own funding to attend; no travel funding is provided.
Official sources
Compiled from the official call for papers. The organizers’ pages remain authoritative.
Last verified September 9, 2026