A.L.P.H.A. Workshop’2026 – EST Casablanca
Advances in Language Processing & Human-centric AI
Call for Papers (CFP)
ALPHA 2026 invites researchers, engineers, and industry experts to submit original research papers, case studies, and practical applications addressing cutting-edge developments in NLP.
The workshop provides a platform to share innovative ideas, practical insights, and interdisciplinary perspectives, highlighting both theoretical advances and real-world implementations. The accepted papers (after a double-blind peer review) will be published in the proceedings of the COCIA 2026 conference (indexed in Scopus).
Audience : Academics, industry professionals, and NLP enthusiasts
Topics of Interest
We welcome submissions on, but not limited to, the following topics:
Workshop TCP
• Transformer-based Language Models (Fine-tuning, Transfer Learning, etc)
• Text Classification & Sentiment Analysis
• Information Extraction and Retrieval
• Generative NLP : Summarization, Question Answering, Machine Translation …
• Multimodal & Cross-Modal NLP (text + image, video, speech)
• Explainability, Interpretability & Fairness in NLP
• Low-Resource methods for NLP
• LLM agents
• Resources & Evaluation (Datasets, Benchmarks, metrics)
• NLP Applications & Frameworks (healthcare, education, finance, legal, etc.)
• Human-Centric AI in NLP
Important Dates
Submission Deadline: February 02, 2026
Notification Deadline: February 28, 2026
Registration Deadline: March 15, 2026
Workshop Proceedings
The ALPHA Workshop, programmed in parallel with the Fourth Edition of the International Conference on Connected Objects and Artificial Intelligence (COCIA’2026), The accepted papers (after double blinded peer review) will be published in the proceedings of the conference COCIA’2026 (Indexing: SCOPUS)..
Submission Procedure
Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically using the Online Conference Management System (https://cocia-conf.com/index.php/registration/), before the deadline.
Workshop Committee
Workshop chairs :
Pr. Houda ANOUN, Hassan II University, houda.anoun@gmail.com
Pr. Nassera HABBAT, Hassan I University, nassera.habbat@uhp.ac.ma
Workshop TCP
Fatimazahra Ammor, EMSI
Aziza Chakir
Abderrahim Maizate, ESTC UH2C, Morocco
Imane Lmati, FST Settat, UH1
Souad Eddarouich,
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