A half-day workshop co-located with the 19th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2026), Utrecht, Netherlands.
Deadline update:
Paper acceptance notifications: 15 September 2026
Camera-ready papers due: 20 September 2026
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We welcome both completed research and exploratory ideas. See the Call for Papers for full details.
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Autoregressive transformers have dominated Natural Language Generation for years. While scaling these models has brought remarkable results, next-token prediction is not the only path forward. This workshop creates a dedicated forum — the Alternative Architectures and Paradigms (AAP) Workshop — to broaden the academic focus and look beyond traditional Transformers.
We aim to bring together foundational AI builders and language generation experts to explore non-traditional architectures that learn, process, and generate language differently: structures that scale efficiently, update their memories dynamically, and make language systems more transparent and factuality accurate.
Important Dates
| Event | Date |
|---|---|
| Workshop Paper Submission Due | 9 August 2026 |
| Paper Acceptance Notification | 15 September 2026 |
| Camera-Ready Papers Due | 20 September 2026 |
| INLG 2026 Conference | 17–21 October 2026 |
| AAP Workshop | 18 October 2026 (TBC) |
Organizers
This workshop is organised by members of the NLP@Utrecht community, a research group spanning Utrecht University and UMC Utrecht. The group works at the intersection of natural language processing, machine learning, and real-world applications — combining expertise in language model evaluation, explainable AI, and clinical NLP.
Contact: r.j.a.kuiper@umcutrecht.nl · a.bagheri@uu.nl