LTI-SRS
The 2026 LTI Student Research Symposium
(Gates & Hillman Centers (GHC) 6115, Carnegie Mellon University, April 15, 2026)
Call for Papers
The Student Research Symposium (SRS) is an LTI-wide event for students to show their recent and/or ongoing research and projects to the community. Submissions from students are selected to be presented as talks or posters/demos throughout the day-long event. During the event, talks and posters/demos are judged by a panel of students and faculty, and cash prizes (between $250 - $500) are given to winners. This is a great chance to enjoy the camaraderie of students and faculty, and munch on good food together! In addition, if you have a speaking requirement for your degree program, participating in this event can fulfill that requirement!
Submission link
Important Dates
Deadline for paper submission: February 20, 2026
Notification of Acceptance: March 22, 2026
Notification of Final Presentation Schedule: April 6, 2026
Final Presentation Day: Wednesday, April 15, 2026, GHC 6115 9:00am-5:00pm
Topics of Interest
For a list of relevant submission topics, please refer to the ACL 2026 Call for Papers as well as COLM 2026 Call for Papers. Acceptable topics include, but are not limited to:
- Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics
- Dialogue and Interactive Systems
- Discourse and Pragmatics
- Efficient Methods for NLP
- Ethics and NLP
- Generation
- Information Extraction
- Information Retrieval and Text Mining
- Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP
- Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
- Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics, and Beyond
- Linguistic theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics
- Machine Learning for NLP
- Machine Translation and Multilinguality
- Multimodality
- NLP Applications
- Phonology, Morphology, and Word Segmentation
- Question Answering
- Resources and Evaluation
- Semantics: Lexical
- Semantics: Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference, and Other areas
- Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining
- Speech Processing, Speech Recognition, Speech Synthesis
- Summarization
Main Track
We invite you to submit ongoing or near-completed work. Prior acceptance/presentation at other conferences is not necessary. This platform provides an excellent opportunity to present your mature ideas to a diverse audience, gain meaningful visibility, and gather fresh perspectives for your research.
Submission format: We accept full paper submissions in either an 8-page long paper format or a 4-page short paper format. The official ACL style is preferred.
Preliminary Work Track
We invite you to submit any novel or exploratory work still in its initial or formative stages. This track is particularly advantageous for garnering early feedback on your research concepts and project trajectories.
Submission format: We accept extended abstracts or short papers (1-2 pages long)
Demo Track
You can submit tools/software that you build to this track. This could either be a demonstration of your research project, or a toolkit that you created that is useful/interesting. Examples include a GitHub repository, a website, or software that you can create a demo from (e.g., ExplainaBoard, rebiber).
Submission format: Describe the functions and usage of your tool in up to 4 pages.
NOTE
All paper submissions are recommended to follow official ACL style templates, which are available here (https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files). However, for papers accepted or targeted at non-ACL conferences (e.g., ICML, NeurIPS), feel free to keep the original styles.
Submission Guidelines
Any LTI Research conducted by current LTI students (in LTI or elsewhere) is appropriate for presentation in the Symposium.
Presentation Format
Presentation formats include oral presentations (long / short depending on submission type) and posters. All accepted papers are encouraged to have a poster. Our goal is to increase engagement within the LTI community and connect people with similar interests! Poster sessions are a great way to do this and we'd love to have all submissions to be showcased as a poster. Posters may follow standard major-conference formats in either landscape or portrait orientation. More details are available on request from the organizers. If you have a particularly wide poster or want to include a demo, please consult with us so that appropriate arrangements can be made.
For questions, feel free to contact the SRS student committee members if you have any questions!
Organizing Committee
- Student Members:
- Karen Rosero Jacome (kroseroj@andrew.cmu.edu)
- Shubham Gandhi (srgandhi@andrew.cmu.edu)
- Zhen Wu (zhenwu@andrew.cmu.edu)
- Faculty Members:
- Bhiksha Raj (bhiksha@cmu.edu)
- Daniel Fried (dfried@cs.cmu.edu)
- Ralf Brown (ralf@cs.cmu.edu)