About ALEN
ALEN 2026 is the Special Session on Asian Legal NLP in International Conference on Knowledge and Systems Engineering, a law conference. It takes place on 11 November 2026 in Kanazawa, Japan. Full papers were due 3 August 2026.
Asian Legal NLP (ALEN 2026)
ALEN is part of the 18th International Conference on Knowledge and Systems Engineering https://kse2026.kse-conferences.org/
Aim and Scope
Recent developments in natural language processing, legal informatics, and AI have created new opportunities for the computational analysis of legal texts across Asia. This special session explores Asian Legal NLP by bringing together interdisciplinary research on the analysis and processing of legal documents in diverse Asian jurisdictions.
We welcome contributions on topics including legal text analysis, information extraction, summarization, question answering, statutory and case law retrieval, semantic similarity, machine translation, terminology alignment, corpus construction, and benchmark development. We are particularly interested in research that addresses the linguistic, structural, and institutional characteristics of Asian legal texts, including those of Southeast Asia as well as jurisdictions using Chinese characters, and in comparative or multilingual approaches that connect legal language technologies across the region.
By integrating perspectives from NLP, AI, law, and digital humanities, this special session aims to promote broader collaboration and chart new directions for legal text processing in Asia.
Key Topics
+ Legal text analysis and document classification + Information extraction from statutes, regulations, and case law + Legal summarization and question answering + Statutory retrieval and case law retrieval + Semantic similarity and cross-jurisdictional provision mapping + Machine translation for legal texts + Legal terminology alignment and multilingual lexicons + Construction of legal corpora, datasets, and benchmarks + NLP for Asian legal languages and multilingual legal systems + Comparative and interdisciplinary studies on legal language technologies in Asia
Submission Guideline https://kse2026.kse-conferences.org/call-for-papers/
Session Organizers
Prof. Makoto Nakamura Niigata Institute of Technology, Japan, mnakamur@niit.ac.jp
Prof. Chao-Lin Liu National Chengchi University, Taiwan, chaolin@g.nccu.edu.tw
Prof. Le-Minh Nguyen Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan, nguyenml@jaist.ac.jp
Important dates
- Paper submission
- Author notification
- Camera-ready
- Conference beginsNext
Topics of interest
Before you submit
- Read the full call for papers — page limits, template (IEEE, ACM, LNCS …) and whether review is double-blind.
- Deadlines are usually 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE) — convert to Bangladesh time (UTC+6) and aim to submit a day early.
- At least one author normally has to register and present; budget for the fee and, for in-person events, a visa appointment well before the conference.
- Look for student travel grants and volunteer programmes — most large conferences run both, with deadlines soon after notification.