Advanced Information Retrieval and Question Answering, Knowledge and Information Extraction, Linguistic Theories and Formal Resources for AI, Statistical and Neural Language Modeling, Speech Technologies and Multimodal Language Interfaces, Machine Translation and Cross-Lingual NLP, Multilinguality, Code-Switching, and Low-Resource Languages, Domain-Specific NLP (e.g., Legal, Biomedical, Scientific, Educational), Syntactic Analysis, Tagging, and Parsing, Semantics, Pragmatics, and Commonsense Reasoning, Emotion Recognition, Sentiment Analysis, and Social Signal Processing, NLP for Social Media and Computational Social Science, Conversational AI, Spoken Dialogue, and Interactive Systems, Abstractive and Extractive Text Summarization, Natural Language Generation, Storytelling, and Creative AI, Text Classification, Topic Modeling, and Document Understanding, Text Mining and Large-Scale Knowledge Discovery, Vision-Language Models and Multimodal AI, Ethical, Legal, and Societal Implications of AI in Language Technologies, Large Language Models (LLMs): Architecture, Optimization, and Applications, Responsible and Interpretable AI for Language Understanding, Generative AI: Models, Evaluation, and Emerging Applications, Reinforcement Learning and Prompt Engineering for NLP Tasks, AI for Resource-Poor and Endangered Languages, Human-Centered NLP and User-Aware Language Interfaces, Benchmarking, Evaluation Metrics, and Explainability in NLP, AI-Augmented Writing, Reading, and Translation Tools