NeusymBridge Workshop @AAAI 2026 (abbreviated as NeusymBridge below) invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Graph reasoning.

Paper Submission Information

Please use the template provided by AAAI 2026 using the following link: AAAI 2026 PAPER TYPES AND FORMATS.

Paper Submission Site

Papers should be submitted through OpenView using the following link: Submission2NeusymBridge.

Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Authors will have the opportunity to provide a short rebuttal to clarify any misunderstandings. The review process will be double-blind. Reviewers will not see authors, authors will not see reviewers. Reviews and submissions will not be made publicly visible.

Submission Topics

The workshop invites submissions on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:

  • Proposing novel knowledge representations that are derived from transdisciplinary research
  • Using knowledge graphs or other types of symbolic Knowledge to improve the quality of LLMs
  • Neuro-symbolic parsing methods for NLP
  • Using symbolic structures, or natural languages, to interpret the reasoning mechanism of pre-trained language models
  • Exploring the reasoning mechanism of LLMs
  • Distilling symbolic knowledge from LLMs
  • Proposing benchmark datasets and evaluation matrices for neuro-symbolic approaches to NLP tasks
  • Proposing novel NLP tasks for neuro-symbolic approaches
  • NLP applications in classification, sense-disambiguation, sentiment analysis, question-answering, knowledge graph reasoning
  • Critical analysis of traditional deep learning or LLMs
  • Analysing spatial reasoning of LLMs
  • Proposing novel neural computing that may reach symbolic-level reasoning
  • Proposing benchmark datasets and matrices to evaluate the gap between neural reasoning and symbolic reasoning
  • Addressing efficiency issues in neuro-symbolic systems
  • Identifying challenges and opportunities of neuro-symbolic systems
  • Developing retrieval augmented models for combining KG and LLMs
  • Applying neuro-symbolic approaches to humor generation and other real-life applications
  • Datasets and evaluation matrices supporting both neural and symbolic approaches to NLP tasks
  • New meaning representation for with both symbolic and neural meaning representation
  • New neural architecture for both heuristic reasoning with data and rational reasoning with symbolic rules
  • Innovative applications of hybrid models combining symbolic and neural architectures

Important Dates

All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”)
Submission Deadline:November 15, 2025
Notification of Acceptance:December 7, 2025
Camera-Ready papers due:December 15, 2025
Workshop Day: January 26, 2026