The 5th NLP Symposium brings together researchers, students, and practitioners working on Natural Language
Processing, with a special focus on the role of NLP in current state-of-the-art AI and GenAI technologies.
The symposium is organized by the Department of Computer Science, Isra University Hyderabad,
and will be held on Thursday, September 17, 2026.
The day will feature keynote talks and a panel discussions session covering topics such as language
modeling for low-resource languages, datasets and treebank construction, machine translation, speech
processing, and applications of large language models to regional languages. See the
Program page for the full schedule, and the
Registration page to reserve your seat.
Keynote Speeches
Prof. Dr. Muhammad Rafi — Professor and Head of the Artificial Intelligence
Department, FAST National University Karachi
“Neuro-Symbolic NLP: Combining the Power of LLMs with Logic and Knowledge”
Raza Abbas — Data Science and Analytics Consultant, Veeam Software
Dr. Wazir Ali — CEO, SoloGenAI, and Assistant Professor, QUEST Nawabshah
“From Low-Resource to LLM-Ready: Building High-Quality Datasets for the Era of Large Language Models”
Mr. Adnan Zaidi — Chief AI Officer, PROXIMA.PK, and 2× Kaggle GrandMaster
“Introduction to Kaggle Models / Gemma and Competitions Overview”
Panel Discussions
Dr. Ayaz Keerio — Director, IMCS, University of Sindh
Dr. Shaukat Wasi — Professor and Dean, Faculty of Computing, MAJU Karachi
