March 28 All day
NLP4MusA 2026: 4th Workshop on NLP for Music and Audio
Co-located with EACL 2026, Rabat, Morocco & Online
Building on a tradition of cross-disciplinary impact, the intersection of NLP with music and audio-based creative media presents a frontier full of unique challenges and exciting opportunities. The Fourth Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Music and Audio (NLP4MusA) aims to explore the multimodal synergies between language, music, and sound. As NLP increasingly enables domains where language and interaction converge, the entertainment industry offers a particularly compelling case: most audio content – such as songs or podcasts – contains an inherent linguistic dimension, while user engagement often occurs through language, from search queries to social media conversations.
Recent advances in language modelling and multimodal representation learning have deepened the connection between NLP and music, giving rise to a new generation of applications. These range from music transcription and captioning to the generation of lyrics, symbolic compositions, and even complex audio signals from text-based prompts. At the same time, techniques from Question Answering and Information Retrieval are transforming how people search for, recommend, and interact with music and audio.
Because language also reflects culture and multilingual diversity, NLP-driven approaches open pathways for cross-cultural discovery and creativity – enriching the way we experience and understand music and sound.