NORA: The 3rd Workshop on KNOwledge GRaphs & Agentic Systems Interplay

Architecting Agent Memory with Knowledge Graphs and Building structured, diverse, and equitable Agentic Memories for Smarter AI

November 10, 2026, co-located with AACL-IJCNLP 2026

Hengqin, Zhuhai, Tianmu Melody Convention Exhibition Center | Room TBD

Important Dates Submission Guidelines

News!

29th Jun 2026

Submissions open! Submit your unpublished work through OpenReview and commit your ARR-reviewd one through OpenReview ARR.

25th Jun 2026

First Call for papers! The call for papers is now live: Call For Papers.

9th Mar 2026

The website of the workshop is live!

21st Feb 2026

Workshop Proposal Accepted! We are excited to announce our proposal has been accepted for AACL 2026.

Archive

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About

Agents have experienced significant growth in recent years, largely due to the rapid technological advancements of Large Language Models (LLMs). Although these agents benefit from LLMs’ advanced generation proficiency, they still suffer from catastrophic forgetting and a limited context window size compared to the agents’ needs in terms of contextual information. Knowledge Graphs (KGs) are a powerful paradigm for structuring and managing connected pieces of information while unlocking deeper insights than traditional methods. Their value is immense for tasks that require context, integration, inter-linking, and reasoning. However, this power comes at the cost of significant upfront and ongoing investment in construction, curation, and specialised expertise. The NORA workshop aims at analysing and discussing emerging and novel practices, ongoing research efforts and validated or deployed innovative solutions that showcase the growing synergy between LLMs agents and KGs.

Call for Papers

Topics of Interest

We welcome submissions and participations from intradisciplinary, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary researchers and industry & public sector practitioners in the areas of Knowledge Graphs, Knowledge Engineering and Reasoning, Advanced NLP, GenAI, and AI Agents. We especially welcome contributions that provide theoretical insights, propose new approaches, or introduce new grounded solutions in real-world applications such as enterprise, smart assistance & chat, healthcare, finance, tourism, etc.

We invite submissions in this non-exhaustive list of topics of interest, including, but not limited to:

  • Agents for Complex Reasoning over KGs
  • Agents and KGs for private and proactive personal assistants & Personalisation
  • Architectures for Persistent Agent Memory
  • Benchmarking Agent Memory Performance
  • Collaborative & Shared Agent Memories
  • Context Engineering enhanced by KGs
  • Domain-Specific Memory Architectures
  • From Unstructured Experience to Structured and Graph-Based Memory
  • KGs serving agents' memories: Episodic (experiences, events, etc.), Semantic (facts, concepts, etc.), and Procedural (skills, tasks, etc.)
  • Memory Grounding & Hallucination Mitigation
  • Memory Indexing & Retrieval for Agents
  • Multi-Lingual & Multi-modal integrations
  • Personalization vs. Generalization in Memory

Submission Guidelines

General Policy
General Information:
The workshop is archivable, and its proceedings will be published in the ACL Anthology. All accepted and presented papers will appear in the workshop proceedings. At least one of the authors of the accepted papers must register for the workshop and present their submission(s) to be included in the workshop proceedings. The workshop will be a hybrid 1-day event at AACL-IJCNLP 2026.

Use of Generative AI Policy:
This workshop adheres to the ACL’s “Guidelines for Generative Assistance in Authorship”. Please familiarise yourself with the policy and include a Declaration on Generative AI section in your manuscript.

Dual Submission Policy:
  1. Core Prohibition
    2. Authors must not concurrently submit identical or substantially similar manuscripts to this workshop and any other peer-reviewed venue. This strict prohibition applies to both archival venues (journals, conferences) and non-archival venues (workshops, symposia without formal proceedings). A manuscript is considered under review from our submission deadline until official notification of acceptance, rejection, or formal withdrawal.
  2. Permitted Submissions
    1. Preprints: Hosting the manuscript on non-peer-reviewed public repositories (e.g., arXiv) is fully permitted.
    2. Sequential Submissions: Papers rejected or withdrawn from prior conferences and workshops are welcome, provided their official review cycles have fully concluded before our submission deadline.
  3. Enforcement and Penalties
    4. Undisclosed concurrent submissions to either archival or non-archival venues will face immediate desk rejection from this workshop.


Publication Ethics Policy:
All submissions must adhere to ACL Policy on Publication Ethics.

Withdrawal Policy:
Failing to register will lead to a paper withdrawal.

Additional Information:
Submissions are editable (including authorship) until the deadline. No authorship change is allowed after submission.
Submission Tracks
There are four types of submissions covering the entire workshop topics spectrum (see above):
(1) Research Papers (max. 8 pages): presenting novel research addressing the above and similar topics.
(2) Position & Demo Papers (max. 6 pages): encouraging papers describing significant work in progress, late-breaking results or ideas, as well as functional systems relevant to the community.
(3) Industry & Use Case Presentations (max. 5 pages): in which industry experts can present and discuss practical solutions, use cases, and best practices at any stage of implementation.
(4) Short Papers (max. 2 pages): presenting research topics, works in progress, and practical applications.

These page limits only apply to the main body of the paper. Authors may include an unlimited but reasonable number of pages of references and appendices.
In addition, papers must include a mandatory section on the Limitations of the Work, placed after the conclusions and before the references.
Authors must also include a mandatory Declaration on Generative AI section in the paper.
Authors may optionally include a section discussing ethical considerations and concerns regarding their research.
Each submission must be submitted to only one track, the most suitable one.
Submission Format
(1) Submissions are required to use the official ACL style template, which is available here. Please follow the paper formatting guidelines general to “*ACL” conferences available here. Authors may not modify these style files or use templates designed for other conferences.
(2) Each submission shall be One Single PDF file, including the references and appendices.
(3) Supplementary materials (of reasonable number/size) may be included, but they are optional, and reviewers are not required to review these materials.
(4) Submissions that do not adhere to the specified styles, including paper size, font size restrictions, and margin width, will be desk-rejected.
(5) The reviewing process will be Double-Blind, wherein each paper will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. A meta-review will be provided in case of any disagreements. The final decision of acceptance/rejection will be made in consensus by the Chairs.
ARR Papers Resubmission
In addition to the regular submissions we have specified in this CFP, we welcome resubmissions from ACL Rolling Review (ARR), as long as the topics are relevant to our workshop. Authors of any papers that were submitted to ARR and have their meta review ready may submit their papers and reviews for consideration for the workshop by the ARR commitment deadline.
Authors can resubmit their reviewed papers from any previous 2026 ARR cycles. Specifically, reviewed and rejected submissions from ACL flagged conferences happening during 2026 and going through ARR 2026 cycles are welcome.
Authors will be notified by the Notification of Acceptance date.
Submission Link
All submissions will be managed through OpenReview via dedicated submission websites:
Note: Please be aware of OpenReview's moderation policy when creating new profiles without an institutional email.
Presentation
All accepted papers shall be presented at the conference either in-person or remotely. Accepted papers will be presented as posters only or as posters plus oral presentation.
Authors required to deliver an oral presentation will be notified accordingly.

Important Dates

Note: All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE).

Submission Open June 28th, 2026
Regular Submissions Deadline September 9th, 2026
ARR Commitment Deadline September 14th, 2026
Notification of Acceptance October 1st, 2026
Camera-ready Papers Due October 12th, 2026
Workshop Date November 10th, 2026

Confirmed Speakers & Panelists

Coming Soon

Program

TBD

Organizers

Organizer 1
Btissam Er-Rahmadi

Independent Researcher

Organizer 2
Sebastien Montella

Huawei Technologies R&D UK Ltd

Organizer 3
Damien Graux

EcoVadis

Organizer 4
Andre Melo

Huawei Technologies R&D UK Ltd

Organizer 5
Hajira Jabeen

University Hospital Cologne

Program Committee

TBD

Sponsor Us

Sponsoring the 3rd NORA Workshop at AACL-IJCNLP 2026 helps connect your brand with global leaders in Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Graphs, and Agentic Systems. Your contribution directly supports students and early-career researchers, lowering their attendance costs so they can actively shape the future of AI. You will gain direct exposure to specialized AI and NLP experts investigating how to showcase the growing synergy between LLM agents and KGs while while helping foster vital collaboration between the complementary research areas of Agentic AI and Knowledge Graphs. You will also associate your brand with an archivable event whose official proceedings are formally published in the ACL Anthology.

To explore specific sponsorship packages and benefits, please have a look on our sponsoring packages here. For further information or to discuss custom options, you can contact the organizing committee at nora-workshop@googlegroups.com.