computational linguistics

SilkRoadNLP 2027 provides a platform for advancing Natural Language Processing (NLP), computational linguistics, and AI for the Iranian linguistic family—a diverse group of languages spoken across Iran, Afghanistan, Central and South Asia, and the Caucasus, as well as diaspora communities worldwide. We welcome work that bridges computational methods with linguistic, social, and cultural perspectives.

Despite major advances in multilingual NLP and large language models, the languages of the Iranian linguistic group remain underrepresented in mainstream research. While Persian has received some attention, many languages and varieties of the Iranian language family such as Kurdish, Balochi, Gilaki, Mazandarani, Luri, Pashto, Ossetic, Talysh, Zazaki, and others, continue to have limited digital presence, computational resources, benchmarks, and system support. Many are minority or endangered languages at risk of further technological marginalization. Within Persian, Iranian Persian, Dari, and Tajik differ in orthography, phonology, lexicon, and sociolinguistic context, with Tajik also differing in script.

Building on the inaugural workshop at EACL 2026, SilkRoadNLP continues its mission as a dedicated ACL-affiliated venue for computational research on the Iranian language family. The workshop aims to:

- Highlight advances in NLP analysis, datasets, benchmarks, models, and language technologies.

- Increase the visibility of Iranian languages and varieties underrepresented in mainstream NLP and AI.

- Address linguistic, cultural, sociopragmatic, and representational challenges in computational research.

- Foster collaboration across computational linguistics, linguistics, digital humanities, language documentation, education, and AI governance.

- Build a sustained international research community and shared ecosystem of resources for Iranian-language NLP.

We welcome research on all languages of the Iranian linguistic family, including contemporary, historical, regional, minority, endangered, heritage, and diaspora varieties.

2027 Theme: From Representation to Sovereignty: AI for Iranian Languages

This year’s theme moves beyond asking whether Iranian languages are represented in NLP and AI to examine how they are represented, who participates in developing the technologies around them, who governs linguistic and cultural data, and how language communities can retain meaningful agency over AI systems.

We especially welcome work on community-centered NLP, culturally grounded evaluation, data and language sovereignty, participatory development, and responsible AI across the development lifecycle. The workshop also aims to lay the groundwork for a collaborative Sovereign AI agenda for the Iranian linguistic family.

The theme complements the workshop’s broad scope. Contributions across Iranian-language NLP are welcome, whether or not they directly address the annual theme.

Topics of Interest:

We invite submissions on any aspect of NLP, computational linguistics, or AI relevant to the Iranian linguistic family, including contemporary, historical, regional, minority, endangered, heritage, and diaspora varieties. Topics include, but are not limited to:

- Computational linguistic analysis of Iranian languages: morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and typology.

- Resource creation, including corpora, benchmarks, and lexicons; language documentation and annotation.

- Speech and multimodal processing, including automatic speech recognition, text-to-speech, and multimodal learning.

- OCR, digitization tools, and script technologies.

- Language modeling and LLM adaptation, fine-tuning, and evaluation across domains.

- NLP for historical and extinct Iranian languages, such as Pahlavi, Avestan, and Sogdian, including applications in digital humanities and cultural heritage.

- NLP for regional varieties, dialects, heritage languages, and minority and endangered languages.

- Machine translation, transliteration, and cross-script processing.

- Evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, and shared tasks.

- Educational applications and language learning tools.

- Culturally grounded and sociopragmatic evaluation of language technologies.

- Community-centered NLP, participatory development, and collaboration with language communities.

- Data and language sovereignty, community agency, and governance of linguistic and cultural resources.

- Ethical and responsible AI across the language technology development lifecycle.

- Downstream and applied NLP, including information extraction, sentiment analysis, misinformation detection, information retrieval, social media analytics, and health and legal applications.

Contributions need not directly address the annual theme; we welcome work across the full range of Iranian-language NLP.

Shared Task: Tajik Cyrillic <-> Perso-Arabic Transliteration:

SilkRoadNLP 2027 will introduce a shared task on transliteration between Tajik Cyrillic and Perso-Arabic scripts. Building on an existing aligned dataset and established evaluation metrics, the task will provide a common benchmark for comparing transliteration systems and establishing reproducible baselines and state-of-the-art performance.

​The shared task aims to advance tool development and standardization for cross-script processing within the Iranian language family.

​Task specifications, data release and participation dates, evaluation procedures, and system paper submission instructions are being finalized and will be announced on the workshop website.

Paper Submission Format:

We invite the following categories of submissions:

- Long papers: Up to 8 pages of content (excluding references). Long papers should present substantial, original, unpublished contributions, with appropriate evaluation and analysis.

- Short papers / demo papers: Up to 4 pages of content (excluding references). Short papers should present a focused contribution that can be adequately described within this length. Demo papers should describe a system or tool and its relevance to the workshop.

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We welcome research, position papers, resource papers, system demonstrations, and work-in-progress contributions within these categories.

All papers submitted to the workshop must be fully anonymized for double-blind review.

​All submissions must use the official ACL style template and be submitted as PDF files. References, appendices, a dedicated Limitations section, and an optional Ethical Considerations section do not count toward the content page limit. Appendices should appear after the references. The main paper must contain the information necessary to assess the contribution; reviewers are not required to read supplementary materials.
Submission & Review

Direct submissions will be made through the workshop’s OpenReview submission page. We will also accept papers with completed ACL Rolling Review (ARR) reviews, including a meta-review. Instructions for submitting ARR-reviewed papers and the workshop submission link will be announced on our website.

​Camera-ready instructions will be provided with acceptance notifications. Accepted papers will be published in the ACL Anthology as part of the EACL 2027 workshop proceedings.

Hybrid Participation:

The workshop will be held in a collaborative hybrid format, combining in-person sessions in Athens with online participation to ensure wide accessibility. The workshop will feature live-streamed talks, virtual poster sessions, and interactive Q&A opportunities for remote attendees. Final details on the hybrid setup will be shared closer to the event in coordination with EACL 2027.

Important Dates:

- Call for Papers: October 8, 2026

- Direct Submission Deadline: December 15, 2026

- Pre-reviewed ARR Commitment Deadline: December 22, 2026

- Notification of Acceptance: January 5, 2027

- Camera-ready Papers Due: January 9, 2027

- Poster Boards and presentation slides Due: February 5, 2027

- Workshop Date: TBA / March 9-14, 2027

​All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12 (“anywhere on Earth”).

Diversity & Inclusion

SilkRoadNLP is committed to inclusive participation. We strongly encourage submissions from early-career researchers, independent scholars, and institutions in low-resource regions. The workshop will support hybrid participation (onsite + virtual) to maximize accessibility.

Feel free to contact us with any questions.

Last year we lost Robert Amsler, a valued member of our field, on August 12, 2025. Bob was a computational lexicologist, a computational linguist, and an information scientist. After an MS in Mathematics and CS from the Courant Institute, NYU, he went on to a Ph.D. in Computer Science (1980) at UT-Austin, with Robert Simmons as his advisor. I was fortunate enough to share an office with him at the University of Texas in 1973/1974 and benefitted from his kindness, his intelligence, and his meticulous attention to detail for the next 50 years. Thanks to Bob’s generosity, his other office mate, Mike Smith, colleague Clive Dawson, and I have been able to establish The Robert Amsler and Robert Simmons Endowment for Texas Robotics at the University of Texas, Austin.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/texasrobotics-longhornsgive-utaustin-shar...

After his PhD in CS at the University of Texas in Austin, he worked at SRI (Stanford Research Institute), Bellcore (Bell Labs) and the MITRE Corporation. He ended his career at the U.S. Department of Energy, where he worked on projects to develop automated declassification software for documents and to design a history knowledge base for DOE’s nuclear weapons program.

Robert was always fascinated by words and word meanings, and this sparked an early interest in vast collections of words, such as those found in dictionaries. He was convinced that the success of getting computers to understand natural language would depend on having a broad, expansive coverage of word meanings and how the meanings changed in different contexts. Anything Robert specialized in became a very deep endeavor motivated by an insatiable scientific curiosity. Data exploration, in particular, was his forte.

His early efforts included work with machine-readable dictionaries. He did considerable research using the Merriam-Webster Pocket Dictionary, which ended up being the subject of his doctoral dissertation. In the early 1970s, he had to obtain the dictionary from the publisher on thousands of feet of punched paper tape, which took dozens of hours to upload into the computer. The results were seminal. Robert was able to perform a wide variety of analyses of English based on the noun and verb taxonomies he extracted from the dictionary that had not been previously possible in an academic setting, helping to motivate the creation of WordNet.

He was equally interested in going in the other direction, investigating how the usage of words in context, found in large bodies of text, could support new word meanings that could be added to dictionaries. This sparked a career in encouraging the release of machine-readable dictionaries, subsequent explorations of the data contained therein, and a long-standing partnership with Don Walker at both SRI and Bellcore. In their studies they anticipated by more than 40 years the success of large language models (LLMs), which today form the backbone of modern generative AI systems such as ChatGPT or Gemini. They process large amounts of text in order to infer implicit semantic relations between words, just as Bob and Don were doing. Robert also invented a new technique in citation analysis that bears his name. His work is mentioned in Wikipedia articles on Machine-Readable dictionaries, Computational lexicology, Bibliographic coupling, and Text mining.

He is survived by neighbors, friends, and colleagues who remember him fondly for his brilliant mind, joyful spirit, and gentle heart.

Joint Call for Tutorial Proposals (EMNLP/AACL-IJCNLP) 2026
The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (AACL), and the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP) invite proposals for tutorials in conjunction with the EMNLP 2026 and AACL-IJCNLP 2026 conferences. We welcome submissions covering all areas of computational linguistics (CL) and natural language processing (NLP), broadly defined to include related disciplines. We are soliciting proposals for two types of tutorials:

• Cutting-edge tutorials in CL/NLP: Covering recent advances in emerging areas not previously addressed in tutorials at EMNLP, AACL, IJCNLP, ACL, NAACL-HLT, or EACL.
• Introductory tutorials in related fields: Offering overviews of disciplines potentially relevant to the CL/NLP community, such as linguistics, bioinformatics, machine learning, human-computer interaction, or applications of large language models in non-English languages.

In both cases, the primary goal is to help CL/NLP researchers understand key scientific challenges, their tractability, and their theoretical and practical implications. Presentations of specific technologies or systems are welcome when used to illustrate broader scientific insights.
Tutorials will be held at one of the following conference venues:

• EMNLP 2026 (the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing), which will be held as a hybrid conference, and physically held in Budapest, Hungary from October 24th to October 29th, 2026.
• AACL-IJCNLP 2026 (the 5th Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics & the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing), which will be held as a hybrid conference and physically held in Hengqin, China from November 6th to November 10th, 2026.

Important Dates
EMNLP/AACL-IJCNLP 2026 shared dates:

• Proposal submission deadline: June 1, 2026
• Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2026
• Tutorial slides + abstract + bibliography + any other materials
  one month prior to the date of the tutorial

All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth").
Fee Waivers
Up to 3 instructors per tutorial can have their registration fees waived for the main conference and any subset of co-located tutorials and workshops.
Diversity & Inclusion
To foster an inclusive culture in our field, we particularly encourage submissions from members of underrepresented groups in CL/NLP, i.e., researchers from any demographic or geographic minority, researchers with disabilities, among others. The overall diversity of the tutorial organizers and potential audience will be taken into account to ensure that the conference program is varied and balanced.
Tutorial proposals should describe and will be evaluated according to how the tutorial contributes to topics promoting diversity (e.g., working on minority languages or groups), participation diversity (e.g., coordinating with social affinity groups, providing subsidies, making a promotional plan for the tutorial), and representation diversity among tutorial presenters. For more information or advice, organizers may consult resources such as the BIG directory, Black in AI, Disability in AI, Indigenous AI, LatinX in AI, Masakhane, 500 Queer Scientists, and Women-in-ML's directory.
Submission Details
Proposals should use the ACL paper submission format. Authors can download the LaTeX template or use the Overleaf template. Proposals should not exceed 4 pages of content (plus one page for tutor biographies and unlimited pages for references), should be submitted as PDF documents, and should contain the following:

1. A title and authors, affiliations, and contact information.
2. A brief description of the tutorial content and its relevance to the CL/NLP community.
3. Type of the tutorial: "cutting-edge in CL/NLP" vs "introductory to fields related to CL/NLP".
4. Briefly describe the target audience and any expected prerequisites for the attendees, for example:
   • Math: e.g., "Understand derivatives and integrals as found in introductory calculus"
   • Linguistics: e.g., "Be able to parse and generate text with dependency grammars"
   • Machine Learning: e.g., "Understand 'classical' supervised methods such as SVM and perceptron"
   • Neural Network: e.g., "Familiarity with Transformers"
   • Programming or other tools: e.g., "Knowledge of PyTorch and Unix command line tools"
5. An outline of the tutorial structure and content, and how it will be covered in a three-hour slot. In exceptional cases, six-hour tutorial slots are available. These time limits do not include coffee breaks, e.g., a three-hour tutorial in fact occupies a 3.5-hour slot, and a six-hour tutorial occupies a 7-hour slot.
6. Explain how the tutorial includes other people's work. We recommend that the tutorial cover work by the presenters as well as by other researchers. The submission should explain how this breadth is ensured. Tutorials should not be "self-invited talks".
7. Diversity considerations, e.g., use of multilingual data, indications of how the described methods scale up to various languages or domains, participation of both senior and junior instructors, demographic and geographical diversity of the instructors, plans for how to diversify audience participation, etc.
8. Reading list. Work that you expect the audience to read before the tutorial can be indicated by an asterisk. Recommended papers should provide breadth of authorship and include work by other authors, as well as work from other disciplines, if relevant.
9. For each tutorial presenter, a one-paragraph statement of their research interests and areas of expertise for the tutorial topic, as well as experience in instructing an international audience.
10. An estimate of the audience size for the tutorial. If the same or a similar tutorial (or workshops, talks, etc.) has been given before, include information on where any previous version of the tutorial was given and how many attendees the tutorial attracted.
11. A description of special requirements for technical equipment.
12. We intend to make tutorial presentation materials publicly available (e.g., tutorial slides, captioned video recording, as well as software, data, or other resources as applicable) in the ACL Anthology. If any of your tutorial materials cannot be shared, please explain why this is the case.
13. An ethics statement that discusses the ethical considerations related to the topics of the tutorial.
14. A description of any limitations that would restrict the tutorial to a specific venue (EMNLP or AACL-IJCNLP). For example, if the tutorial is compatible with only one of these events, logistically, thematically, or otherwise, or if the tutorial cannot be held at a venue for logistical reasons.
15. OPTIONAL: We welcome proposals on the special conference themes. If your tutorial proposal aligns with the special themes of EMNLP (theme "New Missions for NLP Research"), then please explain why this is the case.
16. OPTIONAL: We invite tutorial instructors to include pedagogical material that the audience can bring into classrooms or similar spaces of discussion, to bring attention to the tutorial topic (e.g., a hands-on exercise, discussion questions, a demo, or an assignment). If you would like to provide this, then please explain why this is the case.

Tutorial proposals should be submitted online on OpenReview at the following link: https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Tutorials. Proposals will be reviewed jointly by the Tutorial Co-Chairs of the conferences and, optionally, by a group of external experts.
Evaluation Criteria
Each tutorial proposal will be evaluated according to its clarity and preparedness, novelty or timely character of the topic, instructors' experience, target audience, open access of the tutorial instructional material, and diversity and inclusion.
Instructor Responsibilities
Tutorial decisions along with reviews will be released by July 15, 2026. Accepted tutorial proposers must then provide abstracts for inclusion in the conference registration material by the specific conference deadlines. The description should be in two formats: (a) an ASCII version that can be included in email announcements and published on the conference website, and (b) a PDF version for inclusion in the electronic proceedings (detailed instructions will be provided). Tutorial speakers must provide tutorial materials (e.g., slides, a relevant list of papers) at least one month prior to the start date of the hosting conference. The final submitted tutorial materials must minimally include copies of the course slides and a bibliography for the material covered in the tutorial. After the conference, the presenters will be invited to update their slides in the ACL Anthology (if needed).
Tutorial Chairs

• EMNLP
  • Goran Glavaš, University of Würzburg, Germany
  • Ana Marasović, University of Utah, USA
• AACL-IJCNLP
  • Zhongqing Wang, Soochow University, China
  • Naoaki Okazaki, Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan

If you have any questions related to tutorial proposals, you can reach us at emnlp-aacl-ijcnlp-2026-tutorial [at] googlegroups.com.

The goals of BabyLM are to bring together multiple disciplines to answer an enduring question: how can a computational system learn language from limited inputs? Cognitive scientists investigate this question by trying to understand how humans learn their native language during childhood. Computer scientists tackle this question by attempting to build efficient machine-learning systems to accomplish this task. BabyLM aims to bridge these communities, encouraging the integration insights from cognitive science into the design of more sample-efficient language models, while also using advances in language modeling architectures to generate new hypotheses and experimental paradigms for cognitive science.

The 2nd BabyLM Workshop will be co-located with EMNLP 2026 in Budapest, Hungary. We will accept two types of submission: challenge submissions and workshop submissions.

This year, the theme of the workshop is *Going beyond English*. Previous iterations of BabyLM have focused primarily on English; with the introduction of the new Multilingual track (see BabyLM Challenge below), we aim to inspire submissions for other languages. We hope the BabyBabelLM dataset can be a starting point for this, but also encourage submissions that introduce new resources that will foster progress on data-efficient modeling across diverse languages.

=== Workshop Topics ===
We invite submissions on topics including but not limited to the following:
* Data-efficient architectures and training techniques.
* Data curation for efficient training.
* Cognitively and linguistically inspired language modeling and evaluation.
* Small models (and scale comparisons).
* Relevant aspects of multimodality.
* Interaction with or feedback from teacher models during training.
* Second language acquisition, bilingualism or multilingualism.

The call for papers may be found here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20092v2

=== BabyLM Challenge ===
The BabyLM Challenge (now in its fourth iteration) challenges participants to train language models on human-sized training corpora, up to 100 million words. This year’s iteration will remain largely the same as in previous iterations, except:
* We are debuting a new multilingual track, in which participants are tasked with training models on a trilingual split of the BabyBabelLM dataset.
* We continue to offer the strict and strict-small tracks.
* We have folded last year’s multimodal and interactive tracks into these tracks.

=== Key Dates ===
We will accept submissions through ACL Rolling Review (ARR) or directly to the workshop via OpenReview. Paper submissions to the workshop can ignore competition entry deadlines. Our tentative timeline (subject to ARR and conference deadlines, to be released) are as follows:

* February: Call for papers and training data released
* Early April: evaluation pipeline and baselines released
* May 25: ARR submission deadline
* Mid-July: Direct submissions deadline
* Early August: Direct submission reviews due; ARR commitment deadline
* Mid-August: Decisions released
* Early September: Camera-ready due
* 24-29 October: Workshop @ EMNLP in Budapest (exact date TBA)

=== Contact ===
If you have any questions, please join the BabyLM participants’ slack. Please see the link on the BabyLM website, or join at the following link: https://join.slack.com/t/babylmchallenge/shared_invite/zt-3r0lfjm6d-9bZZ...

SIGTURK—
The Second Workshop on
Natural Language Processing for Turkic Languages
At EACL 2026

Rabat, Morocco
March 28-29, 2026[1]

# Introduciton

We are excited to announce the Second Meeting of the ACL Special
Interest Group on Turkic Languages, held in conjunction with The 19th
Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (EACL 2026), Rabat, Morocco.

Our primary aim is to provide a venue to foster research on
computational linguistics and natural language processing in Turkic
languages. By co-locating with EACL, we seek to facilitate interaction
among researchers from diverse backgrounds, encouraging the exchange of
ideas and the presentation of cutting-edge work in natural language
processing (NLP) specific to Turkic languages. The main objectives of
the workshop are:

- Promote the creation, curation, and evaluation of foundational
resources that will accelerate progress and enable reproducible
research for the entire Turkic language family,
- Motivate and promote researchers from Turkic nations to attend
EACL/ACL and other related conferences and follow state-of-the-art
research and results on NLP and computational linguistics,
- Host a shared task that establishes strong baselines and foster
collaboration on key challenges in Turkic NLP,
- Provide a venue for discussing the formulation and analysis of NLP
models suitable for the typological features of Turkic languages,
and
- Strengthen collaborations between researchers in academia and
industry with an interest enlarging connections across the community
and allow rapid development of NLP methods and tools that are
applicable to a wide range of Turkic languages.

# Important Dates

- Direct paper submission deadline: December 19, 2025
- Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026
- Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026
- Camera-ready submission deadline: February 3, 2026
- Workshop date: March 28-29, 2026
- Note: All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h (“anywhere on Earth”).

# Topics of interest

We invite submissions on all aspects Turkic computational linguistics
and NLP. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Creation and curation of datasets, corpora, and benchmarks for
monolingual or multilingual tasks in Turkic languages,
- Studies on computational models for Turkic languages (morphology,
syntax, semantics).
- Novel NLP applications of Turkic languages.
- Software libraries, tools and large language models for Turkic NLP,
- Proper evaluation of large-language models in Turkic languages, and
- Cross-lingual transfer between Turkic languages or from/to
high-resource languages.

The workshop will also host a shared task on Terminology-Aware Machine
Translation for English–Turkish Scientific Texts. Details will be posted
at sigturk.org shortly.

# Submissions

We invite novel research contributions as long papers following the EACL
2026 long paper format (anonymized with 8 pages excluding references and
an additional page for the camera-ready versions for the accepted
papers), and shared task system descriptions (4-6 pages excluding
references). Submissions should use the ACL Paper Styles available at
https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files (Latex and Word).

We will accept either direct submissions through our own submission
page, or submissions to the general ACL Rolling Review. Direct
submissions will be made via openreview.net. The exact URL will be
available shortly at the workshop website link on https://www.sigturk.org.

All accepted papers will be published as part of our workshop
proceedings and will be presented either through oral presentations or
poster sessions.

# Event details and registration

The workshop will be conducted in person at EACL and the presentation
will be held at Rabat, Morocco. Further details will come shortly.
Details regarding registration can be found on the main conference
website https://2026.eacl.org.

# Organizers

Kemal Oflazer, Carnegie Mellon University, USA (General Chair)
Abdullatif Köksal, Google DeepMind, UK (Program Committee Co-Chair)
Onur Varol, Sabancı University, Turkey (Program Committee Co-Chair)
Jonne Sälevä - Brandeis University, USA (Publicity Chair)
Gözde Gül Şahin - Koç University, Turkey (Shared-Task Chair)

## Program Committee (confirmed)

Emre Can Açıkgöz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Mehmet Fatih Amasyalı, Yıldız Technical University
İnanç Arın, Sabancı University
Nimet Beyza Bozdağ, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Cem Bozşahin, Boğaziçi University
Necva Bölücü, CSIRO
Çağrı Çöltekin, University of Tübingen
Seza Doğruöz, Ghent University
Gülşen Eryiğit, Istanbul Technical University
Tunga Güngör, Boğaziçi University
Dilek Hakkani-Tür, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Jafar Isbarov, Virginia Tech
Dilara Keküllüoğlu, Sabancı University
Aykut Koç, Bilkent University
Murathan Kurfalı, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
Constantine Lignos, Brandeis University
Arzucan Özgür, Boğaziçi University
Adnan Öztürel, Google
Anar Rzayev, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
Lütfi Kerem Şenel, TNG Technology Consulting
A. Cüneyd Tantuğ, Istanbul Technical University
Çağrı Toraman, Middle East Technical University
Gökhan Tür, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Jonathan Washington, Swarthmore College
Reyyan Yeniterzi, GenAIus Technologies
Süveyda Yeniterzi, GenAIus Technologies
Deniz Yuret, Koç University
Kerem Zaman, UNC-Chapel Hill
Deniz Zeyrek, Boğaziçi University

# More information

For further details and updates, see sigturk.org. For any questions
please send an email to sigturk.secretary@gmail.com .

# Footnotes

[1] Exact slot TBD.

Second International Workshop on Construction Grammars and NLP (CxGs+NLP 2025)
Call for Papers

Please join the workshop’s Google Group for the latest updates and to post any questions you might have.

Overview

Constructionist approaches to language posit that all linguistic knowledge needed for language comprehension and production can be captured as a network of form-meaning mappings, called constructions. Construction Grammars (CxGs) do not distinguish between words and grammar rules, but allow for mappings between forms and meanings of arbitrary complexity and degree of abstraction. CxGs are thereby able to uniformly capture the compositional and non-compositional aspects of language use, making the theory particularly attractive to researchers in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). CxG theories, for example, can serve as a valuable ‘lens’ to assess and investigate the abilities of today’s large language models, which lack explicit, theoretically grounded linguistic insights. At the same time, techniques from the field of NLP are often employed for the further development and scaling of CxG theories and applications.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers across theory and practice from the two complementary perspectives of Construction Grammar and NLP to explore how CxG approaches can both inform and benefit from NLP methods, with an emphasis on LLMs. Therefore, we invite original research papers from a broad spectrum of topics, including but not limited to:

• Contributions to Construction Grammar theory
• Construction Grammar Formalisms
• Computational Construction Grammar Implementations
• Natural Language Understanding (NLU)
• Opinion pieces on the interplay between Construction Grammar and NLP
• Constructions and Language Models (Mechanistic interpretability, probing (e.g., BERTology), and evaluation of LLMs)
• Resources: Constructicons and corpora annotated for Construction Grammar
• Construction Grammar learning and adaptation
• Applications at the intersection of Construction Grammar and NLP

Invited Speakers

• Adele Goldberg, Professor of Psychology, Princeton University
• Thomas Hoffmann, Professor of English Language and Linguistics, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
• Laura Michaelis, Professor of Linguistics, University of Colorado Boulder

Venue & Workshop Details

The 2nd CxGs+NLP workshop will be co-located with the 16th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS), organized by the Heinrich Heine University (HHU) in Düsseldorf, Germany. The workshop will be a full day on 24 September 2025. Additionally, we will be hosting a community-building event in Düsseldorf on 25 September 2025, including panel discussions and breakout sessions on how to organize CxG community resources.

We are expecting the workshop to be in-person only, but are awaiting details on the possibility of a hybrid presentation option.

Important Dates

• Jun 06: submission deadline
• Aug 01: notification of acceptance, registration opens
• Aug 22: camera-ready papers due
• Sep 22-23: IWCS main conference
• Sep 24: workshop
• Sep 25: community-building event

Submission information

Two types of submission are solicited: long papers and short papers. Long papers should describe original research and must not exceed 8 pages. Short papers (typically system or project descriptions, or ongoing research) must not exceed 4 pages. Acknowledgments, references, a limitations section (optional), an ethics statement (optional), and a technical appendix (optional, not subject to reviewing) do not count towards the page limit.

Accepted papers get an extra page in the camera-ready version and will be published in the conference proceedings in the ACL Anthology. Additionally, non-archival publications will be considered for acceptance into the workshop as in-person poster presentations only.

CxGs+NLP 2 papers should be formatted following the common two-column structure as used by IWCS 2021 (borrowed from ACL 2021). Please use these specific style-files or the Overleaf template.
Style files
Overleaf template

Double submission policy: We will accept submissions that have been submitted elsewhere, but require that the authors notify us, including information on where else they are submitting and let us know if the work is accepted for publication elsewhere.

Submission site TBA.

Instructions for Double-Blind Review

As reviewing will be double blind, papers must not include authors’ names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references or links (such as github) that reveal the author’s identity, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” must be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Papers should not refer, for further detail, to documents that are not available to the reviewers. For example, do not omit or redact important citation information to preserve anonymity. Instead, use third person or named reference to this work, as described above (“Smith showed” rather than “we showed”). If important citations are not available to reviewers (e.g., awaiting publication), these paper/s should be anonymised and included in the appendix. They can then be referenced from the submission without compromising anonymity. Papers may be accompanied by a resource (software and/or data) described in the paper, but these resources should also be anonymized.

Workshop Chairs

Claire Bonial (U.S. Army Research Lab)
Harish Tayyar Madabushi (The University of Bath)

Workshop Organizing Committee

Melissa Torgbi (The University of Bath)
Leonie Weissweiler (University of Texas at Austin)
Austin Blodgett (U.S. Army Research Lab)
Katrien Beuls (University of Namur,Belgium)
Paul Van Eecke (Vrije Universiteit Brussel,Belgium)

CoNLL 2025: 2nd Call for Papers
Vienna, Austria, July 31 - August 1, 2025 (co-located with ACL)
https://www.conll.org/

NEW! This year, CoNLL will only accept direct submissions…
NEW! … both archival and non-archival! (see below)

SIGNLL invites submissions to the 29th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2025). The focus of CoNLL is on theoretically, cognitively and scientifically motivated approaches to computational linguistics. We welcome work targeting any aspect of language and its computational modeling, including but not only:

- Computational Psycholinguistics, Cognition and Linguistics
- Computational Social Science and Sociolinguistics
- Interaction and Dialogue
- Language Acquisition, Learning, Emergence, and Evolution
- Multimodality and Grounding
- Typology and Multilinguality
- Speech and Phonology
- Syntax and Morphology
- Lexical, Compositional and Discourse Semantics
- Theoretical Analysis and Interpretation of ML Models for NLP
- Resources and Tools for Scientifically Motivated Research

Submissions

Submission will be via OpenReview. We accept two types of submission: archival, and non-archival.

Non-archival submissions are not anonymous. We will accept submissions that fit into CoNLL’s scope (see above for a description) and have been published in 2023, 2024, and 2025 in relevant conferences (*ACL, COLING, NeurIPS, ICLR, …) and journals (TACL, Computational Linguistics, other journals in the areas of interest for CoNLL). We are working on the submission site, we’ll announce it on the CoNLL website and social media, as well as in the 3rd CfP. Submissions that are accepted will be presented at the conference either as talks or as poster presentations.

Archival submissions must be anonymous and use the same template as the ACL 2025. Submitted papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content plus unlimited space for references. Authors of accepted papers will have an additional page to address reviewers’ comments in the camera-ready version (9 pages of content in total, excluding references). Optional anonymized supplementary materials and a PDF appendix are allowed. The appendix should be submitted as a separate PDF file (reviewers are not required to consider the materials in the appendix so it should not include any essential content to the understanding of the paper). Please refer to the ACL website for more details on the submission format. Note that, unlike ACL, we do not mandate that papers have a discussion section of the limitations of the work. However, we strongly encourage authors to have such a section in the appendix.

The submission page for archival papers can be found here: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Workshop/CoNLL

Multiple submission policy: CoNLL 2025 follows the ACL 2025 policy, which follows the ARR policy: https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#multiple-submission-policy: CoNLL “precludes multiple submissions […] will not consider any paper that is under review in a journal or another conference at the time of submission, and submitted papers must not be submitted elsewhere during the […] review period. This policy covers all journals and refereed and archival conferences and workshops […] In addition, we will not consider any paper that overlaps significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere.” Authors submitting more than one paper to CoNLL 2025 must ensure that the submissions do not overlap significantly (>25%) with each other in content or results.

As for submission of pre-prints to arXiv and other platforms, we follow the same policy as ARR: “[archival] submissions will remain anonymous during peer review, but authors are free to post and discuss non-anonymous preprints at any time.”

Also please be aware of OpenReview's moderation policy for newly created profiles —we advise you to create a profile well in advance:
- New profiles created without an institutional email will go through a moderation process that can take up to two weeks.
- New profiles created with an institutional email will be activated automatically.

Venue / visa

CoNLL 2025 will be held in Vienna, Austria. Please note that it is an in-person conference. We expect all accepted papers to be presented physically and presenting authors must register through ACL (workshop). If you need a visa, we encourage you to submit your visa application at submission time.

Timeline

(All deadlines are 11:59pm UTC-12h, AoE)
(CoNLL only accepts direct submissions this year!)
- Submission deadline (archival and non-archival): March 14 2025
- Notification of acceptance: May 23 2025
- Camera-ready papers due: June 17 2025
- Conference: July 31 - August 1, 2025

Contact

Questions? E-mail conll.chairs@gmail.com

Organization committee

Program Chairs

Gemma Boleda, Universitat Pompeu Fabra / ICREA
Michael Roth, University of Technology Nuremberg

Area Chairs

Christian Bentz, University of Passau
Zhenguang G. Cai, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Tanise Ceron, Bocconi University
Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, McGill University
Iria De Dios, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Max van Duijn, Leiden University
Kilian Evang, HHU Düsseldorf
Aina Garí Soler, INRIA
Ximena Gutierrez-Vasques, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Dieuwke Hupkes, Meta AI Research
Xixian Liao, Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Brielen Madureira, University of Potsdam
Yohei Oseki, University of Tokyo
Sandro Pezzelle, University of Amsterdam
Emily Prud’hommeaux, Boston College
Tanja Samardžić, University of Zurich
Carina Silberer, University of Stuttgart
Ece Takmaz, Utrecht University
Tessa Verhoef, Leiden University
Yang Xu, University of Toronto
Wei Zhao, University of Aberdeen

Publicity Chairs

Snigdha Chaturvedi, UNC-Chapel Hill
Anvesh Rao Vijjini, UNC-Chapel Hill

Publication Chairs

Emily Cheng, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Selina Meyer, Technische Universität Nürnberg

LaTeCH-CLfL 2025:
The 9th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature

to be held on May 3rd or 4th, 2025 in conjunction with NAACL 2025 in Albuquerque, NM.

https://sighum.wordpress.com/latech-clfl-2025/

Second Call for Papers (with apologies for cross-posting)

Organisers: Diego Alves, Yuri Bizzoni, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Anna Kazantseva, Janis Pagel, Stan Szpakowicz

LaTeCH-CLfL 2025 is the ninth in a series of meetings for NLP researchers who work with data from the broadly understood arts, humanities and social sciences, and for specialists in those disciplines who apply NLP techniques in their work. The workshop continues a long tradition of annual meetings. The SIGHUM Workshops on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH) ran ten times in 2007-2016. The five Workshops on Computational Linguistics for Literature (CLfL) took place in 2012-2016. The first eight joint workshops (LaTeCH-CLfL) were held in 2017-2024.

Topics and content

In the Humanities, Social Sciences, Cultural Heritage and literary communities, there is increasing interest in, and demand for, NLP methods for semantic and structural annotation, intelligent linking, discovery, querying, cleaning and visualization of both primary and secondary data. This is even true of primarily non-textual collections, given that text is also the pervasive medium for metadata. Such applications pose new challenges for NLP research: noisy, non-standard textual or multi-modal input, historical languages, vague research concepts, multilingual parts within one document, and so no. Digital resources often have insufficient coverage; resource-intensive methods require (semi-)automatic processing tools and domain adaptation, or intense manual effort (e.g., annotation).

Literary texts bring their own problems, because navigating this form of creative expression requires more than the typical information-seeking tools. Examples of advanced tasks include the study of literature of a certain period, author or sub-genre, recognition of certain literary devices, or quantitative analysis of poetry.

NLP methods applied in this context not only need to achieve high performance, but are often applied as a first step in research or scholarly workflow. That is why it is crucial to interpret model results properly; model interpretability might be more important than raw performance scores, depending on the context.

More generally, there is a growing interest in computational models whose results can be used or interpreted in meaningful ways. It is, therefore, of mutual benefit that NLP experts, data specialists and Digital Humanities researchers who work in and across their domains get involved in the Computational Linguistics community and present their fundamental or applied research results. It has already been demonstrated how cross-disciplinary exchange not only supports work in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Heritage communities but also promotes work in the Computational Linguistics community to build richer and more effective tools and models.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• adaptation of NLP tools to Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and literature;
• automatic error detection and cleaning of textual data;
• complex annotation schemas, tools and interfaces;
• creation (fully- or semi-automatic) of semantic resources;
• creation and analysis of social networks of literary characters;
• discourse and narrative analysis/modelling, notably in literature;
• emotion analysis for the humanities and for literature;
• generation of literary narrative, dialogue or poetry;
• identification and analysis of literary genres;
• interpretability of large language models output for DH-related tasks (explainable AI);
• linking and retrieving information from different sources, media, and domains;
• low-resource and historical language processing;
• modelling dialogue literary style for generation;
• modelling of information and knowledge in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Heritage;
• profiling and authorship attribution;
• search for scientific and/or scholarly literature;
• work with linguistic variation and non-standard or historical use of language.

Information for authors

We invite papers on original, unpublished work in the topic areas of the workshop. In addition to long papers, we will consider short papers and system descriptions (demos). We also welcome position papers.

• Long papers, presenting completed work, may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content plus additional pages of references (just two if possible -:). The final camera-ready versions of accepted long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account.
• A short paper / demo presenting work in progress, or the description of a system, and may consist of up to four (4) pages of content plus additional pages of references (one if you can). Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings.
• A position paper — clearly marked as such — should not exceed eight (8) pages including references.

All submissions are to follow the *ACL paper styles (for LaTeX / Overleaf and MS Word) available at https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files. Papers should be submitted electronically, only in PDF, via the LaTeCH-CLfL 2025 submission website on the SoftConf pages (we will publish the link as soon as we have it).

Reviewing will be double-blind. Please do not include the authors’ names and affiliations, or any references to Web sites, project names, acknowledgements and so on — anything that immediately reveals the authors’ identity. Self-references should be kept to a reasonable minimum, and anonymous citations cannot be used.

Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings available as usual in the ACL Anthology.

Important dates (tentative)

Workshop paper due: January 30, 2025
Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2025
Camera-ready papers due: March 10, 2025
Workshop date: May 3rd or 4th, 2025

More on the organizers

Diego Alves, Language Science and Technology, Saarland University
Yuri Bizzoni, Center for Humanities Computing / School for Communication and Culture, Århus University
Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Language Science and Technology, Saarland University
Anna Kazantseva, National Research Council Canada
Janis Pagel, Department of Digital Humanities, University of Cologne
Stan Szpakowicz, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa

Contact

latech-clfl [at] googlegroups.com

LaTeCH-CLfL 2025:
The 9th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature

to be held on May 3rd or 4th, 2025 in conjunction with NAACL 2025 in Albuquerque, NM.

https://sighum.wordpress.com/latech-clfl-2025/

Second Call for Papers (with apologies for cross-posting)

Organisers: Diego Alves, Yuri Bizzoni, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Anna Kazantseva, Janis Pagel, Stan Szpakowicz

LaTeCH-CLfL 2025 is the ninth in a series of meetings for NLP researchers who work with data from the broadly understood arts, humanities and social sciences, and for specialists in those disciplines who apply NLP techniques in their work. The workshop continues a long tradition of annual meetings. The SIGHUM Workshops on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH) ran ten times in 2007-2016. The five Workshops on Computational Linguistics for Literature (CLfL) took place in 2012-2016. The first eight joint workshops (LaTeCH-CLfL) were held in 2017-2024.

Topics and content

In the Humanities, Social Sciences, Cultural Heritage and literary communities, there is increasing interest in, and demand for, NLP methods for semantic and structural annotation, intelligent linking, discovery, querying, cleaning and visualization of both primary and secondary data. This is even true of primarily non-textual collections, given that text is also the pervasive medium for metadata. Such applications pose new challenges for NLP research: noisy, non-standard textual or multi-modal input, historical languages, vague research concepts, multilingual parts within one document, and so no. Digital resources often have insufficient coverage; resource-intensive methods require (semi-)automatic processing tools and domain adaptation, or intense manual effort (e.g., annotation).

Literary texts bring their own problems, because navigating this form of creative expression requires more than the typical information-seeking tools. Examples of advanced tasks include the study of literature of a certain period, author or sub-genre, recognition of certain literary devices, or quantitative analysis of poetry.

NLP methods applied in this context not only need to achieve high performance, but are often applied as a first step in research or scholarly workflow. That is why it is crucial to interpret model results properly; model interpretability might be more important than raw performance scores, depending on the context.

More generally, there is a growing interest in computational models whose results can be used or interpreted in meaningful ways. It is, therefore, of mutual benefit that NLP experts, data specialists and Digital Humanities researchers who work in and across their domains get involved in the Computational Linguistics community and present their fundamental or applied research results. It has already been demonstrated how cross-disciplinary exchange not only supports work in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Heritage communities but also promotes work in the Computational Linguistics community to build richer and more effective tools and models.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• adaptation of NLP tools to Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and literature;
• automatic error detection and cleaning of textual data;
• complex annotation schemas, tools and interfaces;
• creation (fully- or semi-automatic) of semantic resources;
• creation and analysis of social networks of literary characters;
• discourse and narrative analysis/modelling, notably in literature;
• emotion analysis for the humanities and for literature;
• generation of literary narrative, dialogue or poetry;
• identification and analysis of literary genres;
• interpretability of large language models output for DH-related tasks (explainable AI);
• linking and retrieving information from different sources, media, and domains;
• low-resource and historical language processing;
• modelling dialogue literary style for generation;
• modelling of information and knowledge in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Heritage;
• profiling and authorship attribution;
• search for scientific and/or scholarly literature;
• work with linguistic variation and non-standard or historical use of language.

Information for authors

We invite papers on original, unpublished work in the topic areas of the workshop. In addition to long papers, we will consider short papers and system descriptions (demos). We also welcome position papers.

• Long papers, presenting completed work, may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content plus additional pages of references (just two if possible -:). The final camera-ready versions of accepted long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account.
• A short paper / demo presenting work in progress, or the description of a system, and may consist of up to four (4) pages of content plus additional pages of references (one if you can). Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings.
• A position paper — clearly marked as such — should not exceed eight (8) pages including references.

All submissions are to follow the *ACL paper styles (for LaTeX / Overleaf and MS Word) available at https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files. Papers should be submitted electronically, only in PDF, via the LaTeCH-CLfL 2025 submission website on the SoftConf pages (we will publish the link as soon as we have it).

Reviewing will be double-blind. Please do not include the authors’ names and affiliations, or any references to Web sites, project names, acknowledgements and so on — anything that immediately reveals the authors’ identity. Self-references should be kept to a reasonable minimum, and anonymous citations cannot be used.

Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings available as usual in the ACL Anthology.

Important dates (tentative)

Workshop paper due: January 30, 2025
Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2025
Camera-ready papers due: March 10, 2025
Workshop date: May 3rd or 4th, 2025

More on the organizers

Diego Alves, Language Science and Technology, Saarland University
Yuri Bizzoni, Center for Humanities Computing / School for Communication and Culture, Århus University
Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Language Science and Technology, Saarland University
Anna Kazantseva, National Research Council Canada
Janis Pagel, Department of Digital Humanities, University of Cologne
Stan Szpakowicz, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa

Contact

latech-clfl [at] googlegroups.com

*** CMCL 2025 – Second Call for Papers***
The 14th edition of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2025)
https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/NAACL/2025/Workshop/CMCL

CMCL 2025 will be co-located with the 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2025).

*Workshop Description*
CMCL 2025 is a one-day workshop held in conjunction with NAACL 2025. CMCL invites papers on cognitive modeling, cognitively-inspired natural language processing, and, more broadly, the alignment of language models with human cognition/perception. The 2025 workshop follows in the tradition of earlier meetings at ACL 2010, ACL 2011, NAACL-HLT 2012, ACL 2013, ACL 2014, NAACL 2015, EACL 2017, LSA 2018, NAACL 2019, EMNLP 2020, NAACL 2021, ACL 2022, and ACL 2024.

*Scope and Topics*
The research interests/questions include, but are not limited to:
- Analysis of computational models that process language data (e.g., LLMs, neural language models, parsers) to give insights into fundamental linguistic questions, e.g., on human language processing/acquisition.
- Analysis of human language data to give insights into fundamental linguistic questions, e.g., on human language processing/acquisition.
- Comparing/aligning computational models (e.g., neural language models, parsers) with human language data to understand/reverse-engineer what and how humans compute during language comprehension/production/acquisition.
- What can the cogsci/linguistics and NLP fields contribute to each other?
- Emergent communication/language: What are the sufficient conditions for the emergence of human-like communication/language?

A more comprehensive description of the workshop scope is:
- Models of lexical acquisition, including phonology, morphology, and semantics.
- Models of semantic interpretation, including psychologically realistic notions of word and phrase meaning and composition.
- Models of incremental parsers for diverse grammar formalisms and their psychological plausibility.
- Psychologically plausible models of discourse and dialogue.
- Models of speaker-specific linguistic adaptation and/or generalization.
- Models of first and second language acquisition and bilingual language processing.
- Models of language disorders, such as aphasia, dyslexia, or dysgraphia.
- Datasets or resources for modeling language processing or production in languages other than English.
- Models of linguistic information propagation and language evolution in communities.
- Analyzing computational models that process language data (e.g., neural language models, parsers) from the above perspectives.

*Invited Speakers*
We are pleased to announce the following invited speakers for the 2025 edition:
- John T. Hale (Johns Hopkins University)
- Tessa Verhoef (Leiden University)

*Sponsoring Institutions*
This workshop is supported by the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL).

*Important Dates (Planned)*
February 16, 2025: Paper submission/commitment deadline
March 10, 2025: Notification of acceptance
March 17, 2025: Camera-ready paper due
May 3 or 4, 2025: Workshop dates (the exact date TBA soon)

Deadlines are at 11:59 pm AOE. The timeline may change slightly.
We are trying to set our CMCL deadline to be after the completion of the ARR December cycle (Feb. 16), in contrast to the timeline suggested in https://2025.naacl.org/calls/workshops/.
That is, authors in the ARR December cycle will have the option to resubmit/commit it to the upcoming ARR rounds/conferences OR make a new direct submission with the paper to CMCL (see Submission Types and Cross-submission Policy Sections for details).

* Workshop Submissions*
CMCL accepts direct submissions through the OpenReview site: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/NAACL/2025/Workshop/CMCL
This year, we do not receive the commitment of ARR-reviewed papers to simplify the logistics.

*Submission Types*
We invite three types of submissions:
(1) Archival regular workshop submissions that present original research in either long (8 pages + references) or short (4 pages + references) paper format.
(2) Non-archival submissions of extended abstracts that present preliminary results (from 2 to 4 pages + references).
(3) Non-archival cross-submission of long/short papers that present relevant research submitted/published elsewhere (including ACL “Findings of…” papers).

Regarding submissions:
- Authors must indicate if the paper is archival (1) or non-archival (2,3) when submitting the paper. In other words, authors are not allowed to decide/change the archival/non-archival mode after receiving the reviews/notification.
- Only regular workshop papers submitted via (1) will be included in the proceedings, but all types of papers will have a presentation opportunity in the workshop.
- Submissions must be formatted using the ACL style template (https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files) and submitted via a PDF file.
- Appendix is not counted in the page limit.
- Final versions of accepted papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages for long papers, up to 5 pages for short papers) to address reviewers’ comments.
- It is strongly recommended that the paper include a “Limitations” section (after the main parts and before the references), which is not counted in the part of the page limit.
- Non-archival papers (2,3) will be reviewed in a separate process than archival papers (1), although the timeline is the same; specifically, non-archival papers will be evaluated with more priority to broader factors, such as the fit of the topic with the workshop, the status of the paper (e.g., already accepted to elsewhere or not), and the entire diversity of the topic/community in the workshop, as well as the soundness of the paper.
- We adhere to the new ACL anonymity policy: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Anonymity_Policy
- This year, we do not host a shared task.
- This year, we do not receive the commitment of ARR-reviewed papers to simplify the logistics. Instead, authors should submit their work via a direct submission (without past reviews).

*Cross-submission Policy*
For regular archival submission (1), CMCL will refuse papers that are under review or will be submitted to other conferences, including the ARR cycles (except that the cross-submitted counterpart venue is a fully non-archival workshop). For non-archival submissions (2,3), we allow the submission of papers that have been or will be published elsewhere, but again, authors can not change the presentation mode to be archival after their submission.

* Presentation modes*
CMCL 2025 will provide in-person/remote presentation slots for both oral and poster presentations.
The organizers will make the decision on oral or poster presentation based on multiple factors (e.g., the balance of the topics).

*Workshop Organizers*
Tatsuki Kuribayashi (MBZUAI, tatsuki.kuribayashi [at] mbzuai.ac.ae)
Giulia Rambelli (University of Bologna, giulia.rambelli4 [at] unibo.it)
Ece Takmaz (Utrecht University, e.k.takmaz [at] uu.nl)
Philipp Wicke (Ludwig Maximilian University LMU, pwicke [at] cis.lmu.de)
Jixing Li (City University of Hong Kong, jixingli [at] cityu.edu.hk)
Byung-Doh Oh (New York University, oh.b [at] nyu.edu)

*Website*
https://cmclorg.github.io/

*Contact*
cmclorganizers2025 [at] gmail.com