Dear community!
With one step into a new year, we are delighted to invite you for
submission to the Fourth Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact co-located at
ACL 2025!
Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4positiveimpact
<https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4positiveimpact>Call for paper:
https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4positiveimpact/call-for-papers-2025
Submission methods: ACL Rolling Review (ARR) both commitment and direct
submissions.
We also accept non-archival submissions.
Important dates:
*ARR-cycle Submission Due*: February 15th, 2025
*ARR Reviewed Submissions Commitment Due*: April 20th, 2025
*Direct Submissions Due*: March 2nd, 2025 via
https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Workshop/NLP4PosImpact
*Notification of Acceptance* (both channels): April 30th, 2025
*Camera-Ready Papers Due*: May 16th, 2025
*Workshop Date*: July 31st or August 1st 2025 (co-located with ACL 2025)
All deadlines are 11:59 PM (Anywhere on Earth)
Workshop Summary
The increasing adoption of language-oriented AI systems offers
unprecedented opportunities for positive societal impact. NLP technologies
have matured to the point where they can meaningfully contribute to
addressing global challenges like poverty, hunger, healthcare, education,
inequality, COVID-19, and climate change, aligning with the UN
sustainability goals.
This workshop aims to advance innovative NLP research that benefits
society, emphasizing responsible methods and impactful applications. We
welcome submissions in areas including, but not limited to:
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Grounding NLP in Real-World Impact: Beyond improving model performance,
how can NLP systems be directly tied to social outcomes? This could include
case studies of real-world deployments or strategies for better deployment
and maintenance practices.
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Underexplored Applications: While NLP for healthcare and mental
well-being is well-established, we encourage research tackling overlooked
areas such as poverty, hunger, energy, and climate change.
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Interdisciplinary Collaborations: We highly value work that integrates
insights from other fields, such as social science, political science,
economics, philanthropy, and HCI, and we encourage submissions of case
studies or examples that highlight such collaborations.
Special Theme: NLP for Climate Change
This year, we spotlight NLP’s role in addressing climate change—an area
that remains underexplored in the NLP community. We invite research on
climate-focused applications, such as fact-checking, question-answering,
and initiatives to make NLP models more environmentally sustainable.
Attendees will have the chance to share results and ideas with NGO
representatives working on climate issues.
Submission Types
We encourage diverse contributions, including:
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Identifying social needs and affected demographics.
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Proposing new tasks or directions through position papers.
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Conducting literature reviews or philosophical discussions on NLP’s
societal impact.
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Designing user studies, surveys, or ethical frameworks.
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Exploring interdisciplinary methods and collaboration strategies.
Submissions must address the ethical and societal implications of the work,
with a clear focus on defining and achieving positive impact. We look
forward to fostering discussions that inspire actionable, responsible
advancements in NLP for the greater good.
Papers Format
Both long and short paper submissions should follow all of the ARR
submission requirements
https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#paper-submission-information, including: Long
Papers <https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#long-papers>(8 pages) and Short
Papers (4 pages).
Organizers
Katherine Atwell (Northeastern University)
Prof. Laura Biester (Middlebury College)
Angana Borah (University of Michigan)
Dr. Daryna Dementieva (Technical University of Munich)
Prof Oana Ignat (Santa Clara University)
Dr. Neema Kotonya (Dataminr)
Ziyi Liu (University of Southern California)
Ruyuan Wan (Pennsylvania State University)
Prof Steven Wilson (University of Michigan-Flint)
Prof Jieyu Zhao (University of Southern California)
Steering Committee
Prof Rada Mihalcea (University of Michigan)
Dr. Joel Tetreault (Dataminr)
Contact Email: nlp4pi.workshop(a)gmail.com
All positive regards,
Daryna Dementieva
On behalf of NLP4PI Workshop Organizers
Dear colleagues,
We invite you to participate in the Robust Word Sense Induction shared
task, which is organized as a part of CoNLL-2025 in Vienna (31.7 - 1. 8.
2025).
TASK OVERVIEW
The task focuses on unsupervised word sense induction without relying on
predefined sense inventories. Participants will receive sentences
containing target words and cluster them according to word sense usage.
What makes this task unique is the novel evaluation approach using
multi-annotated data and robust metrics that account for natural sense
ambiguity and provide a fairer evaluation compared to traditional
approaches.
The benchmark datasets will be available in English, Czech, German,
Spanish, Estonian and Chinese.
IMPORTANT DATES
30. 1. 2025 - Trial data available
15. 2. 2025 - Test data available, evaluation starts
15. 4. 2025 - Test phase ends
22. 4. 2025 - Submission of system description papers
31. 7. 2025 or 1. 8. 2025 - The CoNLL-2025 workshop at ACL 2025 in Vienna
For more information and participation instructions, please visit
https://projects.sketchengine.eu/conll2025/.
This shared task is organized by Ondřej Herman, Miloš Jakubíček, Pavel
Rychlý and Vojtěch Kovář at Lexical Computing and Masaryk University.
If you have any questions, please contact us at conll2025(a)sketchengine.eu.
Best regards,
The Shared Task Organizers
Dear colleagues
Happy New Year!
This is a reminder that the submission deadline for the international Corpus Linguistics conference 2025 (CL2025) is Friday 17th January.
The Call for Papers can be found on the CL2025 conference website: https://www.cl2025.co.uk/call-for-papers
CL2025 is co-organised by Aston University, Birmingham City University, and the University of Birmingham and will take place from Monday 30th June - Thursday 3rd July 2025 at Aston University<https://www.aston.ac.uk/>, preceded by a workshop day on Sunday 29th June (please note the minor amendment to the originally announced conference dates).
CL2025 welcomes submissions for paper presentations, poster presentations, thematic panels, and pre-conference workshops that engage in some way with the tools, methods, and techniques of corpus linguistics.
KEY DATES
* Submission deadline: 17th January 2025
* Notification of acceptance: 28th February 2025
* Early bird registration deadline: 2nd May 2025
* Conference dates: 30th June - 3rd July 2025
PLENARY SPEAKERS
* Laurence Anthony (Waseda University, Japan)
* Gavin Brookes (Lancaster University, UK)
* Elizabeth Hanks (Northern Arizona University, USA)
* Pascual Pérez-Paredes (University of Murcia, Spain)
* Anna Marchi (University of Bologna, Italy) & Charlotte Taylor (University of Sussex, UK)
For further information, please visit the conference website at www.cl2025.co.uk<http://www.cl2025.co.uk> or write to the CL2025 organising committee at corpuslinguistics2025(a)gmail.com<mailto:corpuslinguistics2025@gmail.com>.
Best wishes
Robbie Love
On behalf of the CL2025 Organising Committee:
Matt Gee (Birmingham City University), Andrew Kehoe (Birmingham City University), Joyce Lim (Aston University), Robbie Love (Aston University), Mark McGlashan (University of Liverpool), Akira Murakami (University of Birmingham), Paul Thompson (University of Birmingham)
Dr Robbie Love (he/him) BA (Hons), ma, phd, cdls, fhea
Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics
Programme Development Lead
Department of Communication and Culture
School of Law and Social Sciences
Aston University, Birmingham, UK
[Aston University]
Newsletter Editor, British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL)<https://www.baal.org.uk/>
Convenor, BAAL Corpus Linguistics Special Interest Group<https://baal-clsig.weebly.com/>
Organising Committee, Corpus Linguistics Conference 2025<https://www.cl2025.co.uk/>
Research profile: research.aston.ac.uk/en/persons/robbie-love<https://research.aston.ac.uk/en/persons/robbie-love>
Website: robbielove.org/<https://robbielove.org/>
Dear list members,
Happy New Year! We are thrilled to kick off 2025 with exciting news: the
publication of Volume 2 of the *Journal of Digital Islamicate Research* (
*JDIR*), a peer-reviewed journal published by *Brill*.
As the only journal dedicated to research in the field of digital
humanities related to the languages and cultures of the Arab and Islamic
world, *JDIR* offers a unique platform for groundbreaking scholarship in
this interdisciplinary domain.
I am honored to serve as co-editor-in-chief alongside my esteemed
colleague, Eid Mohamed. We invite you to explore the latest volume, which
you can access here (open access):
https://brill.com/view/journals/jdir/2/1-2/jdir.2.issue-1-2.xml
We welcome research paper submissions throughout the year via the Editorial
Manager on our website
<https://brill.com/view/journals/jdir/jdir-overview.xml?contents=editorialco…>.
If you are working on related topics, we encourage you to consider *JDIR* for
your next publication.
Wishing you all a year filled with inclusive practices in academia and
impactful contributions to the field.
Warm regards,
Mai Zaki
Co-Editor-in-Chief, *Journal of Digital Islamicate Research*