Third Call for Research & Innovation Papers
SEMANTiCS 2025 EU
21st International Conference on Semantic Systems
Vienna, Austria
September 3 - 5, 2025
Important Dates:
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*Abstract Submission Deadline: April 25 , 2025*
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*Paper Submission Deadline: May 2, 2025*
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*Notification of Acceptance: June 13, 2025*
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*Camera-Ready Paper Deadline: July 04, 2025*
*All deadlines are set for 11:59 pm, Anywhere On Earth time (UTC-12)*
*Submissions will be through Easychair and the submission link will be
provided soon.*
Proceedings of SEMANTiCS 2025 EU will be made available *open access*.
Research and Innovation Track
The SEMANTiCS 2025 conference is excited to invite submissions for the
Research and Innovation Track, welcoming groundbreaking research
contributions, innovative solutions, and experimental studies relevant to
the Semantic Web, Semantic Technologies, and AI-enabled semantics. We also
encourage submissions at the intersections of these fields with other
scientific and applied disciplines, fostering cross-disciplinary exchange
and advancement. Papers should present original work that has not been
published or is not under consideration elsewhere. All submissions must
adhere to the submission guidelines, including reference formatting and any
additional documentation as required. Each submission will undergo a
rigorous review process, with at least three independent reviews,
evaluating the novelty, technical quality, reproducibility, and practical
relevance of the work.
Topics of Interest
SEMANTiCS 2025 calls for submissions of high-quality research papers across
a broad spectrum of topics in Semantic Web, Semantic Technologies, and AI.
We are particularly interested in new and emerging trends, especially where
semantic technologies intersect with evolving fields such as large language
models, explainable AI, and trustworthy data infrastructures. Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to:
- Web Semantics & Linked (Open) Data
- Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management
- Machine Learning Techniques for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g.
reinforcement learning, deep learning, data mining and knowledge discovery)
- Generative AI and Knowledge Graphs (e.g., Retrieval-Augmented
Generation (RAG) with knowledge graph integration, generative model
grounding)
- Reasoning, Rules, and Policies on RAG
- Knowledge Engineering and Management (e.g., knowledge acquisition,
extraction, integration, and publication workflows)
- Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management, Ontology engineering
- Web agents
- Natural Language Processing for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. entity
linking and resolution using target knowledge such as Wikidata and DBpedia,
foundation models)
- Crowdsourcing for/using Knowledge Graphs
- Data Quality Management and Assurance
- Mathematical and Logical Foundations of Knowledge-aware AI
- Multimodal Knowledge Graphs (e.g., text, image, audio fusion in graph
structures)
- Semantic-Enhanced Data Science Pipelines and Processes
- Semantics in Blockchain environments (e.g., traceability,
decentralized knowledge representation)
- Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies
- Internet of Things (IoT), Stream Processing, and Temporal Data
Management (e.g., real-time semantic processing and predictive analytics)
- Conversational AI and Dialogue Systems powered by Knowledge Graphs
- Provenance and Data Change Tracking (e.g., semantic versioning, data
updates in distributed settings)
- Semantic Interoperability (e.g., cross-domain standards, mapping
frameworks, ontology alignment)
- Linked Data storage, triple stores, graph databases
- Robust, Scalable, and Fault-Tolerant Semantic Data Systems (e.g.,
distributed querying, optimization)
- User Interfaces and Usability of Semantic Technologies (e.g.,
visualizations, intelligent user interaction)
- Explainable and Interoperable AI
- Decentralised and Federated Knowledge Graphs (e.g., federated
querying, link traversal)
Applied Semantic Technologies and AI in Real-World Scenarios, such as, but
not limited to:
- Biomedicine and Health (e.g., Knowledge Graphs for biomedical
applications, AI-driven diagnostics, personalized health)
- AI for Environmental and Climate Solutions (e.g., semantic modeling
for environmental impact, biodiversity knowledge graphs)
- Scientific Knowledge Graphs and Open Science (e.g., FAIR data
principles, enhanced scholarly communication)
- Semantic Technologies in GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and
Museums)
- Knowledge Graphs and Hybrid AI for Industry 4.0/5.0 and Predictive
Maintenance
- Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage Preservation
- Legal Technology, AI Ethics, and Regulatory Compliance (e.g., AI and
legal frameworks, semantic-enabled compliance with the EU AI Act)
- Economics and Governance of Data Ecosystems (e.g., data marketplaces,
semantic service interoperability, data policy)
Submissions will be through Easychair. Stay tuned for the submission link.
For *Submission Guidelines* and * Review and Evaluation Criteria* please
head to the online call for papers:
*https://2025-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_rev_rep*
<https://2025-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_rev_rep>.
We would highly appreciate it if you could disseminate this call within
your network.
*We look forward to receiving your contributions!*
Research and Innovation Track Chairs
Blerina Spahiu (University of Milano-Bicocca, IT)
Mehdi Ali (Lamarr Institute & Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany)
Kind Regards,
On behalf of the organising committee.
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Dr. Kossi Amouzouvi
ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig, TU Dresden
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*SEM2025: The 14th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, Suzhou, China. (Co-located with EMNLP)
https://starsem2025.github.io/
First Call for Papers
*SEM brings together researchers interested in the semantics of natural languages and its computational modelling. The conference embraces a wide range of approaches including data-driven, neural, probabilistic and symbolic; practical applications as well as theoretical contributions are welcome. The long-term goal of *SEM is to provide a forum for NLP researchers working on any aspect of natural language semantics.
*SEM invites submissions related to the computational modelling of natural language semantics (understood broadly) and its application. Relevant areas include (but are not limited to) theoretical aspects of computational semantics, empirical and data-driven approaches, resources, evaluation and applications/tools.
*SEM encourages authors to consider ethical aspects of their work, and to address and discuss ethical questions and implications relevant to their research. *SEM also values reproducibility and particularly welcomes submissions that adhere to the reproducibility guidelines as specified here<https://folk.idi.ntnu.no/odderik/reproducibility_guidelines.pdf>.
Submission Instructions
Submissions must describe unpublished work and be written in English. We solicit both long and short papers. Long papers describe original research and may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. Appendices are allowed after the references, but the paper should be self-contained and reviewers will not be required to check the appendices, if any. Final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Short papers describe original focused research and may consist of up to four (4) pages, plus unlimited pages for references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings. Authors are encouraged to use this additional page to address reviewers comments in their final versions.
Limitations and Ethics Statement sections are allowed and encouraged, but are not mandatory. These sections should be placed after the conclusion and will not count towards the overall page limit.
Submissions should follow the ARR formatting requirements<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>.
Submission routes and deadlines
*SEM solicits both direct submissions and ACL Rolling Review (ARR) commitments. The deadline for direct submissions is May 30, 2025, and these submissions will be reviewed by the *SEM2025 program committee. ACL Rolling Review (ARR) submissions can be committed to *SEM up to August 22, 2025 (authors of ARR-reviewed papers need to include their OpenReview link with reviews in the submission form). Both types of submissions are made through OpenReview.
Direct submission link:
https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/StarSEM/2025/Conference<https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/StarSEM/2025/Conference>
Multiple submission policy: *SEM does not prohibit the submission of work that is under consideration for another venue at the same time as the *SEM review period. However, authors of such papers will be asked to declare this at submission time.
Important Dates
(All deadlines are 11:59pm UTC-12h, AoE)
Direct submission deadline (long & short papers): May 30, 2025
ARR-reviewed submission deadline (long & short papers): August 22, 2025
Notification of acceptance: September 5, 2025
Camera-ready deadline: September 26, 2025
Conference date: TBA (co-located with EMNLP 2025)
Following ACL and ARR policies<https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/report-acl-committee-anonymity-policy>, there is no anonymity period requirement.
Kemal Kurniawan | Research Fellow | (he/him) PhD
School of Computing and Information Systems | Faculty of Engineering and IT
Level 4, Melbourne Connect, 700 Swanston St
The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia
E: kurniawan.k(a)unimelb.edu.au<mailto:kurniawan.k@unimelb.edu.au>
We invite paper submissions to the 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH), which will take place on August 1 at ACL 2025.
Website: https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp.html
Important Dates
* Submission due: April 18, 2025
* ARR reviewed submission due: May 20, 2025
* Notification of acceptance: May 30, 2025
* Camera-ready papers due: June 13, 2025
* Workshop: August 1st, 2025
Overview
Digital technologies have brought significant benefits to society, transforming how people connect, communicate, and interact. However, these same technologies have also enabled the widespread dissemination and amplification of abusive and harmful content, such as hate speech, harassment, and misinformation. Given the sheer volume of content shared online, addressing abuse and harm at scale requires the use of computational tools. Yet, detecting and moderating online abuse remains a complex task, fraught with technical, social, legal, and ethical challenges.
The 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) invites paper submissions from a diverse range of fields, including but not limited to natural language processing, machine learning, computational social science, law, political science, psychology, sociology, and cultural studies. We explicitly encourage interdisciplinary research, technical and non-technical contributions, and submissions that focus on under-resourced languages. Non-archival papers and civil society reports are also welcome.
Topics covered by WOAH include, but are not limited to:
* New models or methods for detecting abusive and harmful online content, including misinformation;
* Biases and limitations in existing detection models or datasets for abusive and harmful content, especially those in commercial use;
* Development of new datasets and taxonomies for online abuse and harms;
* Novel evaluation metrics and procedures for detecting harmful content;
* Analyses of the dynamics of online abuse, its propagation, and its impact on different communities;
* Social, legal, and ethical considerations in detecting, monitoring, and moderating online abuse.
Special Theme: Harms Beyond Hate Speech
In its 9th edition, WOAH highlights the theme Harms Beyond Hate Speech. We aim to expand the conversation beyond conventional definitions of harmful content by exploring the nuanced ways online harms manifest—such as technologically mediated inauthentic behavior, the power of technologies to reshape perceptions and opinions, and their potential to incite discrimination, hostility, violence, or even genocide. Additionally, we emphasize the diverse targets affected by such harms and the unique considerations computational interventions demand.
To facilitate this exploration, we invite NLP researchers, social scientists, cultural scholars, and practitioners to engage with key issues, including child sexual abuse material, radicalization, misinformation, platform policies, security, and the politics of computational approaches. By fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, our goal is to deepen understanding of these complex phenomena and advance effective, ethical solutions
Submission
Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system.
Submission link: https://softconf.com/acl2025/woah2025/
The workshop will accept three types of papers:
1) Academic Papers (long and short): Long papers of up to 8 pages, excluding references, and short papers of up to 4 pages, excluding references. Unlimited pages for references and appendices. Accepted papers will be given an additional page of content to address reviewer comments. Previously published papers cannot be accepted.
2) Non-Archival Submissions: Up to 2 pages, excluding references, to summarise and showcase in-progress work and work published elsewhere.
3) Civil Society Reports: Non-archival submissions, with a minimum of 2 pages and no upper limit. Can include work published elsewhere.
All submissions must use the official ACL style files<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. All submissions should adhere to the workshop policies https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/policies.html.
WOAH Community
We are excited to share the WOAH community Slack channel — a workspace for researchers interested in or working on understanding and addressing online abuse and harms!
Join us here: https://join.slack.com/t/hatespeechdet-47d7560/shared_invite/zt-2a8d96j4z-g…
Contact Info
Please send any questions about the workshop to organizers(a)workshopononlineabuse.com<mailto:organizers@workshopononlineabuse.com>
Organisers
Agostina Calabrese, University of Edinburgh
Christine de Kock, University of Melbourne
Debora Nozza, Bocconi University
Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Bocconi University
Zeerak Talat, University of Edinburgh
Francielle Vargas, University of São Paulo
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Dear all,
As part of our webinar series introducing MA and PG Cert programmes in Corpus Linguistics at Lancaster University, we offer a talk focused on applications of the corpus methodology "Corpus-based discourse analysis and the digital humanities"
2 April 2-3pm UK time.
Register: https://forms.office.com/e/uppRBrE5AF
Best,
Vaclav
Professor Vaclav Brezina
Professor in Corpus Linguistics
Department of Linguistics and English Language
ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University
Lancaster, LA1 4YD
Office: County South, room C05
T: +44 (0)1524 510828
@vaclavbrezina
Call for Papers: The 19th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XIX)
We invite submissions for LAW-XIX, co-located with ACL 2025 in Vienna,
Austria, in July/Aug 2025.
The LAW-XIX will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of
innovative research on all aspects of linguistic annotation, including
creation/evaluation of annotation schemes, methods for automatic and
manual annotation, use and evaluation of annotation software and
frameworks, representation of linguistic data and annotations,
semi-supervised “human in the loop” methods of annotation,
crowd-sourcing approaches, and more.
Special Theme
The special theme of LAW-XIX is "*Subjectivity and variation in
linguistic annotations*". In addition to LAW's general topics, we
specifically invite submissions on:
* Subjectivity and human label variation in linguistic annotations
* Learning from annotation disagreements
* Detecting annotation noise in human label variation
* Accounting for subjectivity in label aggregation
* Ways to aggregate multiple annotators' labels beyond majority vote
* Any other topics related to the special theme.
Regarding subjectivity, we are particularly interested in work
addressing the*annotation of multidimensional constructs from the
political and social sciences* and encourage submissions on the
following topics:
* Theory-driven operationalization of complex political or
socio-psychological constructs,
* such as populism, moral values, or stereotypes Creation of
linguistically annotated datasets that capture such constructs
* Relation between theories and textual annotations
* Challenges for the measurement of multidimensional constructs from text
* Challenges for validating (a) theories, (b) annotations
* Implications and risks for manual annotation and automatic
prediction of socio-psychological constructs from text.
Important Dates
All submission deadlines are 11:59 p.m. UTC-12:00 “anywhere on Earth.”
Workshop papers due (ARR Commitment) Mar 25, 2025
Workshop papers due (Direct Submission) April 04, 2025
Notification of acceptance May 16, 2025
Camera-ready papers due May 30, 2025
Workshop date July/Aug, 2025
Submissions
Please submit your paper here: https://softconf.com/acl2025/law2025
For more information on the workshop and submission formats, please
refer to the workshop homepage:
https://sigann.github.io/LAW-XIX-2025
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the program
co-chairs at law2025workshop(a)gmail.com.
Workshop Organizers
Siyao (Logan) Peng (Program Co-Chair)
Ines Rehbein (Program Co-Chair)
Amir Zeldes (ACL SIGANN President)
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Ines Rehbein
Data and Web Science Group
University of Mannheim, Germany
The eighth workshop on Universal Dependencies
Part of SyntaxFest 2025, Ljubljana, August 26-29
Call for Papers
Universal Dependencies (UD) is a framework for cross-linguistically
consistent treebank annotation that has so far been applied to over 150
languages (https://universaldependencies.org
<https://universaldependencies.org/>). The framework is aiming to
capture similarities as well as idiosyncrasies among typologically
different languages (e.g., morphologically rich languages, pro-drop
languages, and languages featuring clitic doubling). The goal in
developing UD was not only to support comparative evaluation and
cross-lingual learning but also to facilitate multilingual natural
language processing and enable comparative linguistic studies.
The Universal Dependencies Workshop series was started to create a forum
for discussion of the theory and practice of UD, its use in research and
development, and its future goals and challenges. Some of the previous
workshops have been co-located with Coling, EMNLP, and SyntaxFest. We
invite papers on all topics relevant to UD, including but not limited to:
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Theoretical foundations and universal guidelines
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Linguistic analysis of specific languages and/or constructions
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Language typology and linguistic universals
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Treebank annotation, conversion and validation
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Word segmentation, morphological tagging and syntactic parsing
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The use of the UD data for evaluating or understanding language models
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Linguistic studies based on the UD data
Priority will be given to papers that adopt a cross-lingual perspective.
SyntaxFest 2025
https://syntaxfest.github.io/syntaxfest25/index.html
SyntaxFest is a biennial event that brings together a series of events
focusing on topics such as empirical syntax, linguistic annotation,
statistical language analysis, and natural language processing. Apart
from the 8th UDW, it hosts TLT, DepLing, IWPT, and Quasy. Each workshop
publishes its own proceedings, but all events follow a shared submission
process, timeline, and programme. The UniDive 1st Shared Task on
Morphosyntactic Parsing takes place on Aug, 26.
Important Dates
Paper submission DeadlineApril 15, 2025
Notification of acceptanceJune 2, 2025
Camera-ready version dueJune 16, 2025
Conference datesAugust 26-29, 2025
Submission Information
Submission site and paper requirements will be provided in the next CfP
Workshop Chairs
Gosse Bouma (University of Groningen) Cagri Coltekin (University of
Tübingen)
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Gosse Bouma, Communication and Information Science, Groningen University, P.o. box 716, 9700 AS Groningen
G.Bouma(a)rug.nl tel. +31-50-3635937
Dear Colleagues,
In response to multiple requests, we are pleased to announce an extension for abstract submissions to the Learner Corpus Research Graduate Conference 2025, organized under the aegis of the Learner Corpus Association. The revised submission deadline is April 25, 2025.
LCRGrad25 will be hosted by the Chair of English and Digital Linguistics, Chemnitz University of Technology, and will take place virtually on 22-23-24 October 2025.
The main aim of the conference, as in the previous editions, is to offer a space for MA and PhD students as well as researchers who have earned their doctoral degree in the last two years prior to the conference to discuss their (ongoing) projects. Researchers who already hold a doctoral degree are welcome and strongly encouraged to attend as panelists, mentors or non-presenting delegates, helping to ensure a fruitful academic dialogue and to foster the careers of graduate students and recent graduates within the field of Learner Corpus Research.
The central theme of this year’s conference is “The Pattern Beneath”. This theme celebrates the unique role of learner corpus research in uncovering the underlying structures and patterns of learner language through LCR. It emphasizes the field’s potential to provide insights into second language acquisition, linguistic development, and the intricacies of language use in educational contexts.
We invite submissions across a range of formats to foster diverse discussions and engagement:
• Papers (20-minute presentation): Original, completed research with substantial findings.
• Work-in-Progress Paper (15-minute presentation): Presentation of ongoing research for feedback, collaborative discussions and ideas for improvement.
• Workshops or Software Demonstrations (45-60 minutes): Hands-on, interactive sessions or demonstrations of corpus tools or technologies.
• Roundtable Discussions (45 minutes): Topic proposals for collaborative and in-depth discussions among participants are welcome.
• Panel Proposals (90 minutes): A panel with 3–4 speakers ideally made up of supervisors/senior researchers and graduate students on one of the sub-themes of LCRGrad25.
• Posters: Completed research or works-in-progress in a visually engaging format. Digital posters are to be submitted with a short video (max. 3 minutes) prior to the start of the conference. The videos will be made available throughout the conference for asynchronous comments and questions.
The call for papers and abstract submission guidelines can be found on the conference website: https://lcrgrad2025.tu-chemnitz.de
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Prof. Dr. Randi Reppen: Professor Emerita of Applied Linguistics and TESL at Northern Arizona University
Prof. Dr. Michaela Mahlberg: Professor of Digital Humanities, Alexander-von-Humboldt Professor at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Dr. Dana Gablasova: Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University
IMPORTANT DATES
25.04.2025 Abstract submission deadline
10.06.25 Notification of acceptance
15.06.25 Presenter registration deadline
Additional highlights of LCRGrad25:
- Registration is free of charge for all participants.
- Sessions will be hosted on Zoom, ensuring accessibility for participants world-wide.
- To accommodate participants from various time zones, the conference will adopt a flexible and inclusive schedule.
- Ask-Me-Anything Panels and Research Consultation Clinics with leading experts.
- Interactive sessions connecting Early Career Researchers and Senior Academics.
- Awards and recognitions for best paper and best poster.
- Soft skills workshops: Hands-on sessions to enhance skills like publishing, career planning, data visualization, and networking.
We look forward to your participation in this exciting virtual gathering.
Best,
Cansu Akan
English and Digital Linguistics
Chemnitz University of Technology (TU Chemnitz)
Call for Nominations for the 2025 Test-of-Time (ToT) Paper Awards
The ACL is pleased to open the call for nominations for the 2025
Test-of-Time
(ToT) paper awards.
In 2025, the ToT paper awards will honor up to four influential papers
from
ACL events from 25 and 10 years ago, namely, up to two papers from 2000
ACL
events and up to two papers from 2015 ACL events.
ACL ToT papers should describe research that has had a long-lasting
influence
on the field. That is, they should have had a significant impact on a
subarea
of CL, across subareas of CL, or outside of the CL research community.
They
may have proposed new research directions and new technologies, or
released
results and resources that have greatly benefited the community.
All nominations will be evaluated by the Test-of-Time paper award
nomination
committee to decide the winners. The winners will be honored at ACL
2025.
Please enter your nomination via the following form:
https://forms.gle/5CspmZ8zRhQQKnma9 [1]
The deadline for nominations is April 8th.
- Multiple nominations by the same nominator are allowed
- Self-nominations are allowed
- ACL workshops from the appropriate years are included in the eligible
venues.
For any further information, please contact us.
Best wishes,
Yuki Arase (ACL conference officer)
Yue Zhang (ToT paper award nomination committee co-chair)
Joyce Chai (ToT paper award nomination committee co-chair)
Michael Strube (ToT paper award nomination committee co-chair)
Read more:
https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/call-nominations-2025-test-time-tot-p…
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