Third Call for Main Conference Papers (COLING 2025)
Important Dates
All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”).
Deadline for direct submissions September 16, 2024
Commitment deadline for ARR papers October 20, 2024
Author rebuttal phase (for direct submissions) October 30 - November 1, 2024
Notification of acceptance for COLING 2025 November 29, 2024
Tutorials and Workshops January 19-20, 2025
Main Conference January 21-24, 2025
Website: https://coling2025.org/calls/main_conference_papers/
---------- CFP:
The 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025) will take place in Abu Dhabi, UAE, January 19-24 2025. COLING 2025 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing.
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
Dialogue and Interactive Systems
Discourse and Pragmatics
Document Classification and Topic Modeling
Ethics, Bias, and Fairness
Information Extraction
Information Retrieval and Text Mining
Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP
Language Modeling
Language Resources and Evaluation
Linguistic Insights Derived using Computational Techniques
Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics
Low-Resource and Efficient Methods for NLP
Machine Learning for Computational Linguistics and NLP
Machine Translation and Translation Aids
Multilingualism and Language Diversity
Multimodal and Grounded Language Acquisition
NLP and LLM Applications (such as Education, Healthcare, Finance, Legal NLP, Computational Social Science, etc.)
Natural Language Generation
Offensive Speech Detection and Analysis
Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation
Question Answering
Lexical Semantics
Sentence-level Semantics (Textual Inference, Paraphrasing, etc)
Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, Opinion and Argument Mining
Speech Recognition and Synthesis, and Spoken Language Understanding
Summarization and Simplification
Syntactic analysis (Tagging, Chunking, Parsing)
Vision and Robotics
Papers targeting any of these topics from the perspective of the Sustainability Goals of the UN are especially welcome.
Submission Details
COLING 2025 invites the submission of long papers of up to eight pages and short papers of up to four pages. These page limits only apply to the main body of the paper. At the end of the paper (after the conclusions but before the references) papers need to include a mandatory section discussing the limitations of the work and, optionally, a section discussing ethical considerations. Papers can include unlimited pages of references and an unlimited appendix. Authors should follow the general instructions for COLING 2025 proceedings, which are an adaptation of the general instructions for *ACL proceedings.
To prepare your submission, please make sure to use the COLING 2025 style files available here:
LaTeX
Word
Overleaf
Papers deviating from the provided style files will be rejected without review.
COLING 2025 adopts the ACL Ethics Policy.
There are two routes for paper submission:
Direct submission
Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/coling2025/papers/
Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Authors will have the opportunity to provide a short rebuttal to clarify any misunderstandings. The review process will be double-blind. Reviewers will not see authors, authors will not see reviewers. Reviews and submissions will not be made publicly visible.
ACL Rolling Review (ARR) Papers
Papers which have already been reviewed through the ACL Rolling Review (ARR) system can be committed to COLING 2025. These papers will not be re-reviewed. Senior Area Chairs and Program Chairs will make acceptance decisions based on the ARR reviews and meta-reviews.
Optional Supplementary Materials: Appendices, Software and Data
Each COLING 2025 submission can be accompanied by a single .tgz or .zip archive containing supplementary materials, such as program code and datasets. COLING 2025 encourages the submission of such supplementary materials to improve the reproducibility of results. For the main track, the supplementary materials need to be fully anonymized to preserve the double-blind reviewing policy.
Additional information, such as preprocessing decisions, model parameters or proofs should be put into the appendix of the main PDF submission. Note that submissions need to remain fully self-contained. In particular, any details that are important for reviewers to assess the technical correctness of the work should be included in the main body of the paper.
Anonymity Period
COLING 2025 will follow the ACL Anonymity Policy. As a result, no anonymity period will be required, although authors are still cautioned against extensive advertising. The submissions themselves must still be fully anonymized.
Multiple Submission Policy
Papers which are submitted to COLING 2025 cannot be under review for other conferences or journals at the same time. The commitment process is treated as being under review for a conference. Authors can either commit their paper through ARR or directly submit it to the conference. Papers reviewed and committed to the conference through ARR cannot be submitted directly to the conference. 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. Submissions that violate these requirements will be desk rejected.
General chairs,
Owen Rambow, Stony Brook University
Leo Wanner, ICREA, Pompeu Fabra University
Program co-chairs
Marianna Apidianaki, University of Pennsylvania
Hend Al-Khalifa, King Saud University
Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois Chicago
Steven Schockaert, Cardiff University
For questions about submissions: coling2025-programchairs(a)googlegroups.com
<https://sites.google.com/view/crac2024/> CRAC 2024, the Seventh Workshop
on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference, will be held
at EMNLP 2024 <https://2024.emnlp.org/> in Miami on November 15, 2024.
Important dates
- Workshop papers due: September 1, 2024 (extended)
- ARR commitment date: September 22, 2024
- Notification of acceptance: September 24, 2024
- Camera-ready papers due: October 4, 2024
- Workshop date: November 15, 2024
About the workshop
The CRAC workshop is a forum for presenting work on all aspects of
computational work on anaphora resolution and annotation, including both
coreference and types of anaphora such as bridging reference resolution and
discourse deixis.
Since 2016, the annual CRAC <https://aclanthology.org/venues/crac/> (and
its predecessor, CORBON <https://aclanthology.org/venues/corbon/> ) workshop
has become the main forum for researchers interested in computational
modelling of reference, anaphora and coreference to discuss and publish
their results. Over the years, this workshop series has been held at major
NLP conferences and has successfully organised 7 shared tasks, which
stimulating interest in new problems in this research area, facilitating
discussion and dissemination of results on new problems/directions (e.g.
multimodal reference resolution).
Topics of interest
We are interested in your work on any aspect of theoretical or applied
computational work on anaphora/coreference resolution. Some suggested topics
include:
- Coreference resolution for less-researched languages
- Annotation and interpretation of anaphoric relations, including relations
other than identity coreference (e.g., bridging references)
- Investigation of difficult cases of anaphora and their resolution
- Coreference resolution in noisy data (e.g. in social media)
- New applications of coreference resolution
- <https://universalanaphora.github.io/UniversalAnaphora/> Universal
Anaphora
- CorefUD <https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/corefud>
CRAC 2024 Shared Task on Multilingual Coreference Resolution
The workshop will also present the results of our Shared Task on
Multilingual Coreference Resolution
<https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/corefud/crac24> , based on 17 coreference datasets
for 12 languages harmonized under a common CoNLL-U scheme.
Paper categories
- Research papers (theoretical computational linguistics,
empirical/data-driven approaches, paradigms/techniques/strategies, analysis
papers, resources and evaluation, negative result)
- Survey papers (surveys a popular or emerging area of anaphora/coreference
resolution)
- Position papers (presents one side of an arguable opinion about an issue)
- Challenge papers (a challenge to the field in terms of setting out a goal
for the next 5/10/20 years)
- Demo papers (systems, tools, visualizations)
- Extended abstracts (describe work in progress)
Double submission
We allow for double submissions. Please indicate at the time of submission
which other conference or workshop your work has been submitted to.
We also invite authors of papers accepted for the Findings of major
conferences (e.g. ACL, NAACL, EMNLP) to present their work at the workshop.
If these papers have been removed from the Findings, they may be included in
the workshop proceedings without further review.
Submission link
You can either submit your paper to SoftConf
<https://softconf.com/emnlp2024/CRAC2024/> (by the August 22 submission
deadline) or commit your ARR-reviewed paper to CRAC 2024 (by the September
22 commitment deadline). If you choose to commit your ARR-reviewed paper to
CRAC, the latest ARR cycle to which you need to submit your paper for review
is the June 2024 cycle.
All submissions must follow the *ACL formatting instructions
<https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html> . An Overleaf template
<https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/association-for-computational-ling
uistics-acl-conference/jvxskxpnznfj> is also available.
All other information
All other information can be found on the CRAC 2024 website
<https://sites.google.com/view/crac2024/> or by e-mailing the organizers
<mailto:maciej.ogrodniczuk@gmail.com> .
See you at CRAC 2024!
Maciej Ogrodniczuk
(on behalf of all the organizers: Vincent Ng, Sameer Pradhan, Anna
Nedoluzhko and Massimo Poesio)
I’m hope that Jakob is enjoying some vacation-time, however, my mailbox is quickly filling up.
Is there anything we can do to pause this spam?
All the best,
Daniel Varab
CALL FOR ONE DAY EVENT PROPOSALS
The Information Retrieval Specialist Group (IRSG) of the BCS invites proposals for the organisation of one day events supported by BCS. Proposals will be evaluated based on the organisational and financial plans and benefits to the Information Retrieval community.
IMPORTANT DATES
* Submission deadline for this round: 02-Aug-2024
* Notification: 16-Aug-2024
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Proposals should be in PDF and include the following:
* Title of the event
* Chairs and organisers
* Contact information
* A description of the event topic and its goals
* A statement on how the event complements or relates to other IR events
* Proposed venue
* Desired format, including preferred dates and duration, onsite or hybrid
* Outline of the program (including talks, breaks, and any social events)
* Potential (or accepted) speakers
* Publicity plans
* Funding plans and preliminary budget
Organisers of accepted events are expected to announce the event and call for speakers, solicit speakers, compose the program, and organise the event. Evaluation criteria include topic significance and timeliness, scientific quality, proposed organisation, level of interest, and synergy with other events.
Accepted events will be supported up to £1,000 and are expected to have a credible financial plan and budget. We anticipate holding further funding rounds in due course. Topics should be related to the theory and practice of information retrieval and interaction, such as:
* Topical issues in IR practice, e.g. trust, bias, and fairness
* Interdisciplinary topics, e.g IR and information science, data science, or user experience
* The use (and abuse) of large language models and other AI techniques
* Domain-specific or professional issues, e.g. in eCommerce, media, recruitment, library and information science, healthcare information, etc.
* Innovative approaches used in operational IR systems and products
Proposals and enquiries should be submitted via email to the IRSG Events Organiser and Chair (tgr2uk(a)gmail.com and Udo.Kruschwitz(a)ur.de) with "BCS One Day Event Proposal" in the email subject.
ABOUT THE IRSG
The IRSG is a Specialist Group of BCS. Its mission is to provide a focus for the European IR community, facilitate communication between researchers and practitioners and promote the adoption of IR research within industry. We host a major European conference (ECIR) and provide an associated programme of workshops, seminars and events. The IRSG provides access to further IR articles, events and resources. For how to join the IRSG please see http://irsg.bcs.org, or contact the membership secretary at h.liu(a)soton.ac.uk.
BCS is the industry body for IT professionals. With members in over 100 countries around the world, BCS is the leading professional and learned society in the field of computers and information systems.
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Dear Colleagues,
Please notice the deadline extension for the next NARNiHS Annual Meeting in
2025. There is still time to submit your abstract! We look forward to
seeing you in Philadelphia!
*Call for Abstracts*
*NARNiHS 2025North American Research Network in Historical
SociolinguisticsSeventh Annual Meeting*
*100% IN PERSONCo-Located with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
Annual Meeting*
*Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA9-12 January 2025*
We encourage our fellow historical sociolinguists and scholars from related
fields from our global scholarly community (in addition to North America)
to join us in Philadelphia for our Seventh Annual Meeting.
*NEW abstract submission deadline: Friday, 30 August 2024, 11:59 PM US
Eastern Time.*
Please see our call for abstracts below and send us your latest work in
historical sociolinguistics!
—————————— Call for Abstracts ——————————
The North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics
(NARNiHS) is accepting abstracts for its Seventh Annual Meeting
(NARNiHS 2025) in Philadelphia, Thursday, January 9 – Sunday, January 12,
2025.
*NEW! deadline for receipt of abstracts: Friday, 30 August 2024, 11:59 PM
US Eastern Time.*
NARNiHS welcomes abstracts in all areas of historical sociolinguistics,
which is understood as the application/development of sociolinguistic
theories, models, and methods for the study of historical language
variation and change over time, or more broadly, the study of the
interaction of language and society in historical periods and from
historical perspectives. Thus, a wide range of linguistic areas,
subdisciplines, and methodologies easily find their place within the field,
and we encourage submission of abstracts that reflect this broad scope.
Abstracts will be accepted for both 20-minute papers and posters. Please
note that, at the NARNiHS annual meeting, poster presentations are an
integral part of the conference (not second-tier presentations). Abstracts
will be assigned a paper or a poster presentation based on determinations
in the review process about the most effective format for the submission.
However, if you prefer that your submission be considered primarily for
poster presentation, please specify this in your abstract.
Abstracts will be evaluated on the following criteria:
● explicit discussion of which theoretical frameworks, methodological
protocols, and analytical strategies are being applied or critiqued;
● sufficient (if brief) presentation of data sources and examples to allow
reviewers a clear understanding of the scope and claims of the research;
● clear articulation of how the research advances knowledge in the field of
historical sociolinguistics.
Abstracts should also be anonymized to allow for blind peer review. Failure
to adhere to these criteria will significantly increase the likelihood of
non-acceptance (see also point (c) below).
General Requirements:
1) Abstracts must be submitted electronically, using the following link:
https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/NARNiHS_2025/
2) Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts: one single-author
abstract and one co-authored abstract.
3) Authors may not submit identical abstracts for presentation at
the NARNiHS meeting and at the LSA Annual Meeting or one of the other LSA
Sister Societies (ADS, ANS, NAAHoLS, SCiL, SPCL, SSILA).
4) Specify in the abstract if you prefer that your submission be considered
primarily for a poster presentation.
5) After an abstract has been submitted, no changes of author, title, or
wording of the abstract, other than those due to typographical errors, are
permitted. If accepted, authors will be contacted for a final version for
the abstract booklet.
6) Papers or posters must be delivered as projected in the abstract or
represent bona fide developments of the same research.
7) Authors are expected to attend the conference in-person and present
their own papers and posters. This will not be a hybrid event.
Abstract Format Guidelines:
a) Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format.
b) Abstracts must fit on one standard 8.5×11 inch page, with margins no
smaller than 1 inch and a font style and size no smaller than Times New
Roman 12 point. All additional content (visualizations, trees, tables,
figures, captions, examples, and references) must fit on a single (1)
additional page. No exceptions to these requirements are allowed.
c) Anonymize your abstract. We realize that sometimes it is not possible to
attain complete anonymity, but there is a difference between “inability to
anonymize completely” (due to the nature of the research) and “careless
non-anonymizing” (for example: “In Jones 2021, I describe…”). In addition,
be sure to anonymize your PDF file (you may do so in Adobe Acrobat Reader
by clicking on “File”, then “Properties”, removing your name if it appears
in the “Author” line of the “Description” tab, and re-saving before
submitting it). Please be aware that abstract file names might not be
automatically anonymized by the system; do not use your name (e.g.
Smith_Abstract.pdf) when saving your abstract in PDF format, rather, use
non-identifying information (e.g. HistSoc4Lyfe_NARNiHS.pdf). Your name
should only appear in the online form accompanying your abstract
submission. Papers that are not sufficiently anonymized wherever possible
(whether in the text of the abstract or in the metadata of the digital
file) risk being rejected.
Contact us at *NARNiHistSoc(a)gmail.com <NARNiHistSoc(a)gmail.com>* with any
questions.
Carolina Amador-Moreno (on behalf of the organising committee).
Call for System Demonstrations (COLING 2025) https://coling2025.org/calls/system_demonstrations/
Important Dates
All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”).
Submissions due September 30, 2024
Notifications November 21, 2024
Camera-ready (PDF) due December 1, 2024
Conference January 19-24, 2025
Invitation for Submission
The COLING 2025 Demonstration Program Committee invites proposals for system demonstrations, which can range from early prototypes to mature systems. The demonstration program is part of the main conference program and aims at showcasing working systems that address a wide range of conference topics. The session will provide opportunities to exchange ideas gained from the practical implementation of NLP systems and to obtain feedback from expert users.
All accepted demos are published in a companion volume of the conference proceedings. We expect at least one of the authors to present a live demo during a demo session at COLING 2025, with an accompanying poster.
COLING 2025 will be held in Abu Dhabi from January 19th to 24th, 2025.
The COLING conference has a history that dates back to the 1960s, and regularly attracts more than 700 delegates. The conference has developed into one of the premier Computational Linguistics (CL) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) conferences worldwide and is a major international event for the presentation of new research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad field of CL and NLP.
Topics of Interest
COLING 2025 solicits demonstrations on original and unpublished research on topics, including, but not limited to:
Dialogue and Interactive Systems
Discourse and Pragmatics
Document Classification and Topic Modeling
Ethics, Bias, and Fairness
Information Extraction
Information Retrieval and Text Mining
Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP
Language Modeling
Language Resources and Evaluation
Linguistic Insights Derived using Computational Techniques
Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics
Low-Resource and Efficient Methods for NLP
Machine Learning for Computational Linguistics and NLP
Machine Translation and Translation Aids
Multilingualism and Language Diversity
Multimodal and Grounded Language Acquisition
NLP and LLM Applications (such as Education, Healthcare, Finance, Legal NLP, Computational Social Science, etc.)
Natural Language Generation
Offensive Speech Detection and Analysis
Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation
Question Answering
Lexical Semantics
Sentence-level Semantics (Textual Inference, Paraphrasing, etc)
Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, Opinion and Argument Mining
Speech Recognition and Synthesis, and Spoken Language Understanding
Summarization and Simplification
Syntactic analysis (tagging, chunking, parsing)
Vision and Robotics
Papers targeting any of these topics from the perspective of the Sustainability Goals of the UN are especially welcome.
Submitted systems may be of the following types:
Natural Language Processing systems or system components
Application systems using language technology components
Software tools or API for computational linguistics research
Software for evaluating natural language processing systems
Software supporting learning or education
Tools for data visualization and annotation
Open-sourced large language models and their applications
Development tools
Please note: Commercial products and services are welcome; however, sales and marketing activities are not appropriate in the Demonstrations Program.
Submissions
The submissions should address the following questions:
What problem does the proposed system address?
Why is the system important and what is its impact?
What is the novel in the approach/technology on which this system is based?
Who is the target audience?
How does the system work?
How does it compare with existing systems?
How is the system licensed?
There are two parts to the submission, the paper and a video.
Paper
The maximum submission length is 6 pages, but with extra space for an optional ethics/broader impact statement (only necessary if you think you may want to preempt reviewer questions, given the conference’s ethics policy) and unlimited pages for references. Accepted papers will be given one additional page of content so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account.
Papers must be submitted in English and must conform to the official COLING 2025 templates available from the link below; the only acceptable format for submissions is PDF. Your paper does not need to be anonymous (see Reviewing Policy). Any papers that do not follow the official style guidelines and page limits will be automatically rejected.
Video
A short (max. 2 minutes) video demonstrating the system. This video will be used to evaluate the paper but won’t be published unless requested.
A screencast with audio narration is a natural choice for demos that can be presented on a screen. Otherwise, a video of a user interacting with the system can be used.
The production quality of the video is not of interest. Hence, we encourage the videos to be simply a screencast of the software that is getting demoed, with zero to minimal editing efforts.
We recommend that you publish your video to YouTube or another website and include the link in your paper. If you prefer not to publicly upload a screencast, please submit the video (in MP4 format) as supplementary material when you submit your paper.
How to Submit
Submission and reviewing will be managed in the START system: https://softconf.com/coling2025/demosCL25/
Ethics
COLING 2025 adopts the ACL Ethics Policy.
Multiple Submission Policy
Papers which are submitted to the COLING 2025 demo session cannot be under review for other conferences or journals at the same time, or for other tracks at COLING 2025 (e.g. the main session). 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. Submissions that violate these requirements will be desk rejected.
Reviewing Policy
Reviewing will be single-blind, so authors do not need to conceal their identity. The paper should include the authors’ names and affiliations. Self-references are also allowed. Relevant papers that meet formatting requirements will be assessed on the basis of their relevance to the demo track, contribution, clarity, completeness, and novelty.
Demo Session Chairs
Contact email: coling2025demos(a)googlegroups.com
Tilman Becker, Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics, and Cybernetics
Mark Dras, Macquarie University
Brodie Mather, Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition
*International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities*
September 5-6, 2024, Université Côte d'Azur, Nice, France
Dear all,
The 11th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora) will be held at the Université Côte d'Azur, Nice, France in collaboration with the Consortium CORpus, Langues et Interactions (CORLI) and the laboratory Bases, Corpus, Langage (BCL) of the Université Côte d'Azur...
... And registrations are available here: https://dr20.azur-colloque.fr/inscription/fr/194/inscription
We encourage you to register early to secure your spot and take advantage of early bird discounts - up until June 28th!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Warm regards,
The organizing committee:
Céline POUDAT (CORLI, BCL), Marie CHANDELIER (BCL), Mathilde GUERNUT (CORLI), Christophe PARISSE (CORLI), Minerva ROJAS (BCL), Simona RUGGIA (BCL)
Conference website: https://cmc-corpora-nice.sciencesconf.org/
Dear community,
Could you recommend any PhD programs in NLP, Responsible AI, or
Interpretability that can be taken *online*?
I have a very talented Master's student, Nazarii Drushchak
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/nazarii-drushchak-bb46781a7/>, who'd like to
pursue a PhD but cannot leave Ukraine due to the war.
Thanks in advance!
Kindest regards,
Mariana