We have had several requests to extend the submission deadline and we have decided to extend the deadline to the 30th of June 2025.
Submission Link: https://openreview.net/group?id=IWCS/2025/Workshop/CxGs_NLP
Please see details below:
We’re thrilled to see such strong interest in the second iteration of the CxG + NLP workshop, which will be held as part of IWCS. With three exciting keynote speakers confirmed (Prof Adele Goldberg, Prof Thomas Hoffmann, Prof Laura A. Michaelis), we’re looking forward to what promises to be a very engaging event.
The first workshop took place shortly after the release of ChatGPT. Now, two years on, the field has evolved dramatically with the rise of generative AI and the development of new large language models (LLMs). These developments make it all the more important to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss the evolving landscape of CxG and NLP. In addition, in the time since the first workshop, there has been significant growth in the community’s interest at this intersection, and we believe it is the ideal moment to have a second iteration where we take stock of these recent developments.
We warmly invite your submissions to the workshop, and would like to remind you of the key dates:
30th of June 2025 (Extended) – Submission deadline
August 1 – Notification of acceptance, registration opens
August 22 – Camera-ready papers due
September 22–23 – IWCS main conference
September 24 – Workshop
September 25 – Community-building event
For more details, please visit the workshop website or get in touch with us: https://sites.google.com/view/2ndcxgsnlpworkshop/home
Bonn Talks on Research Trends in Applied Linguistics - Does AI language
processing align with human processing? (Prof. Scott Crossley,
Vanderbilt University, USA)
June 26, 12.15 pm - 1.45 pm CEST
Hybrid talk - Sign up under:
https://uni-bonn.zoom-x.de/meeting/register/SlGzaF2LTrux4HE06KmdvA
Abstract: This talk will provide an overview of the architecture that
underpins modern AI language models including n-gram language models,
word embedding models, and modern transformer models. These models will
be examined for alignment with theories of human language processing.
The talk will also focus on how AI models recreate classical language
processing pipelines associated with computational linguistics and
language processing.
Prof. Dr. Robert Fuchs | Head of Department and Professor of English
Linguistics | Department of English, American and Celtic Studies |
University of Bonn | Rabinstr. 8 53113 Bonn, Germany |
https://uni-bonn.academia.edu/RFuchs |
https://www.iaak.uni-bonn.de/bael/en/people/chair/prof-dr-robert-fuchs |
https://sites.google.com/view/rflinguistics/
*Recent publications:*
Coats, S., Basile, A., Morin, C. & Fuchs, R. (to appear). *The YouTube
Corpus of Singapore English Podcasts*. /English World-Wide/
Fuchs, R. et al. (to appear). *Non-standard morphosyntactic variation in
L2 English varieties world-wide: A corpus-based study
<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024384125000737>*.
/Lingua/.
Fuchs, R., Wiltshire, C. & Sarmah, P. (to appear). *The role of English
in the linguistic ecology of Northeast India
<https://www.academia.edu/125365118/The_role_of_English_in_the_linguistic_ec…>*.
In P. Siemund, et al. (Eds.), /World Englishes in their Local
Multilingual Ecologies/. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Lange, C., & Fuchs, R. (to appear). *English in India*. In R. Hickey &
K. Burridge (Eds.), /New Cambridge History of the English Language/.
Cambridge: CUP.
Fuchs, R. (2025). *Influencing people around the globe - The linguistic
expression of persuasion across varieties of English worldwide*
<https://www.academia.edu/107491904/Influencing_people_around_the_globe_The_…>.
In D. Dayter, & S. Rüdiger (Eds.), /Manipulation, Influence, and
Deception: The Changing Landscape of Persuasive Language/, 135-156.
Cambridge: CUP.
Bonn Talks on Research Trends in Applied Linguistics - Exploring the
learner lexicon through NLP Approaches (Prof. Scott Crossley, Vanderbilt
University, USA)
June 27, 2.15 pm – 3.45 pm CEST
Hybrid talk - Sign up under:
https://uni-bonn.zoom-x.de/meeting/register/nuoiB3N7Q7qx-ZNKwOm5Hw
Abstract:This talk and its subsequent workshop will explore lexical
properties in the English language and methods to automatically
calculate lexical features. The follow-up workshop will focus on
introducing natural language processing tools for lexical studies and
how they can be used to assess language learner data in a large corpus
collected in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) setting. Data
analysis techniques and hands-on data exploration will provide practical
applications using learner corpora.
Prof. Dr. Robert Fuchs | Head of Department and Professor of English
Linguistics | Department of English, American and Celtic Studies |
University of Bonn | Rabinstr. 8 53113 Bonn, Germany |
https://uni-bonn.academia.edu/RFuchs |
https://www.iaak.uni-bonn.de/bael/en/people/chair/prof-dr-robert-fuchs |
https://sites.google.com/view/rflinguistics/
*Recent publications:*
Coats, S., Basile, A., Morin, C. & Fuchs, R. (to appear). *The YouTube
Corpus of Singapore English Podcasts*. /English World-Wide/
Fuchs, R. et al. (to appear). *Non-standard morphosyntactic variation in
L2 English varieties world-wide: A corpus-based study
<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024384125000737>*.
/Lingua/.
Fuchs, R., Wiltshire, C. & Sarmah, P. (to appear). *The role of English
in the linguistic ecology of Northeast India
<https://www.academia.edu/125365118/The_role_of_English_in_the_linguistic_ec…>*.
In P. Siemund, et al. (Eds.), /World Englishes in their Local
Multilingual Ecologies/. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Lange, C., & Fuchs, R. (to appear). *English in India*. In R. Hickey &
K. Burridge (Eds.), /New Cambridge History of the English Language/.
Cambridge: CUP.
Fuchs, R. (2025). *Influencing people around the globe - The linguistic
expression of persuasion across varieties of English worldwide*
<https://www.academia.edu/107491904/Influencing_people_around_the_globe_The_…>.
In D. Dayter, & S. Rüdiger (Eds.), /Manipulation, Influence, and
Deception: The Changing Landscape of Persuasive Language/, 135-156.
Cambridge: CUP.
The UKP Lab at the Department of Computer Science, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany, is looking for a
*** fully funded researcher (PhD or Postdoc)***
for an interdisciplinary project on Agentic LLMs. The project’s goal is to support writing and grading complex documents in education and beyond. You will work at the intersection of Natural Language Processing and agentic AI reasoning and planning embedded in a real-life product-level user-facing platform.
🔗 More information:
https://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukp/ukp_home/jobs_ukp/2025_phd_agent…
📩 Apply here:
https://careers.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukprecruitment
📅 Application deadline: July 11th, 2025
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Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
UKP Lab
Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/
*apologies for cross-postings*
=== Workshop SIR ===
First Workshop on Semantics for Interdisciplinary Research
SIR@IXCS2025 - Düsseldorf - September 24 2025
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https://team.inria.fr/semagramme/first-workshop-on-semantics-for-interdisci…https://openreview.net/group?id=inria.fr/INRIA/S%C3%A9magramme/2025/SIR01
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In recent years, Natural Language Processing (NLP) has increasingly intersected with the humanities and social sciences, offering new methodologies for analyzing textual data, interpreting meaning, and modelling language-based phenomena. The potential for multi-disciplinary research using NLP methods is particularly great in computational semantics (CS), as its ability to process and represent meaning opens up innovative pathways for researchers in history, philosophy, literary studies, political science, etc. This workshop aims to explore how semantic models and tools can be leveraged to tackle traditional and emerging questions in the Humanities in a broader sense (Social Sciences, Law, Economics, Management, Literature, Languages, Art, …).
A major theme of SIR is the role of semantics in NLP applied to the humanities (both statistical and symbolic approaches).
=== Topics to Explore ===
• CS and the humanities: issues, tools and applications
• Quantitative and qualitative approaches as a breakthrough in the Humanities
• NLP transforming humanities issues
• Contributions and limitations for understanding meaning
• Links between formal semantics and neural models
• Ambiguity, polyphony and interpretation in the Humanities
• Ethics and bias in semantic modelling
• Interdisciplinary dialogue between AI, NLP and Humanities
=== Dates ===
• Deadline : July 14th (anywhere on earth)
• Notification : August 25th (anywhere on earth)
• Camera Ready : September 10th (anywhere on earth)
• Workshop : September 24th (anywhere on earth)
=== Submission Information ===
Papers should describe original research and must not exceed 4 pages (with an extra page in the camera ready version for accepted papers). Papers should be submitted no later than 14 July 2025 (anywhere on earth).
Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings in the ACL Anthology. For inclusion in the proceedings, at least one author must register to the conference and present the paper in person.
Submissions should be fully anonymous to ensure double-blind reviewing.
=== Submission ===
https://openreview.net/group?id=inria.fr/INRIA/S%C3%A9magramme/2025/SIR01
=== Style Files ===
The workshop follow the IWCS 2025 template see the workshop web page.
=== Organizers ===
Maxime Amblard, Université de Lorraine
Ellen Breitholtz, Gothenburg University
=== Contact ===
maxime.amblard(a)univ-lorraine.fr and ellen.breitholtz(a)ling.gu.se
***Apologies for cross-posting ***
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CLEF 2026
Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum
Jena, Germany, September 21-24, 2026
https://clef2026.clef-initiative.eu/ <http://clef2022.clef-initiative.eu>
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Call for Lab Proposals
Background
The CLEF Initiative <http://www.clef-initiative.eu/>is a self-organised
body whose main mission is to promote research, innovation, and
development of information access systems with an emphasis on
multilingual information in different modalities - including text and
multimedia - with various levels of structure. CLEF promotes research
and development by providing an infrastructure for:
1.
Independent evaluation of information access systems
2.
Investigation of the use of unstructured, semi-structured,
highly-structured, and semantically enriched data in information access
3.
Creation of reusable test collections for benchmarking
4.
Exploration of new evaluation methodologies and innovative ways of
using experimental data
5.
Discussion of results, comparison of approaches, exchange of ideas,
and transfer of knowledge
Scope of CLEF Labs
We invite submission of proposals for two types of labs:
1.
"Campaign-style" Evaluation Labs for specific information access
problems (during the twelve months period preceding the conference),
similar in nature to the traditional CLEF campaign "tracks". Topics
covered by campaign-style labs can be inspired by any information
access-related domain or task.
2.
Labs that follow a more classical "workshop" pattern, exploring
evaluation methodology, metrics, processes, etc. in information
access and closely related fields, such as natural language
processing, machine translation, and human-computer interaction.
We highly recommend organisers new to the CLEF format of shared task
evaluation campaigns to first consider organising a lab workshop to
discuss the format of their proposed task, the problem space and
practicalities of the shared task. The CLEF 2026 programme will reserve
about half of the conference schedule for lab sessions.
During the conference, the lab organisers will present their overall
results in overview presentations during the plenary scientific paper
sessions to give non-participants insights into where the research
frontiers are moving. Lab organisers are expected to organise separate
sessions for their lab with ample time for general discussion and
engagement with all participants - not just those presenting campaign
results and papers. Organisers should plan time in their sessions for
activities such as panels, demos, poster sessions, etc. as appropriate.
CLEF is always interested in receiving and facilitating innovative lab
proposals.
Potential task proposers unsure of the suitability of their task
proposal or its format for inclusion at CLEF are encouraged to contact
the CLEF 2026 Lab Organizing Committee Chairs to discuss its suitability
or design at an early stage.
Proposal Submission
Lab proposals must provide sufficient information to judge the
relevance, timeliness, scientific quality, benefits for the research
community, and the competence of the proposers to coordinate the lab.
Each lab proposal should identify one or more organisers as responsible
for ensuring the timely execution of the lab. Proposals should be 3 to 4
pageslong and should provide the following information:
1.
Title of the proposed lab.
2.
A brief description of the lab topic and goals, its relevance to
CLEF and the significance for the field.
3.
A brief and clear statement on usage scenarios and domain to which
the activity is intended to contribute, including the evaluation
setup and metrics.
4.
Details on the lab organiser(s), including identifying the task
chair(s) responsible for ensuring the running of the task. This
should include details of any previous involvement in organising or
participating in evaluation tasks at CLEF or similar campaigns.
5.
The planned format of the lab, i.e., campaign-style (“track”) or
workshop.
6.
Is the lab a continuation of an activity from previous year(s) or a
new activity?
1.
For activities continued from previous year(s): Statistics from
previous years (number of participants/runs for each task), a
clear statement on why another edition is needed, an explicit
listing of the changes proposed, and a discussion of lessons to
be learned or insights to be made.
2.
For new activities: A statement on why a new evaluation campaign
is needed and how the community would benefit from the activity.
7.
Details of the expected target audience, i.e., who do you expect to
participate in the task(s), and how do you propose to reach them.
8.
Brief details of tasks to be carried out in the lab. The proposal
should clearly motivate the need for each of the proposed tasks and
provide evidence of its capability of attracting enough
participation. The dataset which will be adopted by the Lab needs to
be described and motivated in the perspective of the goals of the
Labs; also indications on how the dataset will be shared are useful.
It is fine for a lab to have a single task, but labs often contain
multiple closely related tasks, needing a strong motivation for more
than 3 tasks, to avoid useless fragmentation.
9.
Expected length of the lab session at the conference: half-day, one
day, two days. This should include high-level details of planned
structure of the session, e.g. participant presentations, invited
speaker(s), panels, etc., to justify the requested session length.
10.
Arrangements for the organisation of the lab campaign: who will be
responsible for activities within the task; how will data be
acquired or created, what tools or methods will be used, e.g., how
will necessary queries be created or relevance assessment carried
out; any other information which is relevant to the conduct of your lab.
11.
If the lab proposes to set up a steering committee to oversee and
advise its activities, include names, addresses, and homepage links
of people you propose to be involved.
Lab proposals must be submitted via EasyChair. The link will be
distributed, once EasyChair is set up.
Review Process
Each proposal submitted by 14 July 2025will be reviewed by the CLEF 2026
Lab Organising Committee. The acceptance decision will be sent by email
to the responsible organiser by 4 Aug 2025. The final length of the lab
session at the conference will be determined based on the overall
organisation of the conference and the number of participant submissions
received by a lab.
Advertising Labs at CLEF 2025 and ECIR 2026
Organisers of accepted labs are expected to advertise their labs at both
CLEF 2025 (September 9-12, 2025, Madrid, Spain) and ECIR 2026 (March 29
- April 2, 2026, Delft, Netherlands). So, at least one lab
representative should attend these events.
Advertising at CLEF 2025 will consist of displaying a poster describing
the new lab and advertising/announcing it during the closing session.
Advertising at ECIR 2026 will consist of submitting a lab description
(abstract submission deadline TBA by ECIR) to be included in ECIR 2026
proceedings and advertising the lab in a booster session during ECIR 2026.
Lab Proposals from Newcomers
If you have not organised a lab before, do not panic! The CLEF 2026 Lab
Organising Committee Lab is willing to mentor you by offering help,
guidance, and feedback on the writing of your draft lab proposal.
If you are a newcomer interested in receiving guidance, please send an
e-mail with the following tag in the subject “[Mentorship CLEF 2026 Lab
Proposals]” to Sean.MacAvaney at glasgow.ac.uk and julia.struss at
fh-potsdam.de
We also encourage newcomers to refer toFriedberg et al. (2015)
<https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004…>for
initial guidance on preparing their proposal:
Friedberg I, Wass MN, Mooney SD, Radivojac P. Ten simple rules for a
community computational challenge. PLoS Comput Biol. 2015 Apr
23;11(4):e1004150.
Important Dates
*
14 July 2025:Hard deadline to submit proposal to Easychair
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4 August 2025:Notification of lab acceptance
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9-12 September 2025:Advertising Accepted Labs at CLEF 2025, Madrid,
Spain
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October 2025 (TBA by ECIR):Submission of short lab description for
ECIR 2026
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April 2026:Advertising labs at ECIR 2026, Delft, Netherlands
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April-May:Lab evaluation cycle
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May-June:Review process of participant papers
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June 2026:Review of the condensed labs overviews
*
July 2026:CEUR-WS Working Notes Preview for Checking by Authors and
Lab Organisers
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21-24 September, 2026:Labs at CLEF 2026
CLEF 2026 Lab Chairs
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Julia Maria Struß, Fachhochschule Potsdam University of Applied Sciences
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Sean MacAvaney, University of Glasgow
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Fachhochschule Potsdam
University of Applied Sciences
Fachbereich Informationswissenschaften
Kiepenheuerallee 5
14469 Potsdam
Telefon: +49 331 580 4532
Zoom:https://fh-potsdam.zoom-x.de/my/juliamstruss
10th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2025)
LxGr2025 will be held online on Friday 11 and Saturday 12 July 2025.
Symposium programme and registration (free): https://ehu.ac.uk/lxgr
If you have problems registering, or have any questions, please contact lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>.
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*** First Call for Papers ***
The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent
Systems (AAMAS 2026)
May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus
https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/
We invite you to submit your best work in agents and multiagent systems to AAMAS 2026, the
25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, to be held in
Paphos, Cyprus in May 2026.
All submissions will be rigorously peer-reviewed and evaluated on the basis of the overall
quality of their technical contribution, taking into account criteria such as originality,
significance, soundness, reproducibility, clarity, relevance to the conference, quality of
presentation, as well as understanding and appropriate referencing of the state of the art. The
papers will be published under CC BY license.
Important Dates
• Abstract submission: October 1, 2025
• Paper submission: October 8, 2025
• Rebuttal period: November 21-25, 2025
• Author notification: December 22, 2025
• Camera-ready paper: February 11, 2026
• Conference: May 25-29, 2026
All deadlines are at the end of the specified day, anywhere on Earth (UTC-12).
For submission instructions, please see here:
https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/submission-instructions/
Areas of Interest
We welcome the submission of technical papers describing significant and original research on
all aspects of the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. If you are
new to this community, then we encourage you to consult the proceedings of previous editions
of the conference to fully appreciate the scope of AAMAS. At the time of submission, you will be
asked to associate your paper with one of the following areas of interest:
• Learning and Adaptation (LEARN)
• Generative and Agentic AI (GAAI)
• Game Theory and Economic Paradigms (GTEP)
• Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics (COINE)
• Search, Optimization, Planning, and Scheduling (SOPS)
• Representation, and Reasoning (RR)
• Engineering and Analysis of Multiagent Systems (EMAS)
• Modeling and Simulation of Societies (SIM)
• Human-Agent Interaction (HAI)
• Robotics and Control (ROBOT)
• Innovative Applications (IA)
More information on these areas and the topics covered can be found here:
https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-papers-main-track/
Special Tracks
In addition to the main track, AAMAS 2026 will feature five special tracks (AAAI Track, JAAMAS
Track, Blue Sky Ideas Track, Demo Track, and Competitions Track), as well as the Doctoral
Consortium.
The AAAI Track welcomes AAAI-25 submissions rejected from the main AAAI track that are
relevant to the AAMAS research community and received no reject review recommendations (all
review scores are weak reject or above).
The JAAMAS Track offers authors of papers recently published in the Journal of Autonomous
Agents and Multiagent Systems (JAAMAS) that have not previously appeared as full papers in an
archival conference the opportunity to present their work at AAMAS 2026.
The focus of the Blue Sky Ideas Track is on visionary ideas, long-term challenges, new
research opportunities, and controversial debate.
The Demo Track allows participants from both academia and industry to showcase their latest
developments in agent-based and robotic systems.
The Competitions Track is an effective mechanism for motivating researchers to enhance
discussions, share knowledge, and boost the development and evaluation of theory and
practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems.
Finally, AAMAS invites PhD students working in the research areas covered by AAMAS to take
part in the Doctoral Consortium (DC). The DC is an opportunity to interact closely with
established researchers in your field as well as other PhD students to receive feedback on your
work and to get advice on managing your career.
The calls for each track above and for the Doctoral Consortium are available on the AAMAS
2026 web site.
Organizing Committee
AAMAS 2026 General Chairs
• Viviana Mascardi, University of Genova, Italy
• John Thangarajah, RMIT University, Australia
AAMAS 2026 Program Chairs
• Chris Amato, Northeastern University, United States of America
• Louise Dennis, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
AAMAS 2026 Local Chairs
• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Chair)
• Panayiotis Kolios, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Vice Chair)
If you have additional questions, please contact the Program Chairs using
aamas2026pcs(a)gmail.com .
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the SymGenAI4Sci Workshop on Symbolic and Generative AI for Science, taking place as part of SEMANtiCS 2025 in Vienna, Austria, from September 3–5, 2025 (hybrid format).
Workshop Theme
SymGenAI4Sci brings together researchers working at the intersection of generative AI and symbolic methods to advance scientific reasoning, experimentation, and knowledge structuring. The goal is to explore hybrid approaches that combine the flexibility of generative models with the precision and explainability of symbolic AI in scientific applications.
Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to):
- Generative AI tailored to scientific domains (e.g., text, tables, workflows)
- Integration of symbolic reasoning with deep learning
- Ontologies, schema induction, and structured knowledge generation
- Human-in-the-loop and agentic AI for scientific research
- Evaluation frameworks for scientific reliability and factuality
- Applications in scientific discovery, data curation, or experimentation
Important Dates
Submission deadline: July 20, 2025
Workshop date: September 3–5, 2025
Location: Vienna, Austria & Online
More information and submission guidelines: https://sga4s.semantic.foundation/
We warmly invite researchers from NLP, AI, knowledge representation, and the sciences to submit their work and join the conversation on developing more grounded, explainable, and scientifically useful AI systems.
Best regards,
The SymGenAI4Sci 2025 Organizing Committee
https://sga4s.semantic.foundation
7th Workshop on Natural Legal Language Processing (NLLP 2025)
8 November 2025, Suzhou, China (collocated with EMNLP 2025)
Website: http://nllpw.org/workshop
Twitter: @nllpworkshop
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/nllpworkshop.bsky.social
Contact: nllp.chairs(a)gmail.com<mailto:nllp.chairs@gmail.com>
= Important Dates =
Submission deadline ― 26 August 2025
Submission of EMNLP papers with reviews and ARR commitment ― 2 September 2025
Notification for direct submissions, ARR and EMNLP papers ― 30 September 2025
Camera ready due ― 7 October 2025
Workshop ― 8 November 2025
All deadlines are 11.59pm UTC -12h
Submission website: https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2025/Workshop/NLLP
For the full text: https://nllpw.org/workshop/call/
= Goal =
Following the success of the first six editions of the NLLP workshop (EMNLP 2021 - 2024, KDD 2020, NAACL 2019), the workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on NLP, LLMs and other AI fields with legal practitioners and researchers.We welcome submissions describing original work on legal data, as well as data with legal relevance.= Topics =Applications of NLP methods to tasks in the legal domain including, but not limited to:
• Case outcome analysis and prediction
• Summarization and analysis of long-form and complex legal documents
• Information extraction
• Contract drafting
• Chatbots and assistants for legal or negotiation support
• Legal analysis and commentary
• Legal argumentation analysis
• Legal reasoning
• Information retrieval and question-answering (incl. retrieval-augmented generation)
• Detection and mitigation of legal misinformation
• Copyright and intellectual property law applications, incl. infringement detection, licensing compliance, generative content auditing
• Agentic applications for conducting tasks in the legal domain
Methods for applying Large Language Models (LLMs) to the legal domain including, but not limited to:
• Adaptation of LLMs to the legal domain
• Prompt engineering and prompt chaining
• Composite methods using symbolic or rule-based reasoning
• Groundedness and attributability of generations
• Privacy and bias risks in legal LLM applications
• Copyright compliance, dataset provenance and transparency and fair use analysis in LLM training and usage
Methodological innovations for legal tasks including, but not limited to:
• Classification
• Summarization and generation
• Information extraction incl. entity recognition, disambiguation, event extraction, query understanding, anonymization, data extraction, knowledge base population
• Question answering incl. retrieval-augmented generation
• Information retrieval incl. sparse, dense or hybrid approaches
• Multi-modal document parsing incl. using structured, semi-structured and metadata (e.g. tables, charts, images)
• Clustering, clause similarity and topic modeling
• Link and citation prediction
• Causal inference and counterfactual reasoning for legal decision-making
• Conversational agents incl. conversational question answering, contract analysis and review, negotiation support agents or multi-agent coordination
• Planning and reasoning
Tasks, Resources and Evaluation for NLP in the Legal domain:
• Description of new tasks for NLP in the legal domain e.g. legal argument reasoning, legal QA attribution
• Task overviews and survey papers that identify current research gaps
• Dataset development for LLM benchmarking for legal applications
• Publicly available datasets curated and annotated by legal experts
• Methods for automatic evaluation of LLM performance on legal domains
NLP for Online Platforms, Social Media and Regulations:
• Detection and moderation of illegal content (e.g. harassment, defamation)
• NLP for platform compliance under regulatory regimes (e.g. Data Services Act, AI Act, etc.)
• Legal transparency tooling for platform decisions (e.g. Statement of Reasons analysis)
• Misinformation and disinformation detection with legal implications
• Online dispute resolution, appeals and access to justice via social platforms
• Legal evidence mining from user-generated content and public discourse
• Legal implications of chatbots and agents operating in or for social media platforms
• NLP aided analysis of Terms of Services and platform policies
Systems, Demos and Industry Applications
• System descriptions of real-world legal NLP systems
• Industry applications in legal tech or compliance
• NLP systems for legal professionals such as E-Discovery, contract review, risk assessment.
• Open or proprietary NLP tools for citizens, lawyers, courts, or regulators
Interdisciplinary position papers on topics including, but not limited to:
• Legal or socio-legal analyses relating to the role NLP in the legal domain
• Ethical, legal and regulatory aspects of data collection and LLM use in the legal domain
• Critical reflections about the benefits and challenges with using NLP technologies in the legal domain
• The role of NLP in Access to Justice and Digital Legal Empowerment
• The role of NLP in platform governance and content moderation including legal, regulatory and ethical aspects of automated moderation, accountability under emerging platform regulations (e.g., DSA, DMA, AI Act) and impacts on freedom of expression and access to justice
• Legal and ethical challenges of NLP in the context of copyright and IP
= Submissions =We accept papers reporting original (unpublished) research of two types:
• Long papers (max 8 pages of content)
• Short papers (max 4 pages of content)
Appendices, references, optional limitations section, optional ethics section and acknowledgements do not count against the maximum page limit and should be formatted according to the guidelines below.
To submit a paper, please access the submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2025/Workshop/NLLP
Conference proceedings will be published on the ACL Anthology.
= Ethics Section =
The NLLP workshop adheres to the same standards regarding ethics as the EMNLP 2025 conference (link). Authors will be allowed extra space after the 8th page (4th for short papers) for an optional broader impact statement or other discussion of ethics. Note that an ethical considerations section is not required, but papers working with sensitive data or on sensitive tasks that do not discuss these issues will not be accepted.= Non-archival Option =The authors have the option of submitting previously unpublished research as non-archival, meaning that only the abstract will be published in the conference proceedings. We expect these submissions to describe the same quality of work as archival submissions. These will be reviewed following the same procedure as archival submissions. This option accommodates publication of the work or a superset at a later date in a conference or journal which does not allow previously archived work and to encourage presentation and feedback on mature, yet unpublished work. Non-archival submissions should adhere to the same formatting and length constraints as archival submissions.
= Dual Submission and Preprint Policy =
Papers that are under consideration at other workshops, conferences or journals during the review period must explicitly indicate so at submission time. Authors of papers accepted for presentation at the NLLP 2025 workshop must notify the organizers by the camera-ready deadline as to whether the paper will be published or withdrawn.
There is no anonymity period or limitation on posting or discussing non-anonymous preprints while the work is under peer review. However, if the preliminary version of a paper was posted on arXiv, the paper should *not* have a self-reference to it in the submission.
= ACL Rolling Review Submissions =
Our workshop also welcomes submissions from ACL Rolling Review (ARR). Authors of any papers that are submitted to ARR and have their meta review ready may submit their papers and reviews for consideration for the workshop until 2 September 2025. This should include submissions to ARR for the May deadline. The decision of publication will be announced by 7 October 2025. The commitment should be done via the workshop submission website: https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2025/Workshop/NLLP_ARR_Commitment
= EMNLP 2025 Submissions =
Authors of any papers that have been reviewed for EMNLP 2025 and were rejected have the opportunity to send their paper and reviews to be considered for publication in the NLLP workshop proceedings as long as the topics are relevant to those described in this call for papers.
The deadline for submitting papers and reviews is 2 September 2025. The decision of publication will be announced by 7 October 2025. The submission should be done via the workshop submission website: https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2025/Workshop/NLLP_ARR_Commitment
= Double-Blind Reviewing =
The review process is double-blind and should follow the ARR guidelines on ensuring two-way anonymized review available here. Papers that violate these requirements will be desk rejected.
= Submission Style & Format Guidelines =
Paper submissions must use the official ACL style templates, which are available here (Latex and Word). Please follow the paper formatting guidelines general to “*ACL” conferences available here. Authors may not modify these style files or use templates designed for other conferences.Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review.
= Presentation=
Presentation format for each paper and schedule will be announced between acceptance notification and the camera-ready deadline.At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the NLLP 2025 workshop by the registration deadline in order for the submission to be published in the proceedings.
=Organizing Commitee=
Nikolaos Aletras - University of Sheffield
Leslie Barrett ― Bloomberg
Ilias Chalkidis - University of Copenhagen
Catalina Goanta - Utrecht University
Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro - Bloomberg
Gerasimos (Jerry) Spanakis - Maastricht University