The *8th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing
(ICNLSP 2025)* <https://www.icnlsp.org/2025welcome/> welcomes contributions
on both the *theoretical foundations and applied aspects of Natural
Language Processing (NLP) and Speech Processing*. The conference will
feature regular sessions, along with keynote talks delivered by
distinguished international researchers.
We invite authors to submit their work on topics relevant to *ICNLSP 2025*
<https://www.icnlsp.org/2025welcome/> and contribute to advancing research
in the field.
*The conference will be hybrid.*
Topics
(ICNLSP 2025) invites contributions on a wide range of topics, including
but not limited to:
-Natural Language Processing (NLP):
Cognition and NLP
Machine translation
Text categorization
Summarization
Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
Computational social web
Under-resourced languages: tools and corpora
Large language models (LLMs)
NLP tools for software requirements and engineering
Text annotation tools
Knowledge fundamentals and knowledge management systems
Information extraction
Data mining and information retrieval
Lexical semantics and knowledge representation
Visualization for nlp
-Speech Processing:
Signal processing and acoustic modeling
Speech recognition (architecture, search methods, lexical modeling,
language modeling, adaptation, multimodal systems, applications in
education and learning, zero-resource speech recognition, etc.)
Speech analysis
Paralinguistics in speech and language (perception of paralinguistic
phenomena, speaker states and traits analysis, etc.)
Spoken dialogue systems and conversational analysis
Speech translation
Speech synthesis
Speaker verification and identification
Language identification
Speech coding, enhancement, and intelligibility
Speech perception and production
Brain studies on speech
Phonetics, phonology, and prosody
Speech and hearing disorders
Paralinguistics of pathological speech and language
Speech technology for disordered speech and hearing
*Important dates*
All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”).
*Submission deadline:* May 25, 2025 11:59 PM (GMT).
*Notification of acceptance:* July 20, 2025.
*Camera-ready paper due:* August 3, 2025.
*Conference dates:* August 25-26, 2025.
*Publication*
1- *All accepted papers will be published in ACL Anthology
<https://aclanthology.org/>.*
*2- **Selected** papers will be published (after extension) in:* Signals
and Communication Technology (Springer), indexed in *Scopus*
<https://www.scopus.com/> and *zbMATH* <https://zbmath.org/>.
*Best paper award*
To recognize outstanding scientific contributions, *ICNLSP 2025* will
present two awards:
- *Best Full Paper Award*
- *Best Short Paper Award*
These awards will be judged by the *Scientific Committee*, based on
recommendations from the *Program Committee*. The selection process will
consider the *originality, significance, and quality* of the research, as
well as the clarity of presentation.
We look forward to honoring exceptional contributions to the field of *Natural
Language and Speech Processing*!
For more information check the conference website :
*icnlsp.org/2025welcome* <http://icnlsp.org/2025welcome>
Final Call for Participation for the 6th AfricaNLP WorkshopCall For Papers
The 6th AfricaNLP workshop (https://sites.google.com/view/africanlp2025/home)
will be co-located with ACL 2025 in Vienna, Austria. We invite your
submissions with a deadline of March 7, 2025 (AoE).
Submission Details
We welcome submissions in the following formats:
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Extended Abstracts (up to 2 pages): Non-archival submissions.
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Papers (4-8 pages): Authors can decide whether their submission is
archival or non-archival. We encourage longer papers (more than 4 pages) to
opt for archival submission.
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ARR Submissions: We accept papers previously submitted to ARR. Papers
must have been submitted to the ARR December 2024 cycle or an earlier cycle
and have received reviews and a metareview.
All submissions must not have been previously published in an archival
venue.
Formatting: Submissions must be anonymous and must follow the ACL template
(LaTeX and Word formats available). The Overleaf template is available at:
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/association-for-computational-ling…
Submission portal:
https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Workshop/AfricaNLP
<https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Workshop/AfricaNLP#tab-…>
Important Dates
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Submission Deadline: March 7, 2025 (AoE)
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Acceptance Notification: April 17, 2025 (AoE)
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Camera-ready Deadline: May 9, 2025 (AoE)
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Workshop Date: July 31 or August 1, 2025
About AfricaNLP 2025
The AfricaNLP workshop has become a core event for the African NLP
community and has drawn global attendance and interest for researchers
working on African languages, African corpora, and tasks with importance in
the African context.
In the current landscape, large language models (LLMs) have seen widespread
use and significant innovation, yet African languages remain
underrepresented. To address this disparity, the theme for the 2025
workshop is "Multilingual and Multicultural-aware LLMs." The workshop
aspires to bring together a diverse group of researchers to explore
solutions, collaborations, and innovation around enhancing LLMs’
capabilities in African languages and ensuring cultural awareness in their
applications.
This workshop has several aims:
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Engage diverse stakeholders: invite a variety of speakers from industry,
research networks and academia to get their perspectives on the state of
multilingual and multicultural-aware LLMs in African languages.
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Address challenges and opportunities: Provide a platform to discuss both
the potential benefits and risks of deploying LLMs in African contexts.
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Foster collaboration: Encourage interaction between academic, industry,
and independent researchers to advance NLP for the African continent.
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Bridge communities: Strengthen connections between the African
linguistics and NLP communities, highlighting the importance of linguistic
expertise for African languages.
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Showcase African NLP: Provide a platform for the African NLP community
to share their work with a global audience.
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Promote inclusivity and mentorship: Support junior researchers and
first-time authors through mentorship and engagement.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
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analyses of African languages by means of computational linguistics
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empirical studies reporting results from applying or adapting NLP
developed for high-resource languages to African languages
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new model architectures tailored for African languages
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new corpora for African languages
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using NLP techniques on African datasets
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text generation for African languages
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methods addressing out-of-domain generalization for NLP tasks with
training data in very limited domains
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transfer learning between African languages or from higher-resourced to
lower-resourced languages
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challenges or solutions for resource gathering for African NLP tasks
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crowd-sourcing and open-sourcing software for African NLP
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multidisciplinary and participatory research in African NLP
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tutorials for African NLP for education or development purposes
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new resources for African NLP
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development of NLP systems for African languages for production
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socio-linguistic research for African languages and their decolonization
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ethical considerations for African NLP
This workshop follows the previously successful editions in 2020-24. It
will be hybrid and co-located with ACL 2025.
Keynote Speakers
We are pleased to announce the following invited speakers:
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Sebastian Ruder (Meta)
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Muhammad Abdul-Mageed (UBC, MBZUAI)
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Jesujoba Alabi (Saarland University)
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Hellina Hailu Nigatu (UC Berkeley, MBZUAI)
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Joyce Nabende (Makerere University)
Contact
For any questions, please contact the workshop organizers at
africanlp-acl2025(a)googlegroups.com.
We look forward to your submissions and participation.
Best regards,
AfricaNLP 2025 Organizers
https://sites.google.com/view/africanlp2025/home
*Release of trial corpora* *!!*
****We apologize for multiple postings of this e-mail****
MentalRiskES2025 describes the third edition of a novel task on early risk
identification of mental disorders in Spanish comments from social media
sources. The first and the second editions took place in the IberLEF
evaluation forum as part of the SEPLN 2023 and SEPLN 2024. The task was
resolved as an online problem, that is, the participants had to detect a
potential risk as early as possible in a continuous stream of data.
Therefore, the performance not only depended on the accuracy of the systems
but also on how fast the problem is detected. These dynamics are reflected
in the design of the tasks and the metrics used to evaluate participants. For
this third edition, we propose two novel tasks, the first subtask is about
the detection of the gambling disorder and the second subtask consists of
detecting a type of Addiction.
We would like to invite you to participate in the following tasks:
1. Risk Detection of Gambling Disorders (Binary classification)
2. Type of Addiction Detection (Multiclass classification)
Find out more at https://sites.google.com/view/mentalriskes2025.
MentalRiskES 2025 is part of the IberLEF Workshop and will be held in
conjunction with the SEPLN 2025 conference in Zaragoza (Spain).
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Important Dates
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Feb 14th Registration open
*Feb 25th Release of trial corpora (trial server available)*
Mar 19th Release of training corpora
Mar 31st Registration closed
Apr 7th Release of test corpora and start of the evaluation
campaign (test server available and trial submissions closed)
Apr 14th End of evaluation campaign (deadline for submission
of runs)
Apr 18th Publication of official results and release of test
gold labels
May 12th Deadline for paper submission
May 30th Acceptance notification
Jun 16th Camera-ready submission deadline
Sep TBD Publication of proceedings
Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00
Please reach out to the organizers at MentalRiskEs@IberLEF2025.
The MentalRiskES 2025 organizing committee.
Dear all,
Please see the invitation below to our fortnightly meetings of Lancaster’s Open Research Group (in person and online).
Between #naturalism and #conventionalism:
1. How does language differ from a stone?
2. How does what a linguist does differ from what a geologist does?
Open research group meeting.
🕛 Today 12pm – 12.50pm
Everybody is welcome forms.office.com/e/YT5md2fjka
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
[cid:image001.jpg@01DB8836.EDE7BB00]@vaclavbrezina
[cid:image002.jpg@01DB8836.EDE7BB00]<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-social-sciences/about-us/people/vaclav-…>
Dear all,
We are excited to invite you to participate in our upcoming shared task, Software Mention Detection (SOMD) 2025 co-located with the SDP workshop, ACL 2025 in Vienna, Austria. This event is designed to encourage innovation and collaboration in the Information Extraction field, focusing on software mentioned in scholarly articles.
Task Overview:
Software plays an essential role in scientific research and is considered one of the crucial entity types in scholarly documents. However, the software is usually not cited formally in academic documents, resulting in various informal software mentions. Automatic identification and disambiguation of software mentions, related attributes, and the purpose of software mentions contributes to the better understanding, accessibility, and reproducibility of research but is a challenging task.
This competition invites participants to develop a system that detects software mentions and their attributes as named entities from scholarly texts and classifies the relationships between these entity pairs. The dataset includes sentences from full-text scholarly documents annotated with Named Entities and Relations.
Participation Details:
To participate, please register using this link [https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5840/].
All necessary materials, including detailed task guidelines and data, will be provided upon registration.
Competition Timeline Overview
• Competition Registration starts on February 24, 2025
• First phase: Training and Test Dataset release: February 28, 2025
• The first phase ends on: March 18, 2025
• Second phase data release: March 18, 2025
• The competition ends on: April 3, 2025
• Paper submission deadline: April 17, 2025
• Notification of Acceptance: May 1, 2025
• Camera-ready Paper Deadline for Workshop: May 16, 2025.
• Workshop Date: July 21-August 1, 2025
Successful entries will be featured in the Proceedings of the Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing (SDP).
For more detailed information about the task, including participation guidelines and data access, please visit our competition in codabench or our website and contact us directly.
Looking forward to your participation.
Warm Regards,
Sharmila Upadhyaya
FAIR Data
Knowledge Technologies for the Social Sciences (KTS)
Web: https://www.gesis.org/en/kts
GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8, D-50667 Cologne, Germany
Email: sharmila.upadhyaya(a)gesis.org
Phone: +49 (0221) 47694-725
The AmericasNLP 2025 Shared Task on machine translation metrics for Indigenous languages is a competition intended to motivate the advancement of automatic evaluation metrics for machine translation, with a focus on translation into Indigenous languages. Participants will build metrics to evaluate the quality of translations from Spanish into Guarani, Bribri, and Nahuatl.
Many Indigenous languages of the Americas have linguistic characteristics that are uncommon in the languages typically studied in natural language processing (NLP). For example, Indigenous languages can often be polysynthetic, and they frequently lack orthographic standardization, both of which pose challenges for, e.g., the widely used BLEU and ChrF scores. The goal of the AmericasNLP 2025 shared task on machine translation metrics for Indigenous languages is to encourage researchers to tackle the challenge of creating automatic evaluation metrics for MT systems with a focus on Indigenous languages.
Shared task description: https://turing.iimas.unam.mx/americasnlp/2025_st_3.html
Registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfmV9gyab03pGGzzDJ9DohOf9AkDaZf_94…
AmericasNLP will be held Albuquerque, New Mexico (NAACL 2025). The workshop date is May 4, 2025.
Thanks,
Ali, on behalf of the AmericasNLP team
*** Fourth Call for Papers ***
The 24th IFIP Conference e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society (I3E 2025)
September 9-11, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus
https://cyprusconferences.org/i3e2025/
(*** Proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS ***)
(*** Journal Special Issue with Springer's SN Computer Science ***)
Conference theme: “Pervasive digital services for people’s well-being,
inclusion and sustainable development”
OVERVIEW
Next-gen digital services contribute to people’s well-being, inclusion, and sustainable
development, re-shaping e-business, e-services, and e-society. Such services are pervasive
both since they run on a large variety of heterogeneous devices and they permeate various
aspects of daily life, by offering accessible and personalised experiences to all individuals. The
proposed theme advocates for the design, implementation and operations of novel digital
solutions that satisfy the needs of different individuals, while contributing to their well-being
and to preserving the Planet.
I3E 2025 will collect contributions about the creation and management of user-centric
accessible platforms, applications, and services that empower individuals to live healthier and
more fulfilling lives. The proposed theme aims at emphasizing how it is possible to leverage
different technologies to address pressing societal challenges such as, for instance, healthcare
access, education, poverty alleviation, sustainable usage of resources, and social equity,
towards a more inclusive and sustainable future.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Areas of particular interest include but are not limited to:
e-Business
• Innovative e-business models
• Inter-organizational systems
• Business process integration
• Business process re-engineering
• e-Marketplaces, e-Hubs and portals
• Digital goods and products
• User behaviour modeling
• Mobile business
• Enterprise application integration
• e-Negotiations, auctioning and contracting
• Supply, demand, and value chains
• e-Commerce content management
• Dynamic pricing models
• Trust and security
• Mobile Commerce
• Business Intelligence
• Business Ontologies and Models
• E-Business Models
e-Services
• e-Service composition
• Inter-organizational services
• e-Collaboration and e-Services
• Service-oriented computing
• Web services
• Semantic web services
• Service workflows
• Virtual organizations and coalitions
• Virtual enterprises and virtual markets
• Web 2.0 applications
• Agent-oriented e-Services
• P2P co-operation models
• Ubiquitous, mobile, and pervasive services
• Application service management
• Services and service management in the cloud-edge continuum
• Next-gen AI services
• Enterprise Ontologies
• Accessibility
• Usability
e-Society
• e-Government (e.g. G2G, G2B, or G2C)
• Digital cities and regions
• e-Democracy and e-Governance
• e-Inclusion to information society
• e-Health and e-Education
• Public e-Services for citizens and enterprises
• One-stop government service integration
• Mobile public services
• Multimedia and multilingualism
• Digital culture and digital divide
• Privacy and security
• Legal societal and cultural issues
• Public-private partnerships
• International dimension of e-Gov
• E-society and AI
• Digital Transformation
• Social Computing
• Green Computing
• Sustainable Technologies
• Humanitarian & Emergency Management
• Digital Inclusion
• Digital Literacy
SUBMISSION
Authors should submit original, unpublished research papers. All papers must not
simultaneously be submitted to another journal or conference. All accepted papers will be
published in the conference proceedings. Therefore, submissions should not be under
consideration for any other conference or journal outlet. Authors should consult Springer’s
authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates to prepare their papers
(https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…).
Authors can submit their proceedings articles using the EasyChair platform. Please use the
following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=i3e2025 .
Length of papers
The most common types of papers accepted for publication are full papers (12 pages) and
short papers (7 pages). We only wish to publish papers of significant scientific content.
Journal Special Issue
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended and revised version of their
paper (with at least 30% additional material) for fast-track review and publication in Springer's
SN Computer Science (https://link.springer.com/journal/42979).
IMPORTANT DATES
• Paper Submission: May 19, 2025 (AoE)
• Author Notification: June 23, 2025
• Camera-ready: June 30, 2025
• Author Registration: June 30, 2025
ORGANISATION
Conference Chair
• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus
Conference Co-Chairs
• Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Emerging Markets Research Centre (EMaRC)
• Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus
• Matti Mäntymäki, University of Turku
• Ilias Pappas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• Marinos Themistocleous, University of Nicosia
Program Co-Chairs
• Achilleas Achilleos, Frederick University of Cyprus
• Stefano Forti, University of Pisa
• Angelika Kokkinaki, University of Nicosia
Apologies for cross-posting
We are pleased to announce the Model Compression track
<https://iwslt.org/2025/model-compression> at IWSLT 2025
<https://iwslt.org/2025/> (22nd International Conference on Spoken Language
Translation, in conjunction with ACL 2025 <https://2025.aclweb.org/>).
Motivation
Text and speech foundation models have revolutionized many natural language
processing tasks, including speech-to-text translation. However, their
large size and high computational demands present significant challenges
for real-world deployment, particularly in resource-constrained
environments such as mobile devices, embedded systems, and edge computing.
Reducing the size of large, general-purpose models while preserving—or even
enhancing—their performance in specific tasks or language settings is
essential for making them more efficient, accessible, and sustainable.
The Task in a Nutshell
The Model Compression track evaluates participants’ ability to apply model
compression techniques to a large multilingual speech-to-text model, the
need for accessibility and deployment feasibility with the requirement for
good performance in speech-to-text translation. Participants are invited to
apply pruning, quantization, distillation, or other compression techniques
to optimize Qwen2-Audio <https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2-Audio-7B> (8.2B
parameters, 16GB storage) for English-German and English-Chinese speech
translation.
Submissions and Evaluation
Submissions under either of the two allowed data conditions (constrained or
unconstrained, depending on the datasets used to support the model
compression process) will be categorized into five compression bins,
ranging from less than 200MB to 4GB of storage demand, and evaluated based
on model size and COMET <https://huggingface.co/Unbabel/wmt22-comet-da>
translation scores. Multiple submissions are allowed, with human evaluation
conducted for the top-performing models.
Guidelines, details, and contact information
For submission guidelines and further details, please visit the IWSLT 2025
Model Compression track web page <https://iwslt.org/2025/model-compression>
or contact us at iwslt_offline_task_submission(a)fbk.eu.
Conference Information
IWSLT 2025 will be co-located with ACL 2025 <https://2025.aclweb.org/>,
taking place from 31 July to 1 August 2025 in Vienna, Austria.
Important Dates
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Test set release: April 1, 2025
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Submission of system outputs: April 15, 2025
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System description paper submission deadline: April 21, 2025
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Camera-ready deadline: June 1, 2025
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IWSLT conference in Vienna: July 31 – August 1, 2025
Best regards,
Matteo Negri (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)
On behalf of the IWSLT 2025 Model Compression track organizers:
Marco Gaido (FBK), Marco Turchi (Zoom), Sebastian Stüker (Zoom), Jan
Niehues (KIT)
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Dear all,
On Thursday 27th Feb 11am-12pm UK time, we are running another one of our webinars, introducing Lancaster University's online programmes (MA, PG Certificate, short courses for credit) in Corpus Linguistics.
This time, we will be also demonstrating the use of specialised software tools for the analysis of corpora (#LancsBox X and Lancaster Stats Tools online).
Join us on Thursday by filling in this form (a link to a Teams meeting will be sent to you automatically)
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
[cid:image001.jpg@01DB8766.513C93A0]@vaclavbrezina
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Dear all,
Pls read the CfP below and share with your academic networks.
*Call for Papers – Journal of Digital Islamicate Research (JDIR)*
*Issue: July 2025 | Submission Deadline: April 1, 2025*
The *Journal of Digital Islamicate Research* (JDIR) invites scholars,
researchers, and practitioners to submit original contributions for its
upcoming issue, scheduled for publication in July 2025. As a peer-reviewed
journal, JDIR is dedicated to advancing the intersection of Digital
Humanities (DH) and Islamicate Studies, fostering innovative computational,
analytical, and theoretical approaches to the study of Middle Eastern and
Islamicate cultures—both past and present.
We particularly welcome interdisciplinary and methodologically diverse
studies that integrate Cultural Analytics, Natural Language Processing
(NLP), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Geographic Information Systems (GIS),
visualization techniques, and other digital methodologies to examine the
rich textual, visual, and material culture of the Islamicate world. We are
especially interested in expanding our focus to include literary, artistic,
and cultural production within the Islamicate world, encouraging
contributions that explore how digital tools transform the study of
Islamicate literature, aesthetic practices, media, and performance cultures
across different historical periods and geographic regions.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Computational and Quantitative Analyses of Islamicate Texts
(Arabic, Persian, Ottoman Turkish, Urdu, and other Middle Eastern
languages)
- Digital Methods in the Study of Islamicate Literature and Poetics
- Visualization and Big Data Approaches to Islamicate Cultural Heritage
- Applications of AI, NLP, and Machine Learning in Middle Eastern
Digital Humanities
- Corpus Linguistics and Stylometric Studies of Islamicate Writing
Traditions
- Islamicate Digital Archives, Repositories, and Text Encoding
Initiatives
- Non-Muslim Literary and Cultural Traditions in Islamicate Contexts
(e.g., Geniza research, Judeo-Arabic, Syriac, Armenian, Persianate
Jewish texts)
- Digital Approaches to Islamic Manuscripts, Calligraphy, and Epigraphy
- Mapping and GIS Analysis of Islamicate History and Cultural Networks
- Computational Studies of Islamic Art, Architecture, and Visual Culture
- Digital Media and Islamicate Popular Culture: Film, Music, and
Performance in Digital Contexts
- Islamicate Digital-Born and Digitally-Reformatted Materials in the
Contemporary World
- Ethical Considerations in Digital Humanities and Islamicate Knowledge
Production
The *Journal of Digital Islamicate Research* accepts manuscripts in *English
and Arabic*. Submissions should be made via the *Editorial Manager* on the
journal website
<https://brill.com/view/journals/jdir/jdir-overview.xml?contents=editorialco…>
.
For inquiries or further information, please contact: jdir(a)brill.com
We look forward to your contributions in shaping this exciting issue!
Mai Zaki
Co-editor in Chief
Journal of Digital Islamicate Research