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Slav-NLP:10thWorkshoponNLP for Slavic languages + Shared Task on Persuasion Techniques
At ACL-2025, Vienna, Austria
*31 July 2025*
http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/
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WORKSHOPDESCRIPTION
The 10th edition of the Slav-NLP Workshop — at ACL 2025. Sponsored by SIGSLAV: ACL Special Interest Group on Slavic NLP.
Slavic languages play a crucial role due to their diverse cultural heritage and wide use — over 400M speakers worldwide. Current political and economic developments in Central/ Eastern Europe thrust the Slavic languages into sharp focus, especially in light of rapid technological advancements, and evolving consumer markets.
Research on applied **and ***theoretical*NLP in the context of Slavic languages is still lagging. Linguistic phenomena that are common to the Slavic languages — rich morphology, free word order, etc. — make NLP for these languages challenging. Slav-NLP Workshops gather researchers from academia and industry, aiming to stimulate research in Slavic NLP, and foster the creation of tools and resources. The Workshops welcome the exchange of ideas and experience, discussing current challenges, and promoting the available resources. The structural similarity, as well as the easily recognizable core vocabulary and inflectional inventory spanning this large language group, creates a special environment where researchers can appreciate the shared problems and communicate naturally.
We are happy *again *to organize Slav-NLP in Central Europe.
This Workshop addresses Natural Language Processing (NLP) for the Slavic languages. NLP tasks in urgent need of attention include:
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language modeling,
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morphological, syntactic and semantic analysis,
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lexical semantics,
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named-entity recognition,
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text normalization and processing non-standard language,
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co-reference resolution,
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information extraction,
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question answering,
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text summarization,
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machine translation,
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development of linguistic resources,
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development and assessment of large language models,
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text classification,
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text generation,
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disinformation detection,
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fact verification,
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sentiment analysis.
The Workshop continues the proud tradition established by the previous (B)SNLP Workshops.
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SHARED TASK
This year the Slav-NLP Workshop features — Shared Task on Detection and Classification of Persuasion Techniques— in two types of text: (a) parliamentary debateson highly-contested topics, and (b) social media postsrelated to the spread of propaganda and disinformation.
Information about the Shared Task on the the Workshop Web page: bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/shared-task.html <bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/shared-task.html>
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Contact: bsnlp@cs.helsinki.fi
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