Dear colleagues, partners, and friends This is the final Call for Papers for the SwissText 2025 Conference. !!! Note that we extend the submission deadline to 22.03.2025 (23:59 AOE) !!! If you plan to make a submission, it helps us with the planning if you already submit an abstract and/or a draft now. You can still revise the submission until the submission deadline. We invite you to submit a contribution to the 10th Swiss Text Analytics Conference (SwissText) which takes place on May 14-15, 2025 in Winterthur, Switzerland at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW). SwissTexthttps://swisstext.org/ is an annual conference that brings together text analytics experts from industry and academia. It is organized by the Swiss Association for Natural Language Processing (SwissNLP) in collaboration with the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW). This edition of SwissText will be special, since we celebrate its 10th anniversary! For the occasion, we introduce the Impact Track which replaces and extends the scope of the Applied Track, and we introduce the Corpus Track that offers the opportunity to present Swiss-related NLP datasets. The conference now features the following tracks and submissions (more details in the below sections):
* Impact Track (formerly Applied Track): Describe impactful applied and practical NLP projects. Short abstract (approx 0.5-1 page). * Scientific Research: Describe original research. * Regular Track: Full paper (up to 8 pages), short paper (up to 4 pages) * Junior Track: Short paper (up to 4 pages) * Corpus Track (new): Present your Swiss-related NLP dataset. Short paper (up to 4 pages).
TRACKS Impact Track (formerly Applied Track) Contribute to the conference by submitting a presentation with a strong focus on practical application and impact. Have you developed an interesting NLP solution that solves a challenging problem in your organization? Did you write an impactful blog article on an NLP-related topic? Have you released a cool new NLP Python library? Is there an important idea presented in a paper you have read or written that you think needs more exposure to a broader audience? The impact track is open to various NLP-related contributions. The selection criteria here is how exciting and relevant the presentation will be for the broad audience. Presentations can be (non-exhaustive list):
* Applications * Applied research results * Showcases * Paper discussions (only already published papers; original work can be submitted to the scientific track) * System demonstrations
Submission Format:
* A PDF document that contains * a short abstract (approx. 0.5-1 page of main content) describing your contribution; * a screenshot or system diagram (optional) * CV of the team (text format, no tables — max. 500 characters) * Description of the intended audience (e.g. developers, decision makers, project managers, researchers; max. 300 characters) * Language: English * Please submit online via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swisstext2025 EasyChairhttps://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swisstext2025 https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swisstext2025
Scientific Track Contribute to the conference by submitting original papers that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works that describe new concepts, innovative research, systems, or standards in the areas of NLP. (If you have a live demonstration, please submit to the Impact Track instead) Submission Format:
* Full Paper of maximum of 8 pages, or Short Paper with maximum of 4 pages (both versions have additional pages for references and appendix) * Use the ACL stylehttps://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files * Language: English * Anonymization: The review process will be double blind; we ask authors to anonymize their submission reasonably. For instance, instead of “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” write “Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” * All data is entered online via EasyChairhttps://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swisstext2025
Scientific Junior Track We offer PhD/Master students a unique opportunity to submit ongoing or finished work relevant to the NLP field and receive extensive professional feedback. Several senior researchers in the NLP field in Switzerland have expressed their support for this initiative and will be members of the programme committee. They will provide extensive reviews to the students to help them improve their paper writing skills. Submission Format:
* Please use the ACL stylehttps://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files * Language: English * Short Paper with maximum of 4 pages, with additional pages for references and appendix. * Content: ongoing or finished work, relevant to the NLP field. * The first author must be a student registered at a Swiss academic institution. * Anonymization: The review process will be double blind; we ask authors to anonymize their submission reasonably. For instance, instead of “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” write “Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” * Submission will be made through EasyChairhttps://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swisstext2025
Corpus Track This special track focuses on the creation, curation, and release of datasets that address challenges and opportunities in NLP in the context of Switzerland. The aim is to provide a platform for researchers, practitioners, and industry professionals to share innovative dataset contributions that support linguistic, cultural, and technical advancements in the Swiss NLP ecosystem. Submissions can describe already published or original work. It might be possible to host your data at Swiss NLP if you are unable to do so yourself. Please get in touch at info@swissnlp.orgmailto:info@swissnlp.org if you are interested in this option. The submission is a “Corpus Description Paper”, which should contain the following:
* What and how much data was collected? * How was the data collected and annotated? * Corpus statistics * Quality assessments such as annotator agreements * Where is the corpus available? (please take into account long-term availability) * Under which license(s) is the corpus distributed? * For which use cases can the corpus be used? * Optional: baseline systems and results
Submission Format:
* Please use the ACL stylehttps://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files * Language: English * Corpus description paper with maximum of 8 pages, with additional pages for references and appendix. * Please use the appendix to describe technical details of the corpus creation, in particular how data was collected, full annotation guidelines, etc. * Content: new/existing NLP datasets within the context of Switzerland. * Submission will be made through EasyChairhttps://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swisstext2025
GENERAL INFORMATION Presentation Modes For all tracks, there are the following presentation modes:
* Talk: a classical presentation of approx. 15min + 5min discussion * Poster: you can hang up an A1 poster during the poster session * Demo: you get a booth where you can show your solution as live-demo during the exhibition time (approx 2 hours)
During submission you can choose your preferred presentation mode and the SwissText Program Committee will decide which format your submission best fits in. Proceedings We plan to publish the proceedings of the Scientific, Corpus and Junior track in the ACL Anthology. To appear in the proceedings, each contribution has to be presented by at least one author at the conference. Important Dates
* Submission deadline: March 22, 2025 (23:59 AOE) * Author notification: April 5, 2025 * Camera-ready version due: April 19, 2025 * Conference: May 14-15, 2025
Venue The conference will take place in Winterthur at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW). Organization
* General Chair: Prof. Dr. Mark Cieliebak (ZHAW) * Program Chairs: Dr. Don Tuggener (ZHAW), Manuela Hürlimann (ZHAW)
Contact Please direct all questions regarding the submission process to info@swisstext.orgmailto:info@swisstext.org.