Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for GlobalNLP 2025, a workshop titled: “Beyond English: Natural Language Processing for All Languages in an Era of Large Language Models”

📍 11–13 September 2025 | Varna, Bulgaria 🌐 https://globalnlp2025.github.io/ 📅 In conjunction with RANLP 2025

It's time we give every language the attention it deserves—because language diversity is at the heart of global inclusivity in NLP.

Brief Technical Description Natural Language Processing (NLP) has seen remarkable progress with the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI, significantly advancing capabilities in text generation, machine translation, and knowledge retrieval, particularly for high-resource languages such as English, Chinese, German, Spanish, and French.

However, a vast majority of the world's languages, ranging from low-resource (e.g., Indigenous, African, Indian languages), under-resourced (e.g., Irish), to medium-resource (e.g., Baltic, South Asian, and Slavic languages), still face barriers due to data scarcity, linguistic complexity, and limited computational resources.

This workshop is committed to advancing NLP for all languages, from high- to low-resource, by fostering an inclusive, multidisciplinary environment that addresses the technical and linguistic needs of every language community.

We welcome both technical and non-technical papers, including experimental, theoretical, and methodological contributions, as well as interdisciplinary and participatory approaches. Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Data-Efficient NLP: Transfer learning, few-/zero-shot techniques to overcome data limitations • Multilingual and Cross-Lingual Models: For morphologically rich, agglutinative, and typologically diverse languages • Semantic-Based Approaches: Ontology-driven information extraction, semantic similarity, entity linking • Linked Data and Knowledge Graphs: For machine translation, retrieval, and reasoning in underrepresented languages • Practical Applications: In education, healthcare, climate action, governance, and multilingual content creation • Corpus Creation & Linguistic Tools: For building datasets, model development, and evaluation • Reusability of Linguistic Resources: For POS tagging, parsing, MT, and more • Digital Humanities & Cultural Heritage: Computational approaches for historical texts, preservation, and interdisciplinary studies

Important Dates 📄 Paper submission deadline: 6 July 2025 📬 Notification of acceptance: 31 July 2025 📝 Camera-ready deadline: 30 August 2025 📦 Proceedings ready: 8 September 2025 🗓 Workshop dates: 11–13 September 2025 📍 All deadlines are 11:59 PM AoE (Anywhere on Earth)

Submission Details Authors must submit original research papers via the official RANLP 2025 submission portal. All submissions should follow the RANLP formatting guidelines. Both long and short papers are welcome. Full details are available at: 🔗 https://globalnlp2025.github.io

Organizing Committee Sudhansu Bala Das (University of Galway, Ireland) Pruthwik Mishra (SVNIT Surat, India) Alok Singh (University of Oxford, UK) Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad (Imperial College London) Asif Ekbal (IIT Jodhpur, India)

Program Committee (alphabetical order) Alexander Gelbukh (Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico) Bidyut Kumar Patra (IIT BHU, India) Clarence Teo (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Gaurish Thakkar (University of Zagreb, Croatia) Helena Moniz (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) Juri Opitz (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Luan Thanh Nguyen (Vietnam National University HCMC, Vietnam) Marie-Aude Lefer (UCLouvain, Belgium) Mohammed Hasanuzzaman (Queen’s University Belfast, UK) Moritz Schaeffer (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany) Muslim Jameel Sayed (Atlantic Technological University, Ireland) Pádraic Moran (University of Galway, Ireland) Paolo Rosso (Valencia Polytechnic University, Spain) Paul Buitelaar (University of Galway, Ireland) Soumik Mandal (NYU Tandon School of Engineering, USA) Surangika Ranathunga (Massey University, New Zealand) Uthayasanker Thayasivam (University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka)

Idris Abdulmumin (DSFSI, University of Pretoria)

Ibrahim Said Ahmad (Northeastern University)

We look forward to your submissions and to welcoming you in Varna for a rich and impactful exchange on the future of global, inclusive NLP.

📧 For inquiries, please contact: globalnlp2025@gmail.commailto:globalnlp2025@gmail.com

Warm regards, The GlobalNLP 2025 Organizing Committee