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Slav-NLP:10thWorkshoponNLP for Slavic languages

Co-located with ACL 2025, Vienna, Austria

31 July / 1 August 2025

http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/

Submission Deadline:  27 April 2025

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-speaking societies — and their languages — into sharp focus, especially in light of rapid technological advancements and expanding consumer markets.

Research on theoretical and applied topics in the context of Slavic languages is still lagging in the community. 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. We aim to stimulate research in Slavic NLP, and foster the creation of tools and resources. The Workshops provide a forum for exchange of ideas and experience, discussing current challenges, and making the available resources widely-known. 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 — despite the lack of mutual intelligibility.

We are happy to organize Slav-NLP again 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 9 previous (B)SNLP Workshops.

IMPORTANT DATES

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Submission deadline: 27 April 2025

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Pre-reviewed ARR commitment20 May 2025

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Notification of acceptance: 27 May 2025

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Camera-ready papers due: 3 June 2025

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Workshop: 31 July or 1 August 2025

SHARED TASK

This year's Slav-NLP features — Shared Task on Detection and Classification of Persuasion Techniques— in two types of texts: (a) parliamentary debateson highly-contested topics, and (b) social media postsrelated to the spread of propaganda and disinformation.

Information about the Shared Task is available on the Workshop’s Web page.

SUBMISSION

At the Workshop’s Web page: bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/call-for-papers.html

Workshop contact: bsnlp@cs.helsinki.fi

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