Call for Papers: NLP for Sustainability (NLP4Sustain) Workshop 2025 With this workshop, we want to provide an interdisciplinary forum for discussing research, progress, and challenges in the context of NLP and sustainability. We invite submissions about NLP-based analysis of sustainability-related texts, sustainable NLP models and evaluation practices in general. Authors and other participants will engage with each other in a poster session and there will be an interdisciplinary invited talk with an ensuing discussion.
We invite technical, survey, and position papers, as long (8 page) or short (4 page) papers (plus references and appendices) written in English and formatted according to the ACL stylesheet. Relevant Topics • analyses and classifications of sustainability-related texts (such as company reports, advertisements, legal texts, …)• generation of explanations, critiques, summaries, … of sustainability-related texts• multimodal models related to sustainability, such as language-vision or climate-impact models• question answering in the sustainability/climate context• sustainable (e.g. small, efficient) NLP models for other applications/domains• sentiment analysis in the sustainability/climate context• media and social media analysis with NLP methods in the sustainability/climate context Important Dates * Tue, 10.06.2025: Paper submission deadline * Fri, 25.07.2025: Acceptance notification * Fri, 15.08.2025: Camera-ready due * Wed, 10.09.2025: Workshop @KONVENS in Hildesheim, Germany (at least one author must be present) Cross-submission and previous reviews If you have reviews from a previous submission cycle (e.g. ARR), you can submit them together with your paper. In this case we may not assign new reviewers but make an acceptance decision based on the reviews you submitted. We recommend including explanations of how you addressed the reviewers' comments. We also invite presentations (without publication) of papers accepted and published elsewhere. This must be indicated at the time of submission (non-archival) and must be allowed by the other venue. If you want to present a paper that will be published elsewhere, you must submit the reviews from that other venue. If you want to submit a paper that was rejected elsewhere for publication at NLP4Sustain, you can optionally submit the reviews from the other venue. The submission page is now open: https://openreview.net/group?id=KONVENS/2025/Workshop/NLP4Sustain For further details, visit our website: https://nlp4sustain.github.io/%C2%A0 If you have any questions, please contact: jakob.prange@uni-a.de and/or c.jakob@tu-berlin.de
-- Dr. Jakob Prange (er/he) Akademischer Rat auf Zeit / Research Associate Chair for Natural Language Understanding & Digital Humanities (Prof. Friedrich) Faculty for Applied Informatics, University of Augsburg https://jakpra.github.io/