Call for Papers
The 14th edition of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational 
Linguistics (CMCL 2025)
CMCL 2025 will be co-located with the 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of 
the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 
2025).
Workshop Description
CMCL 2025 is a one-day workshop held in conjunction with NAACL 2025. CMCL 
invites papers on cognitive modeling, cognitively-inspired natural language 
processing, and, more broadly, the alignment of language models with human 
cognition/perception. The 2025 workshop follows in the tradition of earlier 
meetings at ACL 2010, ACL 2011, NAACL-HLT 2012, ACL 2013, ACL 2014, NAACL 2015, 
EACL 2017, LSA 2018, NAACL 2019, EMNLP 2020, NAACL 2021, ACL 2022, and ACL 2024.
Scope and Topics
The research interests/questions include, but are not limited to:

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Analysis of computational models that process language data (e.g., neural 
language models, parsers)  to give insights into fundamental linguistic 
questions, e.g., on human language processing/acquisition.
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Analysis of human language data to give insights into fundamental linguistic 
questions, e.g., on human language processing/acquisition.
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Comparing/aligning computational models (e.g., neural language models, parsers) 
with human language data to understand/reverse-engineer what and how humans 
compute during language comprehension/production/acquisition.
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How insights from CogSci/linguistics and NLP fields can contribute to each 
other.
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Sufficient conditions/pressures for the emergence of human-like 
communication/language.

A more comprehensive description of the workshop scope is:

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Models of lexical acquisition, including phonology, morphology, and semantics.
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Models of semantic interpretation, including psychologically realistic notions 
of word and phrase meaning and composition.
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Models of incremental parsers for diverse grammar formalisms and their 
psychological plausibility.
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Psychologically plausible models of discourse and dialogue.
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Models of speaker-specific linguistic adaptation and/or generalization.
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Models of first and second language acquisition and bilingual language 
processing.
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Models of language disorders, such as aphasia, dyslexia, or dysgraphia.
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Datasets or resources for modeling language processing or production in 
languages other than English.
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Models of linguistic information propagation and language evolution in 
communities.
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Analyzing computational models that process language data (e.g., neural 
language models, parsers) from the above perspectives.

Invited Speakers
We are pleased to announce the following invited speakers for the 2025 edition:

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John T. Hale<https://cogsci.jhu.edu/directory/john-t-hale/> (Johns Hopkins 
University)
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Tessa Verhoef<https://sites.google.com/view/tessa-verhoef/home> (Leiden 
University)

Sponsoring Institutions
This workshop is supported by the National Institute for Japanese Language and 
Linguistics (NINJAL).
Important Dates

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February 16, 2025: Paper submission/commitment deadline
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March 10, 2025: Notification of acceptance
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March 17, 2025: Camera-ready paper due
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May 3 or May 4, 2025: Workshop dates (the exact date TBA)

Deadlines are at 11:59 pm AOE. The timeline may change slightly. We are trying 
to set our CMCL deadline to be after the completion of the ARR December cycle 
(Feb. 16), in contrast to the timeline suggested in 
https://2025.naacl.org/calls/workshops/ That is, the authors in the ARR 
December cycle will have options to resubmit/commit it to the upcoming ARR 
rounds OR make a new direct submission to CMCL (see Submission types and 
Cross-submission policy Sections).
Workshop submissions
CMCL accepts direct submissions through the OpenReview site: 
https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/NAACL/2025/Workshop/CMCL

This year, we do not accept the commitment of ARR-reviewed papers.
Submission types
We invite three types of submissions:
(1) Archival regular workshop submissions that present original research in 
either long (8 pages + references) or short (4 pages + references) paper format.
(2) Non-archival submissions of extended abstracts that present preliminary 
results (from 2 to 4 pages + references).
(3) Non-archival cross-submission of long/short papers that present relevant 
research submitted/published elsewhere (including ACL “Findings of…” papers).
Other submission details:

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Authors must indicate if the paper is archival (1) or non-archival (2,3) when 
submitting the paper. That is, authors are not allowed to decide/change the 
archival/non-archival mode after receiving the reviews/notification.
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Only regular workshop papers submitted via (1) will be included in the 
proceedings, but all types of papers will have a presentation opportunity in 
the workshop.
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Submissions must be formatted using the ACL style template 
(https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files) and submitted via a PDF file.
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It is strongly recommended that the paper include a “Limitations” section 
(after the main parts and before the references), which is not counted in the 
part of the page limit.
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Final versions of accepted papers will be given one additional page of content 
(up to 9 pages for long papers, up to 5 pages for short papers) to address 
reviewers’ comments.
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Non-archival papers (2,3) will be reviewed in a separate process than archival 
papers (1), although the timeline is the same; specifically, non-archival 
papers will be evaluated with more priority to broader factors, such as the fit 
of the topic with the workshop, the status of the paper (e.g., already accepted 
to elsewhere or not), and the entire diversity of the topic/community in the 
workshop, as well as the soundness of the paper.
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We adhere to the new ACL anonymity policy: 
https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Anonymity_Policy
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This year, we do not host a shared task.
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This year, we do not receive the commitment of ARR-reviewed papers to simplify 
the logistics. Instead, authors should submit their work via direct submission 
(without past reviews).

Cross-submission policy

For regular archival submission (1), CMCL will refuse papers that are under 
review or will be submitted to other conferences, including the ARR cycles. For 
non-archival submissions (2,3), we allow the submission of papers that have 
been or will be published elsewhere, but again, authors can not change the 
presentation mode to be archival after their submission.
Workshop Organizers
Tatsuki Kuribayashi (MBZUAI, 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>)
Giulia Rambelli (University of Bologna, 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>)
Ece Takmaz (Utrecht University, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>)
Philipp Wicke (Ludwig Maximilian University LMU, 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>)
Jixing Li (City University of Hong Kong, 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>)
Byung-Doh Oh (New York University, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>)
Website
https://cmclorg.github.io/
Contact
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>


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