ACL 2025 Call for Papers
Main Conference
ACL 2025
Website: https://2025.aclweb.org/
Submission Deadline: February 15, 2025
Conference Dates: July 27 to August 1, 2025
Location: Vienna, Austria
Special Theme: “Generalization of NLP Models”
Contact:
Roberto Navigli (General Chair)
Wanxiang Che, Joyce Nabende, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar, Ekaterina Shutova
(Program Chairs)
Overview
ACL 2025 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring
substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of
Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing.
ACL 2025 has a goal of a diverse technical program—in addition to
traditional research results, papers may contribute negative findings,
survey an area, announce the creation of a new resource, argue a
position, report novel linguistic insights derived using existing
computational techniques, and reproduce, or fail to reproduce, previous
results. As in recent years, some of the presentations at the conference
will be of papers accepted by the Transactions of the ACL (TACL) and by
the Computational Linguistics (CL) journals.
Papers submitted to ACL 2025, but not selected for the main conference,
will also automatically be considered for publication in the Findings of
the Association of Computational Linguistics.
Paper Submission Information
Papers may be submitted to the ARR 2025 February cycle. Papers that have
received reviews and a meta-review from ARR (whether from the ARR 2025
February cycle or an earlier ARR cycle) may be committed to ACL 2025 via
the conference commitment site (TBA).
Submission Topics
ACL 2025 aims to have a broad technical program. Relevant topics for the
conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas (in
alphabetical order):
Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics
Dialogue and Interactive Systems
Discourse and Pragmatics
Efficient/Low-Resource Methods for NLP
Ethics, Bias, and Fairness
Generation
Human-centered NLP
Information Extraction
Information Retrieval and Text Mining
Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP
Language Modeling
Linguistic theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics
Machine Learning for NLP
Machine Translation
Multilinguality and Language Diversity
Multimodality and Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond
NLP Applications
Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation
Question Answering
Resources and Evaluation
Semantics: Lexical and Sentence-Level
Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining
Speech recognition, text-to-speech and spoken language understanding
Summarization
Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing
Special Theme: Generalization of NLP Models
ACL 2025 Theme Track: Generalization of NLP Models
Following the success of the ACL 2020-2024 Theme tracks, we are happy to
announce that ACL 2025 will have a new theme with the goal of reflecting
and stimulating discussion about the current state of development of the
field of NLP.
Generalization is crucial for ensuring that models behave robustly,
reliably, and fairly when making predictions on data different from
their training data. Achieving good generalization is critically
important for models used in real-world applications, as they should
emulate human-like behavior. Humans are known for their ability to
generalize well, and models should aspire to this standard.
The theme track invites empirical and theoretical research and position
and survey papers reflecting on the Generalization of NLP Models. The
possible topics of discussion include (but are not limited to) the
following:
How can we enhance the generalization of NLP models across various
dimensions—compositional, structural, cross-task, cross-lingual,
cross-domain, and robustness?
What factors affect the generalization of NLP models?
What are the most effective methods for evaluating the
generalization capabilities of NLP models?
While Large Language Models (LLMs) significantly enhance the
generalization of NLP models, what are the key limitations of LLMs in
this regard?
The theme track submissions can be either long or short.
We anticipate having a special session for this theme at the conference
and a Thematic Paper Award in addition to other categories of awards.
Two-Stage Review: Submission to ARR, Commitment to ACL 2025
ACL 2025 will use ACL Rolling Review (ARR) as a reviewing system, but
final decisions will be made by the conference. Both submissions of
articles for review and commitment of reviewed articles to the
conference will be performed via the Open Review platform.
Specifically, authors will follow a two-step process:
Authors submit articles to ARR, where submissions receive reviews
and meta-reviews from ARR reviewers and area chairs;
Authors commit their reviewed articles to a publication venue (e.g.,
ACL 2025), where Senior Area Chairs and Program Chairs make acceptance
decisions from the ARR reviews and meta-reviews.
ACL 2025 has chosen this approach in coordination with *CL 2024
conferences, which are adopting the same procedure and a coordinated
submission plan to allow maximum flexibility during their submission
periods for the authors.
At each cycle, after a paper has been fully reviewed, authors have the
option to commit their paper to a conference or revise and resubmit for
another round of reviews.
The reviewing process will continue to be double-blind. Reviewers will
not see authors, nor will authors see reviewers, and reviews on ARR will
not be made publicly visible. However, authors will be given the option
through ARR to make their anonymized submitted articles publicly
visible.
Mandatory Reviewing Workload
As the pace of research in the field continues to increase, we need to
strengthen the commitment to reviewing for each paper submission. During
the ARR submission process, authors will be required to specify which
co-authors are committing to cover reviewing in this reviewing cycle.
Please see the new ARR policy regarding reviewing workload here. As
this is an ARR-wide policy for all
*CL conferences, questions or clarifications should be addressed to ARR
directly.
Important Dates:
Submission deadline (all papers are submitted to ARR): February 15,
2025
ARR reviews & meta-reviews available to authors of the February
cycle: April 15, 2025
Commitment deadline for ACL 2025: April 20, 2025
Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2025
Withdrawal deadline: May 30, 2025
Camera-ready papers due: May 30, 2025
Tutorials: July 27, 2025
Conference: July 28 - 30, 2025
Workshops: July 31 - August 1, 2025
Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”).
Paper Submission Details
Both long and short paper submissions should follow all of the ARR
submission requirements at https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp, including:
Long Papers (8 pages) and Short Papers (4 pages):
Instructions for Two-Way Anonymized Review:
Authorship
Citation and Comparison
Multiple Submission Policy, Resubmission Policy, and Withdrawal
Policy
Ethics Policy including the responsible NLP research checklist
Limitations
Paper Submission and Templates
Optional Supplementary Materials
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.
Following the ACL and ARR policies, there is no anonymity period
requirement.
At the time of submission to ARR, authors will be asked to select a
preferred venue (e.g., ACL 2025). This is used only to calculate
acceptance rates. Authors who selected ACL 2025 as a preferred venue
when submitting to ARR may choose not to commit to ACL 2025 after
receiving their reviews, and authors who selected a preferred venue
other than ACL 2025 when submitting to ARR are still welcome to commit
to ACL 2025.
Presentation at the Conference
All accepted papers must be presented at the conference to appear in the
proceedings. The conference will include both in-person and virtual
presentation options. Papers without at least one presenting author
registered by the early registration deadline may be subject to desk
rejection.
Long and short papers will be presented orally or as posters as
determined by the program committee. While short papers will be
distinguished from long papers in the proceedings, there will be no
distinction in the proceedings between papers presented orally and
papers presented as posters.
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