EMNLP 2025: Call for Main Conference Papers
Overview
EMNLP 2025 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring
substantial, original, and unpublished research on empirical methods for
Natural Language Processing. EMNLP 2025 has a goal of curating 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 the Computational Linguistics (CL)
journals.
Paper Submission Information
Note that we are following a new ARR cycle schedule (5 cycles/year)!
Papers may be submitted to the ARR 2025 [1] May cycle. Papers that have
received reviews and a meta-review from ARR (whether from the ARR 2025
May cycle or an earlier ARR cycle) may be committed to EMNLP via the
commitment link [2].
Mandatory Reviewing Workload
As our pace of research 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 [3]. As this is an
ARR-wide policy for all *CL conferences, questions or clarifications
should be addressed to ARR directly.
Additional Policies
Based on feedback regarding increased reviewing load and (relatedly)
decreased review quality, we are planning to implement additional
policies to incentivize a lower volume of higher submissions and a
higher quality of reviews for the EMNLP'25 ARR cycle. We will be looking
into policies similar to those adopted by conferences like SIGKDD'25,
CVPR'25 and AAAI'25. We will be announcing these policies on a separate
blog post but for now would like to get some input from the community.
If you would like to help us shape these policies and have additional
suggestions, please use this form [4].
Submission Topics
EMNLP 2025 aims to have a broad technical program. Relevant topics for
the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
* Safety and Alignment in LLMs
* AI/LLM Agents
* Human-AI Interaction/Cooperation
* Retrieval-Augmented Language Models
* Mathematical, Symbolic, and Logical Reasoning in NLP
* Computational Social Science, Cultural Analytics, and NLP for Social
Good
* Code Models
* Interpretability, Model Editing, Transparency, and Explainability
* LLM Efficiency
* Generalizability and Transfer
* Dialogue and Interactive Systems
* Discourse, Pragmatics, and Reasoning
* Low-resource Methods for NLP
* Ethics, Bias, and Fairness
* Natural Language Generation
* Information Extraction and Retrieval
* Linguistic theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics
* Machine Translation
* Multilinguality and Language Diversity
* Multimodality and Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond
* Neurosymbolic approaches to NLP
* Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation
* Question Answering
* Resources and Evaluation
* Semantics: Lexical, Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference and
Other areas
* Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining
* Speech Processing and Spoken Language Understanding
* Summarization
* Hierarchical Structure Prediction, Syntax, and Parsing
* NLP Applications
* _Special Theme_: Interdisciplinary Recontextualization of NLP
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_EMNLP 2025 Theme Track_: Interdisciplinary Recontextualization of NLP
The core interests of the ACL community are rooted in human-language
technologies but also have broad reach into other fields. A couple of
recent examples are the burgeoning areas of Code models and Vision
models. Earlier cases are exemplified through SIGs connected with the
fields of education, medicine, and humanities. Movements such as NLP for
Social Good and Computational Social Science show a desire for broad
impact, which requires expertise beyond the borders of our own community
to achieve. This year's theme of Advancing our Reach: Interdisciplinary
Recontextualization of NLP aims to highlight this need for broader
connections with other fields to understand and intensify NLP's impact.
The goal is to increase our awareness of how advances in NLP can impact
other fields, and design better strategies to measure that impact both
within and across disciplines.
Over the past two decades, the field has advanced at an exponential
rate. The term language models is now a household word, industry is
booming, and the publication rate is dizzying, but what does that mean
about fundamental scientific impact and broader impact on real societal
problems? How can we measure that in a rigorous way? Scores on
benchmarks are increasing, however, to what extent do our benchmarks
reflect the true impact of our technology advances? If we make a
distinction between impact within our own field versus impact from our
field into other fields, would we see the same magnitude of growth? The
conventional measures of success don't facilitate making critical
distinctions, like incremental improvement versus transformative change,
or within-field uptake versus broad impact across fields.
So this year we invite engagement with the theme first through
theme-specific submission tracks for papers addressing the fundamental
technology advances and papers addressing the evaluation methodology
issues. However, we also invite Fireside Chat session proposals designed
to bring together NLP researchers with leaders from other fields for
agenda setting and new collaboration formation. Finally, we invite
multi-disciplinary panel proposals that provide opportunities to engage
the broader community in reflection related to the theme.
Summary of Theme Track activities
Call for submissions for Panels and Boundary-Spanning chats will go out
later. In both cases, the submission will describe the topic area and
questions that will be addressed as well as an argument for why this
topic is strategic now, especially in connection with the conference
theme. The submission should also describe who will participate in the
panel or as leadership of the Boundary-spanning Chat (including a short
bio describing the specific expertise) and how the session will be
organized, including who will act as facilitator of the session. Panels
should additionally discuss which questions will be addressed by the
panelists. Boundary-spanning chat proposals will describe the proposed
outcome of the session (e.g., a workshop proposal for 2026, a special
issue of a journal, a new shared task, etc.).
* Special Theme Best paper award
* Panel discussion (special submission category)
* Boundary-Spanning Chat sessions (special submission category)
Two Stage Review: Submission to ARR, Commitment to EMNLP
EMNLP 2025 will use ACL Rolling Review [5] (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 [6] 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 action editors;
* Authors commit their reviewed articles to a publication venue (e.g.,
EMNLP 2025), where Senior Area Chairs and Program Chairs make acceptance
decisions from the ARR reviews and meta-reviews.
EMNLP 2025 has chosen this approach in coordination with *CL 2025
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.
Important Dates for EMNLP 2025
* ARR submission deadline (long & short papers): May 19, 2025
* Commitment deadline: July 31, 2025
* Notification of acceptance (long & short papers): August 20, 2025
* Camera-ready papers due (long & short): September 19, 2025
* Main Conference (dates for Workshops/Tutorials TBD): November 5-9,
2025
_Note:_ All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth").
Following the ACL and ARR policies [7], there is no anonymity period
requirement.
At the time of submission to ARR, authors will be asked to select a
preferred venue (e.g., EMNLP 2025). This is used only to calculate
acceptance rates. Authors who selected EMNLP 2025 as a preferred venue
when submitting to ARR may choose not to commit to EMNLP 2025 after
receiving their reviews, and authors who selected a preferred venue
other than EMNLP 2025 when submitting to ARR are still welcome to commit
to EMNLP 2025.
Paper Submission Details
Both long and short paper submissions should follow all of the ARR
submission requirements [8], including:
* Long Papers [9] (8 pages) and Short Papers [10] (4 pages)
* Instructions for Two-Way Anonymized Review [11]
* Authorship [12]
* Citation and Comparison [13]
* Multiple Submission Policy [14], Resubmission Policy [15], and
Withdrawal Policy [16]
* ACL's Publication Ethics Policy [17], and ARR's Ethics Policy [18]
including the responsible NLP research checklist [19]
* Limitations [20]
* Writing Assistance [21]
* Paper Submission and Templates [22]
* Optional Supplementary Materials [23]
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.
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.
Contact Information
General Chair:
* Dirk Hovy [24], Bocconi University
Program Chairs:
* Christos Christodoulopoulos [25], Amazon
* Tanmoy Chakraborty [26], Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
* Carolyn Rose [27], Carnegie Mellon University
* Violet Peng [28], University of California, Los Angeles
Links:
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[1] https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/ARR
[2] https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP
[3] https://aclrollingreview.org/reviewing-workload-requirement/
[4] https://forms.office.com/r/P68uvwXYqf
[5] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp
[6] https://openreview.net/
[7]
https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/report-acl-committee-anonymity-policy
[8] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#paper-submission-information
[9] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#long-papers
[10] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#short-papers
[11]
https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#instructions-for-two-way-anonymized-review
[12] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#authorship
[13] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#citation-and-comparison
[14] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#multiple-submission-policy
[15] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#resubmission-policy
[16] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#withdrawal-policy
[17]
https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Policy_on_Publication_Ethics
[18] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#ethics-policy
[19] https://aclrollingreview.org/responsibleNLPresearch
[20] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#limitations
[21] https://2023.aclweb.org/blog/ACL-2023-policy/
[22] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#paper-submission-and-templates
[23]
https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#optional-supplementary-materials-appendices-software-and-data
[24] http://dirkhovy.com/
[25] http://christos-c.com/
[26] https://tanmoychak.com/
[27] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cprose
[28] https://violetpeng.github.io/
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