36.1369, Confs: NLPerspectives: The 4th Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP (China)

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Date: 24-Apr-2025
From: Simona Frenda [s.frenda at hw.ac.uk]
Subject: NLPerspectives: The 4th Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP


NLPerspectives: The 4th Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP
Short Title: NLPerspectives
Theme: NLP

Date: 08-Nov-2025 - 08-Nov-2025
Location: Suzhou, China
Contact Email: g.abercrombie at hw.ac.uk
Meeting URL: https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 27-Jun-2025

Until recently, language resources supporting many tasks in Natural
Language Processing (NLP) and other areas of Artificial Intelligence
(AI) have been based on the assumption of a single ‘ground truth’
label sought via aggregation, adjudication, or statistical means.
However, the field is increasingly focused on subjective and
controversial tasks, such as quality estimation or abuse detection, in
which multiple points of view may be equally valid; subjectivity,
indeed, is considered one of the main causes of Human Label Variation
(Plank, 2022).
Data Perspectivism is a proposed solution to deal with subjectivity
(Cabitza et al., 2023) and is the main topic of this workshop.
Perspectivist approaches to NLP aim at leveraging the variation in
human-made language data and modeling different human points of view,
in order to develop more informative and fairer models of language and
communication.
In the previous editions of the workshop, different aspects of
perspectivist NLP were discussed, including ties to personalisation,
computer vision and multimedia research. The fourth edition of the
workshop will widen the discussed methodology to include not only
current and ongoing work on collecting and labelling non-aggregated
datasets, but also approaches to mining, modelling and inclusion of
diverse perspectives in data, evaluation, and applications of
multi-perspective Machine Learning models. In addition, it will
involve techniques from social science and Human-Computer Interaction,
such as participatory approaches and how they can be implemented at
all stages of the supervised learning pipeline.
Authors are also invited to share their language resources (data,
tools, services, etc.) and provide  essential information (i.e., also
technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used
for the work or are a result of their research. In addition, authors
will be required to adhere to ethical research policies on AI and may
include an ethics statement in their papers.
For the first time, the workshop will also host the new edition of
Learning with Disagreement (Le-Wi-Di) shared task, which will explore
new approaches to modelling and evaluation of Perspectivist
benchmarks.
The NLPerspectives workshop will be co-located with the 14th edition
of EMNLP 2025 in Suzou, China, in November 5-9, 2025 and online.
Submissions
The papers should be submitted as a PDF document, conforming to the
formatting guidelines provided in the call for papers of the EMNLP
conference. Templates are provided here:
https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files
We accept three types of submissions:
- Regular research papers;
- Non-archival submissions: like research papers, but will not be
included in the proceedings;
- (Non-archival) research communications: 4-page abstracts summarising
relevant research published elsewhere.
NLPerspectives will also accept submissions that have been rejected
from ACL rolling review, provided they are accompanied by their
reviews and they fit the topic of the workshop.
Research papers (archival or non-archival) may consist of up to 8
pages of content. Research communications may consist of up to 4 pages
of content. On acceptance, authors may add one additional page to
accommodate changes suggested by the reviewers.
Topics
We invite original research papers from a wide range of topics,
including but not limited to:
- Non-aggregated data collection and annotation frameworks
- Descriptions of corpora collected under the perspectivist paradigm
- Multi-perspective Modelling and Machine Learning
- Evaluation of multi-perspective models/ models of disagreement
- Multi-perspective disagreement as applied to NLP evaluation
- Fairness and inclusive modelling
- Perspectivist approaches for social good
- Applications of multi-perspective modelling
- Computing with (dis)agreement
- Perspectivist Natural Language Generation
- Perspectivism in multimodal AI
- Foundational aspects of perspectivism
- Participatory approaches and human label variation
- Opinion pieces and reviews on perspectivist approaches to NLP
Submissions are open to all, and are to be submitted anonymously (and
must conform to the instructions for double-blind review). All papers
will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process by at
least three reviewers, with final acceptance decisions made by the
workshop organisers. Scientific papers will be evaluated based on
relevance, significance of contribution, impact, technical quality,
scholarship, and quality of presentation.
Shared task
The third edition of the shared task Learning with Disagreement
(LeWiDi) will be co-located for the first time with NLPerspectives.
Positioned within the growing body of research that critically
examines label harmonization practices and the reliance on a single
ground truth, this year's shared task challenges participants to
leverage both instance-level disagreement and annotator-level
information in classification. The proposed tasks feature datasets
that address disagreement in both interpretation and labeling—with a
dataset for Natural Language Inference (NLI) and another for
paraphrase detection—as well as subjective tasks, including irony and
sarcasm detection.
More information on the tasks and evaluation will be be available at
https://le-wi-di.github.io/
Attendance
At least one author of each accepted paper is required to participate
in the conference and present the work, in-person or online.
Important Dates
* June 27: Paper submission
* July 25: Notification of acceptance
* August 29: Camera-ready papers due
* November 8, 2025: NLPerspectives workshop at EMNLP
Workshop organisers:
- Gavin Abercrombie, Heriot-Watt University
- Valerio Basile, University of Turin
- Davide Bernardi, Amazon Alexa
- Shiran Dudy, Northeastern University
- Simona Frenda, Heriot-Watt University
- Sara Tonelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler



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