36.692, Confs: BriGap-2, Bridges and Gaps between Formal and Computational Linguistics (IWCS 2025 Workshop)

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Date: 24-Feb-2025
From: Timothée Bernard [timothee.bernard at u-paris.fr]
Subject: BriGap-2, Bridges and Gaps between Formal and Computational Linguistics (IWCS 2025 Workshop)


BriGap-2, Bridges and Gaps between Formal and Computational
Linguistics (IWCS 2025 Workshop)

Date: 24-Sep-2025 - 24-Sep-2025
Location: Düsseldorf, Germany
Meeting URL: https://brigap-workshop.github.io/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics

Venue: IWCS 2025 (https://iwcs2025.github.io/), Düsseldorf, Germany
Date: September 24th, 2025 (main conference: 22nd-23rd)
Workshop website: https://brigap-workshop.github.io/
BriGap-2 is a venue for linguists and NLP scientists to meet: what
fruitful interactions can we have? How do we build upon each other’s
work?
Description:
In recent years, the natural language processing (NLP) community has
shifted its focus towards engineering questions. This state of affairs
is in no small part due to the recent technical advances that have
transformed NLP as a field. In the current large language model (LLM)
era, much of what was deemed near impossible to achieve a few years
prior is now taken for granted and it stands to reason that mapping
how far ahead new computational models have advanced the field has
become a central topic for the NLP community. Hence, the current
ongoing discourse in NLP focuses more on what can be achieved through
language rather studying language for its own sake. It seems thus that
computational and formal linguistics are now separate domains, and
that the former is no longer rooted in the latter.
To what extent are these traditions truly divorced, and what fruitful
bridges can be (re)built? To answer these questions, the second
iteration of the workshop on Bridges and Gaps between Formal and
Computational Linguistics (BriGap-2) intends to provide a space for
formal linguists, computational linguists, and NLP scientists to
exchange their perspectives on how their different domains of research
can build upon one another.
Workshop topics:
- investigation of the linguistic properties of machine learning
models,
- linguistic representations, vector space semantics, and their
relations with theoretical concepts such as compositionality,
- use of information-theoretical and computational methods for
linguistic inquiry,
- formal distributional semantics and neural-symbolic integration for
NLP,
- formal grammars, symbolic structures and their applications for
computational linguistics and NLP,
- trends in the history of computational linguistics and NLP,
- …
Invited speakers:
- Anna ROGERS, IT University of Copenhagen
- Kees VAN DEEMTER, Universiteit Utrecht
Submission details:
The workshop accepts both archival (original and unpublished research)
and non-archival (work-in-progress, dissemination of research
published or accepted elsewhere, etc.) submissions in either short (up
to 4 pages) or long (up to 8 pages) format. Camera-ready versions of
papers will be given one additional page of content so that reviewers’
comments can be taken into account.
Each submission should mention whether it targets archival or
non-archival status. Archival papers accepted at BriGap-2 will be
indexed in the ACL Anthology.
Please use the ACL style templates available here:
https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files
The submissions need to be done in PDF format via OpenReview, using
the following link:
https://openreview.net/group?id=IWCS/2025/Workshop/BriGap-2
Please be aware that to submit on OpenReview, you need an OpenReview
profile, and that the activation process might take up to two weeks
(in case you do not use an institutional email).
Important dates:
- Submission deadline: Friday, June 6th 2025
- Notification of acceptance: Friday, August 1st 2025
- Workshop: September 24th, 2025 (main conference: 22nd-23rd)
Contact:
For questions, please send an email to brigapworkshop at gmail.com or
contact one of the workshop chairs:
- Timothée Bernard, Université Paris Cité, timothee.bernard at u-paris.fr
- Timothee Mickus, University of Helsinki, timothee.mickus at helsinki.fi
- Grégoire Winterstein, Université du Québec à Montréal,
winterstein.gregoire at uqam.ca



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