36.229, Confs: Computational Linguistics / Austria

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Date: 16-Jan-2025
From: Horacio Saggion [horacio.saggion at upf.edu]
Subject: The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics


The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics
Short Title: ACL 2025

Date: 27-Jul-2025 - 01-Aug-2025
Location: Vienna, Austria
Meeting URL: https://2025.aclweb.org/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

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substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of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 action editors;
      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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