Call for Papers#

Important Dates#

All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“Anywhere on Earth”).

• Pre-submission mentorship link
• Direct submission link
• ARR Commitment link

We invite papers in two different categories:

• Thesis Proposals: This category is appropriate for PhD students who have decided on a thesis topic and wish to get feedback on their proposal and broader ideas for their continuing work.

• Research Papers: Papers in this category can describe completed work, or work in progress with preliminary results. For these papers, the first author MUST BE a current student. Topics of interest for the SRW are the same as for the main IJCNLP-AACL 2025 conference.

Submissions (in both categories) may be archival or non-archival, based on the wish of the authors. All archival papers will be published in the IJCNLP-AACL 2025 SRW Proceedings. Non-archival papers may be submitted to any venue in the future except for another SRW.

Why Submit to IJCNLP-AACL SRW?#

There are many good reasons to submit to the IJCNLP-AACL SRW, such as:

• Mentorship program: IJCNLP-AACL SRW provides a unique opportunity for students to receive constructive feedback and to improve their work through a pre-submission mentorship program. For more information on mentorship, please check the Pre-Submission Mentorship Program.

• Improving your publication record: Publishing a paper as an undergraduate or as a MSc/MA student is beneficial when applying for a PhD program. Publishing a paper in an IJCNLP-AACL SRW can be really helpful for improving students’ publication record.

• Explorative Studies: We encourage the submission of studies with positive and negative results providing insights on why and in which scenarios a particular method succeeds and fails.

All accepted papers and thesis proposals will be presented either as oral presentations or during poster sessions, which will give students an opportunity to interact with and to present their work to a large and diverse audience, including top researchers in the field and assigned mentors.

Submission Requirements#

• Long papers consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus an unlimited number of pages for references and supplementary material like the appendix. Upon acceptance, papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages).

• Short papers consist of up to four (4) pages of content, plus an unlimited number of pages for references and supplementary material like the appendix. Upon acceptance, papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 5 pages).

• Thesis proposals consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited references. The title must begin with “Thesis Proposal:”. Upon acceptance, they will be given nine (9) content pages in the proceedings.

Authors are encouraged to use the additional page to address reviewers’ comments.

Paper submissions must use the official ACL style templates, which are available either as an Overleaf template or via downloading LaTeX or Word files. We strongly encourage participants to use the LaTeX template. All submissions must be in PDF format and must conform to the official style guidelines, which are contained in these template files.

For anonymity policy, we follow the ARR anonimity policy:

Under the new policy, submissions will remain anonymous during peer review, but authors are free to post and discuss non-anonymous preprints at any time. To protect anonymity during peer review, ARR will take measures to prioritize reviews by reviewers who are not aware of the author identities. Authors are reminded that widely sharing the work will make it harder to recruit reviewers.

For additional submission instructions, please check the Author Guidelines.

Scope of Submission#

The SRW invites papers on topics related to computational linguistics, including but not limited to the following:

• Computational Social Science and Social Media
• Dialogue and Interactive Systems
• Discourse and Pragmatics
• Ethics and NLP
• Information Extraction
• Information Retrieval and Text Mining
• Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP
• Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics, and Beyond
• Large Language Models
• Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling, and Psycholinguistics
• Machine Learning for NLP
• Machine Translation and Multilinguality
• NLP Applications
• Phonology, Morphology, and Word Segmentation
• Question Answering
• Resources and Evaluation
• Semantics: Lexical
• Semantics: Sentence-level Semantics, Textual - Inference, and Other Areas
• Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining
• Speech and Multimodality
• Summarization
• Syntax: Tagging, Chunking, and Parsing
• Thesis Proposals

How to Submit#

There are two routes for paper submission:

• Direct Submission: Papers should be submitted through OpenReview. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. The review process will follow the ARR review policy.

• ACL Rolling Review (ARR) Papers: Papers which have already been reviewed through the ARR system can be committed to the SRW. These papers will not be re-reviewed. Program Chairs will make acceptance decisions based on the ARR reviews and meta-reviews. ARR papers should be committed through OpenReview. When making a new submission, you will be able to specify the details of the ARR paper that you want to commit, including the OpenReview ID of your paper.