IWPT 2025 Call for Papers

IWPT 2025: The 18th International Conference on Parsing Technologies

DEADLINE EXTENDED

SyntaxFest 2025, Ljubljana, August 26–29

https://www.sigparse.org/iwpt2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

The ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Parsing (SIGPARSE) invites paper submissions to its biennial conference on parsing technologies. IWPT 2025 will be the 18th conference in a series that started in 1989. The conference will be held as one of the events in SyntaxFest 2025 in Ljubljana, August 26–29.

~~The paper submission deadline for IWPT 2025 is April 15, 2025.~~
The paper submission deadline for IWPT 2025 has been extended to April 22, 2025 (anywhere on Earth).

INVITED TALK

Isabel Papadimitriou (Kempner Institute, Harvard)

TOPICS

IWPT addresses all aspects of structural analysis of natural language, including but not limited to:

Parsing of natural language (phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic, discourse, etc.)
Formal models and algorithms for recognition, parsing and transduction
Machine learning techniques for syntax and parsing
Complexity of languages, models and algorithms
Learning of recursive structure (linguistic/latent)
Parsing in machine translation (synchronous parsing; alignment by parsing; translation by parsing, etc.)
Cognitive models of language processing
Multilingual and multimodal perspectives on syntax and parsing
Domain and genre adaptation, portability and robustness of parsing systems
Practical applications of parsing technology
Parser evaluation (across languages and frameworks)
Neural Network Models for linguistic structure predictions
Combining distributional and symbolic signals for linguistic structure prediction
Multilingual and Universal Parsing, Parsing typologically different languages
Parsing low-resource languages and cross-lingual or domain transfer
Unblackboxing deep learning models to probe their level of linguistic analysis
Integrating morphology via character-based models, subword embeddings, and beyond

SCHEDULE

~~April 15, 2025: Paper submission deadline~~
April 22, 2025: Paper submission deadline (extended)
June 2, 2025: Notification of acceptance
June 16, 2025: Camera-Ready versions due
August 26-29, 2025: Conference (part of SyntaxFest)

All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h (“anywhere on Earth”).

SUBMISSIONS

Papers must be submitted digitally in PDF format via the online conference system:

https://openreview.net/group?id=SyntaxFest/2025

When submitting, authors will be asked to indicate which workshops they wish their paper to be considered for and to specify whether their submission is archival or non-archival.

All submissions should follow the two-column ACL style guidelines. We strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX style files, OpenDocument, or Microsoft Word templates created for ACL: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files. All papers must be anonymous, i.e., not reveal author(s) on the title page or through self-references. So, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 2020) …”, should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith (2020) previously showed …”.

Paper submissions that violate either of these requirements will be returned without review.

Paper submissions can be made in two distinct tracks:

regular papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research, including empirical evaluation results, where appropriate; and
short papers on smaller, focused contributions, work in progress, negative results, or opinion pieces.

The page limits for submissions are: up to eight pages of content for regular papers, and up to four pages of content for short papers; any additional number of pages can be used for bibliographic references.