ACL 2025: Call for Main Conference Papers

The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025) will take place in Vienna, Austria, from July 27 to August 1st, 2025.

ACL 2025 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. 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.

Special Theme: Generalization of NLP Models

ACL 2025 will have a special theme focusing on "Generalization of NLP Models." This theme track invites empirical and theoretical research, position papers, and survey papers reflecting on how to enhance generalization across various dimensions (compositional, structural, cross-task, cross-lingual, cross-domain, and robustness), factors affecting generalization, methods for evaluation, and the limitations of Large Language Models (LLMs) in this regard.

Two-Stage Review Process

ACL 2025 utilizes the ACL Rolling Review (ARR) system for reviewing. The process involves two steps:

1. Submission to ARR: Authors submit articles to ARR, where they receive reviews and meta-reviews.
2. Commitment to ACL 2025: Authors then commit their reviewed articles to ACL 2025 via the conference commitment site.

Submission Topics

Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to:

• 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

Important Dates

All deadlines are at 11:59 PM UTC -12h (anywhere on earth):

• Submission deadline (all papers submitted to ARR): February 15, 2025
• Author response period: March 27 to April 3, 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

Conference Dates: July 27 - August 1, 2025

Paper Submission Details

Both long and short paper submissions must adhere to ARR submission requirements, including:

• Long Papers: 8 pages
• Short Papers: 4 pages
• Instructions for Two-Way Anonymized Review
• Authorship
• Citation and Comparison
• Multiple Submission, Resubmission, and Withdrawal Policies
• Ethics Policy (including the responsible NLP research checklist)
• Limitations
• Paper Submission and Templates
• Optional Supplementary Materials (appendices, software, and data)

Final versions of accepted papers will be allowed one additional page of content (up to 9 pages for long papers, up to 5 pages for short papers) to address reviewers’ comments.

Presentation at the Conference

All accepted papers must be presented at the conference. Both in-person and virtual presentation options will be available. 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.

Contact Information

• General Chair: Roberto Navigli
• Program Chairs: Wanxiang Che, Joyce Nabende, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar, Ekaterina Shutova
• For paper submission questions: editors@aclrollingreview.org
• For all other questions: acl2025pcs@gmail.com