CoNLL 2025: Call for Papers

Vienna, Austria, July 31 - August 1, 2025 (co-located with ACL)

SIGNLL invites submissions to the 29th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2025). The focus of CoNLL is on theoretically, cognitively, and scientifically motivated approaches to computational linguistics, rather than on work driven by particular engineering applications.

Topics of Interest

We welcome work targeting any aspect of language and its computational modeling, including:

• Computational Psycholinguistics, Cognition and Linguistics
• Computational Social Science and Sociolinguistics
• Interaction and Dialogue
• Language Acquisition, Learning, Emergence, and Evolution
• Multimodality and Grounding
• Typology and Multilinguality
• Speech and Phonology
• Syntax and Morphology
• Lexical, Compositional and Discourse Semantics
• Theoretical Analysis and Interpretation of ML Models for NLP
• Resources and Tools for Scientifically Motivated Research

Submissions' relevance to the conference’s focus on theoretically, cognitively, and scientifically motivated approaches will play an important role in the review process.

Submission Guidelines

• Submitted papers must be anonymous and use the ACL 2025 template.
• Submitted papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content plus unlimited space for references. Authors of accepted papers will have an additional page for revisions (9 pages of content total, excluding references).
• Optional anonymized supplementary materials and a PDF appendix are allowed (submit as a separate PDF file).
• Submission will be via OpenReview.
• CoNLL 2025 will also accept ARR submissions depending on the full review to be completed by May 19, 2025.
• CoNLL 2025 is an in-person conference. All accepted papers are expected to be presented physically.

Invited Speakers

• Jean-Rémi King, CNRS / Meta AI
  • Title: Emergence of Language in the Human Brain
• Raquel Fernández, University of Amsterdam
  • Title: TBD

Author Instructions

• Oral presentations: 15 minutes. Presentation slides should be submitted in advance via Underline.
• Poster presentations: A0 in portrait format. For local printing in Vienna, please check the ACL 2025 FAQ: https://2025.aclweb.org/faq/#Print-Shops-for-Poster
• Online presentation (optional): Submit a pre-recorded video presentation (max. 15 minutes) and/or poster via Underline by July 10, 2025. Submission form: https://acl2025-workshops.paperform.co/ (select W:15 29th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning).

Detailed instructions for Underline are available here.

Timeline

(All deadlines are 11:59pm UTC-12h, AoE)

• Direct submission deadline: Friday, March 14, 2025
• ARR Commitment deadline: Monday, May 19, 2025
• Notification of acceptance: Friday, May 23, 2025
• Camera-ready papers due: Wednesday, June 25, 2025
• Conference: July 31 - August 1, 2025

Venue

CoNLL 2025 will be held in-person at the Austria Center Vienna.

Multiple Submission Policy

CoNLL 2025 will refuse papers that are currently under submission, or that will be submitted to other meetings or publications, including ACL. Papers submitted elsewhere and papers that overlap significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere will be rejected. Authors submitting more than one paper to CoNLL 2025 must ensure that the submissions do not overlap significantly (>25%) with each other in content or results.

Contact

Questions? E-mail: conll.chairs@gmail.com

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