LDK 2025: Call for Papers

The Fifth Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2025) will be held in Naples, Italy, from September 9-11, 2025.

Submission Invitation

We invite submissions of relevance to the topics of Language, Data, and Knowledge. This edition builds upon the success of previous LDK conferences held in Galway (2017), Leipzig (2019), Zaragoza (2021), and Vienna (2023).

Submission Types and Lengths

• Long papers: 9–12 pages (including references)
• Short papers: 4–6 pages (including references)

Publication and Review

• Publication: Accepted submissions will be published in an open-access conference proceedings volume and indexed in ACL anthology and DBLP, free of charge for authors. The ACL templates should be used for all submissions.
• Review Process: The reviewing process is single-blind, meaning submissions should not be anonymised.
• Originality: All papers must represent original work and must not have been previously published or submitted for review elsewhere (except for preprint archives like arXiv).

Submission Method

• Papers should be submitted via OpenReview at: https://openreview.net/group?id=LDK/2025/Conference

Participation Mode

The conference will be hybrid (face-to-face and remote). At least one author of each accepted paper must register to present the paper at the conference (either remotely or on-site).

Topics of Interest

Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

Language Data

• Language data construction and acquisition
• Language data annotation
• FAIR data practices for language data
• Language data portals and metadata about language data
• Organisational and infrastructural management of language data
• Multilingual, multimedia and multimodal language data
• Evaluation, provenance and quality of language data
• Visualisation of language data
• Standards and interoperability of language data
• Legal aspects of publishing language data
• Under-resourced languages
• e-Lexicography

Semantic Processing

• Knowledge Graphs
• Linguistic Linked Data and the multilingual Semantic Web
• Ontologies, terminologies, wordnets, framenets and related resources
• Information and knowledge extraction (taxonomy extraction, ontology learning)
• Data, information and knowledge integration across languages
• (Cross-lingual) ontology alignment
• Entity linking and relatedness
• Linked data profiling
• Knowledge representation and reasoning
• Knowledge graphs for corpora processing and analysis
• Neuro Symbolic Artificial Intelligence

Methods and Applications for Language, Data and Knowledge

• Question answering and semantic search
• Text analytics on big data
• NLP for language documentation and preservation
• Speech recognition and synthesis
• Spoken language processing
• Semantic content management
• Computer-aided language learning
• Natural language interfaces to big data
• Knowledge-based NLP
• Deep learning and machine learning for and on LLOD
• Language Models and Foundation Models (Language and Multimodal Models)
• Generative Artificial Intelligence and Language, Data, Knowledge Graphs

Use Cases in Language, Data and Knowledge

Contributions are welcome where the topics above – and others within the scope of Language, Data and Knowledge – are applied to domain-specific use cases, including but not limited to: social sciences and humanities, legal, life sciences, FinTech, cybersecurity.

Important Dates

All deadlines are 23:59 AoE (anywhere on Earth):

• Paper submission deadline: 24th March, 2025 (Extended)
• Acceptance/Rejection Notification: 8th May, 2025
• Workshops: 9 September, 2025
• Main conference: 10-11 September, 2025

Organising Committee

• Conference Chairs: Jorge Gracia, Dagmar Gromann
• Program Chairs: Mehwish Alam, Andon Tchechmedjiev
• Workshop and Tutorial Chairs: Katerina Gkirtzou, Slavko Zitnik
• Local Organisers: Maria Pia Buono, Johanna Monti