NAACL 2025: Call for Main Conference Papers

NAACL 2025 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing.

The conference aims for a diverse technical program, welcoming contributions such as traditional research results, negative findings, surveys, new resource announcements, position arguments, novel linguistic insights, and reproductions.

Submission Process

NAACL 2025 will use ACL Rolling Review (ARR) for paper submissions and reviewing. The process is two-stage:

1. Submission to ARR: Authors submit articles to ARR via OpenReview.
2. Commitment to NAACL: Reviewed articles can be committed to NAACL 2025 via OpenReview.

Reviewing Workload

Authors are required to specify which co-authors are committing to cover reviewing during the ARR submission process. Please refer to the ARR policy for details.

Submission Topics

Relevant topics 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
• Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation
• Question Answering
• Resources and Evaluation
• Semantics: Lexical, Sentence-level, Textual Inference and Other areas
• Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining
• Speech recognition, text-to-speech and spoken language understanding
• Summarization
• Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing / ML
• NLP Applications

Special Theme Track: NLP in a Multicultural World

This track focuses on work supporting the vibrant multicultural world we live in, welcoming papers on:

• Cultural localization of language models.
• New NLP applications to support people from diverse cultures.
• Revitalization or refunctionalization of endangered or sleeping languages.
• Analysis of cultural biases in language models.
• Historical considerations and diachronic analysis.

Reviewing Process

The reviewing process will be double-blind. Reviewers will not see authors, nor will authors see reviewers. ARR reviews will not be publicly visible, but authors may opt to make their anonymized submissions publicly visible.

Important Dates for NAACL 2025

• Submission Deadline for ARR 2024 October: October 15, 2024
• Reviewing Period for ARR 2024 October: October 30 – November 18, 2024
• Author Response Period for ARR 2024 October: November 22 – November 26, 2024
• Reviews and Meta-reviews Released for ARR 2024 October: December 12, 2024
• Commitment Deadline for NAACL 2025: December 16, 2024
• Notification of Acceptance for NAACL 2025: January 22, 2025
• Withdrawal/Final Version Upload Deadline: February 8, 2025

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

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 policies
• Citation and Comparison guidelines
• 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 have one additional page for revisions (up to 9 pages for long papers, up to 5 pages for short papers).

Presentation at the Conference

All accepted papers must be presented at the conference (in-person or virtual) to appear in the proceedings. Papers without a registered presenting author by the early registration deadline may be desk-rejected.

Contact Information

• General Chair: Colin Cherry, Google Research
• Program Co-chairs: Lu Wang (University of Michigan), Alan Ritter (Georgia Institute of Technology), Luis Chiruzzo (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)
• For paper submission questions: editors@aclrollingreview.org
• For all other questions: naacl-2025-pcs@googlegroups.com