International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT)

Official webpage: https://www.sigparse.org/iwpt2025

Joint paper submission portal: https://openreview.net/group?id=SyntaxFest/2025

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.

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
  • 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.

Papers accepted for presentation at the conference will be included in the IWPT 2025 proceedings, which will be published by the ACL and included in the ACL Anthology.

Workshop chairs

  • Kenji Sagae (University of California, Davis)
  • Stephan Oepen (University of Oslo)