Call For Papers
The Fourth Ukrainian Natural Language Processing Workshop will be held online in conjunction with the ACL 2025 conference.
UNLP as is
The UNLP workshop focuses on advances in Ukrainian natural language processing. The aim of the workshop is to bring together leading professionals from academia and industry who develop language resources, tools, and NLP solutions for the Ukrainian language or do cross-lingual research that can be applied to the Ukrainian language.
The Ukrainian NLP community has only started forming in recent years, with most of the projects done by isolated groups of researchers. The UNLP workshop provides a platform for discussion and sharing of ideas, encourages collaboration between different research groups, and improves the visibility of the Ukrainian research community. The workshop facilitates the creation of shared standards and processing pipelines, as well as new industrial applications, joint research projects, and publications across different teams working on Ukrainian.
Topics of interest lie in the area of Ukrainian NLP and Computational Linguistics and include, but are not limited to, the following tasks:
- morphosyntactic tagging,
- named-entity recognition,
- syntactic and semantic parsing,
- coreference resolution,
- information extraction and text mining,
- automated question answering and information retrieval,
- language modelling and natural language generation,
- grammatical error correction,
- text summarization,
- machine translation,
- sentiment analysis,
- argument mining,
- disinformation detection and fact verification,
- development of language resources and evaluation methods,
- speech recognition and generation,
- knowledge representation and computational pragmatics,
- computational semantics,
- computational methods for phonology,
- cross-lingual models applicable to Ukrainian,
- Ukrainian dialects, sociolects, and code-switching,
- Ukrainian NLP in interaction with other artificial intelligence technologies.
The Workshop will accept research papers for the Crimean Tatar language with the aim of supporting this severely endangered language of the indigenous people of Ukraine. The Workshop will also accept papers with negative results.
Shared Task
This Shared Task aims to challenge and assess AI capabilities to detect and classify manipulation, laying the groundwork for progress in cybersecurity and the identification of disinformation within the context of Ukraine.
Organized jointly with Texty.org.ua, the task will be based on 9,500 Telegram posts manually annotated for ten manipulation techniques by media experts. The shared task will have two tracks: techniques classification and detection of manipulative text spans.
You can find the detailed instructions, limitations, baseline, and evaluation sample at [GitHub repository – TBD].
Important Dates
November 25, 2024 — First call for workshop papers
April 14, 2025 — Workshop paper due (direct submission)
May 5, 2025 — Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline
May 12, 2025 — Notification of acceptance
June 2, 2025 — Camera-ready papers due
June 30, 2025 — Pre-recorded video due
July 31 or August 1, 2025 — Workshop
Submission
UNLP invites submissions of completed and ongoing projects. Submissions describing resources or solutions that have been made available to the broader public are strongly encouraged.
The workshop proceedings will be published on the ACL 2025 website.
We invite two types of submissions: long and short papers. Long papers should describe original, unpublished and completed work. The short papers may describe work in progress, small focused contributions, system demonstrations, new linguistic resources, or experiments based on existing software and resources.
Overlap with previously published work should be clearly mentioned at the time of submission. The authors should indicate in their submission whether the paper has been submitted elsewhere, e.g., to the main conference. In particular, in case the paper has been rejected by the main conference, it should be indicated in the submission.
All submissions will be judged on correctness, novelty, technical strength, clarity of presentation, usability, and significance/relevance to the Workshop. Every submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee.
The reviewing process will be double-blind. The papers must not include the authors’ names and affiliations. Self-citations and other references that reveal the authors’ identity must be avoided.
Long papers should follow the ACL 2025 two-column format with a maximum of eight (8) pages of content. Short paper submissions should follow the same format and not exceed four (4) pages for content. These limitations do not include any number of additional pages for references, appendices, ethical considerations, conflict-of-interest statements, or data and code availability statements.
All submissions must conform to the official style guidelines of ACL 2025 and must be created using the official ACL style template. The working language of UNLP is English. Submissions in any other language will be rejected without review.
Link for paper submission: TBD