IJCNLP-AACL 2025: Call for Papers

The International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP) and the Asian Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (AACL) 2025 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial original, and unpublished research in all aspects of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing.

Research Contributions Welcome

In addition to traditional research results, papers may contribute negative findings, survey an area, announce the creation of new resources, argue positions, report novel linguistic insights, and reproduce or fail to reproduce previous work.

Findings Publication

Papers not selected for the main conference will automatically be considered for publication in the Findings of the Association of Computational Linguistics.

Special Theme Track

Advanced Reasoning and Chain-of-Thought in Language Models

Explore key aspects of advancing reasoning and chain-of-thought capabilities in language models. We welcome innovative approaches to enhance step-by-step logical deduction, verifiable reasoning, and fact-checking methodologies.

• Logical Deduction: Step-by-step reasoning enhancement
• Fact-Checking: Verifiable reasoning systems
• Cross-Domain: Interpretable reasoning methods

Submission Topics

IJCNLP-AACL 2025 welcomes submissions across all areas of NLP and Computational Linguistics, including:

• Computational Social Science
• Cultural Analytics
• Dialogue and Interactive Systems
• Discourse and Pragmatics
• Efficient/Low-resource Methods for NLP
• Ethics, Bias, and Fairness
• Generation
• 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 (Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics)
• NLP Applications
• Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation
• Question Answering
• Resources and Evaluation
• Semantics (Lexical, Sentence-level, Textual Inference)
• Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, Argument Mining
• Speech Processing and Spoken Language Understanding
• Summarization
• Syntax (Tagging, Chunking and Parsing)

Important Dates

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

• ARR Submission Deadline: July 28, 2025 (Long & Short Papers)
• Commitment Deadline: October 10, 2025 (IJCNLP-AACL 2025)
• Notification of Acceptance: October 25, 2025 (Long & Short Papers)
• Camera-ready Papers Due: November 10, 2025 (Long & Short)
• Main Conference: December 20-24, 2025
• Workshops and Tutorials: December 23-24, 2025

Two-Stage Review Process

IJCNLP-AACL 2025 uses ACL Rolling Review (ARR) as the reviewing system.

1. Submit to ARR: Submit articles to ARR for review. Receive reviews and meta-reviews. Double-blind review process. Option to make papers publicly visible.
2. Commit to Conference: Commit reviewed articles to IJCNLP-AACL. Senior Area Chairs make decisions based on ARR reviews and meta-reviews. Option to revise and resubmit.

Mandatory Reviewing Workload

Authors must specify which co-authors are committing to cover reviewing in the ARR submission cycle. This strengthens our commitment to the peer review process.

Paper Submission Details

• Long Papers:
  • Length: 8 pages (+ 1 additional page for camera-ready)
  • Content: Substantial original research
  • Presentation: Oral or poster as determined by committee
• Short Papers:
  • Length: 4 pages (+ 1 additional page for camera-ready)
  • Content: Focused contributions or preliminary results
  • Presentation: Oral or poster as determined by committee

Submission Requirements

• Two-way anonymized review process
• Follow ARR submission guidelines
• Include responsible NLP research checklist
• Specify limitations section
• Proper authorship attribution
• Citation and comparison guidelines
• Optional supplementary materials
• Writing assistance disclosure

Contact Information

• General Chair: Kentaro Inui (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence)
• Program Chairs: Sakriani Sakti (Nara Institute of Science and Technology), Haofen Wang (Tongji University), Derek F. Wong (University of Macau)
• Paper Submission & Reviews: editors@aclrollingreview.org
• Commitment & Post-Review: ijcnlp-aacl2025-pc@googlegroups.com