The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) invites the submission of long and short papers for its 63rd annual meeting, ACL 2025, to be held in Vienna, Austria, from July 27 to August 1, 2025. The conference has a goal of a diverse technical program and welcomes submissions on various topics, including the special theme: Generalization of NLP Models. Learn about important dates, submission information, and more.

ACL 2025: The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) invites the submission of long and short papers for its 63rd annual meeting, to be held in Vienna, Austria, from July 27 to August 1, 2025. The conference has a goal of a diverse technical program, and papers may contribute negative findings, survey an area, announce the creation of a new resource, argue a position, report novel linguistic insights derived using existing computational techniques, and reproduce, or fail to reproduce, previous results.

Submission Information

Papers may be submitted to the ARR 2025 February cycle. Papers that have received reviews and a meta-review from ARR may be committed to ACL 2025 via the conference commitment site (TBA).

Submission Topics

ACL 2025 aims to have a broad technical program, with relevant topics including 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, NLP Applications, Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation, Question Answering, Resources and Evaluation, Semantics: Lexical and Sentence-Level, Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, Speech recognition, text-to-speech and spoken language understanding, Summarization, Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing, and the special theme: Generalization of NLP Models.

ACL 2025 Theme Track: Generalization of NLP Models

The theme track invites empirical and theoretical research and position and survey papers reflecting on the Generalization of NLP Models. The possible topics of discussion include factors that affect the generalization of NLP models, methods for evaluating the generalization capabilities of NLP models, key limitations of LLMs in this regard, and more.

Two-Stage Review: Submission to ARR, Commitment to ACL 2025

ACL 2025 will use ACL Rolling Review (ARR) as a reviewing system, but final decisions will be made by the conference. Both submissions of articles for review and commitment of reviewed articles to the conference will be performed via the Open Review platform.

Important Dates

Submission deadline (all papers are submitted to ARR)	February 15, 2025
ARR reviews & meta-reviews available to authors of the February cycle	April 15, 2025
Commitment deadline for ACL 2025	April 20, 2025
Notification of acceptance	May 15, 2025
Withdrawal deadline	May 30, 2025
Camera-ready papers due	May 30, 2025
Tutorials	July 27, 2025
Conference	July 28 – 30, 2025
Workshops	July 31 – August 1, 2025

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

Paper Submission Details

Both long and short paper submissions should follow all of the ARR submission requirements, including Instructions for Two-Way Anonymized Review, Authorship, Citation and Comparison, Multiple Submission Policy, Resubmission Policy, Withdrawal Policy, Ethics Policy, Limitations, and Paper Submission and Templates. Optional Supplementary Materials are also allowed.

Following the ACL and ARR policies, there is no anonymity period requirement. At the time of submission to ARR, authors will be asked to select a preferred venue (e.g., ACL 2025). This is used only to calculate acceptance rates. Authors who selected ACL 2025 as a preferred venue when submitting to ARR may choose not to commit to ACL 2025 after receiving their reviews, and authors who selected a preferred venue other than ACL 2025 when submitting to ARR are still welcome to commit to ACL 2025.

All accepted papers must be presented at the conference to appear in the proceedings. Long and short papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program committee. While short papers will be distinguished from long papers in the proceedings, there will be no distinction between papers presented orally and papers presented as posters.

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