Hello wiki-research community! I'm sharing a call-for-papers for a workshop that I'm helping to organize at ACL 2025 (https://2025.aclweb.org/) that will be focused on celebrating Wikimedia's contributions to the natural language processing (NLP) community and highlighting approaches to ensuring the sustainability of this relationship for years to come. Our website for the workshop is on Meta (and I've summarized the content below): <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NLP_for_Wikipedia_(EMNLP_2024> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NLP_for_Wikipedia_(ACL_2025)
The workshop will be hybrid (virtual and in-person components). We have not been assigned a date yet but it will either be July 31st or August 1st, 2025. Paper submission deadline is 23 April 2025. To get a sense of potential costs to attend, you can see last year's conference registration: <https://2023.emnlp.org/registration/#virtual-pricing> https://2024.aclweb.org/registration There are three ways in which we are inviting contributions [1]: - Wikimedian provocations: we would like to collect ideas from Wikimedians about what NLP tooling would be beneficial for your work. These are informal and will help us guide future iterations. We will also do our best to summarize them for the workshop and welcome folks who provide these to attend (though that's not required). - Datasets: these will be traditional peer-reviewed, archival papers (8 pages max) that focus on describing datasets that would be useful to the Wikimedia community. Given that we haven't collected the Wikimedian provocations yet, we've provided a few seed ideas related to Wikipedia's core content policies and the Community Wishlist: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NLP_for_Wikipedia_(ACL_2025)/Track_2_Guidance - Ongoing or published work on NLP for Wikimedia: if you'd like to participate in the workshop and have previous work that is relevant, we'd also love to have you. This track is also non-archival. We will also be providing a paper checklist shortly (check back on the Meta site) to give authors guidance on how to better align their work with the needs and some of the principles of the Wikimedia Movement. We encourage questions to the organizing team (cc'ed) and I have office hours that folks can book if they would benefit from a more extensive discussion about ideas (in particular for the Datasets track): https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/appointments/schedules/AcZssZ05jfbOqpB-61Nhs7kCLgfYDx4YaxSb8DtjsPXYcr9QWoGu7OVxY3338-yNerJHq77dwCn76w0G Best, Isaac [1] If you have early-stage work around Wikimedia that doesn't quite fit into any of these tracks (and even if you don't), I'd highly encourage you to check out WikiWorkshop: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Workshop_2025 -- Isaac Johnson <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Isaac_(WMF)> (he/him) -- Senior Research Scientist -- Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
