Second CFP: Bangla Language Processing Workshop @ AACL-IJCNLP 2025 — Deadline Sept 29
Firoj Alam
Dear colleagues,
(Apologies for cross posting)
We are pleased to invite submissions to the Second Bangla Language Processing (BLP) Workshop (http://blp-workshop.github.io/), co-located with AACL-IJCNLP 2025, to be held on December 23, 2025, in Mumbai, India. The workshop aims to advance research in LLMs, NLP, speech, and multimodal technologies for Bangla and similar low-resource languages. We welcome original and unpublished work across the following areas:
🔹 Topics of Interest include (but not limited to):
- NLP & LLMs: World knowledge, reasoning, summarization, QA, MT, sentiment, social/cultural analytics
- Speech: ASR, TTS, phonetics, prosody, spoken dialog systems
- Multimodality: Vision-language models, OCR, sign language
- HCI: Tools for diverse user groups, multimodal interfaces
🔹 Submission Types:
- Full Papers: 8 pages (original, completed work)
- Short Papers: 4 pages (work in progress, novel ideas)
- Shared Task Papers: 4 pages
Note: Limitations, ethical considerations, and references are not counted in the page limit.
👉 Submissions must follow the ARR formatting guidelines (https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp/), and the ACL pubcheck tool (https://github.com/acl-org/aclpubcheck) must be used for final camera-ready papers.
📅 Important Dates (Anywhere on Earth):
- Submission Deadline: September 29, 2025
- Notification of Acceptance: November 3, 2025
- Camera-ready Deadline: November 11, 2025
- Workshop Date: December 23, 2025
🔗 Submission Portal: OpenReview – BLP 2025 (https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2025/Workshop/BLP)
📚 Proceedings: Accepted papers will be published in the ACL Anthology (https://aclanthology.org/)
If you are interested in serving on the program committee, please fill out this form:
👉 Reviewer Signup: https://forms.gle/PnhfbYq7T9ugCYVc6
We look forward to your contributions and active participation!
Warm regards,
The BLP 2025 Organizing Committee