First workshop for young researchers in NLG
Patricia Schmidtova
YNLG 2025: The 1st Workshop for Young Researchers in Natural Language Generation
Call for Papers
We invite early-career researchers to submit position papers to the first Workshop for Young Researchers in Natural Language Generation (YNLG 2025), to be held as part of INLG 2025 in Hanoi, Vietnam.
YNLG aims to foster a welcoming community of early-career researchers in NLG by providing a platform for PhD students and Master's students to present work-in-progress research, receive feedback from senior researchers and peers, and engage in discussions about current trends and future directions in Natural Language Generation.
The workshop is organized under the auspices of the Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN) of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). YNLG 2025 will take place during INLG 2025 (October 29 - November 2, 2025) at the Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Website: https://ynlg-workshop.github.io/
Workshop Format
YNLG 2025 will be a full-day, in-person workshop featuring:
Poster Sessions: Two sessions where participants present their submissions and engage with fellow researchers
Keynote Talks: To be announced
Interactive Roundtables: Small-group discussions on both research topics and practical aspects of academic life
Networking Social Event: An informal evening event with sightseeing and dinner
Important Dates
All deadlines are at 11:59 PM, Anywhere on Earth (UTC -12).
Submissions due: August 31, 2025
Notification of acceptance: September 24, 2025
Camera-ready papers due: October 3, 2025 (Optional)
Workshop: October 29 (during INLG 2025)
Submission Format
Position Papers: We invite 2-page position papers (+ unlimited references) that should include:
Research Overview: A description of your past, present, and future research plans in NLG
Short Biography: A brief academic biography highlighting your background and research interests
Questions for Senior Researchers: Specific questions you would like to ask senior researchers. These can be related to research or the general PhD experience and future careers. We will anonymize and aggregate these questions and release the answers for all of them with the proceedings of the workshop.
Topics for Roundtable Discussions with Peers: Suggestions for topics you would like to see discussed during the workshop's interactive roundtable sessions
The position paper format is designed to facilitate meaningful discussions during the workshop's poster sessions and roundtable discussions, rather than presenting fully completed research. There is no anonymity requirement and participants are encouraged to share their research backgrounds.
The participants can choose whether they prefer their submission to be published with the workshop proceedings.
Topics of Interest
We invite position papers on any topic related to Natural Language Generation, including but not limited to:
Large Language Models (LLMs) for NLG
Evaluation and error analysis of NLG systems
Explainability and trustworthiness of NLG systems
Bias and fairness in NLG systems
Data-to-text, concept-to-text, text-to-text, and vision-to-text approaches
Grounded language generation
NLG in dialogue systems and chatbots
Storytelling and narrative generation
Summarization and paraphrasing
Multimodal and multimedia generation
NLG for low-resourced languages
Ethical considerations in NLG
NLG applications and real-world deployment
Computational efficiency of NLG models
Content and text planning
Surface realization and lexicalization
Submission Instructions
Papers should be submitted through the workshop's submission system (https://softconf.com/p/ynlg2025). All submissions will be checked by the organizers for topic fit. If applicable, the submission will receive at least two reviews from our program committee to suggest feedback and further research directions.
Papers should follow the ACL formatting guidelines and be submitted as PDF files.
Contact
For questions about the workshop or submissions, please contact: Patricia Schmidtova (schmi...@ufal.mff.cuni.cz)
Organizers
Alyssa Allen (The Ohio State University)
Nils Feldhus (TU Berlin, BIFOLD)
Rudali Huidrom (Dublin City University, ADAPT)
Michela Lorandi (Dublin City University, ADAPT)
Adarsa Sivaprasad (University of Aberdeen)
Patricia Schmidtova (Charles University) - Contact Person
We look forward to welcoming you to YNLG 2025 and fostering the next generation of NLG researchers!