Overview

Overview

IJCNLP-AACL 2025 invites proposals for tutorials to be held in conjunction with the conference. We welcome proposals in all areas of natural language processing and computational linguistics, as well as in related non-CL/non-NLP areas of interest to our communities.

We especially encourage submissions from early-career researchers.

Important Dates

Proposal Submission Due August 14, 2025
Notification of Acceptance October 2, 2025
Main Conference Main: December 20 - 24, 2025
Tutorials: December 23, 2025

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

Tutorial Types

  1. Cutting-edge:
    • Target audience: participants with some prior knowledge
    • Scope: brief introduction, but main focus on the very latest advances, open research questions, and new directions
  2. Introduction to CL/NLP Topic:
    • Target audience: beginners, no assumed background
    • Scope: overview from foundational developments to current state-of-the-art
  3. Introduction to Non-CL/Non-NLP Topic:
    • Target audience: beginners, no assumed background
    • Scope: introduction to a topic that falls outside the areas typically considered as CL/NLP, but is (or should be) of interest to the IJCNLP-AACL communities.

Tutorial Format & Duration

  • Half-day tutorials (3-4 hours total, including one 30-minute coffee break) are the default.

  • Full-day tutorials (7-8 hours total, including two coffee breaks totaling 1 hour, excluding lunch) may be proposed if well justified.

Submission Guidelines

Submissions should should contain:

  • A title that helps the potential attendees to understand what the tutorial will be about.
  • An abstract that summarizes the topics, goals, target audience, and type (see above) of the tutorial (this abstract will also be shown on the IJCNLP-AACL 2025 website).
  • A section called “Introduction” that explains the topic and summarizes the starting point and relevance for our community and in general.
  • A section called “Target Audience” that explains for whom the tutorial will be developed and what the expected prior knowledge is. Clearly specify what attendees should know and be able to practically do to get the most out of your tutorial. Examples of what to specify include prior mathematical knowledge, knowledge of specific modeling approaches and methods, programming skills, or adjacent areas like computer vision. Also specify the number of expected participants.
  • A section called “Outline” in which the various topics are explained. This can be a list of bullet points or a set of paragraphs explaining the content. Explain what you intend and how long the tutorial will be.
  • A section called “Diversity Considerations”, discussing each of the three aspects of diversity mentioned above or others.
  • A section called “Reading List”: What are introductory papers or books that potential attendees can read to get a first impression of the tutorial content? What do you expect them to have read before attending? What does provide further information beyond the content of the tutorial?
  • A section called “Presenters” in which each tutorial presenter is briefly introduced in one paragraph, including their research interests, their areas of expertise for the tutorial topic, and their experience in teaching a diverse and international audience.
  • A section called “Other Information” which should include information on how many people are expected to participate and how you came to this estimate. You can also explain any other aspects that you find important, including special equipment that you would need.
  • A section called “Ethics Statement” which discusses ethical considerations related to the topics of the tutorial.

For writing the proposal, you can use the template provided below or any other format that follows the specified structure.

Template link: IJCNLP-AACL 2025 Tutorial Proposal Template

Please submit the proposals using the START system at this URL: https://softconf.com/aacl2025/tutorials

Please note that we encourage 100% in-person tutorials. If and how many virtual and/or hybrid formats are possible will be decided at a later point. For in-person tutorials, at least one tutorial organiser is required to be physically present to run the tutorial at IJCNLP-AACL 2025.

Diversity & Inclusion

The proposals should describe the ways in which the tutorial will support diversity in NLP. We suggest organizers consider the following points, while developing the proposal:

  • Contribution to academic diversity: The proposals could explain how the subject matter of the tutorial will contribute to the diversity of the field, e.g. use of multilingual data, indications of how the described methods scale up to various languages or domains, accessibility of resources, supporting underrepresented communities of NLP and so on.
  • Diversifying representation: Following the WiNLP initiative, we recognize the current problems of demographic imbalance in the field. Therefore, we particularly encourage submissions including members of under-represented groups in computational linguistics. The proposals should describe how their selection of invited speakers, panelists, organizers, and program committee promotes diverse representation (for example, considering underrepresented demographics based on gender, ethnicity, nationality, and so on). We also suggest including speakers and panelists, who have not appeared as a keynote speaker or panelist in recent conferences.
  • Diversifying participation: The proposals could describe how the call-for-papers and outreach will encourage people from marginalized groups to attend and submit to the tutorial. Some examples include providing mentoring, subsidies, coordinating with affinity groups, diversifying the selection of papers and so on.

Evaluation Criteria

The tutorial proposals will be evaluated according to their originality and impact, the expected interest level of participants, as well as the quality of the organizing team and their contribution to the diversity of the conference.

The aim of a tutorial is primarily to help participants understand a research topic or wider research area, including both theoretical and practical aspects. Presentations of particular technological solutions or systems are welcome, provided that they serve as illustrations of broader scientific considerations. Tutorials should strike a good balance in covering research from multiple groups and perspectives.

Instructor Responsibilities

Accepted tutorial presenters will be notified by the date mentioned above. They must then provide abstracts of their tutorials for inclusion in the conference registration material by October 13, 2025. The abstract needs to be provided in ASCII format. The summary will be submitted in PDF format and can be updated from the version submitted for review. The instructors will make their material available in an appropriate way, for instance, by setting up a website. They will be invited to submit their slides to the ACL Anthology.

Contact Information

Program Chairs:

For questions about tutorial proposals, submission guidelines, and tutorial organization, email: aacl-ijcnlp25-tutorial_chairs@googlegroups.com