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Call for Papers @ Fifth Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2025)
Dates: 9-12 September 2025
Location: Naples, Italy
Website: http://2025.ldk-conf.org
Twitter/X: https://x.com/LDKconference
Submission Deadline: 06/03/2025
Submission page: https://openreview.net/group?id=LDK/2025/Conference
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We invite submissions to the fifth biennial conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2025) to be held in Naples, Italy in September 2025. This conference aims to bring together researchers from across different disciplines concerned with the acquisition, treatment, curation and the use of language data in the context of data science and knowledge-based applications. This edition builds upon the success of the inaugural event held in Galway, Ireland in 2017, the second LDK in Leipzig, Germany in 2019, the third LDK in Zaragoza, Spain in 2021, and the fourth LDK in Vienna, Austria in 2023.

Paper Submission
We welcome submissions of relevance to the topics listed below. Submissions can be in the form of:
Long papers: 9–12 pages;
Short papers: 4–6 pages.

All submission lengths are given including references. Accepted submissions will be published in an open-access conference proceedings volume and indexed in ACL anthology and DBLP, free of charge for authors. The ACL templates should therefore be used for all conference submissions.

As the reviewing process is single-blind, submissions should not be anonymised. Papers should be submitted via OpenReview at the following address:
https://openreview.net/group?id=LDK/2025/Conference

All papers must represent original work. When submitted, the submission must not have been previously published*, and the material in it must not have been/be submitted for review at another journal or conference while under review at LDK 2025.
*This excludes papers on preprint archives, such as arXiv, which we do not consider to have been previously published.

The conference will be hybrid (face-to-face and remote). Note that at least one author of each accepted paper must register to present the paper at the conference (either remotely or on-site).

Topics
Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following fields:

Language Data

Language data construction and acquisition
Language data annotation
FAIR data practices for language data
Language data portals and metadata about language data
Organisational and infrastructural management of language data
Multilingual, multimedia and multimodal language data
Evaluation, provenance and quality of language data
Visualisation of language data
Standards and interoperability of language data
Legal aspects of publishing language data
Under-resourced languages
e-Lexicography
Semantic processing


Knowledge Graphs

Linguistic Linked Data and the multilingual Semantic Web
Ontologies, terminologies, wordnets, framenets and related resources
Information and knowledge extraction (taxonomy extraction, ontology learning)
Data, information and knowledge integration across languages
(Cross-lingual) ontology alignment
Entity linking and relatedness
Linked data profiling
Knowledge representation and reasoning
Knowledge graphs for corpora processing and analysis
Neuro Symbolic Artificial Intelligence


Methods and Applications for Language, Data and Knowledge

Question answering and semantic search
Text analytics on big data
NLP for language documentation and preservation
Speech recognition and synthesis
Spoken language processing
Semantic content management
Computer-aided language learning
Natural language interfaces to big data
Knowledge-based NLP
Deep learning and machine learning for and on LLOD
Language Models and Foundation Models (Language and Multimodal Models).
Generative Artificial Intelligence and Language, Data, Knowledge Graphs
Use Cases in Language, Data and Knowledge

Contributions are welcome where the topics above - and others within the scope of Language, Data and Knowledge - are applied to domain-specific use cases, including but not limited to: social sciences and humanities, legal, life sciences, FinTech, cybersecurity.

Organising Committee

Conference Chairs:
Jorge Gracia, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Dagmar Gromann, University of Vienna, Austria

Program Chairs:
Mehwish Alam, Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France
Andon Tchechmedjiev, Institut Mines Telecom | EuroMov Digital Health in Motion

Workshop and Tutorial Chairs:
Katerina Gkirtzou, ILSP/Athena Research Center, Greece
Slavko Zitnik, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Local Organisers:
Maria Pia Buono - University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Italy
Johanna Monti - University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Italy

Important Dates:
Paper submission deadline: 6th March, 2025
Acceptance/Rejection Notification: 8th May, 2025
Pre/Post Conference events: 9 to 12 September, 2025
Main conference: 10-11 September, 2025

All deadlines are 23:59 AoE (anywhere on Earth)