Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that SyntaxFest 2025 (https://syntaxfest.github.io/syntaxfest25/) will take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from 26 to 29 August 2025. SyntaxFest is a biennial event that brings together a series of events focusing on topics such as empirical syntax, linguistic annotation, statistical language analysis, and natural language processing.

SyntaxFest 2025, organized by the University of Ljubljana, will host five events under a unified submission process and program:

TLT: 23rd Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories
DepLing: 8th International Conference on Dependency Linguistics
UDW: 8th Universal Dependencies Workshop
IWPT: 18th International Conference on Parsing Technologies
Quasy: 2nd Workshop on Quantitative Syntax

In addition, the event will be co-located with the UniDive 1st Shared Task on Morphosyntactic Parsing, organized by the UniDive COST Action CA21167, on 26 August 2025.

Preliminary timeline for paper submission procedure:

First call for papers: December 2024
Submission deadline: April 2025
Notification of acceptance: June 2025
Conference dates: 26 to 29 August 2025

Workshop organizers / Programme chairs:

TLT:

Heike Zinsmeister (University of Hamburg)
Sarah Jablotschkin (University of Hamburg)
Sandra Kübler (Indiana University)

DepLing:

Eva Hajičová (Charles University, Prague)
Sylvain Kahane (Université Paris Nanterre)

UDW:

Gosse Bouma (University of Groningen)
Cagri Coltekin (University of Tübingen)

IWPT:

Kenji Sagae (University of California, Davis)

Stephan Oepen (University of Oslo)

Quasy:

Xinying Chen (University of Ostrava)
Yaqin Wang (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies)

Local Organizing Committee:

Kaja Dobrovoljc (University of Ljubljana, chair)
Špela Arhar Holdt (University of Ljubljana)
Marko Robnik Šikonja (University of Ljubljana)
Matej Klemen (University of Ljubljana)
Luka Terčon (University of Ljubljana)
Sara Kos (University of Ljubljana)

We look forward to seeing you in Ljubljana!

On behalf of SyntaxFest 2025 Organizing Committee,

Kaja Dobrovoljc