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 We welcome original and unpublished work across the following areas: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