Hello wiki-research community!
I'm sharing a call-for-papers for a workshop that I'm helping to organize at ACL 2025 (https://2025.aclweb.org/) that will be focused on celebrating Wikimedia's contributions to the natural language processing (NLP) community and highlighting approaches to ensuring the sustainability of this relationship for years to come. Our website for the workshop is on Meta (and I've summarized the content below): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NLP_for_Wikipedia_(EMNLP_2024 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NLP_for_Wikipedia_(ACL_2025)
The workshop will be hybrid (virtual and in-person components). We have not been assigned a date yet but it will either be July 31st or August 1st, 2025. Paper submission deadline is 23 April 2025. To get a sense of potential costs to attend, you can see last year's conference registration: https://2023.emnlp.org/registration/#virtual-pricing https://2024.aclweb.org/registration
There are three ways in which we are inviting contributions [1]:
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Wikimedian provocations: we would like to collect ideas from Wikimedians about what NLP tooling would be beneficial for your work. These are informal and will help us guide future iterations. We will also do our best to summarize them for the workshop and welcome folks who provide these to attend (though that's not required). -
Datasets: these will be traditional peer-reviewed, archival papers (8 pages max) that focus on describing datasets that would be useful to the Wikimedia community. Given that we haven't collected the Wikimedian provocations yet, we've provided a few seed ideas related to Wikipedia's core content policies and the Community Wishlist: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NLP_for_Wikipedia_(ACL_2025)/Track_2_Guidanc... -
Ongoing or published work on NLP for Wikimedia: if you'd like to participate in the workshop and have previous work that is relevant, we'd also love to have you. This track is also non-archival.
We will also be providing a paper checklist shortly (check back on the Meta site) to give authors guidance on how to better align their work with the needs and some of the principles of the Wikimedia Movement. We encourage questions to the organizing team (cc'ed) and I have office hours that folks can book if they would benefit from a more extensive discussion about ideas (in particular for the Datasets track): https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/appointments/schedules/AcZssZ05jfbO...
Best, Isaac
[1] If you have early-stage work around Wikimedia that doesn't quite fit into any of these tracks (and even if you don't), I'd highly encourage you to check out WikiWorkshop: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Workshop_2025
Thanks for this update, Isaac. While this is a great opportunity and many of us would like to submit, are Wikimedians, who already volunteer their time and labour, expected to pay to share findings from their work? Only a full waiver to Wikimedians would make sense.
Thanks, Subhashish
On Mon, 10 Feb, 2025, 9:17 am Isaac Johnson, isaac@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello wiki-research community!
I'm sharing a call-for-papers for a workshop that I'm helping to organize at ACL 2025 (https://2025.aclweb.org/) that will be focused on celebrating Wikimedia's contributions to the natural language processing (NLP) community and highlighting approaches to ensuring the sustainability of this relationship for years to come. Our website for the workshop is on Meta (and I've summarized the content below): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NLP_for_Wikipedia_(EMNLP_2024 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NLP_for_Wikipedia_(ACL_2025)
The workshop will be hybrid (virtual and in-person components). We have not been assigned a date yet but it will either be July 31st or August 1st, 2025. Paper submission deadline is 23 April 2025. To get a sense of potential costs to attend, you can see last year's conference registration: https://2023.emnlp.org/registration/#virtual-pricing https://2024.aclweb.org/registration
There are three ways in which we are inviting contributions [1]:
Wikimedian provocations: we would like to collect ideas from Wikimedians about what NLP tooling would be beneficial for your work. These are informal and will help us guide future iterations. We will also do our best to summarize them for the workshop and welcome folks who provide these to attend (though that's not required).
Datasets: these will be traditional peer-reviewed, archival papers (8 pages max) that focus on describing datasets that would be useful to the Wikimedia community. Given that we haven't collected the Wikimedian provocations yet, we've provided a few seed ideas related to Wikipedia's core content policies and the Community Wishlist:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NLP_for_Wikipedia_(ACL_2025)/Track_2_Guidanc...
Ongoing or published work on NLP for Wikimedia: if you'd like to participate in the workshop and have previous work that is relevant, we'd also love to have you. This track is also non-archival.
We will also be providing a paper checklist shortly (check back on the Meta site) to give authors guidance on how to better align their work with the needs and some of the principles of the Wikimedia Movement. We encourage questions to the organizing team (cc'ed) and I have office hours that folks can book if they would benefit from a more extensive discussion about ideas (in particular for the Datasets track):
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/appointments/schedules/AcZssZ05jfbO...
Best, Isaac
[1] If you have early-stage work around Wikimedia that doesn't quite fit into any of these tracks (and even if you don't), I'd highly encourage you to check out WikiWorkshop: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Workshop_2025
-- Isaac Johnson https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Isaac_(WMF) (he/him) -- Senior Research Scientist -- Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list -- wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to wiki-research-l-leave@lists.wikimedia.org
Hey Subhashish,
While this is a great opportunity and many of us would like to submit,
are Wikimedians, who already volunteer their time and labour, expected to pay to share findings from their work?
Thanks for voicing your concerns. Some additional background about how we're thinking about it in case that's helpful:
This workshop is part of the ACL conference, which has its benefits and drawbacks. The benefit is that we reach a large community of NLP researchers that we might not otherwise reach through more wiki-specific venues and there are stronger incentives for academic researchers to participate. The drawback is that we do not have control of costs and so while we can offer a virtual component, we do not control its price, which is quite high for someone just interested in a single workshop like this.
That said, a few ways we're thinking about balancing out this issue:
- We will look for opportunities to invite Wikimedians as speakers, which allows us to bring folks in for aspects without having cost be a barrier. - We are looking into sponsorship that might help to defer costs but there are no guarantees there. We would report back if that became a more concrete possibility. - While this WikiNLP workshop does have a higher barrier to entry for folks without institutional support, the Wikimedia Research team also co-organizes Wiki Workshop ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Workshop_2025), which is intended in part to provide a widely accessible space where it is easier for Wikimedians to participate alongside academics etc. (registration has been free the past few years).
Best, Isaac
On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 10:55 AM Subhashish psubhashish@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for this update, Isaac. While this is a great opportunity and many of us would like to submit, are Wikimedians, who already volunteer their time and labour, expected to pay to share findings from their work? Only a full waiver to Wikimedians would make sense.
Thanks, Subhashish
On Mon, 10 Feb, 2025, 9:17 am Isaac Johnson, isaac@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello wiki-research community!
I'm sharing a call-for-papers for a workshop that I'm helping to organize at ACL 2025 (https://2025.aclweb.org/) that will be focused on celebrating Wikimedia's contributions to the natural language processing (NLP) community and highlighting approaches to ensuring the sustainability of this relationship for years to come. Our website for the workshop is on Meta (and I've summarized the content below): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NLP_for_Wikipedia_(EMNLP_2024 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NLP_for_Wikipedia_(ACL_2025)
The workshop will be hybrid (virtual and in-person components). We have not been assigned a date yet but it will either be July 31st or August 1st, 2025. Paper submission deadline is 23 April 2025. To get a sense of potential costs to attend, you can see last year's conference registration: https://2023.emnlp.org/registration/#virtual-pricing https://2024.aclweb.org/registration
There are three ways in which we are inviting contributions [1]:
Wikimedian provocations: we would like to collect ideas from Wikimedians about what NLP tooling would be beneficial for your work. These are informal and will help us guide future iterations. We will also do our best to summarize them for the workshop and welcome folks who provide these to attend (though that's not required).
Datasets: these will be traditional peer-reviewed, archival papers (8 pages max) that focus on describing datasets that would be useful to the Wikimedia community. Given that we haven't collected the Wikimedian provocations yet, we've provided a few seed ideas related to Wikipedia's core content policies and the Community Wishlist:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NLP_for_Wikipedia_(ACL_2025)/Track_2_Guidanc...
Ongoing or published work on NLP for Wikimedia: if you'd like to participate in the workshop and have previous work that is relevant, we'd also love to have you. This track is also non-archival.
We will also be providing a paper checklist shortly (check back on the Meta site) to give authors guidance on how to better align their work with the needs and some of the principles of the Wikimedia Movement. We encourage questions to the organizing team (cc'ed) and I have office hours that folks can book if they would benefit from a more extensive discussion about ideas (in particular for the Datasets track):
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/appointments/schedules/AcZssZ05jfbO...
Best, Isaac
[1] If you have early-stage work around Wikimedia that doesn't quite fit into any of these tracks (and even if you don't), I'd highly encourage you to check out WikiWorkshop: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Workshop_2025
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Hey all -- reaching out with an update and reminder on the WikiNLP workshop https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NLP_for_Wikipedia_(ACL_2025):
- We have pushed the paper deadline back to *30 April 2025*. - A reminder that you can send questions to our organizing team ( nlp4wikipedia@googlegroups.com), email me directly, or book office hours with me to ask any questions about the research area, framing, etc.: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/appointments/schedules/AcZssZ05jfbO...
- This is a hybrid workshop so while there will be an in-person component on 1 August 2025 in Vienna, Austria at the ACL Conference, we will have virtual participation options as well (though these will still require registration with ACL).
Best, Isaac
On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 9:16 AM Isaac Johnson isaac@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello wiki-research community!
I'm sharing a call-for-papers for a workshop that I'm helping to organize at ACL 2025 (https://2025.aclweb.org/) that will be focused on celebrating Wikimedia's contributions to the natural language processing (NLP) community and highlighting approaches to ensuring the sustainability of this relationship for years to come. Our website for the workshop is on Meta (and I've summarized the content below): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NLP_for_Wikipedia_(EMNLP_2024 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NLP_for_Wikipedia_(ACL_2025)
The workshop will be hybrid (virtual and in-person components). We have not been assigned a date yet but it will either be July 31st or August 1st, 2025. Paper submission deadline is 23 April 2025. To get a sense of potential costs to attend, you can see last year's conference registration: https://2023.emnlp.org/registration/#virtual-pricing https://2024.aclweb.org/registration
There are three ways in which we are inviting contributions [1]:
Wikimedian provocations: we would like to collect ideas from Wikimedians about what NLP tooling would be beneficial for your work. These are informal and will help us guide future iterations. We will also do our best to summarize them for the workshop and welcome folks who provide these to attend (though that's not required).
Datasets: these will be traditional peer-reviewed, archival papers (8 pages max) that focus on describing datasets that would be useful to the Wikimedia community. Given that we haven't collected the Wikimedian provocations yet, we've provided a few seed ideas related to Wikipedia's core content policies and the Community Wishlist: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NLP_for_Wikipedia_(ACL_2025)/Track_2_Guidanc...
Ongoing or published work on NLP for Wikimedia: if you'd like to participate in the workshop and have previous work that is relevant, we'd also love to have you. This track is also non-archival.
We will also be providing a paper checklist shortly (check back on the Meta site) to give authors guidance on how to better align their work with the needs and some of the principles of the Wikimedia Movement. We encourage questions to the organizing team (cc'ed) and I have office hours that folks can book if they would benefit from a more extensive discussion about ideas (in particular for the Datasets track): https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/appointments/schedules/AcZssZ05jfbO...
Best, Isaac
[1] If you have early-stage work around Wikimedia that doesn't quite fit into any of these tracks (and even if you don't), I'd highly encourage you to check out WikiWorkshop: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Workshop_2025
-- Isaac Johnson https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Isaac_(WMF) (he/him) -- Senior Research Scientist -- Wikimedia Foundation
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