Recent Updates
- Aug 13, 2025: Pre-submission Mentoring is launched.
- Jul 20, 2025: Two Shared Tasks are announced.
- June 19, 2025: Website is up!
- June 19, 2025: Join the Slack channel for communication.
Important Dates
| Paper submission due | Sep 29 (Mon), 2025 |
| Notification of acceptance | Nov 3 (Mon), 2025 |
| Camera-ready due | Nov 11 (Tue), 2025 |
| Workshop | December 2025 co-located with IJCNLP-AACL |
Pre-submission Mentoring
We are launching a pre-submission mentoring program in a limited scale. We are adapting this from the pre-submission mentoring program in other *CL conferences.
We hope this program can help create a path for prospective BLP authors who would not otherwise have considered participating in, or working on a submission to the workshop. We hope to establish valuable connections and first-hand training for these early-career researchers throughout the submission process. This program will provide the authors access to mentors who will provide them feedback on: (i) polishing the draft (ii) suggesting any missing experiments (iii) discussing interesting directions to extend the work etc.
To this end, we are starting a pre-submission mentoring program that begins on September 5th and will run until the paper submission deadline.
Information for Mentees
To apply to be a mentee, please fill out this form by August 30th. Please provide as much information you can so that we can find out a good match. Getting a mentor is not guarranted.
Important Notes:
For any questions related to specific workshop submission deadlines, submission instructions and policies, please reach out to the workshop organizers.
Please note that submitting to this mentoring program does not submit your work to a workshop automatically. You will still need to make a submission to your workshop of interest before their specified deadline(s).
Mentor/Mentees Expectation
Mentors are encouraged to provide feedback addressing the following questions (among others):
- Is the main claim of the work justified and communicated well?
- What weaknesses might affect paper acceptance, and how can those be addressed?
- What additions could make the paper stronger?
- How can the structure and presentation of the paper be improved?
- Mentors and mentees are expected to communicate via email and/or video/audio chat. We encourage mentors and mentees to schedule regular check-ins before the submission deadline.
We will have a mid-way check-in in September to check if the match is going well.
Time commitment expected from the mentors is about 8 hours over the duration of the mentoring program.