First Call for Papers

The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2025) 

Co-located with EMNLP 2025 in Suzhou, China, November 2025. (Hybrid Mode).

ArabicNLP 2025 We invite long (up to 8 pages), short (up to 4 pages), and demo paper (up to 4 pages) submissions. Long and short papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program committee; presentation mode does not reflect the quality of the work.

Theme: Bridging Modalities: Advancing Arabic NLP

Submissions may include work in progress or completed research, with a clear focus on Arabic NLP, covering standard Arabic, dialectal, or classical. This year, we focus on advancing the three key modalities: text, speech, and vision. We encourage research that explores modeling, novel applications, and new resources. Papers on related languages, such as Semitic languages or those using Arabic script, are welcome if they offer insights relevant to Arabic NLP. Work using Arabic resources for other languages is also encouraged. We welcome descriptions of commercial systems, position papers, and surveys on the above topics, with detailed information on technical contributions and added value to the community. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Enabling technologies:

  •  Text: Language models, diacritization, morphological analysis, lemmatization, tokenization, POS tagging, syntactic and semantic parsing, named entity recognition, disambiguation, sentiment analysis, Arabic dialect modeling, etc.

  • Speech & Vision: Speech recognition, speech synthesis, dialect identification, optical character recognition, image/video understanding, image/video generation, etc.

• Applications: Assistive technologies, human-computer interaction, social media analytics, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic applications.

• Resources: Multimodal corpora (text, speech, vision), annotation tools, lexical and dictionaries, etc.

Conference Submission URL: TBA

Important Dates for Conference Papers

• June 22, 2025: Abstract submission for conference papers due date

• June 29, 2025: Conference paper due date

• August 03, 2025: Reviews submission deadline

• August 24, 2025: Rebuttal period ends

• August 31, 2025: Notification of acceptance

• September 21, 2025: Camera-ready papers due

• November 2025: ArabicNLP conference

If you have any questions, please contact us at: arabicnlp-pc-chairs@sigarab.org 

All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h (“Anywhere on Earth”).