Full Title: Eighth Universal Dependencies Workshop
Theme: Part of SyntaxFest 2025

Date: 26-Aug-2025 - 29-Aug-2025
Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Contact Person: Gosse Bouma
Meeting Email: [email protected]
Web Site: https://syntaxfest.github.io/syntaxfest25/index.html

Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2025

Call for Papers:

Universal Dependencies (UD) is a framework for cross-linguistically consistent treebank annotation that has so far been applied to over 150 languages (https://universaldependencies.org ). The framework is aiming to capture similarities as well as idiosyncrasies among typologically different languages (e.g., morphologically rich languages, pro-drop languages, and languages featuring clitic doubling). The goal in developing UD was not only to support comparative evaluation and cross-lingual learning but also to facilitate multilingual natural language processing and enable comparative linguistic studies.
The Universal Dependencies Workshop series was started to create a forum for discussion of the theory and practice of UD, its use in research and development, and its future goals and challenges. Some of the previous workshops have been co-located with Coling, EMNLP, and SyntaxFest. We invite papers on all topics relevant to UD, including but not limited to:

Theoretical foundations and universal guidelines
Linguistic analysis of specific languages and/or constructions
Language typology and linguistic universals
Treebank annotation, conversion and validation
Word segmentation, morphological tagging and syntactic parsing
The use of the UD data for evaluating or understanding language models
Linguistic studies based on the UD data

Priority will be given to papers that adopt a cross-lingual perspective.

Invited Speaker

Miryam de Lhoneux (KU Leuven)
SyntaxFest 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. Apart from the 8th UDW, it hosts TLT, DepLing, IWPT, and Quasy. Each workshop publishes its own proceedings, but all events follow a shared submission process, timeline, and programme. The UniDive 1st Shared Task on Morphosyntactic Parsing takes place on Aug, 26.

Important Dates

Paper submission Deadline April 15, 2025
Notification of acceptance June 2, 2025
Camera-ready version due June 16, 2025
Conference dates August 26-29, 2025

Submission Information

Joint SyntaxFest paper submission portal: https://openreview.net/group?id=SyntaxFest/2025
Please note that setting up an OpenReview account for the first time can take some time. To avoid last-minute issues, we strongly recommend registering an account in advance.

Workshop Chairs

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