Call for Papers: The 19th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XIX)
We invite submissions for LAW-XIX, co-located with ACL 2025 in Vienna, Austria, in July/Aug 2025.
The LAW-XIX will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of innovative research on all aspects of linguistic annotation, including creation/evaluation of annotation schemes, methods for automatic and manual annotation, use and evaluation of annotation software and frameworks, representation of linguistic data and annotations, semi-supervised “human in the loop” methods of annotation, crowd-sourcing approaches, and more.
Special Theme
The special theme of LAW-XIX is “Subjectivity and variation in linguistic annotations”. In addition to LAW’s general topics, we specifically invite submissions on:
Subjectivity and human label variation in linguistic annotations
Learning from annotation disagreements
Detecting annotation noise in human label variation
Accounting for subjectivity in label aggregation
Ways to aggregate multiple annotators’ labels beyond majority vote
Any other topics related to the special theme.
Regarding subjectivity, we are particularly interested in work addressing the annotation of multidimensional constructs from the political and social sciences and encourage submissions on the following topics:
Theory-driven operationalization of complex political or socio-psychological constructs,
such as populism, moral values, or stereotypes
Creation of linguistically annotated datasets that capture such constructs
Relation between theories and textual annotations
Challenges for the measurement of multidimensional constructs from text
Challenges for validating (a) theories, (b) annotations
Implications and risks for manual annotation and automatic prediction of socio-psychological constructs from text.
Important Dates
All submission deadlines are 11:59 p.m. UTC-12:00 “anywhere on Earth.”
Workshop papers due (ARR Commitment) Mar 25, 2025
Workshop papers due (Direct Submission) April 11, 2025
Notification of acceptance May 16, 2025
Camera-ready papers due May 30, 2025
Workshop date July/Aug, 2025
Submissions
For more information on the workshop and submission formats, please refer to the workshop homepage:
https://sigann.github.io/LAW-XIX-2025
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the program co-chairs at law2025workshop@gmail.com.
Workshop Organizers
Siyao (Logan) Peng (Program Co-Chair)
Ines Rehbein (Program Co-Chair)
Amir Zeldes (ACL SIGANN President)