Dear Corpora members,
following our previous Calls for Papers, we would like to inform you of
a small update to the submission policies:
*The maximum length of supplementary material has been extended to 3 pages.*
For any additional updates regarding the conference, please visit the
website: https://clic2025.unica.it/
The full text of the updated CfP can be found below.
Best regards,
The CLiC-it chairs
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CLiC-it 2025 – Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics
24 – 26 September 2025, Cagliari, Italy
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Over the years, CLiC-it has evolved into an important forum for the
Italian community of researchers in Computational Linguistics (CL) and
Natural Language Processing (NLP). CLiC-it aims to promote and
disseminate high-quality, original research covering different aspects
of automatic language processing, involving both written and spoken
language. Furthermore, it seeks to showcase cutting-edge theoretical
findings, experimental methodologies, technologies, and application
perspectives.
The spirit of the conference is inclusive. Recognizing the multifaceted
nature of language phenomena and the need for interdisciplinary
expertise, CLiC-it aims to bring together researchers from different
fields including Computational Linguistics and Natural Language
Processing, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Machine Learning, Computer
Science, Knowledge Representation, Information Retrieval, and Digital
Humanities. CLiC-it welcomes contributions focusing on all languages,
with a particular emphasis on Italian.
CLiC-it 2025 will be held in Cagliari, from the 24th to the 26th of
September. CLiC-it is organised by the Italian Association of
Computational Linguistics (AILC — http://www.ai-lc.it/).
➢ CONFERENCE TOPICS
CLiC-it 2025 aims to have a broad technical program. Relevant topics for
the conference include, but are not limited to (in alphabetical order):
Computational Historical Linguistics
Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics
Dialogue and Interactive Systems
Discourse and Pragmatics
Ethics and NLP
Generation
Handwritten Text Recognition
Information Extraction
Information Retrieval and Text Mining
Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP
Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond
Large Language Models
Linguistic Diversity
Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling, and Psycholinguistics
Machine Learning for NLP
Machine Translation
Multilingualism and Cross-Lingual NLP
NLP Applications
NLP for the Humanities
Phonology, Morphology, and Word Segmentation
Pragmatics and Creativity
Question Answering
Resources and Evaluation
Semantics: Lexical, Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference,
and Other Areas
Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining
Speech and Multimodality
Summarization
Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing
➢ RESEARCH COMMUNICATION
CLiC-it 2025 adopts a parallel submission policy for outstanding papers
accepted in 2024 and 2025 by major publication venues, namely the major
international CL conferences (workshops excluded) or international
journals. These contributions can be submitted to CLiC-it 2025 as short
research communications. Research communications will not be published
in the conference proceedings, they serve primarily to promote the
dissemination of high-quality research within the Italian CL community.
Submitted research communications must be in the scope of the CLiC-it
2025 conference.
The authors of papers that meet the above criteria are invited to submit
a written (maximum) one-page abstract of the original paper, including
the paper’s title and authors as well as a pointer to the original
conference or journal where the paper was published. If needed, research
communications will undergo a selection process overseen by the
conference chairs. Since these papers have already been reviewed, the
selection criteria will primarily consider their original publication
venue. Priority will be granted to papers that align most closely with
the conference program, ensuring a balanced representation across
various conference topics. The research communication papers will be
presented at the conference either orally or as a poster according to
the number of submissions received.
➢ PAPER SUBMISSION
Submitted papers must describe substantial, original, completed, and
unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis
should be included.
CLiC-it 2025 allows for a multiple submission policy. In case of
acceptance of the paper in other venues, the authors must communicate
this information to the CLiC-it 2025 Chairs as soon as possible.
Papers may consist of at least six (6) and no more than eight (8) pages
of content and up to three (3) pages of references.
*UPDATE* Supplementary material is also allowed, but it should not
exceed *three (3) pages* in length. Authors are reminded that all
relevant content should be included in the main text of the paper and
that reviewers are not required to evaluate material presented in the
Appendix. In case additional space is needed (e.g. to include prompts,
examples, etc.), external links can be used. Please also note that
sections on limitations and ethical considerations are not mandatory; if
included, they will count toward the page limit.
Upon acceptance, final versions of the papers will be given one
additional page of content so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into
account.
Papers will be evaluated according to the following criteria:
soundness of approach
relevance to computational linguistics
novelty and clarity of relation with related work
quality of presentation
quality of evaluation (if applicable)
verifiability and ability to replicate (if applicable)
Papers can be either in English or Italian, with the abstract in
English. Accepted papers will be published on-line and will be presented
at the conference either orally or as a poster.
All accepted papers must be presented at the conference to appear in the
proceedings.
Reviewing will NOT be blind, so there is no need to remove author
information from manuscripts.
The required template for CLiC-it submissions must be compatible with
CEUR (https://ceur-ws.org/). You can download the conference-adapted
version at the following links:
LaTeX template
https://clic2025.unica.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CLiC-it-2025-template.zip
Word template
https://clic2025.unica.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CLiC_it_2025_template.docx
Should you encounter any issues with the compilation (as the CEUR
template has historically presented some challenges and is not
modifiable without risking exclusion from the proceedings), we provide a
read-only Overleaf template:
https://www.overleaf.com/read/hzyckyjzwhwb#06b27c
This template can be accessed and cloned to help resolve any technical
difficulties.
Papers and research communications must be submitted through the START
platform using the following link: https://softconf.com/p/clic-it2025
For research communications, the appropriate track should be selected.
➢ AWARDS
To acknowledge the contribution of young researchers to the field, the
title of “best paper” will be awarded to outstanding papers, provided
that a Master’s or PhD student is the first author and presents the work
at the conference. Recipients of this award will be invited to submit an
extended version of their papers to the Italian Journal of Computational
Linguistics (IJCoL).
To recognise excellence in student research as well as promote awareness
of our field, AILC is also conferring the “Emanuele Pianta” prize for
the best Master Thesis (Laurea Magistrale) in Computational Linguistics
submitted at an Italian University. The prize consists of 500 Euros plus
free membership to AILC for one year and free registration to the
upcoming CLiC-it.
➢ IMPORTANT DATES
09/06/2025 16/06/2025 [EXTENDED]– Paper submission deadline:
regular papers and research communications
21/07/2025 – Notification to authors of reviewing/selection outcome
04/08/2025 – Camera ready version of accepted papers
24-26/09/2025 – CLiC-it 2025 Conference, Cagliari
➢ PEOPLE
Conference Chairs:
Cristina Bosco (University of Torino)
Elisabetta Jezek (University of Pavia)
Marco Polignano (University of Bari)
Manuela Sanguinetti (University of Cagliari)
Senior Program Committee:
Elisa Bassignana (IT University of Copenhagen)
Pierluigi Cassotti (University of Gothenburg)
Simone Conia (University of Rome “La Sapienza”)
Elisa Di Nuovo (Joint Research Centre European Commission – Ispra)
Claudiu Daniel Hromei (University of Rome “Tor Vergata”)
Antonio Origlia (University of Naples “Federico II”)
Ludovica Pannitto (University of Bologna)
Beatrice Savoldi (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)
Gabriele Sarti (University of Groningen)
Lucia Siciliani (University of Bari)
Irene Siragusa (University of Palermo)
Rossella Varvara (University of Turin – University of Pavia)
Alessandro Vietti (University of Bolzano)
Local Organizing Committee:
Maurizio Atzori (DMI, University of Cagliari)
Andrea Loddo (DMI, University of Cagliari)
Alessandro Pani (DMI, University of Cagliari)
Alessandra Perniciano (DMI, University of Cagliari)
Luca Zedda (DMI, University of Cagliari)
Web chairs:
Maurizio Atzori
Andrea Loddo
➢ FURTHER INFORMATION
Mail: [email protected]
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