YNLG 2025
The 1st Workshop for Young Researchers in Natural Language Generation
October 29, 2025 • Hanoi, Vietnam • Part of INLG 2025
📅 Important Dates
- Submissions due:
August 26, 2025August 31, 2025
- Notification:
September 24, 2025 - Camera-ready:
October 3, 2025 - Workshop:
October 29, 2025
🎯 Target Audience
Early-career researchers including:
- PhD students
- Master's students
- Postdocs new to NLG
📝 Submission Format
2-page position papers including:
- Research overview
- Short biography
- Questions for seniors
- Roundtable topics
About YNLG 2025
YNLG aims to foster a welcoming community of early-career researchers in NLG by providing a platform for PhD students and Master's students to present work-in-progress research, receive feedback from senior researchers and peers, and engage in discussions about current trends and future directions in Natural Language Generation.
The workshop is organized under the auspices of the Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN) of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). YNLG 2025 will take place during INLG 2025 at the Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Workshop Format
YNLG 2025 will be a full-day, in-person workshop featuring:
- Poster Sessions: Two sessions where participants present their submissions and engage with fellow researchers
- Keynote Talks: To be announced
- Interactive Roundtables: Small-group discussions on both research topics and practical aspects of academic life
- Networking Social Event: An informal evening event with sightseeing and dinner
We would like to highlight that we do not have any funding for covering the participants' travel. Each participant is responsible for securing their own funding to attend the workshop.
Call for Papers
We invite early-career researchers to submit position papers to the first Workshop for Young Researchers in Natural Language Generation (YNLG 2025), to be held as part of INLG 2025 in Hanoi, Vietnam.
YNLG aims to foster a welcoming community of early-career researchers in NLG by providing a platform for PhD students and Master's students to present work-in-progress research, receive feedback from senior researchers and peers, and engage in discussions about current trends and future directions in Natural Language Generation.
The workshop is organized under the auspices of the Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN) of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). YNLG 2025 will take place during INLG 2025 (October 29 - November 2, 2025) at the Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Important Dates
All deadlines are at 11:59 PM, UTC-8.
- Submissions due:
August 26, 2025August 31, 2025
- Notification of acceptance: September 24, 2025
- Camera-ready papers due: October 3, 2025 (Optional)
- Workshop: October 29 (during INLG 2025)
Submission Format
Position Papers
We invite 2-page position papers (+ unlimited references) that should include:
- Research Overview: A description of your past, present, and future research plans in NLG
- Short Biography: A brief academic biography highlighting your background and research interests
- Questions for Senior Researchers: Specific questions you would like to ask senior researchers. These can be related to research or the general PhD experience and future careers. We will anonymize and aggregate these questions and release the answers for all of them with the proceedings of the workshop.
- Topics for Roundtable Discussions with Peers: Suggestions for topics you would like to see discussed during the workshop's interactive roundtable sessions
The position paper format is designed to facilitate meaningful discussions during the workshop's poster sessions and roundtable discussions, rather than presenting fully completed research. There is no anonymity requirement and participants are encouraged to share their research backgrounds.
The participants can choose whether they prefer their submission to be published with the workshop proceedings.
Topics of Interest
We invite position papers on any topic related to Natural Language Generation, including but not limited to:
- Large Language Models (LLMs) for NLG
- Evaluation and error analysis of NLG systems
- Explainability and trustworthiness of NLG systems
- Bias and fairness in NLG systems
- Data-to-text, concept-to-text, text-to-text, and vision-to-text approaches
- Grounded language generation
- NLG in dialogue systems and chatbots
- Storytelling and narrative generation
- Summarization and paraphrasing
- Multimodal and multimedia generation
- NLG for low-resourced languages
- Ethical considerations in NLG
- NLG applications and real-world deployment
- Computational efficiency of NLG models
- Content and text planning
- Surface realization and lexicalization
Submission Instructions
Papers should be submitted through the workshop's submission system: Submit via SoftConf
All submissions will be checked by the organizers for topic fit. If applicable, the submission will receive at least two reviews from our program committee to suggest feedback and further research directions.
Papers should follow the ACL formatting guidelines and be submitted as PDF files.
Contact
For questions about the workshop or submissions, please contact:
Patricia Schmidtova (schmidtova@ufal.mff.cuni.cz)
Organizers
Contact Person
Contact Information
For any inquiries about the workshop, please contact:
Patricia Schmidtova
Email: schmidtova@ufal.mff.cuni.cz
We look forward to welcoming you to YNLG 2025 and fostering the next generation of NLG researchers!