Full Conference Programme can be downloaded from here.
Day 1 (8 September 2025, Monday)
9.00-9.15 Opening
9.15-10.15 Keynote speech 1 (Room – Cherno more hall)
Anna Rogers – Large language models and factuality
(50 min presentation; 10 min Q&A), Introduction Ruslan Mitkov
10.15-11.05 Parallel sessions 1-4 (regular papers: 20 min presentation, 5 min Q&A)
Parallel session 01: Cross-Lingual Transfer and Prompting Strategies, Room – Cherno more hall, Chair – Saad Ezzini
Parallel session 02: Machine Translation, Room – Varna Hall, Chair – Alicia Picazo
Parallel session 03: Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis, Room – Odessos Hall, Chair – Eugenio Martínez Camara
Parallel session 04: Sentiment analysis and generation, Room – Galata hall, Chair – Max-Müller Eberstein
11.05-11.35 Coffee break
11.35-12.50 Parallel sessions 5-8 (regular papers: 20 min presentation, 5 min Q&A)
Parallel session 05: NER, Terminology, Idiom Extraction, Room – Cherno more hall, Chair – Paul Rayson
Parallel session 06: Lexical and World Knowledge, Room – Varna Hall, Chair – Petya Osenova
Parallel session 07: VLM — Sign Language and Figure-to-Caption, Room – Odessos Hall, Chair – Sandra Kübler
Parallel session 08: Multi-Language Spaces and Summarisation, Room – Galata hall, Chair – Salima Lamsiya
12.50-14.50 Lunch break
14.50-15.35 Diamond sponsor presentation (Mind Bridge AI)
15.35-16.35 Student Research Workshop Talks (regular papers: 20 min presentation; 5 min Q&A)
Room – Cherno more hall, Chair – Ivelina Nikolova
15.35-16.35 Poster session 1 + Demo session 1, Chair – Dimitar Kazakov
16.35-17.00 Coffee break
17.00-17.20 Gold sponsor presentation (Graphwise)
Day 2 (9 September, Tuesday)
8:30-12:00 Excursion
12.00-14.00 Lunch break
14.00-15.00 Keynote speech 2 (Room – Cherno more hall)
Roberto Navigli – Do Large Language Models Understand Word Meanings?
(50 min presentation; 10 min Q&A), Introduction Ruslan Mitkov
15.00-16.00 Parallel sessions 9-12 (regular papers: 20 min presentation, 5 min Q&A)
Parallel session 09: Multi-LLM and LLM-as-a-Judge Scenarios, Room – Cherno more hall, Chair – Salima Lamsiya
Parallel session 10: Annotated Datasets: Creative Language and Factuality, Room – Varna Hall, Chair – Wajdi Zaghouani
Parallel session 11: Natural Language Generation and Gender Bias, Room – Odessos Hall, Chair – Beatriz Botella
Parallel session 12: Event extraction, named entity recognition and LLMs under threat, Room – Galata hall, Chair – Hansi Hettiarachchi
16.00-16.20 Coffee break
16.20-16.40 Gold Sponsor presentation (Iris.AI)
16.45-17.45 Keynote speech 3 (Room – Cherno more hall)
Eneko Agirre – LLMs and low-resource languages
(50 min presentation; 10 min Q&A), Introduction Galia Angelova
17.45-18.30 Panel discussion ‘NLP, LLMs, and AI: Where Are We Heading’?
With the participation of Roberto Navigli, Eneko Agirre, Preslav Nakov, Manuel Palomar, Sandra Kübler, Saad Ezzini and Tharindu Ranasinghe
Moderator: Ruslan Mitkov
18.30-19.00 SEPLN tribute
Brief Presentation: Rafael Muñoz Guillena (President SEPLN)
Tributes to SEPLN members and executives
20.30 – … Gala dinner
Dress code: smart or smart casual. No shorts, no flip-flops please.
Day 3 (10 September 2025, Wednesday)
9.00-10.00 Keynote speech 3 (Room – Cherno more hall)
Preslav Nakov – Towards Truly Open, Language-Specific, Safe, Factual, and Specialized Large Language Models
(50 min presentation; 10 min Q&A), Introduction Ruslan Mitkov
10.00-10.50 Parallel sessions 13 (regular papers: 20 min presentation, 5 min Q&A)
Parallel session 13: Sentiment Analysis and Bias Detection, Room – Cherno more hall, Chair – Maram Alharbi
10.00-10.40 Parallel sessions 14-16 (short papers: 15 min presentation, 5 min Q&A)
Parallel session 14: Summarisation, Room – Varna Hall, Chair – Mathew Shardlow
Parallel session 15: Advances in Machine Translation, Room – Odessos Hall, Chair – Marie Escribe
Parallel session 16: Constrained Output Generation, Room – Galata hall, Chair – Ivelina Nikolova
10.40-11.20 Coffee break
11.20-12.10 Parallel sessions 17 (regular papers: 20 min presentation, 5 min Q&A)
Parallel session 17: Small Language Models and Model Compression Effects, Room – Cherno more hall, Chair – Isuri Anuradha
11.20-12.20 Parallel sessions 18-20 (short papers: 15 min presentation, 5 min Q&A)
Parallel session 18: Synthetic Data Generation, Room – Varna Hall, Chair – Alba Bonet
Parallel session 19: IR – Document and Sentence Alignment, Room – Odessos Hall, Chair – Dimitar Kazakov
Parallel session 20: Deceptive Text Detection, Room – Galata hall, Chair – Aria Nourbakhsh
12.10-13.10 Student Research Workshop posters
12.10-13.10 Poster session 2
Chair – Petya Osenova
13.10-15.10 Lunch break
15.10-16.50 Parallel sessions 21-22 (regular papers: 20 min presentation, 5 min Q&A)
Parallel session 21: Understanding and Reasoning Skills, Room – Cherno more hall, Chair – Ernesto Estebanel
Parallel session 22: Simplification, Room – Varna Hall, Chair – Cengiz Acarturk
15.10-16.50 Parallel sessions 23-24 (short papers: 15 min presentation, 5 min Q&A)
Parallel session 23: Multimodal Systems, Room – Odessos Hall, Chair – Salmane Chafik
Parallel session 24: Sentiment Analysis for Arabic, Room – Galata hall, Chair – Saad Ezzini
16.50-17.20 Coffee break
17.20-18.00 Parallel sessions 25-28 (short papers: 15 min presentation, 5 min Q&A)
Parallel session 25: Multi-head attention, multi-aspect embedding and prompt engineering, Room – Cherno more hall, Chair – Priya Dharshini Krishnaraj
Parallel session 26: Question-Answering, Room – Varna Hall, Chair – Damith Premasiri
Parallel session 27: Terminology, Room – Odessos Hall, Chair – Marie Escribe
Parallel session 28: Advances in Language Encoding, Room – Galata hall, Chair – Tharindu Ranasinghe
18.00-19.00 Cambridge University Press (CUP) + Journal ‘Natural Language Processing’ (JNLP) presentation
Room – Cherno more hall, Host – Ruslan Mitkov
19.00-19.15 Official closing of the main conference
Room – Cherno more hall
19.30 Welcome Workshops and Shared Tasks Cocktail Reception sponsored by Cambridge University Press