BioNLP Workshop
SIGBIOMED | BioNLP 2024 | BioNLP 2023
BIONLP 2025 and Shared Tasks @ ACL 2025
The 24th BioNLP workshop associated with the ACL SIGBIOMED special interest group is co-located with ACL 2025
IMPORTANT DATES (Tentative)
- Paper submission deadline: March 20, 2025
- Notification of acceptance: April 20, 2025
- Camera-ready paper due: May 20, 2025 -- No extensions due to ACL publication deadline.
- Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline): July 7, 2025
- Workshop: July 31st OR August 1st 2025
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Two types of submissions are invited: full (long) papers (8 pages) and short papers (4 pages).
Submission site for the workshop https://softconf.com/acl2025/BioNLP2025
Please follow these formatting guidelines: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files Please note that the review process is double-blind.
Final versions of accepted papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages for long papers, up to 5 pages for short papers) to address reviewers’ comments.
Submissions from ACL rolling review
We will consider ACL rolling review submissions with all reviews and scores. If you are interested in submitting your work for consideration, please contact ddemner at gmail.
WORKSHOP OVERVIEW AND SCOPE
The BioNLP workshop, associated with the ACL SIGBIOMED special interest group, is an established primary venue for presenting research in language processing and language understanding for the biological and medical domains. The workshop has been running every year since 2002 and continues getting stronger. Many other emerging biomedical and clinical language processing workshops can afford to be more specialized because BioNLP truly encompasses the breadth of the domain and brings together researchers in biomedical and clinical NLP from all over the world.
BioNLP 2025 will be particularly interested in evaluation frameworks and metrics that reflect the needs of health-related use cases and provide a good estimate of reliability of the proposed solutions. BioNLP 2025 continues to focus on transparency of tgenerative approaches and factuality of the generated text. Language processing that supports DEIA (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility) continues to be of utmost importance. The work on detection and mitigation of bias and misinformation continues to be of interest. Research in languages other than English, particularly, under-represented languages, and health disparities are always of interest to BioNLP. Other active areas of research include, but are not limited to:
- Extraction of complex relations and events;
- Discourse analysis; Anaphora \& coreference resolution;
- Text mining \& Literature based discovery;
- Question Answering; Summarization; Text simplification;
- Resources and strategies for system testing and evaluation;
- Synthetic data generation \& data augmentation;
- Translating NLP research into practice: tangible explainable results of biomedical language processing applications.