[1st Call for Papers] The Second Workshop on Analogical Abstraction in Cognition, Perception, and Language (Analogy-Angle II)
Explore, model, and understand analogical reasoning in cognition, language, and computational models from an interdisciplinary perspective.
DESCRIPTION
Analogy-Angle II is a multidisciplinary workshop to advance research on analogical abstraction by bridging the fields of computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, and cognitive psychology. This workshop seeks to foster collaboration among researchers by providing a platform for sharing novel insights, benchmarks, methodologies, and analogy applications across disciplines. Analogy-Angle II welcomes diverse contributions, including original research, reviews, and previously accepted papers from leading conferences. Analogy-Angle I was co-located with IJCAI 2024.
CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
- Melanie Mitchell, Santa Fe Institute
- Ekaterina Shutova, University of Amsterdam
TOPICS
We invite contributions ranging from cognitive modeling and algorithms and methods to new tasks and new applications of analogy. Contributions that take an interdisciplinary perspective are particularly encouraged. Topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Cognitive modeling
- Analogy and abstraction
- Analogy and conceptual metaphor
- Analogy, figurative language, sarcasm, and irony
- Cognitive frameworks of analogy
- Cognitive/psychological studies on analogy involving human participants
- Algorithms and methods
- Studies of the analogical abilities of large language models and visual diffusion models
- Algorithmic approaches to analogy
- Augmentation and verification of large language and vision models through analogy
- Neuro-symbolic AI architectures for analogical abstraction
- Extracting analogies from knowledge bases
- Tasks and benchmarks
- Matching narratives and situational descriptions through narratives
- Novel tasks and benchmarks for evaluating analogies in text and vision
- Analogy in longer formats, e.g., narratives and videos
- Analogy and visual abstraction tasks
- Analogical discovery and computational creativity
- Applications
- Analogies for personalization, explanation, and collaboration
- Novel applications of analogical abstraction
- Studies of the impact of analogy in specific applications and domains, including education, innovation, and law
SUBMISSIONS
We accept direct submissions through the OpenReview site: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Workshop/Analogy-ANGLE
Submissions can fall into one of the following categories:
1. Full Research Papers (up to 8 pages plus 2 pages for references) - Papers with original research work which will be judged on their technical soundness and rigor, though allowances made for novel or experimental directions. We also welcome submissions reporting negative results and sharing experimental insights on the technical challenges and issues of analogical abstraction.
2. Short Papers (up to 4 pages) - Position papers or reports of ongoing work on new research directions.
3. Dissemination Papers - Already published papers from top AI venues such as ACL, EMNLP, IJCAI, NeurIPS, AAAI, ICML, and ICLR that are relevant to the workshop. Please upload the original submission and abstract to our submission site. Please indicate where the paper has been accepted as a first sentence in the abstract.
Full and short research papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers from the PC. Accepted full and short papers will be included in the proceedings of the workshop. Dissemination papers will go through a short review from the organizers, checking for their quality and relevance to the workshop. Dissemination papers will not be included in the workshop proceedings.
Please submit your contribution via Open Review. The paper type will be inferred based on the submission length. Submissions should be anonymized, and the review will be double-blind. Preprints can be stored on arXiv.
Please format your full and short papers using the ACL template (https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files). Dissemination papers can be submitted in their original format.
IMPORTANT DATES
- Direct submission deadline: March 1, 2025
- Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: March 25, 2025
- Notification of acceptance: April 17, 2025
- Camera-ready paper deadline: May 16, 2025
- Proceedings due (hard deadline): June 30, 2025
- Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline): July 7, 2025
- Workshop dates: July 31st - August 1st 2025
All deadline times are 23:59 anywhere on Earth.
CHAIRS
- Filip Ilievski, VU Amsterdam
- Giulia Rambelli, University of Bologna
- Marianna Bolognesi, University of Bologna
- Ute Schmid, University of Bamberg
- Pia Sommerauer, VU Amsterdam
Contact: analogy-angle [at] groups.google.com