Call for Papers for the RANLP-2025 Workshop
The First Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Language Models for Digital Humanities (LM4DH 2025)
Date: To be confirmed, between 11 and 13 September 2025 (full day)
Venue: Varna, Bulgaria
Submissions Portal: The 2025 International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing
Workshop Description
Digital Humanities has emerged as an interdisciplinary field of research, serving as an intersections of computer science with many other fields such as linguistics, social sciences, history, psychology, etc. With the development of Large Language Models (LLMs), state-of-the-art Natural Language Processing () tasks such as entity recognition, sentiment analysis, and text summarisation have been significantly enhanced, offering powerful tools to analyse and interpret complex historical and cultural data. These developments offer transformative capabilities for analysing and interpreting complex historical and cultural datasets, including oral histories, archival documents, and literary texts. These advancements provide powerful tools for analysing and interpreting intricate historical, cultural, and social data, enabling researchers to identify patterns, extract meaningful relationships, and generate interpretations at unprecedented scale and precision.
These technological advancements are fundamentally changing the ways in which researchers engage with a variety of materials, including oral history, archival materials, and literary texts. By enabling the extraction of patterns, grouping of relationships, and generation of nuanced interpretations at scale, LLMs and related technologies provide researchers power in domains where qualitative understanding has long dominated.
This workshop aims to create a collaborative platform for researchers, practitioners, and students from a variety of fields to explore the application of AI-driven techniques in the Digital Humanities. Through interdisciplinary dialogue and knowledge exchange, the event seeks to foster innovative methodologies, promote best practices, and cultivate a research community dedicated to advancing computational approaches to human culture, memory, and history.
The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:
- Text analysis and processing related to the humanities using computational methods
- Usage of the interpretability of large language models’ output for DH-related tasks
- Dataset creation and curation for NLP (e.g. digitisation, datafication, and data preservation
- Automatic error detection, correction, and normalisation of textual data
- based applications for Digital Humanities
- Generation and analysis of literary works such as poetry and novels
- Analysis and detection of text genres
- Emotion analysis for the humanities and literature
- Modelling of information and knowledge in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Heritage
- Low-resource and historical language processing
- Search for scientific and/or scholarly literature
- Profiling and authorship attribution
Submission & Publication
All papers must represent original and unpublished work that is not currently under review. Papers will be evaluated according to their significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to the workshop. We welcome the following types of contributions:
- Standard research papers (up to 8 pages, plus additional pages for references if needed)
- Short research papers (from 4 to 6 pages, plus additional pages for references if needed)
Submissions must follow the RANLP 2025 submission guidelines, using ACL-style templates (LaTeX or MS Word).
Important Dates
- Paper submission deadline: 6 July 2025
- Notification of acceptance: 31 July 2025
- Camera-ready paper: 20 August 2025
- Workshop date: 11-13 September 2025
Organising Committee
- Isuri Anuradha, Lancaster University, UK
- Francesca Frontini, CNR-ILC, Italy & CLARIN
- Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK
- Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK
Programme Committee
To be confirmed
Contact Us
This workshop has been organised with the generous support and coordination of CLARIN ERIC .
Email: dhranlp2@gmail.com