Gaze4NLP 2025 : The First International Workshop on Gaze Data and Natural Language Processing

**First Call for Papers**
Gaze4NLP - The First International Workshop on Gaze Data and Natural Language Processing
September 11-13, 2025, Varna, Bulgaria (co-located with RANLP 2025)

The First Workshop on Gaze Data and Natural Language Processing (Gaze4NLP), co-located with RANLP 2025 in Varna, Bulgaria, invites papers of a theoretical or experimental nature describing research methodologies by employing interdisciplinary perspectives, including computer science and engineering perspectives and cognitive sciences, and identifying challenges to resolve in the intersection of the two domains: eye tracking and NLP. Gaze4NLP aims to bring together researchers conducting research on eyes on eyes on text and NLP; and establishing bridges between them for identifying future venues of research.

Workshop webpage:
https://gaze4nlp.github.io/Gaze4NLP2025/about.html

Important Dates
Workshop paper submission deadline: 6 July 2025
Workshop paper acceptance notification: 31 July 2025
Workshop paper camera-ready versions: 30 August 2025
Workshop camera-ready proceedings ready: 8 September 2025
Workshops: 11-13 September 2025
All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”)

Topics for the workshop will include, but are not limited to:
- Investigating the pillars for bridging the gap between the research on eyes on text and NLP. Study how to expand research methodologies by employing interdisciplinary perspectives, including computer science and engineering perspectives and cognitive sciences, and identify challenges, issues to resolve.
- Exploring new areas so that both fields benefit from each other better than the past, identifying novel domains of exploration for further research.
- Discussing how to develop cognitively inspired models that align human reading data with LLMs.

Submissions
We solicit regular workshop papers, which will be included in the proceedings as archival publications. All categories of papers may be long (maximum 8 pages of content + up to one page for limitations (required) + unlimited references) or short (maximum 4 pages of content + up to one page for limitations (required) + unlimited references). Accepted papers will be presented in the form of either oral or poster presentations.
Please note that camera-ready papers are allowed an additional page.
The workshop proceedings will be part of the ACL anthology. Accepted papers will also be given an opportunity with an extended version to be published as part of an edited book.

Submission link:
https://softconf.com/ranlp25/Gaze4NLP2025/

Organization Committee:
Dr. Cengiz Acarturk, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Dr. Jamal Nasir, University of Galway, Ireland
Dr. Burcu Can, University of Stirling, Scotland, UK
Dr. Cagri Coltekin, University of Tubingen, Germany