SIR 2025 : First Workshop on Semantics for Interdisciplinary Research SIR@IXCS2025

=== Workshop SIR ===

First Workshop on Semantics for Interdisciplinary Research
SIR@IXCS2025 - Düsseldorf - September 24 2025

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https://team.inria.fr/semagramme/first-workshop-on-semantics-for-interdisciplinary-research/

https://openreview.net/group?id=inria.fr/INRIA/S%C3%A9magramme/2025/SIR01

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In recent years, Natural Language Processing (NLP) has increasingly intersected with the humanities and social sciences, offering new methodologies for analyzing textual data, interpreting meaning, and modelling language-based phenomena. The potential for multi-disciplinary research using NLP methods is particularly great in computational semantics (CS), as its ability to process and represent meaning opens up innovative pathways for researchers in history, philosophy, literary studies, political science, etc. This workshop aims to explore how semantic models and tools can be leveraged to tackle traditional and emerging questions in the Humanities in a broader sense (Social Sciences, Law, Economics, Management, Literature, Languages, Art, …).

A major theme of SIR is the role of semantics in NLP applied to the humanities (both statistical and symbolic approaches).

=== Topics to Explore ===
• CS and the humanities: issues, tools and applications
• Quantitative and qualitative approaches as a breakthrough in the Humanities
• NLP transforming humanities issues
• Contributions and limitations for understanding meaning
• Links between formal semantics and neural models
• Ambiguity, polyphony and interpretation in the Humanities
• Ethics and bias in semantic modelling
• Interdisciplinary dialogue between AI, NLP and Humanities

=== Dates ===
• Deadline : July 14th (anywhere on earth)
• Notification : August 25th (anywhere on earth)
• Camera Ready : September 10th (anywhere on earth)
• Workshop : September 24th (anywhere on earth)

=== Submission Information ===
Papers should describe original research and must not exceed 4 pages (with an extra page in the camera ready version for accepted papers). Papers should be submitted no later than 14 July 2025 (anywhere on earth).

Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings in the ACL Anthology. For inclusion in the proceedings, at least one author must register to the conference and present the paper in person.

Submissions should be fully anonymous to ensure double-blind reviewing.

=== Submission ===
https://openreview.net/group?id=inria.fr/INRIA/S%C3%A9magramme/2025/SIR01

=== Style Files ===
The workshop follow the IWCS 2025 template see the workshop web page.

=== Organizers ===
Maxime Amblard, Université de Lorraine
Ellen Breitholtz, Gothenburg University

=== Contact ===
[email protected] and [email protected]