NLP for Wikipedia (ACL 2025)

2nd WikiNLP: Advancing Natural Language Process for Wikipedia

Co-located with ACL 2025

This is the website for the 2nd edition of the WikiNLP: Advancing Natural Language Processing for Wikipedia workshop that will happen between July 27 and August 1, 2025 as part of the The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025). The workshop will take place in Vienna, Austria, but will be a hybrid event in which we aim to facilitate online participation. Here you can find all important dates, the call for papers as well as (eventually) the list of invited speakers and the program of the workshop.

Motivation

A space both to celebrate Wikimedia's contributions to the NLP community and highlight approaches to ensuring the sustainability of this relationship for years to come.

Wikipedia is a uniquely important resource for the NLP community; it is multilingual, can be freely reused under its open license, and is edited and maintained by a dedicated community of editors who have earned its status as a very high-quality dataset for many applications. With this value comes many tensions however:

Despite Wikipedia's presence in over 300 language editions, much focus in language modeling remains on the high-resource languages;
Despite the openness of Wikipedia and its role in many advances in natural language modeling, there are concerns that some of these advances such as generative text models could undermine Wikipedia and threaten its sustainability as a community and ultimately data resource;
Despite the heavy usage of Wikimedia data among the NLP community, few researchers work on developing tools that can contribute back to the Wikimedia community.

We will invite researchers to contribute novel uses of Wikimedia data or studies of the impact of Wikimedia data within the NLP community. We will also discuss successful approaches to developing tooling that can assist the Wikimedia community in maintaining and improving the breadth of the Wikimedia projects.

Important Dates

Call for participation release: 22 January 2025
Paper submission deadline: TBD
Accept/reject notification: TBD
Camera-ready paper deadline: TBD
Workshop: TBD

Organizers

Program Chairs

Akhil Arora (Aarhus University)
Isaac Johnson (Wikimedia Foundation)
Lucie-Aimée Kaffee (Hugging Face)
Tzu-Sheng Kuo (Carnegie Mellon University)
Tiziano Piccardi (Stanford University)
Indira Sen (University of Mannheim)

Contact: nlp4wikipedia[@]googlegroups.com

Reviewers

Many thanks to the following reviewers:

TBD