About

With this workshop, we want to provide an interdisciplinary forum for discussing research, progress, and challenges in the context of NLP and sustainability. We invite submissions about NLP-based analyses of sustainability-related texts, sustainable NLP models and evaluation practices in general, as well as other related topics. Authors and other participants will engage with each other in a poster session and there will be an interdisciplinary invited talk with an ensuing discussion. Together with the SustainEval Shared Task, this workshop will be co-located with the KONVENS 2025 conference.

Call for Papers

We invite technical, survey, and position papers related to sustainability and NLP, as long (8 page) or short (4 page) papers (plus references and appendices) written in English and formatted according to the ACL stylesheet.

Relevant topics:

  • analyses and classifications of sustainability-related texts (such as company reports, advertisements, legal texts, …)
  • generation of explanations, critiques, summaries, … of sustainability-related texts
  • multimodal models related to sustainability, such as language-vision or climate-impact models
  • question answering in the sustainability/climate context
  • sustainable (e.g. small, efficient) NLP models for other applications/domains
  • sentiment analysis in the sustainability/climate context
  • media and social media analysis with NLP methods in the sustainability/climate context
  • Important Dates

    Paper submission deadline 10.06.2025

    Acceptance notification 25.07.2025

    Camera-ready due 15.08.2025

    Workshop @ KONVENS 10.09.2025

    in Hildesheim, Germany (at least one author must be present at the workshop)

    Program Committee

    • Tobias Schimanski (Universität Zürich)
    • Gabriella Lapesa (GESIS Köln & HHU Düsseldorf)
    • Fabio Mariani (Universität Augsburg)
    • Vera Schmitt (TU Berlin & DFKI)
    • Siyao Peng (LMU München)
    • Janet Liu (LMU München)
    • Luke Gessler (Indiana University)
    • Leonie Weissweiler (UT Austin)
    • Valentin Knappich (Bosch & Universität Augsburg)
    • Timo Schrader (Bosch & Universität Augsburg)
    • If you are interested in the topic and would like to help us review, please reach out!

      Contact

      • Jakob Prange, Universität Augsburg: jakob.prange@uni-a.de
      • Charlott Jakob, TU Berlin: c.jakob@tu-berlin.de
      • Annemarie Friedrich, Universität Augsburg