*SEM
Organized and sponsored by SIGLEX, the Special Interest Group of the ACL, *SEM brings together researchers interested in the semantics of natural languages and its computational modeling.
*SEM 2026: https://starsem2026.github.io
- 🎉 Wishing everyone Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2026 🎉 ! Did you know, you can fill out the form below if you would like to volunteer as a reviewer or as an Area Chair (AC)? Join us as a reviewer/AC to contribute to the conference! Link: forms.gle/LshhezkfXkKi... #NLProc #NLP #MLSky
- We are delighted to announce that Prof. Yue Zhang will be a keynote speaker for *SEM 2025! The talk title is "On reasoning and generalization of LLMs". See details here: starsem2025.github.io/speakers. Stay tuned for our next keynote speaker announcement! #NLP #NLProc
- *SEM 2025 invites presentations of accepted EMNLP Findings papers that fit the theme. Register your paper by September 24! Registration link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #NLP #NLProc
- *SEM 2025 final call for ARR COMMITMENTS! Final chance to commit to *SEM 2025, co-located with EMNLP in Suzhou!! ARR COMMITMENT deadline is August 22, 2025. Give your strong-but-overlooked EMNLP paper the second chance it deserves! 😉 starsem2025.github.io/cfp #NLP #NLProc
- *SEM 2025 call for ARR commit papers! *SEM 2025 will be co-located with EMNLP and accepts commits of ARR papers with complete sets of ARR reviews. Commit your paper here by Aug 22: openreview.net/group?id=acl... #NLP #NLProc
- *SEM 2025 offers travel subsidies up to USD 750 for lead student authors with an accepted paper. Priority will be given to applicants from developing countries who would not have adequate financial support to attend in person. Please see starsem2025.github.io/subsidies for details. #NLP #NLProc
- *SEM 2025: Direct submissions deadline is now EXTENDED to June 13, 2025! *SEM will be co-located with EMNLP in Suzhou, China. It will be a hybrid event, virtual attendance possible (more info on this will be posted later). Full CFP: starsem2025.github.io/cfp #NLP #NLProc
- *SEM 2025 final call for DIRECT SUBMISSIONS! starsem2025.github.io/cfp Direct submissions are due next week on May 30, 2025. We also accept papers via ARR commitment, due on August 22, 2025. Give your strong-but-overlooked ACL paper the second chance it deserves! 😉 #NLProc #NLP
- Dear NLP folks, if you have an account in the Fediverse (e.g., Mastodon), you can now follow us by this handle: @starsem.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy. To do this seamlessly, simply go to our followers page (fed.brid.gy/bsky/starsem...), put your Fediverse address and click Follow! #NLProc #CompLing

- Dear NLP folks, *SEM 2025 second call for papers is out! starsem2025.github.io/cfp We accept short and long papers via both direct and ARR submissions. Direct submissions are due May 30, 2025, while the ARR commitment deadline is August 22, 2025. #NLProc
- Dear NLP folks, *SEM 2025 first call for papers is out! starsem2025.github.io/cfp We accept short and long papers via both direct and ARR submissions. Direct submissions are due May 30, 2025, while the ARR commitment deadline is August 22, 2025. #NLProc