W-NUT 2025: Workshop on Noisy and User-generated Text (at NAACL 2025)

The 10th Workshop on Noisy and User-generated Text (W-NUT)

May 3, 2025 — collocated with NAACL 2025.

The WNUT workshop focuses on core NLP tasks (e.g., POS/NER tagging and translation; not computational social science) over user-generated text, such as that found on social media, web forums, online reviews, digital health records, or language learner essays.

Invited Speakers


Su Lin Blodgett Microsoft Research Montréal	Verena Blaschke LMU Munich & MCML

Shared Task

This year, we host MultiLexNorm 2: a shared task on multi-lingual lexical normalization with a focus on non Indo-european languages. After the success of our first MultiLexNorm shared task held in 2021, we have extended our benchmark to more varied languages. More information about MultiLexNorm 2

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: February 6, 2025 (anytime on earth; dual-submission allowed)
ARR Commitment Date: February 25, 2025
Acceptance Notification: March 10, 2025
Camera-Ready Deadline: March 20, 2025
NAACL 2025 Findings Deadline: March 31, 2025
Workshop Day: May 3, 2025

Call for Papers

We seek submissions of long and short papers on original and unpublished work (same page limit as the NAACL 2025 main conference). All accepted submissions will be presented as talks and/or posters at the workshop, following the NAACL 2025 main conference.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

NLP of noisy text, e.g. POS, NER tagging, Parsing
Text normalization and error correction
Paraphrase identification and semantic similarity of short text or noisy text
Extracting user demographics, profiles, and major life events
Machine translation and Multilingual NLP over noisy text
Information extraction from noisy text, global and regional trend detection, and event extraction
Colloquial language, e.g. idiom detection
Domain adaptation to user-generated text
Detecting rumors, contradictory information, sarcasm and humor on social media
Sentiment analysis
Temporal aspects of user-generated content (resolving time expressions, concept drift, etc...)
Representing and mining language variation in user-generated content
Processing of automatically generated data

Submissions should conform to the ACL style guidelines. Long and short paper submissions must be anonymized. Please submit your papers via OpenReview or commit them via ARR.

Double Submission Policy: Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must indicate at submission time. Authors of a paper accepted for presentation must notify the workshop organizers by the camera-ready deadline as to whether the paper will be presented or withdrawn.

If you would like to present your NAACL findings paper at WNUT, please fill out the following form before Mar 31rd.

Accepted Papers

Proceedings

Towards a Social Media-based Disease Surveillance System for Early Detection of Influenza-like Illnesses: A Twitter Case Study in Wales
Sentiment Analysis on Video Transcripts: Comparing the Value of Textual and Multimodal Annotations
Restoring Missing Spaces in Scraped Hebrew Social Media
Identifying and analyzing noisy spelling errors in a second language corpus
Automatic normalization of noisy technical reports with an LLM: What effects on a downstream task?
We’re Calling an Intervention: Exploring Fundamental Hurdles in Adapting Language Models to Nonstandard Text
On-Device LLMs for Home Assistant: Dual Role in Intent Detection and Response Generation
Applying Transformer Architectures to Detect Cynical Comments in Spanish Social Media
Prompt Guided Diffusion for Controllable Text Generation
FaBERT: Pre-training BERT on Persian Blogs
Automatically Generating Chinese Homophone Words to Probe Machine Translation Estimation Systems
Multi-BERT: Leveraging Adapters for Low-Resource Multi-Domain Adaptation
Enhancing NER Performance in Low-Resource Pakistani Languages using Cross-Lingual Data Augmentation
Wikipedia is Not a Dictionary, Delete! Text Classification as a Proxy for Analysing Wiki Deletion Discussions
From Conversational Speech to Readable Text: Post-Processing Noisy Transcripts in a Low-Resource Setting
Text Normalization for Sentiment Analysis in Japanese Social Media

Workshop Programme

Timezone: MDT

Start Time	End Time	Contents
9:15	9:30	Opening Remarks
9:30	10:30	Invited Talk - Verena Blaschke
10:30	11:00	Coffee Break & Poster Presentations
11:00	12:00	Poster Presentations
12:00	13:30	Lunch & Networking
13:30	15:00	Oral Presentations
15:00	15:30	Best Paper Presentations
15:30	16:00	Coffee Break
16:00	17:00	Invited Talk - Su Lin Blodgett
17:00	17:10	Closing

Organizers


JinYeong Bak Associate Professor SungKyunKwan University	Rob van der Goot Associate Professor IT University of Copenhagen	Hyeju Jang Assistant Professor Indiana University Indianapolis	Weerayut Buaphet Ph.D. Student Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology	Alan Ramponi Senior Researcher Fondazione Bruno Kessler	Wei Xu Associate Professor Georgia Institute of Technology	Alan Ritter Associate Professor Georgia Institute of Technology