4th Workshop on

NLP for Positive Impact

@ACL 2025

(In line with the NLP for Social Good Initiative)

Workshop Overview

The 4th NLP4PI Workshop will take place at ACL 2025 in Vienna! 


We will be glad to see works empowering current advances of NLP and AI for various social impact like addressing pressing global challenges, poverty, hunger, healthcare, education, inequality, and climate change. The workshop fosters interdisciplinary collaboration, encouraging submissions that bridge NLP with fields like social science, journalism, economics, HCI, and NGOs of different domains. More details in our Call for Paper.

Stay tuned by following us on X @NLP4PosImpact and BlueSky @nlp4posimpact.bsky.social.

Speakers

Malihe Alikhani (Northeastern University)

Isabelle Augenstein (University of Copenhagen)

Dirk Hovy
(Bocconi University)

Zhijing Jin (University of Toronto)

Panelists

Chris Emezue
(Lanfrica)

Nedjma Djouhra Ousidhoum
(Cardiff University)

Doug Zytko (University of Michigan-Flint)

Organizing Committee

Katherine Atwell (Northeastern University)

Prof. Laura Biester (Middlebury
College )

Angana Borah (University of Michigan)

Dr. Daryna Dementieva (Technical University of Munich)

Prof Oana Ignat (Santa Clara University)

Ziyi Liu
(University of Southern California)

Ruyuan Wan (Pennsylvania State University)

Prof Steven Wilson (University of Michigan-Flint)

Prof Jieyu Zhao (University of Southern California)

Steering Committee

Prof Rada Mihalcea (University of Michigan)

Contact

For questions and sponsorship, feel free to contact us at nlp4pi.workshop@gmail.com.

What Is the Yearly Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact?

In our workshop, we aim to connect social needs and the power of NLP. Our missions are