Discourse, roughly the interactions of context, form and meaning above the sentence level, is at the intersection of many areas in Computational Linguistics and NLP, since it is concerned with all levels of linguistic representation, allowing the modeling of textual coherence and inference leveraging long-distance links within documents. It thus brings together researchers working on different areas but facing similar issues with coherence and cohesion, document-level structure, long text and long context.
In 2025, we organize the first joint CODI-CRAC workshop. The CODI workshop has provided a platform for a broad range of research at the discourse level, while the CRAC workshop has been a primary venue for exploring computational modeling of reference, anaphora, and coreference.
This joint edition corresponds to the 6th CODI workshop and the 8th CRAC workshop. It will welcome contributions from all the areas below, including state of the art textual NLU and NLG work using LLMs, as well as classic structured work on automatic discourse analysis -- corresponding to challenging tasks such as coreference resolution or discourse parsing -- to encourage interaction between communities. The workshop is set to host the fourth edition of the DISRPT shared task on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking and CRAC shared task on Multilingual Coreference Resolution.
We also accept papers accepted at other major conferences for non-archival presentation, including Findings papers.
We welcome papers on symbolic and probabilistic approaches, corpus development and analysis, as well as machine and deep learning approaches to discourse. We appreciate theoretical contributions as well as practical applications, including demos of systems and tools. The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for the community of NLP researchers working on all aspects of discourse.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Discourse structure
Discourse connectives
Discourse relations
Annotation tools and schemes for discourse phenomena
Corpora annotated with discourse phenomena
Discourse parsing
Cross-lingual discourse processing
Cross-domain discourse processing
Anaphora and coreference resolution
Event coreference
Argument mining
Coherence modeling
Discourse and semantics
Discourse in applications such as machine translation, summarization, etc.
Evaluation methodology for discourse processing
Discourse pre-training tasks
Long-text modeling and generation
Double submission of papers is allowed, but this information will need to be disclosed at submission time.
We solicit three categories of papers:
(1) Regular workshop papers
(2) Demos
(3) Extended abstracts
Only regular workshop papers and demos will be included in the proceedings as archival publications. Extended abstracts are non-archival and will be included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings.
Regular papers must describe original unpublished research.
Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references.
Short papers can be up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references.
2. Demo submissions may describe systems, tools, visualizations, etc., and may consist of up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references.
3. Extended abstracts can describe work in progress. They may be two pages long (without references). Extended abstracts are non-archival. They will be included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings.
Each submission can contain unlimited pages for Appendices, but the paper submissions need to remain fully self-contained, as these supplementary materials are completely optional, and reviewers are not even asked to review them.
Final versions of all types of papers will be given one additional page of content.
CODI-CRAC considers for publication papers rejected at one of the main conferences, authors will have to submit both the paper and the reviews as a supplementary pdf file. If modifications have been made since the original submission, please submit an additional file describing briefly the modifications made. The organizers will decide on the acceptance of the papers based on the quality of the paper and its fit with the workshop.
As a reminder, CODI-CRAC also invites presentations of paper accepted at another main conference. They will be included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings.
All submissions must be anonymous and follow the EMNLP 2025 formatting instructions described here: https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp.
CODI submission: https://softconf.com/emnlp2025/codi2025/
CRAC submission: https://softconf.com/emnlp2025/crac2025/
For direct submission, please submit your papers to category: "direct submission"
Shared task papers should be submitted to the links specified on the shared task pages.
CRAC 2025 Shared Task on Multilingual Coreference Resolution: https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/corefud/crac25
DISRPT 2025 Shared Task: https://sites.google.com/view/disrpt2025/
2025-07-30: CODI-CRAC papers due
2025-08-06 (extended): CODI-CRAC papers due
2025-08-23: Direct submission due
2025-09-02: Notification of direct submission
2025-09-05: Notification of acceptance
2025-09-19: Camera ready deadline
2025-11-09: CODI-CRAC workshop
All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth").