The rapid advancement of NLP research has led to a variety of applications spanning a wide range of domains. With the recent popularity and growing capabilities of large language models, language technologies have been integrated into various daily applications, such as conversational search, text analysis, and writing assistance. While this widespread adoption ignites excitement, it raises pressing concerns and challenges for NLP research, including those related to real-world evaluation, bias and fairness, and model interpretability and explainability, and it is more important than ever that NLP research adopt and develop methods to incorporate people into research in meaningful ways. Perspectives from human-computer interaction (HCI) can help NLP research practitioners to advance the field in ways that are aligned with people’s needs, raising novel questions and research directions for both NLP and HCI.
August 8 AOE – Submission deadline
September 1 – Fast track submission deadline
September 8 – Notification of acceptance
September 22 – Camera-ready papers due
November 9 – Workshop
The goal of the 4th Bridging Human--Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing Workshop is to bring researchers and practitioners from both disciplines (HCI & NLP) together to
discuss their shared research interests;
highlight work at the intersection of these fields;
identify challenges and opportunities for productive interdisciplinary collaboration.
We especially invite graduate students and early career researchers to participate.
This workshop is part of EMNLP 2025.