BlackboxNLP 2025

The Eight Workshop on Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP

Co-located with EMNLP 2025 in Suzhou, China on November 10th, 2025

Many recent performance improvements in NLP have come at the cost of understanding of the systems. How do we assess what representations and computations models learn? How do we formalize desirable properties of interpretable models, and measure the extent to which existing models achieve them? How can we build models that better encode these properties? What can new or existing tools tell us about these systems’ inductive biases?

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers focused on interpreting and explaining NLP models by taking inspiration from fields such as machine learning, psychology, linguistics, and neuroscience. We hope the workshop will serve as an interdisciplinary meetup that allows for cross-collaboration.

📣 News

May 14th: Information about the BlackboxNLP 2025 Shared Task is now available! Join our Discord server to stay updated and share your ideas with other participants.
May 20th: Important dates for submissions are released!

🗓️ Important dates

Shared Task

August 1st, 2025 - Submission deadline for shared task results (through the MIB Leaderboard).
August 8th, 2025 - Deadline for shared task technical report submissions (OpenReview, link TBD).

Regular Papers

August 15th, 2025 - Direct paper submission deadline (OpenReview, link TBD).
September 5th, 2025 - Commitment deadline for ARR papers (OpenReview, link TBD).
September 15th, 2025 - Notification of acceptance.
October 3rd, 2025 - Camera ready deadline.

November 10th, 2025 - Workshop date.

All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“Anywhere on Earth”).

Program

Program under construction, stay tuned!

FAQ

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Yes, dual submissions are allowed if the other venue also allows dual submissions. If your submission is accepted to the archival track of BlackboxNLP, you will have to withdraw your submission to the other venue. Dual submissions to BlackboxNLP and EMNLP (including ARR) are not allowed.