Call for Papers
SURGeLLM invites submissions on structured understanding, retrieval, generation, and evaluation in the era of LLMs — with structured artifacts (tables, charts, maps, flowcharts, diagrams) treated as first-class citizens.
Contact: surgellm@googlegroups.com. See Important Dates.
We welcome two submission routes: Main Track and Presentation-only track.
Submission Context
Why submit?
Structured artifacts are everywhere — but today’s LLM systems still struggle with faithful reasoning, retrieval, and generation over them.
- Get feedback from a cross-community audience (NLP × IR × DB × Visualization).
- Publish archival papers (proceedings) or present non-archival work (discussion-only).
- Bring new benchmarks, systems, datasets, and lessons learned — including negative results.
Who should submit?
We welcome work from students, researchers, and practitioners.
- Table QA, Text-to-SQL, schema linking, structured retrieval, chart/map/diagram understanding.
- Evaluation, robustness, faithfulness, interpretability, and structure-aware agents.
- Applications in enterprise data, science, healthcare, finance, and more.
Workshop format
A full-day workshop with invited talks and community interaction.
- Invited talks + panel discussion.
- Contributed oral presentations and poster sessions.
- Networking breaks, lunch, and awards.
Submission
Main Track
This track is for new research, including early-stage work. Authors may choose whether or not the accepted papers are published in the ACL Anthology as part of the workshop proceedings.
Presentation-only track
This track enables authors to present recently accepted or published work, including ACL Findings, at the workshop.
- We welcome both long (up to 8 pages) and short (up to 4 pages) submissions in ACL format (excluding references and appendices).
- At submission time, main-submission authors should indicate whether their paper is intended for archival publication or non-archival presentation.
- Direct main submissions may include new work that is still under development and does not need prior peer review.
- ACL Findings / main-conference papers may request cross-presentation via the non-archival track (subject to capacity).
- We welcome a broad spectrum of contributions: position papers, datasets/benchmarks, systems reports, ablations, and negative results (when well-supported).
- If you rely on non-public resources (e.g., proprietary data), ensure results are responsibly summarized and compliant with ACL policies.
Main Track
This track is for new research, including early-stage work. Authors may choose whether or not the accepted papers are published in the ACL Anthology as part of the workshop proceedings.
- Direct submissions may include early-stage or in-progress work intended for discussion, feedback, or showcase; prior peer review is not required.
- Submissions may be under review elsewhere at the time of submission.
- If authors choose the archival option and the paper is accepted, they must make a binding commitment to publish the paper in exactly one venue.
- Archival submissions must present substantially new and original work and comply with ACL policy on overlap/self-plagiarism.
- If authors choose the non-archival option, the paper can be presented at the workshop without appearing in the ACL Anthology.
Submit:
Presentation-only track
This track enables authors to present recently accepted or published work, including ACL Findings, at the workshop.
Submit:
What we’re looking for
We welcome a broad spectrum of contributions, including:
- New tasks, benchmarks, and evaluation frameworks for structured reasoning/retrieval/generation.
- Models and training recipes (prompting, fine-tuning, structure-specialized embeddings, agentic pipelines).
- Systems and deployment lessons (DataOps, governance, reliability, throughput/latency, human factors).
- Careful ablations, negative results, and reproducibility studies that illuminate failure modes and trade-offs.
Mentoring and accessibility
- The workshop program includes networking, poster sessions, an industry panel, and community Q&A.
- If you have accessibility needs or questions about hybrid participation, email surgellm@googlegroups.com.