The RegNLP 2025 Workshop will take place on January 20th, 2025 in conjunction with the COLING 2025 conference in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
The complexity, volume, and ever-changing nature of regulatory documents present unique challenges in governance, compliance, and legal frameworks across various sectors. Addressing these challenges demands specialized approaches in natural language processing (NLP) to enable effective management and utilization of regulatory content.
Recent advancements in NLP have opened new avenues for tackling these issues, specifically tailored to the domain of regulatory documents. These advancements include sophisticated techniques for document parsing, entity recognition, and automated compliance checking, which are essential for navigating the intricate landscape of regulatory requirements.
Despite these technological strides, significant open questions and challenges remain. How can NLP models better handle the dynamic and diverse nature of regulatory texts? What methods are most effective for extracting and synthesizing information from vast and complex document repositories? How can we ensure the accuracy and reliability of automated compliance tools? Moreover, what are the best practices for adapting NLP models to the highly specialized language and context of regulatory documents?
The first workshop on Regulatory Natural Language Processing (RegNLP) aims to convene a diverse group of researchers and practitioners from NLP, legal informatics, compliance, and related fields to explore these questions. We seek to share current findings, discuss challenges, and identify promising directions for future research. Most importantly, this workshop aims to foster a collaborative community dedicated to advancing NLP applications in the regulatory domain at this critical juncture.
We welcome submissions describing original work on regulatory data, as well as data with relevance to compliance and regulation, such as:
Applications of NLP to regulatory tasks including, but not limited to:
Adapting NLP methods for regulatory data including, but not limited to:
Tasks and resources:
Demos:
Industrial Research:
Interdisciplinary position papers:
!!! We have prepared a dataset for RegNLP researchers, which can be used for various regulatory NLP research tasks.
!!! The ObliQA dataset is available on GitHub : https://github.com/RegNLP/ObliQADataset.
We welcome original (unpublished) research papers in the following categories:
Note: Appendices and acknowledgements do not count towards the page limit and should adhere to the formatting guidelines detailed below.
All submissions must use the official COLING templates. Templates and detailed submission guidelines are available here.
To submit your paper, please follow access the submission link.