16th International Conference on Computational Semantics

The 16th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2025) is the leading venue for research on the computational modeling of linguistic meaning — how the semantic content of words, sentences, and discourse can be represented, computed, and used by machines. Topics include formal semantic representations, distributional and neural approaches to meaning, semantic parsing, natural language inference, discourse coherence, and the interface between syntax and semantics.

IWCS occupies a distinctive niche between formal linguistics and NLP: it insists that computational methods for semantics must be grounded in linguistic theory, and that linguistic theories of meaning must grapple with computational tractability. Computational linguists, formal semanticists, and NLP researchers all find the conference a productive venue, and graduate students benefit from a community where deep theoretical questions about meaning are taken as seriously as engineering performance.