XPRAG 2025 Conference invites submissions of abstracts in any area of experimental pragmatics, including from a developmental, clinical, neuroscientific or processing perspective as well as formal/computational approaches to pragmatics. 

For XPRAG 2025 Conference two types of submissions will be accepted:

• Oral presentation

• Poster presentation

The abstracts must not exceed 1000 words for the text, 10,000 characters for references and 2 figures/tables. Abstracts should be submitted in PDF format, with 2.54 cm margins on all sides and 12 point font size, single-spaced.
Abstracts must be written in English and should include an informative title and no information about the author(s). There is no restriction against referring to research by the author(s). The abstract format is the same for oral and poster presentations.

Abstract submission portal: https://openreview.net/group?id=XPrag/2025/Conference

Please note that submitting authors need to have or to create a profile on OpenReview. Whereas new profiles with an institutional email will be activated automatically, new profiles created without an institutional email will go through a moderation process that can take up to two weeks. This is a feature of OpenReview which we cannot change.

Please create your OpenReview account now. 

Contact: xprag2025@mmll.cam.ac.uk

Important Dates:

• Call for Abstracts Circulated: 13th of January, 2025

• Abstract Submission Opens: 10th of March, 2025

• Abstract Submission Deadline: Midnight (23:59 CET) on Monday, 14th April 2025

• Notification of Acceptance: Expected by Monday, 26th May 2025 

• Registration Opens: 19th of May 2025

* For further details, please refer to the Logistics section.

** Indicative registration fees for students: £150.

*** Researchers from low-income countries whose abstract is selected for the conference and who struggle to meet the cost of registration fees will be invited to email the conference organising team, once the results from the review process are known. 

XPRAG 2025 Conference offers the Sam Glucksberg Student Prize granted by the Organizing Committee to the best presentation (of any type) from a PhD or early post-doctoral researcher (no more than 2 years from PhD).