★Full name: 2025 9th International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval ★Abbreviation: NLPIR 2025 ★Website: www.nlpir.net ★Date：December 14-16, 2025 ★Held in: Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan ★Call for papers★ Core NLP & Data Science (Foundations of Language Processing; Linguistic Analysis & Understanding; Knowledge Systems & Semantics; Content Analysis & IR; Social & Multimedia Analysis) AI-Driven Methods & Innovations (Large Language Models (LLMs) & Transformers; Generative AI & Automation; Graph & Deep Learning; Efficiency & Scalability) Cross-Cutting Themes (Human-Centric NLP; Machine Translation & Multilinguality; Decentralized & Collaborative Systems; Ethics & Governance) Emerging Frontiers (AI for Science: LLMs in biomedical NLP, climate text analysis, and legal document processing; Embodied AI: Language models integrated with robotics and real-world interaction; Self-Supervised Learning: Pre-training paradigms beyond transformers) ★ Publication All peer-reviewed papers accepted by NLPIR 2025 will be published as a volume of the Springer book series: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems. Springer will conduct quality checks on the accepted papers and only papers that pass these checks will be published. Indexed by Ei Compendex, Scopus, INSPEC, etc. All books published in the series are submitted for consideration in Web of Science. **NLPIR 2018-2024 ACM Conference Proceedings has been online in ACM Digital Library, and indexed by Ei Compendex and Scopus already. NLPIR 2024 ACM Digital Library (ISBN: 979-8-4007-1738-3) NLPIR 2023 ACM Digital Library (ISBN: 979-8-4007-0922-7) NLPIR 2022 ACM Digital Library (ISBN: 978-1-4503-9762-9) NLPIR 2021 ACM Digital Library (ISBN: 978-1-4503-8735-4) NLPIR 2020 ACM Digital Library (ISBN: 978-1-4503-7760-7) NLPIR 2019 ACM Digital Library (ISBN: 978-1-4503-6279-5) NLPIR 2018 ACM Digital Library (ISBN: 978-1-4503-6551-2) ★Submission★ 1. Submitted papers should be prepared according to the paper template and the length should be at least 8 pages (Single column) 2. The submitted paper is requested to be written in complete English. Paper Template for Docx: https://nlpir.net/template.docx Paper Template for LaTex: https://nlpir.net/LaTeX.zip *Electronic Submission System Link: https://www.zmeeting.org/submission/NLPIR2025 You will receive the submission confirmation email from the conference email after around 2 working days. If you haven't received it, please contact us as soon as possible. (Email: nlpir@asr.org) More details about submission, please visit at https://nlpir.net/sub.html ★Conference Venue Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan Address: 744 Motooka Nishi-ku Fukuoka 819-0395 ★★Contact us Ms. Sophie Chen (Conference Secretary) Email:nlpir@asr.org Conference Website: www.nlpir.net