LINGUIST List 25.2093
Mon
May 12 2014
Confs: Computational
Linguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics,
Sociolinguistics/USA
Editor for this issue:
Bryn Hauk <brynlinguistlist.org>
Date: 11-May-2014
From: Jacob Eisenstein
<jacobe
gmail.com>
Subject: ACL Workshop on
Language Technology and Computational Social
Science
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ACL Workshop on Language Technology and
Computational Social Science
Date: 26-Jun-2014 - 26-Jun-2014
Location: Baltimore, MD, USA
Contact: Jacob Eisenstein
Contact Email:
< click here to access email >
Meeting URL:
http://www.mpi-sws.org/~cristian/LACSS_2014.html
Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics;
Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Meeting Description:
A major growth area in applied natural language
processing has been the field of computational
social science, in which automated techniques
are applied to massive datasets to answer
scientific questions about society. Although
much work in computational social science
focuses on structured data or network data,
linguistic data is also central. While some
existing natural language processing techniques
have found use in this growing community, new
techniques for discovering and analyzing social
meanings and structures in text are in high
demand.
Tackling these challenges should be an
interdisciplinary pursuit, building on
expertise not just in language technologies but
also in substantive social science fields
(e.g., political science, economics, sociology,
etc.). In particular, engagement between NLP
researchers and social scientists will
introduce new problem formulations and new
theoretical frameworks that will broaden and
deepen applications of language technology to
social science.
The goal of this workshop is to increase the
visibility of this application area for ACL
researchers and to help build connections
between language technologists and social
scientists. The workshop is organized around
invited talks from researchers who have
successfully brought language technologies to
computational social science research
questions. Following each invited talk session,
there will be an open discussion period.
Invited Speakers:
Justin Grimmer (Political Science, Stanford
University)
Lillian Lee (Computer Science, Cornell
University)
Philip Resnik (Linguistics, University of
Maryland)
Sali Tagliamonte (Linguistics, University of
Toronto)
We are pleased to announce travel support to
the workshop, thanks to generous grants from
the National Science Foundation and from
Google. Priority will be given to graduate
students, members of underrepresented groups,
and researchers from outside the computer
science discipline. A short application for
support can be found here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1mLMlnMmt_QUbGD4piRxTdpEnk8JpcZTniIr1_P9iIew/viewform
Applications will be accepted until May 14,
2014.
Early registration prices for ACL are available
until May 17. Note that we will reimburse no
more than the early registration rates, so
please register promptly.
http://www.cs.jhu.edu/ACL2014/Registration.htm
Page Updated: 12-May-2014