LINGUIST List 29.714
Tue Feb 13 2018
Calls: Computational Linguistics/USA
Editor for this issue: Kenneth Steimel <kenlinguistlist.org>
Date: 08-Feb-2018
From: Zeerak Waseem <z.w.butt
sheffield.ac.uk>
Subject: Widening NLP at NAACL 2018
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Short Title: WiNLP
Date: 01-Jun-2018 - 01-Jun-2018
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Contact Person: Zeerak Waseem
Meeting Email:
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http://www.winlp.org
Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
Call Deadline:
09-Mar-2018
Meeting Description:
The Widening NLP (WiNLP) workshop
is open to all. Its aim is to highlight the work of underrepresented groups in
Natural Language Processing -- anyone who self-identifies within an underrepresented
demographic, and would benefit from a more inclusive ACL environment. The full-day
event includes invited talks, oral presentations, and poster sessions, and provides
an excellent opportunity for junior members in the community to showcase their work
and connect with senior mentors for feedback and career advice. It also offers
recruitment opportunities with leading industrial labs. Most importantly, the
workshop serves to share and promote the work of subpopulations in NLP that face
additional barriers to entry and acceptance in the NLP community.
The
second Widening NLP (WiNLP) Workshop will be held in conjunction with NAACL 2018 in
New Orleans, Louisiana.
Invited Speakers:
- Claire Cardie, Cornell
University
- Su Jian, Baidu
- Natalie Schluter, IT University of
Copenhagen
Final Call for Papers:
The first call-for-papers
targeted researchers who required an early deadline to allow for extended period to
apply for visa. For this second call for paper we invite manuscripts that have not
been previously submitted to WiNLP18. This deadline aims to enable every interested
author from an under-represented group to submit to WiNLP while minimizing conflicts
between other ACL-related submission deadlines. Authors should take into
consideration that this deadline may not allow sufficient time to apply for a visa
if needed.
Workshop Date: June 1, 2018 (Tutorial day)
Paper Submission
Deadline: March 9, 2018
While everyone is encouraged to attend, the
opportunity to present a talk or poster is intended for underrepresented genders and
minorities (students, post-docs, professors, and other researchers). We invite
submissions in the form of extended abstracts on topics in computational linguistics
and natural language processing, including but not limited to:
- Cognitive
modeling and psycholinguistics
- Computational social science
- Corpus
development and evaluation
- Dialog and interactive systems
- Discourse and
pragmatics
- Document analysis including text categorization, topic models, and
retrieval
- Natural language generation
- Information extraction, text
mining, and question answering
- Language-inclusive multimodal integration
-
Linguistic theories for NLP
- Low-resource or endangered languages
- Machine
learning
- Machine translation
- Mathematical models of language
-
Multilinguality
- Phonology, morphology, and word segmentation
- Resources
and evaluation
- Semantics
- Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
-
Social media: Twitter, blogs, discussion forums, and other social media
-
Sociolinguistics
- Speech, prosody, and spoken dialog
- Summarization
-
Tagging, chunking, syntax, and parsing
- Vision, robots, and other grounding
applications
Invited Panelists:
- Houda Bouamor, Carnegie Mellon
University in Qatar
- Barbara Plank, University of Groningen
- Mugizi Robert
Rwebangira, Howard University
- Amanda Stent, Bloomberg
Submission
Guidelines:
Submissions must follow the standard two-column format of the
ACL 2018 proceedings. Each submission should be a two-page Extended Abstract pdf,
with any number of additional pages allowed for references. Authors should use the
NAACL 2018 style files. We have made the LaTeX templates available on Overleaf.
Submission will be electronic using the paper submission web page at
https://www.softconf.com/naacl2018/WiNLP18/
.
Multiple-Submission Policy:
As our goal is to highlight
contribution to the community from women and underrepresented minorities, we will
consider anonymized 2-page abstracts of papers that were submitted to other venues
or published elsewhere in the past year (i.e. after Jan 1, 2017), though authors
must indicate this at submission time.
Travel Support:
There will
be a limited amount of travel grant and/or additional funding to cover expenses.
More information will be made available closer to the submission deadline.
Organising
Committee:
Libby Barak, Princeton University
Diyi Yang, Carnegie Mellon
University
Amittai Axelrod, Amazon
Lucie Flekova, Amazon
Zeerak Waseem,
University of Sheffield
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