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2nd CfP: ACL workshop on NLP and Social Dynamics

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2nd Call for Papers

1st workshop on NLP and Social Dynamics, collocated with ACL
2014<https://sites.google.com/site/orentsur/acl-workshop-on-nlp-and-social-dynamics>
Baltimore, USA

WS date: June 27, 2014
Submission deadline: March 21, 2014

Details:
https://sites.google.com/site/orentsur/acl-workshop-on-nlp-and-social-dynamics

Confirmed panelists:
Hanna Wallach <http://people.cs.umass.edu/~wallach/> (UMass Amherst), Jacob
Eisenstein <http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~jeisenst/> (Georgia Tech), and Cristian
Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil <http://www.mpi-sws.org/~cristian/> (MPI)

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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:

Language is a set of publicly agreed conventions that serves the purpose of
inter-personal communication. Speakers (or writers) try to convey a
message, instill an idea or make an impression on the listeners.  Listeners
(or readers), in turn, are affected by the message and may respond to it.
Language, in that sense, is an important vehicle that shapes (and is shaped
by) social dynamics.
Traditional NLP research, however, focuses on ‘documents’ (either of full
length or on the sentence level), rather than on the communication process
as reflected by language use. Common examples of traditional NLP research
are parsing, document classification, machine translation, and sentiment
analysis at the sentence and document level without considering the social
dynamics of the people who are writing and reading those texts.
In this workshop we move beyond analyzing the informational aspect of
documents and discuss ways in which NLP can contribute to gaining insights
about the interplay between language use and various levels of social
dynamics.
The first Workshop on NLP and Social Dynamics is aiming at bringing
together researchers from various disciplines such as computational
linguistics, web science, sociology and digital humanities to demonstrate
and discuss the potential of the state-of-the-art NLP algorithms applied to
social and historical data.

The workshop will will feature long and short presentations and a panel
discussion of critical issues at the intersection of computational
linguistics and social science.


TOPICS

 - Demographics, identity making, and psychological view of social media
language
- Emergence and diffusion of slang and neologisms
- Emergence of metaphors
- Emotion dynamics in social media conversation threads
- Evolution of word formation and word meaning
- Language coordination and lexical entrainment
- Language evolution through history
- Language variation across communities
- Linguistic (phonological, morphological, etc) factors in word formation
- Linguistic and social factors in acceptance of new words and phrases
- Linguistic factors in information diffusion and information cascades.
- NLP techniques for analyzing social media
- Online (social) news outlets and public opinion
- Persuasive language and (online) campaigns
- Pragmatics of language
- Social dynamics in (blog/news story) comment threads
- Social relationships and language use
- Sociolinguistic perspective of social media language use
IMPORTANT DATES - Submission deadline (long & short papers):  March 21, 2014
- Author notification:  April 11, 2014
- Camera ready: April 28, 2014
- Workshop:  June 27, 2014


ORGANIZERS

Alice Oh      KAIST,  currently visiting Harvard University
Oren Tsur    Harvard University, Northeastern University


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Carlo Strapparava   FBK
Alejandro Jaimes    Yahoo Research Barcelona
Alice Oh                    KAIST
Ancsa Hannak         Northeastern University
Ari Rappaport          The Hebrew University
Branden O'Conneor   Carnegie Mellon University
Brian Keagan           Northeastern University
Chin-Yew Lin            Microsoft Research Asia
Cristian Danescu Mizil     Max Plank Institute
Dan Jurafsky            Stanford University
Daniel Romerro       Northwestern University
David Smith              Northeastern University
Gideon Dror              Yahoo! Research
Haewoon Kwak       Telefonica
Idan Szpektor           Yahoo! Research
Ingmar Weber          Qatar Computing Research Institute
Jacob Eisenstein     Georgia Tech
James Caverlee       Texas A&M University
Omri Abend              University of Edinburgh
Oren Tsur                  Harvard  |  Northeastern University
Paul Cook                 University of Melbourne
Reut Tzarfati             Weizman Institute of Science
Rivka Levitan            Columbia University
Roi Reichart              Israel Institute of Technology
Roy Schwartz           The Hebrew University
Souneil Park             University of Michigan
Vivi Nastase              FBK
Yael Netzer               Ben Gurion University
Yoav Goldberg         Bar Ilan University
Yoval Pinter             Yahoo! Research
Yuru Lin                    University of Pittsburgh


FORMATTING  and SUBMISSION

We welcome long (8 pages) and short (4 pages) submissions. All submissions
must be electronic, complying with the general ACL formatting and
submission guidelines. More information regarding formatting as well as TeX
and MS Word style sheets and templates can be found here.

Submission are only possible via the START system.
Submission page: https://www.softconf.com/acl2014/NLPSD/


MORE DETAILS

https://sites.google.com/site/orentsur/acl-workshop-on-nlp-and-social-dynamics


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Oren
http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~orentsur/
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