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<div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">2nd Call for Papers</font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/orentsur/acl-workshop-on-nlp-and-social-dynamics"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">1st workshop on NLP and Social Dynamics, collocated with ACL 2014</font></a></div>
<div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Baltimore, USA</font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">WS date: June 27, 2014</font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Submission deadline: March 21, 2014</font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Details: <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/orentsur/acl-workshop-on-nlp-and-social-dynamics">https://sites.google.com/site/orentsur/acl-workshop-on-nlp-and-social-dynamics</a></font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Confirmed panelists:</font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><a href="http://people.cs.umass.edu/~wallach/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hanna Wallach</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (UMass Amherst), </span><a href="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~jeisenst/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jacob Eisenstein</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Georgia Tech), and </span><a href="http://www.mpi-sws.org/~cristian/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (MPI)</span></font></div>
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</font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: </font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">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.<br>
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.<br>
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. <br>
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.<br>
<br>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.<br><br><br>TOPICS</font><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-156e2081-c057-06af-3152-d4172a6ae029"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br>
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<td style="border:0px solid rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:bottom;padding:0px 3px">- Demographics, identity making, and psychological view of social media language<br>- Emergence and diffusion of slang and neologisms<br>
- Emergence of metaphors<br>- Emotion dynamics in social media conversation threads<br>- Evolution of word formation and word meaning<br>- Language coordination and lexical entrainment<br>- Language evolution through history<br>
- Language variation across communities<br>- Linguistic (phonological, morphological, etc) factors in word formation<br>- Linguistic and social factors in acceptance of new words and phrases<br>- Linguistic factors in information diffusion and information cascades.<br>
- NLP techniques for analyzing social media<br>- Online (social) news outlets and public opinion<br>- Persuasive language and (online) campaigns<br>- Pragmatics of language<br>- Social dynamics in (blog/news story) comment threads<br>
- Social relationships and language use<br>- Sociolinguistic perspective of social media language use<br><font color="#000000"><span style="line-height:13.800000190734863px;white-space:pre-wrap">
</span></font>IMPORTANT DATES<font color="#000000"><span style="line-height:13.800000190734863px;white-space:pre-wrap">
</span></font>- Submission deadline (long & short papers): March 21, 2014<br>- Author notification: April 11, 2014<br>- Camera ready: April 28, 2014<br>- Workshop: June 27, 2014<br><br><br>ORGANIZERS<br><br><span id="docs-internal-guid-156e2081-c05b-fe24-9130-fce917828c99">Alice Oh KAIST, currently visiting Harvard University<br>
Oren Tsur Harvard University, Northeastern University<br><br><br>PROGRAM COMMITTEE</span><font color="#000000"><span style="line-height:13.800000190734863px;white-space:pre-wrap">
</span></font><br>Carlo Strapparava FBK<br>Alejandro Jaimes Yahoo Research Barcelona<br>Alice Oh KAIST<br>Ancsa Hannak Northeastern University<br>Ari Rappaport The Hebrew University<br>
Branden O'Conneor Carnegie Mellon University<br>Brian Keagan Northeastern University<br>Chin-Yew Lin Microsoft Research Asia<br>Cristian Danescu Mizil Max Plank Institute<br>Dan Jurafsky Stanford University<br>
Daniel Romerro Northwestern University<br>David Smith Northeastern University<br>Gideon Dror Yahoo! Research<br>Haewoon Kwak Telefonica<br>Idan Szpektor Yahoo! Research<br>
Ingmar Weber Qatar Computing Research Institute<br>
Jacob Eisenstein Georgia Tech<br>James Caverlee Texas A&M University<br>Omri Abend University of Edinburgh<br>Oren Tsur Harvard | Northeastern University<br>Paul Cook University of Melbourne<br>
Reut Tzarfati Weizman Institute of Science<br>Rivka Levitan Columbia University<br>Roi Reichart Israel Institute of Technology<br>Roy Schwartz The Hebrew University<br>Souneil Park University of Michigan<br>
Vivi Nastase FBK<br>Yael Netzer Ben Gurion University<br>Yoav Goldberg Bar Ilan University<br>Yoval Pinter Yahoo! Research<br>Yuru Lin University of Pittsburgh</td>
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<div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">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.<br>
<br>Submission are only possible via the START system.<br>Submission page: <a href="https://www.softconf.com/acl2014/NLPSD/">https://www.softconf.com/acl2014/NLPSD/</a></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br>
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