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<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><span style="vertical-align:baseline"></span>1st workshop on NLP and Social Dynamics, collocated with ACL 2014, Baltimore, USA<br>WS date: June 27, 2014<br>
<b>Submission deadline: March 21, 2014</b><br><br>Details: <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/orentsur/acl-workshop-on-nlp-and-social-dynamics" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/orentsur/acl-workshop-on-nlp-and-social-dynamics</a><br>
<br>Confirmed panelists:<br>Hanna Wallach (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Jacob Eisenstein (Georgia Tech), and Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil ( Max Plank Institute SWS)<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: </span></p><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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 </span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,204);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">dynamics</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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 </span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,204);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">dynamics</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> of the people who are writing and reading those texts.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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 </span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,204);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">dynamics</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The first Workshop on NLP and Social </span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,204);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dynamics</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> 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.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">TOPICS</span></p><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;margin-left:0pt">
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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Demographics, identity making, and psychological view of social media language</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Emergence and diffusion of slang and neologisms</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Emergence of metaphors</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Emotion </span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,204);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">dynamics</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> in social media conversation threads</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Evolution of word formation and word meaning</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Language coordination and lexical entrainment</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Language evolution through history</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Language variation across communities</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Linguistic (phonological, morphological, etc) factors in word formation</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Linguistic and social factors in acceptance of new words and phrases</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Linguistic factors in information diffusion and information cascades.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- NLP techniques for analyzing social media</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Online (social) news outlets and public opinion</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Persuasive language and (online) campaigns</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Pragmatics of language</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Social </span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,204);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">dynamics</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> in (blog/news story) comment threads</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Social relationships and language use</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Sociolinguistic perspective of social media language use</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial"><br><br></span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">IMPORTANT DATES</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial"><br></span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Submission deadline (long & short </span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,204);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">papers</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">): March 21, 2014</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Author notification: April 11, 2014</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Camera ready: April 28, 2014</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Workshop: June 27, 2014</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ORGANIZERS</span></p><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Alice Oh KAIST, currently visiting Harvard University</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Oren Tsur Harvard University, Northeastern University</span></p><div><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br>
</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr">--<br>Oren<div><a href="http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~orentsur/" target="_blank">http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~orentsur/</a></div></div>
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