28.616, Calls: Computational Linguistics, General Linguistics/Denmark

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Subject: 28.616, Calls: Computational Linguistics, General Linguistics/Denmark

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Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2017 10:37:48
From: Allyson Ettinger [aetting at umd.edu]
Subject: Workshop on Building Linguistically Generalizable NLP Systems (at EMNLP 2017)

 
Full Title: Workshop on Building Linguistically Generalizable NLP Systems (at EMNLP 2017) 

Date: 08-Sep-2017 - 08-Sep-2017
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark 
Contact Person: Hal Daumé III
Meeting Email: me at hal3.name
Web Site: http://generalizablenlp.weebly.com 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 02-Jun-2017 

Meeting Description:

Machine learning techniques have had immeasurable positive impact on the field
of natural language processing, to the point that we now have systems for many
NLP problems that work incredibly well, at least when the NLP problem is
carefully designed, and these systems are tested on data that looks like their
training data. Especially with the influx of deep learning approaches to NLP,
we find ourselves more and more in the situation that we have systems that
work well under some conditions, but have little idea what those conditions
are.

We believe that linguistic knowledge is indispensable in many phases of the
NLP pipeline, including:

- Task design and choice of language(s)
- Annotation schema design
- System architecture design and/or feature design
- Evaluation design and error analysis
- Generalization beyond training data

Our goal in this workshop is to bring together researchers from NLP and
Linguistics through a carefully designed shared task. This shared task is
designed to test the true generalization ability of NLP systems beyond the
distribution of data on which they may have been trained. Details will be
released in early 2017.
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This workshop will take place at EMNLP 2017, in Copenhagen, Denmark.


Call for Papers:

Workshop on Building Linguistically Generalizable NLP Systems
To be held at EMNLP 2017 in Copenhagen, Denmark on September 8
Workshop website: http://generalizablenlp.weebly.com

We will have two types of papers: (1) research contributions; (2) shared task
descriptions. If you are interested in participating in the shared task,
please visit http://bibinlp.umiacs.umd.edu and sign up for the mailing list.
For research contributions, we welcome papers related to linguistic knowledge
in many phases of the NLP pipeline, including:

 1. Task design and choice of language(s)
 2. Annotation schema design
 3. System architecture design and/or feature design
 4. Evaluation design and error analysis
 5. Generalization beyond training data

Although we welcome papers on any of these topics, our focus is on (1), (4)
and (5).

Contributed papers should follow the EMNLP formatting guidelines and be
between 4 and 8 pages in length. (Reviewers will be told that there is no
penalty for writing a shorter submission.) Each paper will be reviewed by
three reviewers with at least one linguist reviewing each paper, so please
keep that in mind when writing your paper.

Deadlines:

Research contribution paper submission: June 2
Shared task description paper submission: June 15
Acceptance notification: June 30
Camera-ready submission: July 14

Submissions will be through START, link to be provided.




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