29.43, Calls: Computational Linguistics/USA

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Subject: 29.43, Calls: Computational Linguistics/USA

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Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2018 15:02:56
From: Zeerak Waseem [z.w.butt at sheffield.ac.uk]
Subject: Widening NLP at NAACL 2018

 
Full Title: Widening NLP at NAACL 2018 
Short Title: WiNLP 

Date: 01-Jun-2018 - 01-Jun-2018
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA 
Contact Person: Zeerak Waseem
Meeting Email: winlp-chairs at googlegroups.com
Web Site: http://www.winlp.org 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 17-Jan-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.


Call for Papers:

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 an extended 2-page abstract 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

Submission deadline: January 27, 2018, 23:59 GMT-12.
Notification of acceptance: March 6, 2018
Travel grant application deadline: March 27, 2018
Camera-ready submission deadline: April 16, 2018
Travel grant notification: April 27, 2018
Workshop date: June 1, 2018
Workshop Website: http://www.winlp.org/

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.

The deadline for submission is 11:59pm GMT -12 on Jan, 27th, 2017. Submission
will be electronic using the paper submission web page at
https://www.softconf.com/naacl2018/WiNLP18/ .

Submissions will be peer reviewed in the double-blind format. Abstracts will
be evaluated on relevance to the community; the presentation format (talk or
poster) will be decided based on scientific merit and potential interest to a
broad audience.

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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