29.3501, FYI: Joint Call for Workshops: ACL / EMNLP / NAACL 2019

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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 21:20:46
From: Yuval Pinter [uvp at gatech.edu]
Subject: Joint Call for Workshops: ACL / EMNLP / NAACL 2019

 
Joint Call for Workshop Proposals: ACL/EMNLP-IJCNLP/NAACL 2019

http://naacl2019.org/calls/workshops/

The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), the Conference of the
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human
Language Technologies (NAACL HLT), and the Conference on Empirical Methods in
Natural Language Processing & International Joint Conference on Natural
Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP) invite proposals for workshops to be held
in conjunction with ACL 2019, NAACL HLT 2019, or EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019.

We solicit proposals on any topic of interest to the ACL communities.
Workshops will be held at one of the following conference venues:

ACL 2019: The 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics will be held in Florence, Italy, July 28–August 2, 2019, with
workshops to be held on August 1–2, 2019.

NAACL HLT 2019: The 17th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of
the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
will be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, June 2–June 7, 2019 with
workshops to be held on June 6–7, 2019.

EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 (the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language
Processing & International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing
2019) will be held later in 2019 (after the other two conferences). Exact
details on dates and venue for EMNLP-IJCNLP workshops will be announced later.

Submission

Proposals should be submitted as PDF documents. Note that submissions should
essentially be ready to be turned into a Call for Workshop Papers within one
week of notification (see Timelines below). The proposals should contain:

A title and brief (2-page max) description of the workshop topic and content.

The names, affiliations, and email addresses of the organizers, with
one-paragraph statements of their research interests, areas of expertise, and
experience in organising workshops and related events.

A list of Programme Committee members, with an indication of which members
have already agreed. It is highly desirable for proposals to have at least 75%
of the Programme Committee reviewers confirmed at the time of the submission.
Organizers should do their best to estimate the number of submissions
(especially for recurring workshops) in order to: (a) ensure a sufficient
number of reviewers so that each paper receives 3 reviews, and (b) anticipate
that no one is committed to reviewing more than 3 papers. This practice is
likely to ensure on-time, and more thorough and thoughtful reviews.

A list of invited speakers, if applicable, with an indication of which ones
have already agreed and which are indicative, and sources of funding for the
speakers.

An account of the efforts made to ensure demographic diversity of the
organisers and speakers (WiNLP’s BIG Directory may be a useful resource). Also
an account of any efforts to include diverse participants (e.g., via
mentoring, subsidies, or the wording and topics in the CFP).

An estimate of the number of attendees.

A description of any shared tasks associated with the workshop, and estimate
of the number of participants.

A description of special requirements and technical needs.

The preferred venue(s) (ACL/EMNLP-IJCNLP/NAACL), if any, and description of
any constraints (e.g. if the workshop is compatible with only one of these
events, logistically, thematically or otherwise)

If the workshop has been held before, a note specifying where previous
workshops were held, how many submissions the workshop received, how many
papers were accepted (also specify if they were not regular papers, e.g.
shared task system description papers), and how many attendees the workshop
attracted.

Note: the only financial support available to workshops is a single free
workshop registration for an invited speaker; all other costs must be borne
independently by the workshop organizers.

In addition, you will need to specify the following information when you
submit via the START System (not in the PDF proposal):

A very brief advertisement or tagline for the workshop, up to 140 characters,
that highlights any key information you wish prospective attendees to know,
and which would be suitable to be put onto a web-based survey (see below).

A URL for the workshop website which will be shown in the web-based survey.

A list of organizers’ names which will be shown in the web-based survey.

The proposals should be submitted no later than November 6, 2018, 11:59 PM
Samoa Standard Time (SST) (UTC/GMT-11). Submission is electronic, using the
Softconf START conference management system.

Review Criteria

The workshop proposals will be evaluated according to their originality and
impact, as well as the quality of the organizing team and Programme Committee.

In addition, to estimate the attendance of the different workshops, a survey
mechanism will be implemented, where attendees of ACL-affiliated events from
the past 3-5 years will be able to indicate which workshops they would like to
attend in 2019. (A representative prototype of the survey is shown here, but
is subject to change).

The overall diversity of the workshops will also be taken into account to
ensure the conference program is varied and balanced. The workshop co-chairs
will work together to assign workshops to the three conferences, taking into
account the location preferences and technical constraints provided by the
workshop proposers.

Organizers of accepted proposals will be responsible for publicizing and
running the workshop, including reviewing submissions, producing the camera
ready workshop proceedings, organizing the meeting days, and playing their
part to ensure that all participants are aware of ACL’s anti-harassment
policy. It is crucial that organizers commit to all deadlines. In particular,
failure to produce the camera ready proceedings on time will lead to the
exclusion of the workshop from the unified proceedings and author indexes.

Workshop organizers cannot accept submissions for publication that will be (or
have been) published elsewhere, although they are free to set their own
policies on simultaneous submission and review. Since the conferences will
occur at different times, the timelines for the submission and reviewing of
workshop papers, and the preparation of camera-ready copies, will be different
for each conference. Suggested timelines for each of the conferences are given
below. Workshop organizers should not deviate from this schedule unless
absolutely necessary, and with explicit agreement from the relevant Workshop
Chairs.

The ACL has a set of workshop policies available on their website: general
policies on workshops, financial policies for conference workshops, and the
policies for SIG workshops.

Important dates

Proposal Submission Deadline: November 6, 2018

Notification of Acceptance: November 29, 2018

Timeline

The tentative individual dates for 2019 workshops is as follows:

ACL

First call for workshop papers Thursday December 20, 2018

Second call for workshop papers Thursday February 14, 2019

Workshop papers due Friday April 26, 2019

Notification of acceptance Friday May 24, 2019

Camera-ready papers due Monday June 3, 2019

Workshop dates Thursday–Friday August 1–2, 2019

NAACL

First call for workshop papers Tuesday December 11, 2018

Second call for workshop papers Tuesday January 15, 2019

Workshop papers due Wednesday March 6, 2019

Notification of acceptance Wednesday March 27, 2019

Camera-ready papers due (firm deadline) Friday April 5, 2019

Workshop dates Thursday–Friday June 6–7, 2019

EMNLP-IJCNLP

TBA

Workshop Co-Chairs

ACL

Barbara Plank, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Sebastian Riedel, University College London, UK

NAACL

Smaranda Muresan, Columbia University, USA

Swapna Somasundaran, Educational Testing Service (ETS), Princeton, USA

Elena Volodina, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

EMNLP-IJCNLP

TBA

Contact

For inquiries, send an email to the workshop co-chairs at:
workshops-all-2019 at googlegroups.com
 



Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics





 



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