31.1477, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Online

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LINGUIST List: Vol-31-1477. Thu Apr 30 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.1477, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Online

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Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 00:01:53
From: Wei Xu [weixu at cse.ohio-state.edu]
Subject: The 6th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text @EMNLP 2020

 
Full Title: The 6th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text @EMNLP 2020 
Short Title: WNUT 2020 

Date: 19-Nov-2020 - 19-Nov-2020
Location: going virtual, USA 
Contact Person: Wei Xu
Meeting Email: weixu at cse.ohio-state.edu
Web Site: http://noisy-text.github.io/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 25-Aug-2020 

Meeting Description:

The WNUT workshop focuses on Natural Language Processing applied to noisy
user-generated text, such as that found in social media, online reviews,
crowdsourced data, web forums, clinical records, and language learner essays.
This year, there will be a shared task on Named Entity Recognition over
Wet-lab Protocols. 


Call for Papers: 

The WNUT Workshop will be collocated with EMNLP 2020 (going virtual!). The
website for the workshop is at:  http://noisy-text.github.io/

We seek submissions of both long and short papers on original and unpublished
work (same format and page limit as EMNLP main conference). 1-page abstracts
on work-in-progress or work published elsewhere are also welcome and will
*not* be included in the conference proceedings. All accepted submissions will
be presented as posters. Additionally, selected submissions will be presented
orally. We have [best paper awards] sponsored by Twitter this year.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* NLP Preprocessing of Noisy Text
  - Part of speech tagging
  - Named entity tagging, including a wide range of categories, e.g. product
names
  - Chunking of user-generated text
  - Parsing
* Text Normalization and Error Correction
  - Normalizing noisy text for downstream tasks and for human readability
  - Error detection and correction
* Robustness to Noise, both Natural and Adversarial
* Multilingual NLP in noisy text
* Machine Translation of Noisy Text
* Sentiment analysis
* Crowdsourcing of text data
* User prediction, e.g. gender, age, etc
* Stylistics, e.g. formality, politeness, etc
* Colloquial language, e.g. code-switching, idiom detection
* Bilingual translation of the noisy text
* Paraphrase identification and semantic similarity of short text or noisy
text
* Information extraction from noisy text
* Domain adaptation to user-generated text
* Geolocation prediction
* Global and regional trend detection and event extraction
* Detecting rumors, contradictory information, sarcasm and humor on social
media
* Extracting user demographics, profiles, and major life events
* Temporal aspects of user-generated content (resolving time expressions,
concept drift, diachronic analyses, etc...)

= IMPORTANT DATES =
* Aug 25, 2020: Workshop paper due (dual-submission w/ EMNLP main conference
allowed)
* Sept 15, 2020: Retraction of workshop papers accepted for EMNLP main
conference
* Sept 29, 2020: Notification of acceptance
* Oct 2, 2020: Retraction of workshop papers accepted for COLING main
conference
* Oct 8, 2020: Camera-ready papers due
* Nov 19, 2020: Workshop date

= SHARED TASKS = 
* June-July, 2020 (tentative): Named Entity Recognition over Wet-lab Protocols

= ORGANIZERS =
Wei Xu (Ohio State University)
Leon Derczynski (IT University of Copenhagen)
Alan Ritter (Ohio State University)
Tim Baldwin (University of Melbourne)
Afshin Rahimi (University of Queensland)

= SUBMISSION =
Formatting should be according to EMNLP 2020 specifications.
Dual submission is allowed, but must state at the time of submission.

Please submit through the START system at the following URL:
https://www.softconf.com/emnlp2020/wnut2020/




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