31.969, Calls: Computational Linguistics, General Linguistics, Sociolinguistics/USA

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LINGUIST List: Vol-31-969. Wed Mar 11 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.969, Calls: Computational Linguistics, General Linguistics, Sociolinguistics/USA

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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 14:41:22
From: Erika Doggett [winlp-chairs at googlegroups.com]
Subject: Fourth Workshop in Widening Natural Language Processing

Full Title: Fourth Workshop in Widening Natural Language Processing 
Short Title: WiNLP 

Date: 05-Jul-2020 - 05-Jul-2020
Location: Seattle, WA, USA 
Contact Person: Erika Varis Doggett
Meeting Email: winlp-chairs at googlegroups.com
Web Site: http://www.winlp.org/winlp-2020-workshop/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 10-Apr-2020 

Meeting Description:

The fourth WiNLP (“Widening NLP”) Workshop will be held in conjunction with
ACL 2020 in Seattle, WA, United States. 
The WiNLP workshop is open to all to foster an inclusive and welcoming ACL
environment.  It aims to promote diversity and highlight the work of
underrepresented groups in NLP: anyone who self-identifies within an
underrepresented demographic [gender, ethnicity, nationality, etc]. The 2020
iteration of the workshop will, in particular, seek to highlight diversity in
scientific background, discipline, training, obtained degrees, seniority, and
communities from underrepresented languages. The full-day event includes
invited talks, oral presentations, and poster sessions. The workshop 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 will provide an inclusive and accepting space, and
work to lower structural barriers to joining and collaborating with the NLP
community at large.

While everyone is encouraged to attend, the opportunity to present a talk or
poster is intended for members of underrepresented groups at all career
levels: 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
 - Ethics in NLP
 - 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

Call for Papers: 

This is the regular submission round for WiNLP (as distinct from the early
visa-friendly submission deadline).  

Submission guidelines:
Submissions must follow the standard anonymized one-column format. Each
submission should be a two-page extended abstract PDF, with any number of
additional pages allowed for references (WiNLP/COLING proceedings format). No
appendices will be accepted.
Submissions should follow the same style and format guidelines (LaTeX style
files, Word template) and be submitted electronically in PDF format via the
WiNLP 2020 online submission system.

Submission link: https://www.softconf.com/acl2020/WiNLP/
LaTeX template link:
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-and-instructions-for-winlp-2
020/wmghdyddktfd
Word template link:
http://www.winlp.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/WiNLP20_Template.docx

Peer Workshopping & Reviewing Procedure:
One week prior to the submission deadline, authors will have the option to
peer-workshop each others' abstracts in a non-anonymous format, in groups of
two or three authors. Authors taking this option commit to helping their peers
edit and format their submissions, or revise for clarity, or provide general
feedback before the submission is reviewed. Authors may use the feedback
provided during this peer-editing period to update their submissions in time
for the submission deadline. Authors taking advantage of this peer
workshopping period may also have access to a free Grammarly license to use
for copy editing, courtesy of our sponsor Grammarly. Whether or not authors
take advantage of this workshopping option in advance of submission, all
submissions are due on the deadline. To sign up and take advantage of peer
workshopping, please visit the following sign-up link:
https://winlp.ling.washington.edu/survey/index.php/293366?lang=en

After the submission deadline, abstracts will be reviewed in the traditional
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.

Multiple submissions:
As we aim for improved and increased representation of underrepresented
minorities, we will consider anonymized two pages abstracts of papers that
have been submitted to other venues or have already been published elsewhere
since January 1, 2019. WiNLP is non-archival, and we encourage our authors to
submit to other conferences and venues as well as WiNLP.

Travel Support:
There will be a limited amount of travel grants and/or additional funding to
cover expenses, similar to the 2018 and 2019 workshops. More information will
be made available closer to the submission deadline and linked from
http://www.winlp.org/winlp-2020-workshop.

Important Dates:
Peer-workshopping start date: Friday, April 3, 2020.
Submission deadline: Friday, April 10, 2020.
Acceptance notification date: Friday, May 8, 2020

All deadlines are 11:59 PM GMT -12

Workshop Date: July 5, 2020 (Sunday)

Contact information:
Website: http://www.winlp.org/winlp-2020-workshop/
Twitter: winlpworkshop
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WideningNLP/
E-mail: winlp-chairs at googlegroups.com

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