34.111, Calls: Computational Linguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics/Canada

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LINGUIST List: Vol-34-111. Sat Jan 14 2023. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 34.111, Calls: Computational Linguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics/Canada

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Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2023 05:39:14
From: Jakob Prange [law-2023-chairs at googlegroups.com]
Subject: 17th Linguistic Annotation Workshop

Full Title: 17th Linguistic Annotation Workshop 
Short Title: LAW-XVII 

Date: 13-Jul-2023 - 14-Jul-2023
Location: Toronto, Canada 
Contact Person: Jakob Prange
Meeting Email: law-2023-chairs at googlegroups.com
Web Site: https://sigann.github.io/LAW-XVII-2023/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 07-Apr-2023 

Meeting Description:

LAW-XVII will be the 17th annual meeting endorsed by the ACL Special Interest
Group for Annotation (SIGANN). It will take place in July 2023 at ACL in
Toronto, Canada.

Linguistic annotation of natural language corpora is the backbone of
supervised methods in both statistical and neural natural language processing.
Annotated corpora are also a major supporting source of information for
unsupervised methods, multitask learning, and evaluation of both NLP tools and
theories about language within and outside of linguistics. The LAW-XVII will
provide a forum for presentation and discussion of innovative research on all
aspects of linguistic annotation, including creation/evaluation of annotation
schemes, methods for automatic and manual annotation, use and evaluation of
annotation software and frameworks, representation of linguistic data and
annotations, semi-supervised “human in the loop” methods of annotation,
crowd-sourcing approaches, and more.

The LAW will also provide a forum for annotation researchers to work towards
standardization, best practices, and interoperability of annotation
information and software.

Call for Papers:

First Call for Papers

*Special Theme*
The special theme of LAW-XVII is “Ethics and Annotation.” In addition to LAW’s
general topics, we specifically invite submissions on the following topics:
- Aspects of ethics related to annotation work: How do we treat annotators?
How do we ensure that they feel good about the work that they are doing? Are
there dangers related to psychological health?
- Aspects of ethics related to bias.
- Ethics in crowd-sourcing annotation scenarios.
- Annotation of information regarding ethics in text.
- Any other topics related to the special theme.

*Submissions*
We welcome submissions of long and short papers, posters, and demonstrations
relating to the special theme or any aspect of linguistic annotation,
including:
- Annotation procedures
    - Innovative automated and manual strategies for annotation
    - Machine learning and knowledge-based methods for automation of corpus
annotation
    - Creation, maintenance, and interactive exploration of annotation
structures and annotated data
- Annotation evaluation
    - Inter-annotator agreement and other evaluation metrics and strategies
    - Qualitative evaluation of linguistic representations
    - Innovative means to evaluate annotation quality
- Annotation access and use
    - Representation formats/structures for annotations of different
phenomena, especially annotations at multiple levels, and means to
explore/manipulate them
    - Linguistic considerations for merging annotations of distinct phenomena
- Annotation schemes, guidelines and standards
    - New and innovative annotation schemes, comparison of annotation schemes
    - Methodologies and resources for annotation scheme development
    - Best practices for annotation procedures and/or development and
documentation of annotation schemes
    - Interoperability of annotation formats and/or frameworks among different
systems as well as different tasks, frameworks, modalities, and languages
    - Results from the application and evaluation of standards for linguistic
annotation
- Annotation software and frameworks
    - Development, evaluation and/or innovative use of annotation software
frameworks

Submissions should report original and unpublished research on topics of
interest to the workshop. We also invite substantiated position papers, in
particular with regard to our special theme. Accepted papers are expected to
be presented at the workshop and will be published in the workshop
proceedings. They should emphasize obtained results rather than intended work,
and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results.
A paper accepted for presentation at the workshop must not be or have been
presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings.
Long/short paper submissions must use the official ACL style templates. Long
papers must not exceed eight (8) pages of content. Short papers and
demonstration papers must not exceed four (4) pages of content. References do
not count against these limits.

The submission site will be announced shortly.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the program co-chairs
at law-2023-chairs at googlegroups.com or check the workshop website
(https://sigann.github.io/LAW-XVII-2023/) for updates.

*Dates*
 (All submission deadlines are 11:59 p.m. UTC-12:00 “anywhere on Earth”)
Anonymity period starts: 7th March 2023
Preliminary submission of long and short papers: 7th April 2023
Submission, notification, and camera-ready dates to be announced in January
2023
Workshop: 13th or 14th July, 2023 (TBD)

*Workshop Organizers*
Annemarie Friedrich (Program Co-Chair)
Jakob Prange (Program Co-Chair)
Amir Zeldes (ACL SIGANN President)
Ines Rehbein (ACL SIGANN Secretary)

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