[Corpora-List] NAACL HLT 2010 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistics Creativity

[Anna Feldman]

First call for papers
NAACL HLT 2010 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic 
Creativity 2010 (CALC-10)
Los Angeles, June 5 or 6, 2010
http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=CALC-10



Workshop description:


It is generally agreed upon that creativity is an important property of 
human language. For example, speakers routinely coin new words, employ 
novel metaphors, and play with words through puns. Indeed, such creative 
processes take place at all levels of language from the lexicon, to 
syntax, semantics, and discourse. Creativity allows speakers to express 
themselves with their own individual style. It provides new ways of 
looking at the world, by describing something through the use of unusual 
comparisons for effect, emphasis, or interest, and thus making language 
more engaging and fun. Listeners are typically able to understand creative 
language without any difficulties. On the other hand, generating and 
recognizing creative language presents a tremendous challenge for natural 
language processing (NLP) systems.

The recognition of instances of linguistic creativity, and the computation 
of their meaning, constitute one of the most challenging problems for a 
variety of NLP tasks, such as machine translation, text summarization, 
information retrieval, dialog systems, and sentiment analysis. Moreover, 
models of linguistic creativity are necessary for systems capable of 
generating story narratives, jokes, or poetry. Nevertheless, despite the 
importance of linguistic creativity in many NLP tasks, it still remains 
unclear how to model, simulate, or evaluate linguistic creativity. 
Furthermore, research on topics related to linguistic creativity has not 
received a great deal of attention at major computational linguistics 
conferences in recent years.

The NAACL HLT 2009 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic 
Creativity (CALC-09) was the first venue to present research on a wide 
range of topics related to linguistic creativity including computational 
models of metaphor, generation of creative texts, and measuring 
morphological and constructional productivity. CALC-10 provides a venue 
for publication of further research on these topics, and other aspects and 
modalities of linguistic creativity. Within the scope of the workshop, the 
event is intended to be interdisciplinary. Besides contributions from an 
NLP perspective, we also welcome the participation of researchers who deal 
with linguistic creativity from perspectives such as cognitive science, 
psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, the arts, and human-computer 
interaction.


Topics:


We are particularly interested in work on the automatic detection, 
classification, understanding, or generation of:

* neologisms;
* creative use of figurative language, including metaphor, metonymy, 
personification, and idioms;
* new or unconventional syntactic constructions (e.g., "May I serve who's 
next?");
* indirect speech acts (such as curses, insults, sarcasm, and irony), 
verbally expressed humor, poetry, and fiction;
* other phenomena illustrating linguistic creativity (e.g., eggcorns such 
as "once and a while" for "once in a while"; new and emerging forms found 
in computer-mediated communication).

We also welcome descriptions and discussions of:

* computational tools that support people in using language creatively 
(e.g., tools for computer-assisted creative writing, intelligent 
thesauri);
* computational and/or cognitive models of linguistic creativity;
* metrics and tools for evaluating the performance of creativity-aware 
systems;
* specific application scenarios of computational linguistic creativity;

Related topics, including corpora collection, elicitation, and annotation 
of creative language usage, will also be considered, as long as their 
relevance to automatic systems is clearly demonstrated.


Submission information:

Submissions should describe original, unpublished work.  Papers are 
limited to 8 pages.  Please use the NAACL HLT 2010 style files, available 
here: http://naaclhlt2010.isi.ed/authors.html  No author information 
should be included in the papers, since reviewing will be blind. Papers 
not conforming to these requirements are subject to rejection without 
review. Papers should be submitted via START; more information on this 
will be available soon on the workshop website 
(http://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=CALC-10).


Location:


The CALC-10 workshop will be held in conjunction with NAACL HLT 2010 in 
Los Angeles.


Dates:

Mar 1, 2010: Paper submission deadline
Mar 30, 2010: Notification of acceptance
Apr 12, 2010: Camera-ready paper deadline
Jun 5 or 6, 2010: CALC-10



Workshop chairs:


Paul Cook, University of Toronto (pcook at cs.toronto.edu)
Anna Feldman, Montclair State University (anna.feldman at montclair.edu)


Program committee:

Roberto Basili, University of Roma, Italy
Beata Beigman Klebanov, Northwestern University
Amilcar Cardoso, Coimbra, Portugal
Mona Diab, Columbia University
Afsaneh Fazly, Shiraz University, Iran
Eileen Fitzpatrick, Montclair State University
Pablo Gervas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Roxana Girju, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sid Horton, Northwestern University
Diana Inkpen, University of Ottawa, Canada
Mark Lee, Birmingham, UK
Birte Loenneker-Rodman, University of Hamburg
Xiaofei Lu, Penn State
Ruli Manurung, University of Indonesia
Katja Markert, University of Leeds, UK
Saif Mohammad, National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada
Anton Nijholt, Twente, The Netherlands
Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota in Duluth
Vasile Rus, The University of Memphis
Gerard Steen, Vrije Universiteit,The Netherlands
Juergen Trouvain, Saarland, Germany

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