[Corpora-List] Final CFP: NAACL HLT 2010 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Creativity 2010 (CALC-10)

[Anna Feldman]

----Final call for papers---

NAACL HLT 2010 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Creativity  2010 (CALC-10)
Los Angeles, June 5 or 6, 2010

Webpage: 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 withwords 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.


Invited Speaker:

Pablo Gervas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain 
http://nil.fdi.ucm.es/index.php?q=node/92

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 of content + 1 extra page for references.  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, Across Systems GmbH, Germany
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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