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

[Anna Feldman]

----Second 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.



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.  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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