[Corpora-List] 3rd CfP: ACL workshop on NLP and Social Dynamics (deadline March 21)

[Oren Tsur]

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3rd CfP: ACL workshop on NLP and Social Dynamics

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 3rd Call for Papers

1st workshop on NLP and Social Dynamics, collocated with ACL
2014, Baltimore, USA
WS date: June 27, 2014
*Submission deadline: March 21, 2014*

Details:
https://sites.google.com/site/orentsur/acl-workshop-on-nlp-and-social-dynamics

Confirmed panelists:
Hanna Wallach (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Jacob Eisenstein
(Georgia Tech), and Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil ( Max Plank Institute
SWS)

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 WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:

Language is a set of publicly agreed conventions that serves the purpose of
inter-personal communication. Speakers (or writers) try to convey a
message, instill an idea or make an impression on the listeners.  Listeners
(or readers), in turn, are affected by the message and may respond to it.
Language, in that sense, is an important vehicle that shapes (and is shaped
by) social dynamics.

Traditional NLP research, however, focuses on ‘documents’ (either of full
length or on the sentence level), rather than on the communication process
as reflected by language use. Common examples of traditional NLP research
are parsing, document classification, machine translation, and sentiment
analysis at the sentence and document level without considering the social
dynamics of the people who are writing and reading those texts.

In this workshop we move beyond analyzing the informational aspect of
documents and discuss ways in which NLP can contribute to gaining insights
about the interplay between language use and various levels of social
dynamics.

The first Workshop on NLP and Social Dynamics is aiming at bringing
together researchers from various disciplines such as computational
linguistics, web science, sociology and digital humanities to demonstrate
and discuss the potential of the state-of-the-art NLP algorithms applied to
social and historical data.

The workshop will will feature long and short presentations and a panel
discussion of critical issues at the intersection of computational
linguistics and social science.


 TOPICS

 - Demographics, identity making, and psychological view of social media
language

- Emergence and diffusion of slang and neologisms

- Emergence of metaphors

- Emotion dynamics in social media conversation threads

- Evolution of word formation and word meaning

- Language coordination and lexical entrainment

- Language evolution through history

- Language variation across communities

- Linguistic (phonological, morphological, etc) factors in word formation

- Linguistic and social factors in acceptance of new words and phrases

- Linguistic factors in information diffusion and information cascades.

- NLP techniques for analyzing social media

- Online (social) news outlets and public opinion

- Persuasive language and (online) campaigns

- Pragmatics of language

- Social dynamics in (blog/news story) comment threads

- Social relationships and language use

- Sociolinguistic perspective of social media language use



IMPORTANT DATES


- Submission deadline (long & short papers):  March 21, 2014

- Author notification:  April 11, 2014

- Camera ready: April 28, 2014

- Workshop:  June 27, 2014


ORGANIZERS

Alice Oh      KAIST,  currently visiting Harvard University

Oren Tsur    Harvard University, Northeastern University

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Oren
http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~orentsur/
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