[Corpora-List] [Deadline extended] ACL workshop on NLP and Social Dynamics

[Oren Tsur]

Apologies for cross-posting.

Due to multiple requests:

   1. We announce an extension of the deadline (March 28, 2014).
   2. We will accommodate non-archival submissions when specified.


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Final CFP

1st workshop on NLP and Social Dynamics, collocated with ACL 2014
Baltimore, USA, June 27, 2014

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

Confirmed panelists on the challenges of developing and applying
computational methods to social science problems:

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 28, 2014

- Author notification:  April 14, 2014

- Camera ready: April 28, 2014

- Workshop:  June 27, 2014



ORGANIZERS


Alice Oh      KAIST,  currently visiting Harvard University

Oren Tsur    Harvard University, Northeastern University



FORMATTING  and SUBMISSION


We welcome long (8 pages + references) and short (4 pages)
submissions. All submissions must be electronic, complying with the
general ACL formatting and submission guidelines.


We allow authors of accepted papers to apply for a non-archival
acceptance in order to allow publication in Linguistics / Social
Science journals.


Submission are only possible via the START system.

Submission page: https://www.softconf.com/acl2014/NLPSD/



MORE DETAILS


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



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