[HPSG-L] Fwd: WiNLP 2017

[Emily M. Bender]

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Call for Participation: WiNLP 2017

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The first WiNLP Workshop will be held in conjunction with ACL 2017 in
Vancouver, Canada. WiNLP stands for Women and Underrepresented
Minorities in NLP.

Workshop Date: July 30, 2017 (Tutorial day at ACL)

Paper Submission Deadline:  April 21, 2017

The WiNLP workshop is open to all.  Its aim is to highlight the work
of women and other underrepresented genders and minorities in NLP —
anyone who self-identifies within an underrepresented demographic, and
would benefit from a more inclusive ACL environment. The full-day
event includes invited talks, oral presentations, and poster sessions,
and provides an excellent opportunity for junior members in the
community to showcase their work and connect with senior mentors for
feedback and career advice.  It also offers recruitment opportunities
with leading industrial labs.  Most importantly, the workshop serves
to share and promote the work of subpopulations in NLP that face
additional barriers to entry and acceptance in the NLP community.

While everyone is encouraged to attend, the opportunity to present a
talk or poster is intended for underrepresented genders and minorities
(students, post-docs, professors, and other researchers). We invite
submissions in the form of an extended 2-page abstract on topics in
computational linguistics and natural language processing, including
but not limited to:

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   Cognitive modeling and psycholinguistics
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   Corpus development and evaluation
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   Dialog and interactive systems
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   Discourse and pragmatics
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   Document analysis including text categorization, topic models, and retrieval
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   Natural language generation
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   Information extraction, text mining, and question answering
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   Language-inclusive multimodal integration
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   Linguistic theories for NLP
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   Low-resource or endangered languages
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   Machine learning
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   Machine translation
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   Mathematical models of language
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   Multilinguality
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   Phonology, morphology, and word segmentation
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   Resources and evaluation
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   Semantics
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   Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
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   Social media: Twitter, blogs, discussion forums, and other social media
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   Sociolinguistics
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   Speech, prosody, and spoken dialog
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   Summarization
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   Tagging, chunking, syntax, and parsing
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   Vision, robots, and other grounding applications

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Submission Guidelines

Papers:

Submissions must follow the standard two-column format of the ACL 2017
proceedings and they must be submitted as a PDF file. Authors should
use the style files from the conference web site
(http://acl2017.org/calls/papers/).

All submissions are limited to 2 pages of content, with any number of
additional pages allowed for references.

The deadline for submission is 11:59PM GMT -12 (anywhere in the
world), April 21, 2017.

Submission will be electronic using the paper submission web page at:
https://www.softconf.com/acl2017/winlp.

Reviewing Procedure:

Submissions will be peer reviewed in the double-blind format.
Abstracts will be evaluated on relevance to the community; the
presentation format (talk or poster) will be decided based on
scientific merit and potential interest to a broad audience.

Multiple-Submission Policy:

As our goal is to highlight contribution to the community from women
and underrepresented minorities, we will consider anonymized 2-page
abstracts of papers that were submitted to other venues or published
elsewhere in the past year (i.e., after Jan 1st, 2016), though authors
must indicate this at submission time.

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Travel Support

There will be a limited amount of travel support and/or additional
funding to cover expenses. More information will be made available
closer to the submission deadline.

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Important Dates

   - Submission deadline: April 21, 2017
   - Notification of acceptance: May 19, 2017
   - Camera-ready submission deadline: May 26, 2017
   - Travel grant application deadline: June 13, 2017
   - Travel grant notification: June 18, 2017
   - Workshop date: July 30, 2017
   - ACL conference dates: July 30 – August 4, 2017

All deadlines are 11:59 PM GMT -12.

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WiNLP Organizers

Libby Barak, Princeton University

Isabelle Augenstein, University College London

Chloé Braud, University of Copenhagen

He He, Stanford University

Margaret Mitchell, Google Research and Machine Intelligence

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Contact

Website: winlp.org

Facebook: WiNLP <https://www.facebook.com/WomenInNaturalLanguageProcessing/>

Twitter: @WiNLPWorkshop <https://twitter.com/WiNLPWorkshop>

E-mail: winlp-chairs at googlegroups.com

Read more: https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/first-workshop-women-and-underrepresented-minorities-nlp




-- 
Emily M. Bender
Professor and Acting Chair
Department of Linguistics
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