26.2338, Calls: Computational Linguistics/China

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Subject: 26.2338, Calls: Computational Linguistics/China

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Date: Tue, 05 May 2015 10:49:17
From: Wei Xu [xwe at cis.upenn.edu]
Subject: ACL 2015 Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text

 
Full Title: ACL 2015 Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text 
Short Title: W-NUT 

Date: 31-Jul-2015 - 31-Jul-2015
Location: Beijing, China 
Contact Person: Wei Xu
Meeting Email: xwe at cis.upenn.edu
Web Site: http://noisy-text.github.io 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 11-May-2015 

Meeting Description:

This workshop will focus on a core set of natural language processing tasks on top of noisy user-generated text, such as that found on social media, clinical records, web forums, online reviews and language learner essays.

Invited Speakers:

Tim Baldwin (The University of Melbourne)
Brendan O'Connor (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Anders Søgaard (University of Copenhagen)

Organizers:

Wei Xu (University of Pennsylvania)
Bo Han (IBM Research)
Alan Ritter (The Ohio State University)

Program Committee:

David Bamman (Carnegie Mellon University)
Kalina Bontcheva (University of Sheffield)
Claire Cardie (Cornell University)
Colin Cherry (National Research Council Canada)
Grzegorz Chrupała (Tilburg University)
Leon Derczynski (University of Sheffield)
Jacob Eisenstein (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Jennifer Foster (Dublin City University)
Eric Fosler-Lussier (The Ohio State University)
Kevin Gimpel (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago)
Weiwei Guo (Columbia University)
Dirk Hovy (University of Copenhagen)
Jing Jiang (Singapore Management University)
Emre Kiciman (Microsoft Research)
Wang Ling (Carnegie Mellon University)
Xiaohua Liu (University of Montreal)
Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
Miles Osborne (Bloomberg)
Kristen Parton (Facebook)
Ellie Pavlick (University of Pennsylvania)
Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro (University of Pennsylvania)
Roi Reichart (Technion-IIT)
Alla Rozovskaya (Columbia University)
Nathan Schneider (University of Edinburgh)
Djamé Seddah (University Paris-Sorbonne)
Richard Sproat (Google)
Maosong Sun (Tsinghua University)
Oren Tsur (Harvard University)
Benjamin Van Durme (Johns Hopkins University)
Svitlana Volkova (Johns Hopkins University)
Lu Wang (Cornell University)
Jun-Ming Xu (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Xiaojin Zhu (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Call for Papers:

ACL 2015 Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT)
 
Submission deadline extended to Monday May 11, 11:59pm (GMT-12:00)

The W-NUT Workshop will be held in Beijing, China, on July 31, 2015.

The website for the workshop is at:

http://noisy-text.github.io/

We seek submissions of abstracts (2-4 pages) and long papers (up to 8 pages, original work). Abstracts on work-in-progress or work published elsewhere are welcome and will not be included in the proceedings.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

NLP Preprocessing of Noisy Text
- Part of speech tagging
- Named entity tagging, including a wide range of categories, e.g. product names
- Chunking of user-generated text
- Parsing
Text Normalization and Error Correction
- Normalizing noisy text for downstream tasks and for human readability
- Error detection and correction
Paraphrase extraction and detection in noisy text
Semantics in noisy text
Bilingual translation of noisy text
Multilingual NLP in noisy text
Colloquial language, e.g. idiom detection
Domain adaptation to user-generated text

Important Dates:

- January 24 2015: First Call for Workshop Papers
- March 31 - April 21 2015: Shared-Task Evaluations
- May 11, 2015: Workshop Paper Due
- June 8, 2015: Notification of Acceptance
- June 21 2015: Camera-Ready Papers Due
- July 31 2015: Workshop Date

Shared Tasks: 

- Task #1: Named Entity Recognition in Twitter (April 28 - May 5)
- Task #2: Normalization of Noisy Text (May 7- May 11)

Submission:

Formatting should be according to ACL 2015 specifications.

Dual submission is allowed, but must state at the time of submission.

Please submit through the START system at the following url:

https://www.softconf.com/acl2015/WNUT/




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