27.2858, Calls: Computational Ling/USA

[The LINGUIST List via LINGUIST]

LINGUIST List: Vol-27-2858. Tue Jul 05 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 27.2858, Calls: Computational Ling/USA

Moderators: linguist at linguistlist.org (Damir Cavar, Malgorzata E. Cavar)
Reviews: reviews at linguistlist.org (Anthony Aristar, Helen Aristar-Dry, Robert Coté, Sara Couture)
Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

*****************    LINGUIST List Support    *****************
                       Fund Drive 2016
                   25 years of LINGUIST List!
Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
           http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

Editor for this issue: Ashley Parker <ashley at linguistlist.org>
================================================================


Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2016 13:09:51
From: Annie Louis [aplouis at essex.ac.uk]
Subject: EMNLP 2016 Workshop on Uphill Battles in Natural Language Processing

 
Full Title: EMNLP 2016 Workshop on Uphill Battles in Natural Language Processing 

Date: 06-Nov-2016 - 06-Nov-2016
Location: Austin, Texas, USA 
Contact Person: Annie Louis
Meeting Email: aplouis at essex.ac.uk
Web Site: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mroth/UphillBattles/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 05-Aug-2016 

Meeting Description:

CFP: EMNLP 2016 Workshop on Uphill Battles in Natural Language Processing

Uphill Battles in Language Processing: Scaling Early Achievements to Robust
Methods
6 November 2016

Workshop to be held in conjunction with EMNLP 2016 in Austin, Texas

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mroth/UphillBattles/

Organizers:

Annie Louis, University of Essex
Michael Roth, University of Edinburgh
Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh
Michael White, The Ohio State University
Luke Zettlemoyer, University of Washington


Call for Poster Abstracts:

The workshop on Uphill Battles in Natural Language Processing will include a
sponsored lunch featuring poster presentations. We invite submissions for this
lunchtime poster session in the form of research summaries (up to 2 pages).
Accepted research summaries will be included in the workshop proceedings, with
up-to-two extra pages of content. The deadline for submission is the 5 of
August 2016, and authors of accepted submissions will be notified on September
5 2016.

We are planning to partially fund some students and postdoctoral researchers
for travel and registration expenses in connection with
the workshop. We expect to involve these selected students and postdoctoral
researchers in some organization activities on the day of the workshop itself.

Topics of interest and guidelines for writing your research summary:

Our workshop seeks to revive a discussion on “uphill battles in natural
language processing” -- in particular, within the four topic areas:

Dialogue and Speech
Natural Language Generation
Document Understanding
Grounded Language

We invite 2-page research summaries which present work on these topics-- in
particular, research which focuses on deeper problems which still baffle NLP
systems, and/or research which seeks to introduce new tasks, definitions and
techniques. While work making incremental progress in the context of
well-established tasks is generally of
value, it is not the focus of this workshop. Nevertheless, we are happy to
include work-in-progress, as well as analyses of negative findings. We are
particularly seeking work which engages with the workshop topics and goals,
and will stimulate discussions among workshop participants over lunch and
beyond.

Please see our webpage for further details about writing your research summary
and submission info. 

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mroth/UphillBattles/call.html




------------------------------------------------------------------------------

*****************    LINGUIST List Support    *****************
                       Fund Drive 2016
Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
            http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

This year the LINGUIST List hopes to raise $79,000. This money 
will go to help keep the List running by supporting all of our 
Student Editors for the coming year.

Don't forget to check out Fund Drive 2016 site!

http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/

For all information on donating, including information on how to 
donate by check, money order, PayPal or wire transfer, please visit:
http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

The LINGUIST List is under the umbrella of Indiana University and
as such can receive donations through Indiana University Foundation. We
also collect donations via eLinguistics Foundation, a registered 501(c)
Non Profit organization with the federal tax number 45-4211155. Either
way, the donations can be offset against your federal and sometimes your
state tax return (U.S. tax payers only). For more information visit the
IRS Web-Site, or contact your financial advisor.

Many companies also offer a gift matching program, such that
they will match any gift you make to a non-profit organization.
Normally this entails your contacting your human resources department
and sending us a form that the Indiana University Foundation fills in
and returns to your employer. This is generally a simple administrative
procedure that doubles the value of your gift to LINGUIST, without
costing you an extra penny. Please take a moment to check if
your company operates such a program.


Thank you very much for your support of LINGUIST!
 


----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-27-2858	
----------------------------------------------------------