LINGUIST List: Vol-28-1889. Thu Apr 20 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.
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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 15:51:52
From: Zeerak Waseem [z.w.but at shef.ac.uk]
Subject: 1st Workshop on Abusive Language Online
Full Title: 1st Workshop on Abusive Language Online
Short Title: ALW1
Date: 03-Aug-2017 - 04-Aug-2017
Location: Vanouver, BC, Canada
Contact Person: Joel Tetreault
Meeting Email: abusive.language.workshop at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/site/abusivelanguageworkshop2017/
Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Sociolinguistics
Call Deadline: 02-May-2017
Meeting Description:
The last few years have seen a surge in abusive online behavior, with
governments, social media platforms, and individuals struggling to cope with
the consequences and to produce effective methods to combat it. In many cases,
online forums, comment sections, and social media interaction have become
sites of bullying, scapegoating, and hate speech. These forms of online
aggression not only poison the social climate of the online communities that
experience it, but can also provoke physical violence and harm.
Addressing abusive language necessitates a multi-disciplinary approach that
requires knowledge from several fields, including (but not limited to): media
studies, natural language processing (NLP), psychology, sociology, law, gender
studies, communications, and critical race theory. NLP, as a field that
directly works with computationally analyzing language, is in a unique
position to develop automated methods to analyse, detect, and filter abusive
language. By working across disciplinary divides, researchers in all these
fields can produce a comprehensive approach to abusivelanguage that blends
together computational, social and legal methods.
In this one-day workshop, we therefore want to bring researchers of various
disciplines together to discuss approaches to abusive language. The workshop
will include invited speakers and panelists from fields within and outside of
NLP, as well as submitted papers from researchers across all areas. In
addition, the workshop will host an ''unshared task''.
Final Call for Papers:
ALW1: 1st Workshop on Abusive Language Online
co-located with ACL 2017 (Vancouver, Canada), August 4, 2017
Submission deadline: May 2, 2017
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/abusivelanguageworkshop2017/
Contact: abusive.language.workshop at gmail.com
Paper Topics:
We invite long and short papers on any of the following general topics:
- Assessment of all current methods of addressing abusive language
- The social, personal and cultural effects of abusive language online
- Legal ramifications of measures taken against abusive language use
- NLP models and methods for abusive language detection
- Application of NLP tools to analyze social media content and other large
data sets
- NLP models for cross-lingual abusive language detection
- Best practices for using NLP techniques in watchdog settings
- Development of corpora and annotation guidelines
For submission instructions, visit:
https://sites.google.com/site/abusivelanguageworkshop2017/home/submission-info
rmation .
Unshared task:
In order to encourage focused contributions, we direct researchers to consider
the following list of data sets an unshared task, where participants can
choose from a list of datasets to conduct their experiments. This list
includes:
- Twitter Data Set [Waseem and Hovy, NAACL 2016]
- German Twitter Data Set [Ross et al. NLP4CMC 2016]
- Wikipedia Abusive Language Data Set [Wulczyn et al., Preprint available on
arxiv]
Important Dates:
Submission due: May 2
Author Notification: May 18
Camera Ready: May 26
Workshop Date: August 4
Organizing Committee:
- Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Brown University
- Dirk Hovy, University of Copenhagen
- Joel Tetreault, Grammarly
- Zeerak Waseem, University of Sheffield (Primary contact)
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