28.409, Calls: Comp Ling, Disc Analysis, Socioling/Canada

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Subject: 28.409, Calls: Comp Ling, Disc Analysis, Socioling/Canada

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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 15:28:51
From: Joel Tetreault [tetreaul at gmail.com]
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: 27-Apr-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. Online forums, comment sections, and social media
interaction in general have become a playground of bullying, scapegoating, and
hate speech. These forms of online aggression not only poison the social
climate of the communities that experience it, but also lower the inhibition
for direct physical violence, and increasingly even result in it.

As a field that directly works with computing over language, Natural Language
Processing researchers are in a unique position to develop automated methods
to analyze, detect, and filter abusive language. Additionally, we recognize
that addressing abusive language is not solely the purview of NLP approaches
but is a truly multi-disciplinary problem and thus requires knowledge from
other fields, including but not limited to: psychology, sociology, law, gender
studies, digital communication, and critical race theory.

In this one day workshop, we aim to provide a space for researchers of various
disciplines to meet and discuss approaches to abusive language. The workshop
will include invited speakers and panelists from fields outside of NLP, as
well as solicit papers from researchers across all areas. In addition, the
workshop will host an ''unshared task''.


Call for Papers: 

ALW1: 1st Workshop on Abusive Language Online
to be held at ACL 2017 (Vancouver, Canada), August 3 or 4, 2017
Submission deadline: April 27, 2017

Paper Topics:

We invite long and short papers on any of the following general topics:

- 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
- The social and personal consequences of being the target of abusive language
and targeting others with abusive language
- Assessment of current non-NLP methods of addressing abusive language
- Legal ramifications of measures taken against abusive language use
- Best practices for using NLP techniques in watchdog settings
- Development of corpora and annotation guidelines

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]

Organizing Committee:

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Brown University
Dirk Hovy, University of Copenhagen
Joel Tetreault, Grammarly
Zeerak Waseem, University of Copenhagen




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