29.1119, Calls: Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Acquisition, Psycholing/Belgium

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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 15:40:56
From: Edoardo Ponti [ep490 at cam.ac.uk]
Subject: CoNLL 2018: The SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning

 
Full Title: CoNLL 2018: The SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning 

Date: 31-Oct-2018 - 01-Nov-2018
Location: Brussels, Belgium 
Contact Person: Anna Korhonen
Meeting Email: conll2018.chairs at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.conll.org/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Jun-2018 

Meeting Description:

SIGNLL, the Association for Computational Linguistics' Special Interest Group
on Natural Language Learning, invites you to submit your papers to CoNLL 2018
in Brussels, Belgium. The conference will take place immediately before EMNLP
2018 (October 31 - November 1, 2018). CoNLL 2018 website will continue to be
updated with information.

Organizers:

CoNLL co-chairs:
Anna Korhonen, University of Cambridge
Ivan Titov, University of Edinburgh

Area chairs:
Marine Carpuat, University of Maryland, USA
Paul Cook, University of New Brunswick, USA
Vera Demberg, Saarland University, Germany
Graham Neubig, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Sebastian Pado, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Siva Reddy, Stanford University, USA
Roi Reichart, Technion, Israel
Alan Ritter, Ohio State University, USA
Tim Rocktäschel, University of Oxford, UK
Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Sameer Singh, University of California, Irvine USA
Yulia Tsvetkov, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Publication chair:
Miikka Silfverberg, University of Colorado, USA

Administration chair:
Phong Le, University of Edinburgh, UK

Publicity / sponsorship chair:
Edoardo Ponti, University of Cambridge, UK

Shared Tasks:

CoNLL will have two Shared Tasks this year:

CoNLL-SIGMORPHON 2018 Shared Task: Universal Morphological Reinflection
Website: https://sigmorphon.github.io/sharedtasks/2018/

Task chairs: 
Mans Hulden, University of Colorado, USA
Ryan Cotterell, Johns Hopkins University

Multilingual Parsing from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies
http://universaldependencies.org/conll18/

Task chairs: 
Jan Hajič, Charles University, Czech Republic
Dan Zeman, Charles University, Czech Republic


Call for Papers:

We invite the submission of papers on all aspects of computational approaches
to natural language learning, including, but not limited to:

- Language Models, Segmentation
- Morphological Analysis, POS Tagging and Sequence Labeling
- Syntactic and Semantic Parsing
- Lexical and Compositional Semantics
- Discourse and Coreference
- Dialogue and Interactive Systems
- Narrative Understanding and Commonsense Reasoning
- Spoken Language Processing
- Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
- Information Retrieval, Question Answering
- Information Extraction
- Text Mining
- Summarization
- Natural Language Generation
- Machine Translation
- Other NLP Applications
- Multilinguality and Cross-linguality
- Machine Learning for NLP
- Multimodal and Grounded Language Processing
- Linguistic Theories and Resources
- Computational Psycholinguistics
- Computational Models of Language evolution and Change
- Computational Simulation and Analysis of Psycholinguistic Findings
- Computational Learning Theory and Analysis of Language Learning 
- Computational Models of First, Second and Bilingual Language Acquisition
- Data Resources, Techniques and Tools for Computational Modeling of Human
- Language Acquisition and Processing
- Investigations of Learning Methods (e.g. machine learning, statistical,
symbolic, biologically-inspired, active learning, various hybrid models) from
a Cognitive Perspective
- Models of induction and Analogy in Linguistics

Important Dates:

Paper submission: June 1, 2018
Author response starts: July 6, 2018
Author rebuttals due: July 10, 2018
Notification of acceptance: July 27, 2018
Camera-ready due: August 24, 2018
Conference: October 31 - November 1, 2018 (before EMNLP 2018)

Note: All deadlines are calculated at 11:59pm UTC-12h.

- Paper submissions

CoNLL 2018 long paper submissions must describe substantial, original,
completed and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and
analysis should be included. Each submission will be reviewed by at least
three program committee members. Each long paper submission consists of a
paper of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited pages for
references. Final versions of long papers will be given one additional page
(up to nine pages with unlimited pages for references) so that reviewers
comments can be taken into account.

- Important: New submission guidelines

CoNLL 2018 adopts ACL's new policies for submission, review, and citation.
Submissions that violate any of these policies will be rejected without
review. Most importantly, the policies refer to the anonymity period, which
starts on June 1, 2018 for CoNLL 2018.

The details are described in the ACL 2018 Author Guidelines, which we follow.

- Optional Supplementary Materials: Appendices, Software and Data

Each CoNLL 2018 submission can be accompanied by a single PDF appendix, one
.tgz or .zip archive containing software, and one .tgz or .zip archive
containing data. However, the paper submissions need to remain fully
self-contained, as these supplementary materials are completely optional, and
reviewers are not even asked to review or download them.

- Formatting Requirements

Both long and short papers must follow the EMNLP 2018 two-column format, using
the LaTeX style files or Word template to be provided on the the EMNLP 2018
website. Please do not modify these style files, or use templates designed for
other conferences. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles,
including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be
rejected without review.

- Double-Blind Review Instructions

As the reviewing will be blind, submissions and supplementary materials must
not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references
that reveal the author's identity should be avoided. Submissions that do not
conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Separate author
identification information is required as part of the online submission
process.

- Multiple Submission Policy

Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications
must indicate this at submission time, and must be withdrawn from the other
venues if accepted by CoNLL 2018. However, submission to both CoNLL 2018 and
EMNLP 2018 is not permitted.

We will not accept for publication or presentation papers that overlap
significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been)
published elsewhere. Authors submitting more than one paper to CoNLL 2018 must
ensure that the submissions do not overlap significantly (>25%) with each
other in content or results.

- Submission 

We will be accepting submissions online via Softconf. The submission deadline
is June 1, 2018. 

- Presentation Requirement

All accepted papers must be presented at the conference in order to appear in
the proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for
CoNLL 2018. Accepted papers will be presented orally or as a poster (at the
discretion of the program chairs based on the nature rather than the quality
of the work). All papers will be published in the conference proceedings.
There will be no distinction in the proceedings between papers presented
orally or as posters.

- Best Paper Award

As in recent CoNLL conferences, a Best Paper Award will be given to the
authors of the highest quality paper. The most important aspects in judging
the quality of a paper will be: originality, innovativeness, relevance, and
impact of the presented research.




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