29.2292, Calls: Comp Ling, Disc Analysis, Pragmatics, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/USA

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Subject: 29.2292, Calls: Comp Ling, Disc Analysis, Pragmatics, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/USA

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Date: Sat, 26 May 2018 11:22:18
From: Ritesh Kumar [riteshkrjnu at gmail.com]
Subject: 1st Workshop on Trolling, Aggression and Cyberbullying

 
Full Title: 1st Workshop on Trolling, Aggression and Cyberbullying 
Short Title: TRAC-1 

Date: 20-Aug-2018 - 21-Aug-2018
Location: Santa Fe, NM, USA 
Contact Person: Ritesh Kumar
Meeting Email: coling.aggression at gmail.com
Web Site: http://trac.kmiagra.org 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 29-May-2018 

Meeting Description:

As the number of people and this interaction over the web has increased,
incidents of aggression and related activities like trolling, cyberbullying,
flaming, hate speech, etc. have also increased manifold across the globe. The
reach and extent of Internet has given such incidents unprecedented power and
influence to affect the lives of billions of people. We are happy to announce
that we are organising the First Workshop on Trolling, Aggression and
Cyberbullying at 27th International Conference of Computational Linguistics
(COLING – 2018) in New Mexico, USA on 20 / 21 August, 2018, focussing on these
and other related phenomena, in both text (especially social media) and
speech.


2nd Call for Papers:

We invite original and unpublished full papers for powerpoint and poster
presentations and demo of working systems around the following themes:

- Theories and models of aggression and conflict in language
- Typology of verbal aggression and related phenomenon
- Discursive studies of verbal aggression, impoliteness and related phenomena
in language
- Trolling, hate speech, cyberbullying and aggression on the web
- Abusive language and aggression on the web
- Multilingualism and aggression
- Resource Development - Speech and Text Corpora, Annotation Guidelines and
Best Practices for aggression detection
- Computational Models and Methods for aggression detection in text and speech
- Automatic detection of aggression on the web (both text and speech)
- Automatic detection of trolling and cyberbullying on the web (both text and
speech)
- Automatic detection of physical threat on the web (both text and speech)
- Automatic detection of hate speech on the web (both text and speech)
- Automatic censorship and moderation: ethical, legal and technological issues
and challenges (both text and speech)

Complete submission instructions can be found at
https://sites.google.com/view/trac1/submission?authuser=0 .




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