30.950, Calls: Computational Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, General Linguistics, Semantics, Text/Corpus Linguistics/USA

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Subject: 30.950, Calls: Computational Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, General Linguistics, Semantics, Text/Corpus Linguistics/USA

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Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 00:59:12
From: Ekaterina Shutova [shutova.e at gmail.com]
Subject: *SEM 2019: The Eighth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics

Full Title: *SEM 2019: The Eighth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics 
Short Title: *SEM 2019 

Date: 06-Jun-2019 - 07-Jun-2019
Location: Minneapolis, USA 
Contact Person: Ekaterina Shutova
Meeting Email: starsem2019.program.chairs at gmail.com
Web Site: https://starsem.org/2019/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 06-Mar-2019 

Meeting Description:

We are pleased to announce that SIGLEX and SIGSEM, special interest groups of
the ACL, are organizing the 8th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational
Semantics: *SEM. This time *SEM will be co-located with NAACL-HLT 2019 in
Minneapolis (USA), and it will take place on the 6-7 of June 2019.

*SEM brings together researchers interested in the semantics of natural
languages and its computational modeling. The conference embraces symbolic and
probabilistic approaches, and everything in between; theoretical contributions
as well as practical applications are welcome. The long-term goal of *SEM is
to provide a stable forum for the growing number of NLP researchers working on
all aspects of semantics.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Lexical semantics and word representations
Compositional semantics and sentence representations
Statistical, machine learning and deep learning methods in semantic tasks
Multilingual and cross-lingual semantics
Word sense disambiguation and induction
Semantic parsing; syntax-semantics interface
Frame semantics and semantic role labeling
Textual inference, entailment and question answering
Formal approaches to semantics
Extraction of events and causal and temporal relations
Entity linking; pronouns and coreference
Discourse, pragmatics, and dialogue
Machine reading
Extra-propositional aspects of meaning
Multiword and idiomatic expressions
Metaphor, irony, and humour
Knowledge mining and acquisition
Common sense reasoning
Language generation
Semantics in NLP applications: sentiment analysis, abusive language detection,
summarization, fact-checking, etc.
Multidisciplinary research on semantics
Grounding and multimodal semantics
Human semantic processing
Semantic annotation, evaluation, and resources
Ethical aspects and bias in semantic representations

Call for Papers:

Submission Instructions:

Submissions to *SEM 2019 must describe unpublished work and be written in
English. We solicit both long and short papers.

Long papers describe original research and may consist of up to eight (8)
pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. Final versions of long
papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that
reviewers' comments can be taken into account. 

Short papers describe original focused research, project or system
description, and may consist of up to four (4) pages, plus unlimited pages for
references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages
in the proceedings. Authors are encouraged to use this additional page to
address reviewers comments in their final versions. 

As the reviewing will be blind, the paper must not include the authors' names
and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's
identity, e.g., ''We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...'' must be avoided.
Instead, use citations such as ''Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...''.
As for online paper sharing, at *SEM, we adopt the ACL policy for submission,
which can be found here:
https://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Policies_for_Submission,_Revi
ew_and_Citation. Papers that do not conform to requirements will be rejected
without review. For a paper to be included in the conference proceedings, at
least one of the authors must be registered as a participant at the *SEM
conference.

Submissions to *SEM should follow this year's NAACL style, as detailed here:
https://naacl2019.org/calls/papers/

Please note that double submission of papers will need to be notified at
submission.

Submit your papers here: https://www.softconf.com/naacl2019/sem/

Invited Speakers:

Ellen Riloff, University of Utah
Sam Bowman, New York University

Organisers:

General Chair: Rada Mihalcea, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Program Chairs: 
Ekaterina Shutova, University of Amsterdam
Lun-Wei Ku, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Publications Chair: Kilian Evang, University of Düsseldorf

Publicity Chair: Soujanya Poria, NTU - Singapore

Area chairs:

Lexical semantics and word representations
Chairs: Anna Feldman, Montclair State University
Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, University of Rome Tor Vergata

Semantic composition and sentence representations 
Chairs: Helen Yannakoudakis, University of Cambridge
Douwe Kiela, Facebook AI Research

Discourse, dialogue and generation 
Chairs:  Lea Frermann, Amazon Core AI
Lu Wang, Northeastern University

Machine learning for semantic tasks 
Chairs:  Roi Reichart, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Wilker Aziz, University of Amsterdam

Multidisciplinary & COI 
Chairs: Preslav Nakov, QCRI

Multilinguality 
Chairs: Marianna Apidianaki, CNRS

Human semantic processing / Psycholinguistics 
Chairs: Barry Devereux, Queen’s University Belfast

Semantics in NLP applications 
Chairs: Dan Goldwasser, Purdue University
Saif Mohammad, National Research Council of Canada
Marek Rei, University of Cambridge

Resources and evaluation
Chairs: Beata Beigman Klebanov, Educational Testing Service

Theoretical and formal semantics
Chairs: Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Queen Mary University of London

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