30.73, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Italy

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Subject: 30.73, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Italy

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Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2019 23:52:38
From: Haim Dubossarsky [hd423 at cam.ac.uk]
Subject: Typology for Polyglot NLP (workshop @ ACL)

 
Full Title: Typology for Polyglot NLP (workshop @ ACL) 
Short Title: TyP-NLP 

Date: 01-Aug-2019 - 01-Aug-2019
Location: ACL 2019 (Florence), Italy 
Contact Person: Haim Dubossarsky
Meeting Email: typology-and-nlp at googlegroups.com
Web Site: http://typology-and-nlp.github.io 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 26-Apr-2019 

Meeting Description:

Typology for Polyglot NLP (TyP-NLP), a workshop to be held at the 2019 meeting
of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) in Florence, Italy, is
now accepting submissions.


Call for Papers:

First Call for Abstracts

Contact Email: typology-and-nlp at googlegroups.com
Website: typology-and-nlp.github.io

Workshop Description:

The huge diversity of human languages leads to an inherent variation of the
cross-lingual data with respect to the categories and structures in the
languages’ surface level. This results in poor performances of NLP algorithms
when trying to transfer between languages. Linguistic typology provides a
systematic, empirical comparison of the languages of the world with respect to
a variety of linguistic properties, and therefore holds promise to solve this
problem. However, typological information has not yet been fully exploited.
Our workshop aims at bridging this gap by encouraging a tighter collaboration
of the scientific communities from the areas of linguistic typology and
multilingual NLP.

TyP-NLP workshop is the first dedicated venue for typology-related research
and its integration in multilingual NLP. The workshop is specifically aimed at
raising awareness of linguistic typology and its potential in supporting and
widening the global reach multilingual NLP. The topics of the workshop will
include, but are not limited to:

- **Language-independence in training, architecture design, and hyperparameter
tuning.** Is it possible (and if yes, how) to unravel unknown biases that
hinder the cross-lingual performance of NLP algorithms and to leverage the
knowledge on such biases in NLP algorithms?

- **Integration of typological features in language transfer and joint
multilingual learning.** In addition to established techniques such as
“selective sharing”, are there alternative ways to encoding heterogeneous
external knowledge in machine learning algorithms? 

- **New applications.** The application of typology to currently uncharted
territories, i.e. the use of typological information in NLP tasks where such
information has not been investigated yet.

- **Automatic inference of typological features.** The pros and cons of
existing techniques (e.g. heuristics derived from morphosyntactic annotation,
propagation from features of other languages, supervised Bayesian and neural
models) and discussion on emerging ones.

- **Typology and interpretability.** The use of typological knowledge for
interpretation of hidden representations of multilingual neural models,
multilingual data generation and selection, and typological annotation of
texts.

- **Improvement and completion of typological databases.** Combining
linguistic knowledge and automatic data-driven methods towards the joint goal
of improving the knowledge on cross-linguistic variation and universals.

Important Dates:

- Submission Deadline: Friday, April 26, 2019
- Notification of Acceptance: Friday, May 24, 2019
- Camera-ready copy due from authors: Monday, June 3, 2019
- Workshop: Thursday, August 1, 2019

Submission Type:

We accept **extended abstracts**.
These may report on work in progress or may be cross submissions that have
already appeared in a non-NLP venue. The extended abstracts are of maximum 2
pages + references. These submissions are non-archival in order to allow
submission to another venue. The selection will not be based on a double-blind
review and thus submissions of this type need not be anonymized.

The abstracts should use ACL 2019 templates. These should be submitted via
softconf: (https://www.softconf.com/acl2019/typnlp/).




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