30.2044, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Hong Kong

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-2044. Tue May 14 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.2044, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Hong Kong

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Date: Tue, 14 May 2019 20:05:15
From: Anna Feldman [feldmana at montclair.edu]
Subject: EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019: 2nd Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom

 
Full Title: EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019: 2nd Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom 
Short Title: NLP4IF 

Date: 03-Nov-2019 - 03-Nov-2019
Location: http://netsci.montclair.edu/nlp4if/, Hong Kong 
Contact Person: Anna Feldman
Meeting Email: feldmana at montclair.edu
Web Site: http://netsci.montclair.edu/nlp4if/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 19-Aug-2019 

Meeting Description:

NLP4IF is dedicated to NLP methods that potentially contribute (either
positively or negatively) to the free flow of information on the Internet, or
to our understanding of the issues that arise in this area. We hope that our
workshop will have a transformative impact on society by getting closer to
achieving Internet freedom in countries where accessing and sharing of
information are strictly controlled by censorship.


Call for Papers:

EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 Second Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom   (NLP4IF):
Censorship, Disinformation, and Propaganda

Workshop website: http://netsci.montclair.edu/nlp4if/

Tentative Workshop Date: November 3, 2019

Co-located with EMNLP-IJCNLP, Nov 3-7, Hong Kong

Submission deadline: August 19, 2019 (23:59 PM Pacific Standard Time) 

NLP4IF will feature a shared task on propaganda detection in news.
Participants of the shared task will be invited to present their approaches at
the workshop. More information on the task website
(https://propaganda.qcri.org/nlp4if-shared-task/) and in a follow up email.

The topics of interest include (but are not limited) to the following:

- Censorship detection: detecting deleted or edited text; detecting blocked
keywords/banned terms;

- Censorship circumvention techniques: linguistically inspired countermeasure
for Internet censorship such as keyword substitution, expanding coverage of
existing banned terms, text paraphrasing, linguistic steganography, generating
information morphs etc.;

- Identification of propaganda at different granularity levels:  text
fragment, document, and  full website

- Detection of self-censorship;

- Identifying potentially censorable content;

- Disinformation/Misinformation detection: fake news, fake accounts, rumor
detection, etc.;

- Identification of hate speech and offensive language;

- (Comparative) analysis of the language of propagandistic and biased texts;

- Automatic generation of persuasive content;

- Automatic debiasing of news content;

- Tools to facilitate the flagging, either automatic or manual, of propaganda
and bias in social media;

- Automatic detection of coordinated propaganda campaigns such as the use of
social bots, botnets, and water armies;

- Analysis of diffusion and consumption of propagandistic, hyperpartisan, and
extremely biased content in social media;

- Techniques to empirically measure Internet censorship across communication
platforms;

- Investigations on covert linguistic communication and its limits;

- Identity and private information detection;

- Passive and targeted surveillance techniques;

- Ethics in NLP;

- “Walled gardens”, personalization and fragmentation of the online public
space.

Multiple submission policy: papers that are under review in another
EMNLP-IJCNLP workshop at the time of submission will not be considered.

Submission page: https://www.softconf.com/emnlp2019/ws-NLP4IF

Formatting requirements:
https://www.emnlp-ijcnlp2019.org/calls/papers#formatting-requirements

Important Dates:

- Submission deadline: August 19, 2019 (23:59 PM Pacific Standard Time)
- Notification of acceptance: September 16, 2019
- Camera-ready papers due: September 30, 2019
- Workshop: November 3 (or maybe 4), 2019




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