31.725, Calls: Comp Ling/USA

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Subject: 31.725, Calls: Comp Ling/USA

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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 11:03:21
From: Ekaterina Shutova [shutova.e at gmail.com]
Subject: ACL 2020 Workshop on Figurative Language Processing

 
Full Title: ACL 2020 Workshop on Figurative Language Processing 

Date: 09-Jul-2020 - 10-Jul-2020
Location: Seattle, WA, USA 
Contact Person: Ekaterina Shutova
Meeting Email: shutova.e at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/figlang2020/home?authuser=0 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 18-Apr-2020 

Meeting Description:

Figurative language processing is a rapidly growing area in NLP, including
processing of metaphors, idioms, puns, irony, sarcasm, as well as other
figures. Characteristic to all areas of human activity (from poetic to
ordinary to scientific) and, thus, to all types of discourse, figurative
language becomes an important problem for NLP systems. Its ubiquity in
language has been established in a number of corpus studies and the role it
plays in human reasoning has been confirmed in psychological experiments. This
makes figurative language an important research area for computational and
cognitive linguistics, and its automatic identification and interpretation
indispensable for any semantics-oriented NLP application.

The main focus of the workshop will be on computational modelling of
figurative language using state-of-the-art NLP techniques. However, papers on
cognitive, linguistic, social, rhetorical, and applied aspects are also of
interest, provided that they are presented within a computational, a formal,
or a quantitative framework. In addition, we will also conduct two shared
tasks on metaphor and sarcasm detection.


Call for Papers: 

Submission deadline: April 18, 2020

The workshop invites both full papers and short papers for either oral or
poster presentation. For a full list of suggested topics, please see our
website https://sites.google.com/view/figlang2020/call-for-papers

Submission site: https://www.softconf.com/acl2020/flp/

Important Dates: 
April 18, 2020 Paper submissions due (23:59 West Coast USA time)
May 8, 2020 Notification of acceptance
May 18, 2020 Camera-ready papers due
June 9 or 10, 2020 Workshop in Seattle, Washington

Workshop Co-Chairs: 
Beata Beigman Klebanov, Educational Testing Service, USA
Ekaterina Shutova, University of Cambridge, UK
Smaranda Muresan, Columbia University, USA
Patricia Lichtenstein, University of California, Merced, USA
Ben Leong, Educational Testing Service, USA
Anna Feldman, Montclair State University, USA
Debanjan Ghosh, Educational Testing Service, USA




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