30.4963, Calls: Applied Ling, Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Semantics, Translation/Spain

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-4963. Tue Dec 31 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.4963, Calls: Applied Ling, Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Semantics, Translation/Spain

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Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2019 21:09:21
From: Huasha Zhao [hzhao at berkeley.edu]
Subject: COLING Workshop on NLP in E-Commerce 2020

 
Full Title: COLING Workshop on NLP in E-Commerce 2020 
Short Title: EComNLP'2020 

Date: 13-Sep-2020 - 13-Sep-2020
Location: Barcelona, Spain 
Contact Person: Huasha Zhao
Meeting Email: hzhao at berkeley.edu
Web Site: https://ecomnlp.github.io/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Semantics; Translation 

Call Deadline: 20-May-2020 

Meeting Description:

Natural Language Processing (NLP) plays an irreplaceable role in modern
e-commerce applications. The e-commerce setting presents exciting novel
research opportunities in NLP space. The goal of EComNLP is to bridge the gap
between researchers and practitioners to study the unique set of problems in
the intersection of NLP and ecommerce. The workshop concerns all areas of NLP
related to e-commerce. We will invite submissions from both academia and
industry. In particular, we encourage submissions from researchers with
under-represented demographics. We will invite full papers on topics including
but not limited to the following.


Call for Papers:

Topics of Interests:

- Multilingual semantic analysis for product titles and queries
- Attribute extraction from e-commerce product description
- Entity resolution for products
- Linguistic analysis of e-commerce data
- Conversational commerce including QA and chat bots
- Cross-lingual search
- Universal products ranking
- Machine translation in e-commerce
- Knowledge distillation methods
- Domain adaptation
- Unsupervised/semi-supervised structure prediction
- Multimodal approach for sequence labeling task
- Fake review detection
- Reviews, sentiment analysis and attribute extraction
- Semantic representation and understanding for users, products, queries, and
services
- Error correction
- Techniques for processing short/ungrammatical/non-standard text
- Efficiency and scalability
- Humans in the loop for product recommendations

Important Dates:

Submission Deadline: May 20, 2020
Acceptance Notification: Jun 24, 2020
Camera-ready Deadline: Jul 11, 2020
Workshop Date: Sep 13, 2020

Workshop Site:

https://ecomnlp.github.io/index.html

Submission Site:

Please make paper submission at https://www.softconf.com/coling2020/EComNLP/

Submission Instructions:

Formatting guidelines will be same as ACL full paper guidelines:
https://coling2020.org/pages/submission




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