31.2873, Calls: Applied Ling, Semantics/Ireland

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LINGUIST List: Vol-31-2873. Wed Sep 23 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.2873, Calls: Applied Ling, Semantics/Ireland

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Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 12:16:53
From: Simon Mille [simon.mille at upf.edu]
Subject: 3rd Workshop on Natural Language Generation from the Semantic Web

Full Title: 3rd Workshop on Natural Language Generation from the Semantic Web 
Short Title: WebNLG+ 

Date: 18-Dec-2020 - 18-Dec-2020
Location: Dublin, Ireland 
Contact Person: Anastasia Shimorina
Meeting Email: webnlg-challenge at inria.fr
Web Site: https://webnlg-challenge.loria.fr/workshop_2020/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

There is a growing need in the Semantic Web (SW) community for technologies
that give humans easy access to the machine-oriented Web of data. Because it
maps data to text, Natural Language Generation (NLG) provides a natural means
for presenting this data in an organized, coherent and accessible way.
Conversely, the representation languages used by the semantic web (e.g., RDF,
OWL, SPARQL) are a natural starting ground for NLG systems.

The goal of this workshop is twofold:
 - To promote discussion and exchange of research on NLG and the Semantic Web:
the workshop will invite the submission of papers presenting new
contributions, work in progress, system demonstrations, a negative result, an
opinion piece or a summary of research activities.

 - To present and discuss the results of the ongoing second WebNLG challenge
(WebNLG+): we will invite the submission of system descriptions that address
either or both tasks of the challenge. WebNLG+ comprises two main tasks, on
the one hand RDF-to-text generation, similarly to WebNLG 2017 but with new
DBpedia data and into two languages (English and Russian), and on the other
hand Text-to-RDF semantic parsing, i.e. converting a text in either language
into the corresponding set of RDF triples. The full description of the
challenge and its modalities can be found at
https://webnlg-challenge.loria.fr/challenge_2020/.

Call for Papers: 

- The deadline for submission has been extended to October 15!

Topics include, but are not limited to:
* Ontology Summarization
* Content Selection
* Ontology Modularization
* Content Planning
* Fact Ranking
* Exploration of SW data
* Standards for lexicons
* Ontology Lexicalisation
* Open Knowledge Extraction: Relations, Events, Entity Linking
* Semantic Annotation and Wikification
* Lexicalisation, Template Extraction, Surface Realisation
* LG applications from SW data
* Ontology Verbalisation
* Query Verbalisation
* Entity Presentation
* Answer Aggregation and Rendering
* NLG based NL interfaces to KBs
* Document Generation
* Summarisation and SW data
* eLearning
* Feedback Generation

Important Dates: 
15 April 2020: Shared Task starts
27 September 2020: Shared task submissions due
15 October 2020: Workshop papers due 
15 October 2020: Shared Task system descriptions due
10 November 2020: Notification of acceptance
20 November 2020: Camera-ready papers and system descriptions due
18 December 2020: Workshop date

Submission: 
Authors should submit anonymous short or long papers which should not exceed 4
and 8 pages in length respectively. Both long and short papers have unlimited
references. The final camera ready version of the full paper for the
proceedings will be given one additional page. The proceedings of the workshop
will be published in the ACL anthology.  

Submissions should follow ACL Author Guidelines and policies for submission
(https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Author_Guidelines),
review and citation, and be anonymised for double blind reviewing.  ACL 2020
offers both LaTeX style files and Microsoft Word templates
(http://acl2020.org/downloads/acl2020-templates.zip). Papers should be
submitted electronically through the EASYCHAIR system:

 https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=webnlg2020

Submission deadline is October 15, 23:59 UTC -12.

Reviewing will be blind and submission selection will be managed by an
international programme committee. As reviewing will be blind, the paper
should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Self-references that
reveal the authors' identity, e.g., ''We previously showed (Smith, 1991)
...'', should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as ''Smith previously
showed (Smith, 1991) ...''.

Dual submission to other conferences is permitted, provided that authors
clearly indicate this in the ''Acknowledgments'' section of the paper when
submitted. If the paper is accepted at both venues, the authors will need to
choose one.

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