35.572, Calls: The First Workshop on Language-driven Deliberation Technology

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Subject: 35.572, Calls: The First Workshop on Language-driven Deliberation Technology

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Date: 19-Feb-2024
From: Annette Hautli-Janisz [annette.hautli-janisz at uni-passau.de]
Subject: The First Workshop on Language-driven Deliberation Technology


Full Title: The First Workshop on Language-driven Deliberation
Technology
Short Title: DELITE2024

Date: 20-May-2024 - 20-May-2024
Location: Torino, Italy
Contact Person: Annette Hautli-Janisz
Meeting Email: delite at fim.uni-passau.de
Web Site: https://idea.kmi.open.ac.uk/the-first-workshop-on-language-d
riven-deliberation-technology-delite2024/

Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics

Call Deadline: 02-Mar-2024

Meeting Description:

The DELITE workshop provides a forum for presenting new advances in
technology around deliberation by addressing researchers in Natural
Language Processing, human-computer interaction, corpus linguistics,
political science and philosophy, as well as stakeholders and domain
experts involved in integrating such technology into decision-making
processes. With numerous projects all over the world interested in
aspects of digital democracy, inclusivity and representation in the
decision-making process and improving deliberative democracy,
DELITE2024 is right at the center of a new interdisciplinary research
community, with the language-driven angle representing a fundamental
and distinctive contribution.

2nd Call for Papers:

Deliberation is ubiquitous: from navigating divergent interests in
everyday personal life to reaching consensus in the political decision
making process, deliberation describes the communicative process by
which a group of people exchange ideas, weigh different arguments, and
ultimately reach mutual understanding. In recent years, deliberative
processes have gained momentum and shown to improve everyday and
political decision-making. For the first time, technological solutions
are maturing to the point that they can be deployed to support
deliberation. In this context, we want to establish the foundations
for collecting and curating data for deliberation domains and for
evaluating technology in deliberative settings.

The DELITE workshop provides a forum for presenting new advances in
technology around deliberation by addressing researchers in Natural
Language Processing, human-computer interaction, corpus linguistics,
political science and philosophy, as well as stakeholders and domain
experts involved in integrating such technology into decision-making
processes.

Topics for DELITE2024 include, but are not limited to:

- Technological advances for public decision making
- Deliberation theory in NLP models
- In-domain versus across domain resources and corpora
- Data-driven theory development
- Integration of language systems into deliberation processes and
interfaces
- Technological solutions for online deliberation at scale
- Argument mining for deliberation scenarios
- Visual Analytics for human sensemaking
- Empirical foundations for evaluation
- Integration and reflection on recent advances in LLMs for
deliberation scenarios
- Explainability
- Ethical questions
- Addressing bias


Application areas include, but are not limited to:

- Public policy making
- Democratic innovations
- Deliberative democracy
- Political decision making
- Participatory urban planning
- Citizen engagement and co-creation
- Intelligence services and military
- Conflict resolution/mitigation
- Case analysis in healthcare
- Legal decision making
- Scholarly discourse (written and spoken)


Submissions
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Papers must describe original (completed or in progress) and
unpublished work. We invite long (8 pages, excluding references) and
short papers (4 pages, excluding references). Papers must be
anonymized to support double-blind reviewing, i.e., they must not
include authors’ names and affiliations and should avoid links to
non-anonymized repositories. Papers that do not conform to these
requirements will be rejected without review. Upon acceptance, the
papers will be given one additional page – for long papers, up to nine
(9) pages of content plus unlimited pages for acknowledgments and
references and five (5) pages for short papers.

We also invite non-archival, non-anonymous papers (2-4 pages,
including references) to describe ongoing work, introduce research
projects, or summarize already published work. These will be presented
in a poster session where ongoing projects are presented in order to
serve community building.

Submission of all papers is electronic, using the Softconf START
conference management system
(https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/delite2024/). Papers must follow
the LREC-COLING 2024 two-column format, using the supplied official
style files. The templates can be downloaded from the Style Files and
Formatting page provided on the website. Please do not modify these
style files, nor should you use templates designed for other
conferences. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles,
including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will
be rejected without review.


Important Dates
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Paper submission deadline: 2 March 2024 (extended)
Notification of acceptance: 13 March 2024
Camera-ready versions due: 20 March 2024
Workshop date: 20 May 2024 (half-day)



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