35.2983, Calls: The 1st Workshop on Ecology, Environment, and Natural Language Processing

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Subject: 35.2983, Calls: The 1st Workshop on Ecology, Environment, and Natural Language Processing

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Date: 24-Oct-2024
From: Francesca Grasso [fr.grasso at unito.it]
Subject: The 1st Workshop on Ecology, Environment, and Natural Language Processing


Full Title: The 1st Workshop on Ecology, Environment, and Natural
Language Processing
Short Title: NLP4Ecology 2025

Date: 02-Mar-2025 - 02-Mar-2025
Location: Tallinn, Estonia
Contact Person: Francesca Grasso
Meeting Email: fr.grasso at unito.it
Web Site: https://nlp4ecology2025.di.unito.it/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics;
Discourse Analysis; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Call Deadline: 16-Dec-2024

Meeting Description:

This workshop invites scholars, practitioners, NGOs, and industry
professionals to explore how NLP can be leveraged to address
ecological challenges. NLP applications include analyzing language
across media, political discourse, and social platforms regarding
climate change, biodiversity loss, and other environmental concerns,
from plastic pollution to the fast fashion industry. It also involves
identifying harmful language use, such as anthropocentric or
speciesist biases, that contribute to detrimental attitudes and
behaviors toward the environment. Conversely, NLP can also be used to
detect and analyze positive discourse patterns that promote
ecologically responsible behaviors.

Anthropogenic ecological crisis, impacting people, non-human animals,
and ecosystems worldwide, presents urgent challenges that require
interdisciplinary action. The Natural Language Processing (NLP)
community has a crucial role to play in addressing environmental
challenges, as the responsibility to tackle these issues extends
beyond scholars directly involved in environmental and climate change
studies; it is a shared duty. NLP, with its ability to analyze
large-scale textual data, provides essential tools to uncover language
patterns and narratives that shape societal perceptions, behaviors,
and policies toward the natural world.

The workshop will be co-located with the Joint 25th Nordic Conference
on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human
Language Technologies. (NoDaLiDa/BalticHLT 2025)

Call for Papers:

We invite submissions to the 1st Workshop on Ecology, Environment, and
Natural Language Processing. This workshop will bring together the NLP
community and stakeholders from various disciplines to explore how
computational linguistics and NLP tools, methods, and applications can
help address pressing climate change and environment-related
challenges. We are particularly interested in contributions that push
the boundaries of linguistics and NLP research in the context of
ecological and environmental crisis and that foster interdisciplinary
collaboration.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Sentiment Analysis of Environmental Topics; Automated Linguistic
Analysis; Detection of Anthropocentric and Speciesist Biases; Topic
Modeling & Discourse/Frame Analysis; Ecofeminism, environmental
justice, and language; Text Classification in Environmental Contexts;
Entity Recognition, Relation Extraction, and Environmental Monitoring;
Fact-checking & Greenwashing Detection; Ecolinguistic applications of
NLP; Large Language Models (LLMs) application in Climate Change and
Environmental domain; Geo-tagging and sentiment mapping of
environmental discussions, and more.



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