Third CFP. TextGraphs-12: The 12th Workshop on Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing

[Swapna Somasundaran]

CALL FOR PAPERS

TextGraphs-12: The 12th Workshop on Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing

Workshop at the 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT 2018)
June 5 or 6, 2018
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
(Hyatt Regency New Orleans hotel)
http://www.textgraphs.org/ws18

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
The TextGraphs series of workshops, now going on for more than a decade, have published and promoted the synergy between the field of Graph Theory (GT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). The twelfth edition of the TextGraphs workshop aims to extend the focus on graph-based and graph-supported machine learning and deep learning methods. We encourage the description of novel NLP problems or applications that have emerged in recent years, which can be addressed with existing and new graph-based methods. Furthermore, we also encourage research on applications of graph-based methods in the area of Semantic Web in order to link them to related NLP problems and applications.

The target audience comprises researchers working on problems related to either Graph Theory or graph-based algorithms applied to Natural Language Processing, social media, and the Semantic Web.

WORKSHOP TOPICS
TextGraphs-12 invites submissions on (but not limited to) the following topics (see the website for a full list):
○ Graph embeddings
○ Graph-based and graph-supported deep learning (e.g., graph-based recurrent and recursive networks)
○ Probabilistic graphical models and structure learning methods
○ Graph-based methods for reasoning and interpreting deep neural networks
○ Exploration of capabilities and limitations of graph-based methods being applied to neural networks
○ Investigation of aspects of neural networks that are (not) susceptible to graph-based analysis
○ Graph-based methods for Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, and Text Mining
○ Graph-based methods for word sense disambiguation
○ Graph-based strategies for semantic relation identification
○ Encoding semantic distances in graphs
○ Graph-based techniques for text summarization, simplification, and paraphrasing
○ Graph-based techniques for document navigation and visualization
○ New graph-based methods for NLP applications
○ Random walk methods in graphs
○ Spectral graph clustering
○ Semi-supervised graph-based methods
○ Small world graphs
○ Dynamic graph representations
○ Graph kernels
○ Graph-based methods for applications on social networks
○ Graph-based methods for NLP and Semantic Web
○ Inducing knowledge of ontologies into NLP applications using graphs

IMPORTANT DATES

All submission deadlines are at 11:59 p.m. PST

Paper submission: March 2, 2018
Notification of acceptance: April 2, 2018
Camera-ready submission: April 16, 2018
Workshop date: June 5 or 6, 2018

SUBMISSION

TextGraphs-12 solicits both long and short paper submissions. (more details on http://www.textgraphs.org/ws18)

Submission is electronic, using the SoftConf START conference management system:
https://www.softconf.com/naacl2018/TextGraphs-12/


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

- Željko Agić, IT University Copenhagen, Denmark
- Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Jadavpur University, India
- Chris Biemann, University of Hamburg, Germany
- Tomáš Brychcín, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic
- Flavio Massimiliano Cecchini, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
- Tanmoy Chakraborty, IIIT Delhi, India
- Monojit Choudhury, Microsoft Research Lab, India
- Asif Ekbal, IIT Patna, India
- Stefano Faralli, Università degli Studi di Roma Unitelma Sapienza, Italy
- Michael Flor, Educational Testing Services, USA
- Marc Franco-Salvador, Symanto Group, Germany
- Carlos Gomez-Rodriguez, University of A. Coruña, Spain
- Tomáš Hercig, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic
- Ioana Hulpus, University of Mannheim, Germany
- Prasanth Kolachina, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- Nikola Ljubešić, University of Zagreb, Croatia
- Héctor Martínez Alonso, INRIA & University Paris Diderot, France
- Gabor Melli, VigLink, USA
- Mohsen Mesgar, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Germany
- Rada Mihalcea, University of Michigan, USA
- Alessandro Moschitti, University of Trento, Italy & QCRI, Qatar
- Animesh Mukherjee, IIT Kharagpur, India
- Vivi Nastase, University of Heidelberg, Germany
- Alexander Panchenko, University of Hamburg, Germany
- Simone Paolo Ponzetto, University of Mannheim, Germany
- Jan Wira Gotama Putra, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
- Steffen Remus, University of Hamburg, Germany
- Stephen Roller, UT Austin, USA
- Natalie Schluter, IT University Copenhagen
- Khalil Sima'an, University of Amsterdam
- Josef Steinberger, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic
- Kateryna Tymoshenko, University of Trento, Italy
- Dmitry Ustalov, University of Mannheim, Germany
- Aline Villavicencio, University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
- Ivan Vulić, University of Cambridge, UK
- Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy

ORGANIZERS

Goran Glavaš, University of Mannheim
Swapna Somasundaran, Educational Testing Service
Martin Riedl, University of Stuttgart
Eduard Hovy, Carnegie Mellon University


CONTACT
Please direct all questions and inquiries to our official e-mail address (textg...@gmail.com) or contact any of the organizers via their individual emails.

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