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Subject: [Corpora-List] CfP: 2nd WiNLP Workshop @ NAACL 2018

Date: 19 December 2017 at 11:09:19 CET

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Second Widening NLP Workshop

Workshop date: June 1, 2018

Workshop website: http://www.winlp.org

Contact email: winlp-...@googlegroups.com

Important Dates
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Submission deadline: January 27, 2018

Notification of acceptance: March 6, 2018

Travel grant application deadline: March 27, 2018 

Camera-ready submission deadline: April 16, 2018

Travel grant notification: April 27, 2018

All the deadlines are 11:59 PM GMT -12.

Workshop Description

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The second WiNLP Workshop will be held in conjunction with NAACL 2018 in New Orleans, Louisiana. WiNLP stands for Widening NLP.

The WiNLP workshop is open to all.  Its aim is to highlight the work of underrepresented groups in NLP — anyone who self-identifies within an underrepresented demographic, and would benefit from a more inclusive ACL environment. The full-day event includes invited talks, oral presentations, and poster sessions, and provides an excellent opportunity for junior members in the community to showcase their work and connect with senior mentors for feedback and career advice.  It also offers recruitment opportunities with leading industrial labs.  Most importantly, the workshop serves to share and promote the work of subpopulations in NLP that face additional barriers to entry and acceptance in the NLP community.

While everyone is encouraged to attend, the opportunity to present a talk or poster is intended for underrepresented genders and minorities (students, post-docs, professors, and other researchers). We invite submissions in the form of an extended 2-page abstract on topics in computational linguistics and natural language processing, including but not limited to:

• Cognitive modeling and psycholinguistics

• Computational social science

• Corpus development and evaluation

• Dialog and interactive systems

• Discourse and pragmatics

• Document analysis including text categorization, topic models, and retrieval

• Natural language generation

• Information extraction, text mining, and question answering

• Language-inclusive multimodal integration

• Linguistic theories for NLP

• Low-resource or endangered languages

• Machine learning

• Machine translation

• Mathematical models of language

• Multilinguality

• Phonology, morphology, and word segmentation

• Resources and evaluation

• Semantics

• Sentiment analysis and opinion mining

• Social media: Twitter, blogs, discussion forums, and other social media

• Sociolinguistics

• Speech, prosody, and spoken dialog

• Summarization

• Tagging, chunking, syntax, and parsing

• Vision, robots, and other grounding applications

Submission Guidelines

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Submissions must follow the standard two-column format of the ACL 2018 proceedings.  Each submission should be a two-page Extended Abstract pdf, with any number of additional pages allowed for references. Authors should use the NAACL 2018 style files. We have made the LaTeX templates available on Overleaf, including an example Extended Abstract.

The deadline for submission is 11:59pm GMT -12 on Jan, 27th, 2017. Submission will be electronic using the paper submission web page at https://www.softconf.com/naacl2018/winlp18.

Reviewing Procedure

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Submissions will be peer reviewed in the double-blind format. Abstracts will be evaluated on relevance to the community; the presentation format (talk or poster) will be decided based on scientific merit and potential interest to a broad audience.

Multiple-Submission Policy

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As our goal is to highlight contribution to the community from women and underrepresented minorities, we will consider anonymized 2-page abstracts of papers that were submitted to other venues or published elsewhere in the past year (i.e. after Jan 1st, 2017), though authors must indicate this at submission time.

Travel Support

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There will be a limited amount of travel grant and/or additional funding to cover expenses. More information will be made available closer to the submission deadline.

Organising Committee

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Libby Barak, Princeton University
Diyi Yang, Carnegie Mellon University 
Amittai Axelrod, Amazon
Lucie Flekova, Amazon
Zeerak Waseem, University of Sheffield

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