Deadline 16/03 - NAACL-2018 Widening NLP Workshop
Aline Villavicencio
2nd Call for papers
The second WiNLP Workshop will be held in conjunction with NAACL 2018 in New Orleans, Louisiana. WiNLP stands for Widening NLP. The workshop will consist of (1) Invited Talks, (2) Career panel-discussion, (3) Contributed oral talks and posters,(4) Recruitment/General mentoring Lunch, and (5) Individual mentoring.
The first call-for-papers targeted researchers who required an early deadline to allow for an extended period to apply for a visa. For this second call for papers, we invite manuscripts that have not been previously submitted to WiNLP18. This deadline aims to enable every interested author from an under-represented group to submit to WiNLP while minimizing conflicts between other ACL-related submission deadlines. Authors should take into consideration that this deadline may not allow sufficient time to apply for a visa if needed.
Workshop Date: June 1, 2018 (Tutorial day)
Paper Submission Deadline: March 9, 2018
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
Invited Speakers:
- Claire Cardie, Cornell University
- Su Jian, Baidu
- Natalie Schluter, IT University of Copenhagen
Invited Panelists:
- Houda Bouamor, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar
- Barbara Plank, University of Groningen
- Mugizi Robert Rwebangira, Howard University
- Amanda Stent, Bloomberg
Submission Guidelines
Papers:
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: Latex or Word.
- We have also made the Latex available on Overleaf, including an example Extended Abstract.
The deadline for submission is 11:59pm GMT -12 on Jan, 30th, 2018. Submission will be electronic using the paper submission web page at https://www.softconf.com/naacl2018/winlp18.
Reviewing Procedure:
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:
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
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.
Important Dates
- Submission deadline: March 9, 2018
- Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2018
- Travel grant application deadline: March 27, 2018
- Camera-ready submission deadline: April 25, 2018
- Travel grant notification: April 27, 2018
- Workshop date: June 1, 2018
- NAACL conference dates: June 1 – June 6, 2018
All deadlines are 11:59 PM GMT -12.
WiNLP Organizers
Libby Barak, Princeton University
Diyi Yang, Carnegie Mellon University
Amittai Axelrod, Amazon
Lucie Flekova, Amazon
Zeerak Waseem, University of Sheffield
Contact
Website: winlp.org
E-mail: winlp-...@googlegroups.com