Fwd: Games4NLP: Games and Gamification for Natural Language Processing

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From: "Chamberlain, Jon" <jch...@essex.ac.uk>

Subject: Games4NLP: Games and Gamification for Natural Language Processing

Date: 15 December 2017 at 13:16:06 CET

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It is our pleasure to announce the Games and Gamification for NLP (Games4NLP) workshop hosted at the 11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), 7-12 May 2018, Miyazaki (Japan).

The Games4NLP workshop aims to promote and explore the possibilities for research and practical applications of using games and gamification for the creation of language resources for Natural Language Processing. The main objective is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss and share ideas regarding how the NLP research community can benefit from using game and gamification strategies.

The potential topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Games for collecting data useful for NLP (games in planning, under development, or deployed);

* Games for under-resourced languages such as many Asian languages;

* Analysis of game data from established games;

* Gamification of NLP tasks (techniques, best practice and evaluation of gamification strategies);

* Player motivation and experience (strategies for recruitment/retention and player profiling);

* Game design (conceptual design elements and reports of success and/or failure of designs);

* Processing NLP game data (aggregation methods and strategies for minimising noise and cheating);

* Use of NLP game data (how game-generated data has been used for NLP applications);

* Evaluation of games for NLP (metrics for evaluating game performance, evaluating player performance, motivation and bias, and evaluating task difficulty);

* Directive strategies that attempt to use game metrics in real-time.

The workshop will be an interactive and dynamic full-day event that will be a mix of keynotes, paper and demo presentations as well as discussion sessions. Keynote speakers will be announced soon. The workshop will be held on Monday 7 May 2018 in the Phoenix Seagaia Resort, Miyazaki (Japan).

https://anawiki.essex.ac.uk/dali/games4nlp/

Important dates:

Deadline for submissions: 10 January 2018 (11:59pm Hawaii Standard Time)
Notification of acceptance: 8 February 2018
Final program: 2 March 2018
Workshop date: Monday 7 May 2018