Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) - long/short papers due July 23, shared exploration papers due Aug 4

[Ted Pedersen]

The Abusive Language Workshop has renamed itself as WOAH. The next iteration takes place as a part of the virtual EMNLP that will happen in November.

https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/

They've introduced something called a Shared Exploration which I think is a nice idea, and reminds me a bit of my own motivations when taking on some shared tasks - I don't worry too much about my results, I'm more curious to understand what is in the data. This is their description 

"A Shared Exploration borrows traits from traditional shared tasks with the distinction in the primary aim of the shared exploration. In contrast to shared tasks, the focus of a Shared Exploration is the analysis of datasets, rather than competitive modeling performance. We will review performance on the datasets in accordance with three criteria detailed below rather than just one evaluation metric. This means that we can adopt a more holistic approach and reward innovative and rigorous analyses, rather than sophisticated engineering."

https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/shared-exploration

So, this is something I'll be looking at in the fairly near future. Please do let me know if you have any interest in this task, or questions about it.