EMNLP 2021 - First CfP
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Barbara Plank
Feb 2, 2021, 3:16:53 AM2/2/21
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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing EMNLP 2021
7th --11th November 2021
IMPORTANT DATES
Anonymity period begins: April 17, 2021
Abstract submission deadline (long & short papers): May 10, 2021
Full paper submission deadline (long & short papers): May 17, 2021
Author response period: July 11-17, 2021
Notification of acceptance (long & short papers): August 25, 2021
Camera-ready papers due (long & short papers): September 9, 2021
Conference: November 7-9, 2021
Workshops & Tutorials: November 10-11, 2021
Anonymity period begins: April 17, 2021
Abstract submission deadline (long & short papers): May 10, 2021
Full paper submission deadline (long & short papers): May 17, 2021
Author response period: July 11-17, 2021
Notification of acceptance (long & short papers): August 25, 2021
Camera-ready papers due (long & short papers): September 9, 2021
Conference: November 7-9, 2021
Workshops & Tutorials: November 10-11, 2021
All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth").
SUBMISSIONS
EMNLP 2021 has the goal of a broad technical program. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas (in alphabetical order):
Computational Social Science and Social Media
Dialogue and Interactive Systems
Discourse and Pragmatics
Ethics and NLP
Generation
Green NLP
Information Extraction
Information Retrieval and Text Mining
Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP
Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics
Machine Learning for NLP
Machine Translation and Multilinguality
NLP Applications
Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation
Question Answering
Resources and Evaluation
Semantics: Lexical, Sentence level, Textual Inference and Other areas
Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining
Speech, Vision, Robotics, Multimodal Grounding
Summarization
Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing
EMNLP 2021 has the goal of a broad technical program. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas (in alphabetical order):
Computational Social Science and Social Media
Dialogue and Interactive Systems
Discourse and Pragmatics
Ethics and NLP
Generation
Green NLP
Information Extraction
Information Retrieval and Text Mining
Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP
Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics
Machine Learning for NLP
Machine Translation and Multilinguality
NLP Applications
Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation
Question Answering
Resources and Evaluation
Semantics: Lexical, Sentence level, Textual Inference and Other areas
Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining
Speech, Vision, Robotics, Multimodal Grounding
Summarization
Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing
PAPER SUBMISSION INFORMATION
Long Papers
Long paper submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Review forms will be made available prior to the deadlines. Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references; final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account.
Long papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program committee. The decisions as to which papers will be presented orally and which as poster presentations will be based on the nature rather than the quality of the work. There will be no distinction in the proceedings between long papers presented orally and as posters.
Long paper submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Review forms will be made available prior to the deadlines. Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references; final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account.
Long papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program committee. The decisions as to which papers will be presented orally and which as poster presentations will be based on the nature rather than the quality of the work. There will be no distinction in the proceedings between long papers presented orally and as posters.
Short Papers
Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. Please note that a short paper is not a shortened long paper. Instead short papers should have a point that can be made in a few pages. Some kinds of short papers are:
A small, focused contribution
A negative result
An opinion piece
An interesting application nugget
Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. Please note that a short paper is not a shortened long paper. Instead short papers should have a point that can be made in a few pages. Some kinds of short papers are:
A small, focused contribution
A negative result
An opinion piece
An interesting application nugget
Short
papers may consist of up to 4 pages of content, plus unlimited
references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given 5 content pages
in the proceedings. Authors are encouraged to use this additional page
to address reviewers’ comments in their final versions.
Short papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program committee. While short papers will be distinguished from long papers in the proceedings, there will be no distinction in the proceedings between short papers presented orally and as posters.
Short papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program committee. While short papers will be distinguished from long papers in the proceedings, there will be no distinction in the proceedings between short papers presented orally and as posters.
Authorship
The author list for submissions should include all (and only) individuals who made substantial contributions to the work presented. Each author listed on a submission to EMNLP 2021 will be notified of submissions, revisions and the final decision. No changes to the order or composition of authorship may be made to submissions to EMNLP 2021 after the abstract submission deadline.
The author list for submissions should include all (and only) individuals who made substantial contributions to the work presented. Each author listed on a submission to EMNLP 2021 will be notified of submissions, revisions and the final decision. No changes to the order or composition of authorship may be made to submissions to EMNLP 2021 after the abstract submission deadline.
Citation and Comparison
You are expected to cite all refereed publications relevant to your submission, but you may be excused for not knowing about all unpublished work (especially work that has been recently posted and/or is not widely cited).
In cases where a preprint has been superseded by a refereed publication, the refereed publication should be cited instead of the preprint version.
You are expected to cite all refereed publications relevant to your submission, but you may be excused for not knowing about all unpublished work (especially work that has been recently posted and/or is not widely cited).
In cases where a preprint has been superseded by a refereed publication, the refereed publication should be cited instead of the preprint version.
Papers (whether refereed or
not) appearing less than 3 months before the submission deadline are
considered contemporaneous to your submission, and you are therefore not
obliged to make detailed comparisons that require additional
experimentation and/or in-depth analysis.
For more information, see the ACL Policies for Submission, Review, and Citation
Multiple Submission Policy
Multiple Submission Policy
EMNLP
2021 will not consider any paper that is under review in a journal or
another conference at the time of submission, and submitted papers must
not be submitted elsewhere during the EMNLP 2021 review period. This
policy covers all refereed and archival conferences and workshops (e.g.,
NeurIPS, ACL workshops).
In addition, we will not consider any paper that overlaps significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere. Authors submitting more than one paper to EMNLP 2021 must ensure that their submissions do not overlap significantly (>25%) with each other in content or results.
In addition, we will not consider any paper that overlaps significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere. Authors submitting more than one paper to EMNLP 2021 must ensure that their submissions do not overlap significantly (>25%) with each other in content or results.
Ethics Policy
Authors are required to honour the ethical code set out in the ACL Code of Ethics. The consideration of the ethical impact of our research, use of data, and potential applications of our work has always been an important consideration, and as artificial intelligence is becoming more mainstream, these issues are increasingly pertinent. We ask that all authors read the code, and ensure that their work is conformant to this code. Where a paper may raise ethical issues, we ask that you include in the paper an explicit discussion of these issues, which will be taken into account in the review process. We reserve the right to reject papers on ethical grounds, where the authors are judged to have operated counter to the code of ethics, or have inadequately addressed legitimate ethical concerns with their work.
Authors are required to honour the ethical code set out in the ACL Code of Ethics. The consideration of the ethical impact of our research, use of data, and potential applications of our work has always been an important consideration, and as artificial intelligence is becoming more mainstream, these issues are increasingly pertinent. We ask that all authors read the code, and ensure that their work is conformant to this code. Where a paper may raise ethical issues, we ask that you include in the paper an explicit discussion of these issues, which will be taken into account in the review process. We reserve the right to reject papers on ethical grounds, where the authors are judged to have operated counter to the code of ethics, or have inadequately addressed legitimate ethical concerns with their work.
Paper Submission and Templates
Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system. Both long and short papers must follow the EMNLP 2021 two-column format, using the supplied official style sheets (to be provided later). Please do not modify these style files, nor should you use templates designed for other conferences. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review.
Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system. Both long and short papers must follow the EMNLP 2021 two-column format, using the supplied official style sheets (to be provided later). Please do not modify these style files, nor should you use templates designed for other conferences. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review.
Optional Supplementary Materials: Appendices, Software and Data
Each EMNLP 2021 submission can be accompanied by one PDF appendix for the paper, one PDF for prior reviews and author response, one .tgz or .zip archive containing software, and one.tgz or .zip archive containing data. EMNLP 2021 encourages the submission of these supplementary materials to improve the reproducibility of results, and to enable authors to provide additional information that does not fit in the paper. For example, anonymised related work (see above), preprocessing decisions, model parameters, feature templates, lengthy proofs or derivations, pseudocode, sample system inputs/outputs, and other details that are necessary for the exact replication of the work described in the paper can be put into the appendix. However, the paper submissions need to remain fully self-contained, as these supplementary materials are completely optional, and reviewers are not even asked to review or download them. If the pseudo-code or derivations or model specifications are an important part of the contribution, or if they are important for the reviewers to assess the technical correctness of the work, they should be a part of the main paper, and not appear in the appendix. Supplementary materials need to be fully anonymized to preserve the double-blind reviewing policy.
Each EMNLP 2021 submission can be accompanied by one PDF appendix for the paper, one PDF for prior reviews and author response, one .tgz or .zip archive containing software, and one.tgz or .zip archive containing data. EMNLP 2021 encourages the submission of these supplementary materials to improve the reproducibility of results, and to enable authors to provide additional information that does not fit in the paper. For example, anonymised related work (see above), preprocessing decisions, model parameters, feature templates, lengthy proofs or derivations, pseudocode, sample system inputs/outputs, and other details that are necessary for the exact replication of the work described in the paper can be put into the appendix. However, the paper submissions need to remain fully self-contained, as these supplementary materials are completely optional, and reviewers are not even asked to review or download them. If the pseudo-code or derivations or model specifications are an important part of the contribution, or if they are important for the reviewers to assess the technical correctness of the work, they should be a part of the main paper, and not appear in the appendix. Supplementary materials need to be fully anonymized to preserve the double-blind reviewing policy.
ANONYMITY PERIOD
The following rules and guidelines are meant to protect the integrity of double-blind review and ensure that submissions are reviewed fairly. The rules make reference to the anonymity period, which runs from 1 month before the submission deadline (starting April 17th, 2021) up to the date when your paper is accepted or rejected (August 25th, 2021). Papers that are withdrawn during this period will no longer be subject to these rules.
The following rules and guidelines are meant to protect the integrity of double-blind review and ensure that submissions are reviewed fairly. The rules make reference to the anonymity period, which runs from 1 month before the submission deadline (starting April 17th, 2021) up to the date when your paper is accepted or rejected (August 25th, 2021). Papers that are withdrawn during this period will no longer be subject to these rules.
You may not make a non-anonymized version
of your paper available online to the general community (for example,
via a preprint server) during the anonymity period. Versions of the
paper include papers having essentially the same scientific content but
possibly differing in minor details (including title and structure)
and/or in length.
If you have posted a non-anonymized version of your paper online before the start of the anonymity period, you may submit an anonymized version to the conference. The submitted version must not refer to the non-anonymized version, and you must inform the programme chairs that a non-anonymized version exists.
You may not update the non-anonymized version during the anonymity period, and we ask you not to advertise it on social media or take other actions that would further compromise double-blind reviewing during the anonymity period.
You may make an anonymized version of your paper available (for example, on OpenReview), even during the anonymity period.
If you have posted a non-anonymized version of your paper online before the start of the anonymity period, you may submit an anonymized version to the conference. The submitted version must not refer to the non-anonymized version, and you must inform the programme chairs that a non-anonymized version exists.
You may not update the non-anonymized version during the anonymity period, and we ask you not to advertise it on social media or take other actions that would further compromise double-blind reviewing during the anonymity period.
You may make an anonymized version of your paper available (for example, on OpenReview), even during the anonymity period.
Note
that, while you are not prohibited from making a non-anonymous version
available online before the start of the anonymity period, this does
make double-blind reviewing more difficult to maintain, and we therefore
encourage you to wait until the end of the anonymity period.
Alternatively, you may consider submitting your work to the
Computational Linguistics journal, which does not require anonymization
and has a track for “short” (i.e., conference-length) papers.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR DOUBLE-BLIND REVIEW
As reviewing will be double blind, papers must not include authors’ names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references or links (such as github) that reveal the author’s identity, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” must be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review.
Papers should not refer, for further detail, to documents that are not available to the reviewers. For example, do not omit or redact important citation information to preserve anonymity. Instead, use third person or named reference to this work, as described above (“Smith showed” rather than “we showed”). If important citations are not available to reviewers (e.g., awaiting publication), these paper/s should be anonymised and included in the appendix. They can then be referenced from the submission without compromising anonymity.
As reviewing will be double blind, papers must not include authors’ names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references or links (such as github) that reveal the author’s identity, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” must be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review.
Papers should not refer, for further detail, to documents that are not available to the reviewers. For example, do not omit or redact important citation information to preserve anonymity. Instead, use third person or named reference to this work, as described above (“Smith showed” rather than “we showed”). If important citations are not available to reviewers (e.g., awaiting publication), these paper/s should be anonymised and included in the appendix. They can then be referenced from the submission without compromising anonymity.
Papers may
be accompanied by a resource (software and/or data) described in the
paper, but these resources should also be anonymized.
REPRODUCIBILITY CRITERIA
During the submission process, authors will be asked to answer the questions from the Reproducibility Checklist. The checklist is intended as a reminder to help the authors improve reproducibility of their papers. The papers are not required to meet all reproducibility criteria listed. However, the answers will be made available to the reviewers. Reviewers will be asked to assess the reproducibility of the work as part of their reviews.
REPRODUCIBILITY CRITERIA
During the submission process, authors will be asked to answer the questions from the Reproducibility Checklist. The checklist is intended as a reminder to help the authors improve reproducibility of their papers. The papers are not required to meet all reproducibility criteria listed. However, the answers will be made available to the reviewers. Reviewers will be asked to assess the reproducibility of the work as part of their reviews.
PRESENTATION REQUIREMENT
All accepted papers must be presented at the conference to appear in the proceedings. Authors of papers accepted for presentation at EMNLP 2021 must notify the program chairs by the camera-ready deadline if they wish to withdraw the paper.
At least one author of each accepted paper must register for EMNLP 2021 by the early registration deadline.
All accepted papers must be presented at the conference to appear in the proceedings. Authors of papers accepted for presentation at EMNLP 2021 must notify the program chairs by the camera-ready deadline if they wish to withdraw the paper.
At least one author of each accepted paper must register for EMNLP 2021 by the early registration deadline.
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