System Description Paper guidelines now available

[Ted Pedersen]

The paper guidelines for SemEval-2021 are now available!

Each participating system is strongly encouraged to submit a paper.
The deadline is Feb 23, and papers may be up to 5 pages long
(excluding references).

Submitting a paper does not obligate you to attend the workshop in
August (held as a part of ACL-IJCNLP 2021) - you may publish your
paper without attending (although we hope you will consider being a
part of the workshop).

You can find more details on the expectations for papers here :

https://semeval.github.io/paper-requirements.html.

and the following site provides a suggested structure for your paper,
and some ideas about what you should plan to cover.

https://semeval.github.io/system-paper-template.html

There is an overleaf template available which we would strongly suggest using :

https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/instructions-for-acl-ijcnlp-2021-proceedings/mhxffkjdwymb

You can also use the Word or Latex templates provided here :

https://2021.aclweb.org/downloads/acl-ijcnlp2021-templates.zip

Note that SemEval papers are *not* anonymous, and must follow a
specific naming convention for the paper title which is described in
the sites above.

If you submit a paper *all* the authors of your paper will be expected
to review a few other papers from our task. This will be a great way
to learn about what other teams did and how that compares to your own
work.

Each author of your paper should make sure to be registered with the
START system - this will be necessary when you submit your paper, and
also for assigning reviews.You can sign up for START here (it is
free), and this is also the site we will use for submitting papers and
doing our reviews.

https://www.softconf.com/acl2021/w13_SemEval/

Please let us know if you have any questions, and we look forward to
reading about your systems!

Cordially,
Ted (on behalf of the NLPContribution SharedTask organizers)
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Dr. Ted Pedersen
http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse

[Ted Pedersen]

Just a small clarification - since our task had multiple subtasks,
system description papers may be up to 8 pages in length. One
additional page will be allowed after reviewing, so the final length
of your paper (excluding references) may be up to 9 pages.

Also, please remember to following the SemEval naming conventions for
the titles of system description papers :

TeamName at SemEval-2021 Task 11: DescriptiveTitle

Your descriptive title is up to you, just make sure to have the
TeamName etc. prior to that. You may modify your team name for the
paper, but if you do so please let us know so we can map from your
paper to the previous team name.

Finally, your system description paper should cite the task paper.
We'll have a reference for that shortly that you can use.

Remember that the paper submission deadline is Tue Feb 23 (11:59 pm
anywhere on earth). You will submit using the START system - all of
the paper authors must be registered with START prior to submission
(this is free and painless to do)

https://www.softconf.com/acl2021/w13_SemEval/

Please let us know if any questions arise, and we are looking forward
to seeing your papers!

Cordially,
Ted (on behalf of the NLP Contribution Graph organizers)

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Dr. Ted Pedersen
http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse