Reminder, system description papers!

[Ted Pedersen]

Thanks to everyone who is participating in the shared task! It's very
interesting to see the results these different systems are producing,
and of course you are probably wondering "what are all these other
groups doing??"

The best way to answer that would be to read a short paper about each
system, and that's exactly what SemEval hopes will happen! SemEval has
not yet issued a Call for Papers with specifics, but what we know is
the paper submission deadline is February 23, and that papers will be
reviewed by other task participants. In general if you submit a paper
you and your co-authors will be asked to review a few of the other
papers from this task (which should be really interesting).

The formal Call for Papers (with style files, etc.) will soon be found here :

https://semeval.github.io/SemEval2021/

SemEval papers are usually fairly brief (approx 4 pages), and while
they are reviewed the reviewing is supportive and not looking for
reasons to reject. SemEval papers will be published and presented at
the ACL conference in Thailand this August (or during an online
conference if that is how things work out). You are not required to
attend the conference to have your paper published, so do not let that
be a deterrent to submitting!

For now we would suggest making sure that you've made some notes about
the details of your system, and reach a decision among your colleagues
as to whether you'd like to submit a paper (it is not required, but of
course we hope you do). Further details should be forthcoming from
SemEval, and if you have any additional questions we would be happy to
answer them here as well.

Sincerely,
Ted (on behalf of the NLP Contribution Graph task organizers)
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Dr. Ted Pedersen
http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse

[Ted Pedersen]

Just a reminder to everyone, your system description papers for the
NLP Contribution Graph SemEval 2021 task are due Tuesday Feb 23 11:59
pm anywhere on earth (UTC-12).

All authors on your paper must be registered with the START system,
and all authors will be asked to review a small number of system
description papers from our task (3 at most, 2 is more likely). Review
assignments will be made by Fri Feb 26, and reviews are not due until
Tue Mar 16.

As task participants you are in a unique position to review other
papers from this very same task, so please take the opportunity
presented by reviewing to learn what others have done, and help the
other participants improve their papers by pointing out anything that
might be unclear or confusing to a reader.

You can create a START account and also submit your paper here :

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

START is also where we do the reviewing. We'll have more details about
that once the submission deadline has passed.

As always please let us know if you have any questions about paper
writing or the reviewing process.

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