Updates to SemEval conference dates and deadlines

[Sasha Spala]

Hi everyone,

 

Because of the complications of the COVID pandemic, the COLING conference dates have been moved to 8 Dec 2020 – 13 Dec 2020. I am attaching the announcements from the SemEval organizers regarding these changes:

 

1 - Schedule:

COLING 2020, the host conference for SemEval 2020 has been postponed to December and have shifted their deadlines accordingly. We will keep our schedule mostly the same, in order to avoid too much overlap with SemEval 2021. Deadlines for system description papers, task description papers, notification, and camera-ready submissions have all been shifted two weeks later.

 

1 May 2020 - System description paper submissions due

8 May 2020 - Task description paper submissions due

24 June 2020 - Author notifications

8 July 2020 - Camera-ready submissions due

 

2 - Proceedings and arxiv:

COLING proceedings (including SemEval papers) will be published in November or December 2020, but there's no need to wait that long to share your work with the world. We encourage all authors to make system and task description papers available via arxiv.

 

3 - Template:

All papers for SemEval 2020 should follow COLING camera-ready formatting. NOTE: this is a change from the previously-recommended formatting!!! Updated style files can be found here: http://alt.qcri.org/semeval2020/index.php?id=papers

We apologize for any inconvenience to participants who have already started writing, and we will be happy to help with changes to the new style files as necessary.

 

4 - Paper length:

With the change in style file come changes in maximum paper length. System description papers should be maximum 5 pages long, not including bibliography (no page limit for references). An extra page will be given for the camera-ready version to incorporate reviewer suggestions. (Task description papers should be maximum 9 pages, not including bibliography, also with one extra page for camera-ready.)

 

5 - Best paper awards:

We are delighted to announce the introduction of best paper awards for SemEval 2020. There will be two overall awards, one for organizers of a task (Best Task) and one for a team participating in a task (Best Paper).

 

Best Task (task organizers): This award recognizes a task that stands out for making an important intellectual contribution to empirical computational semantics, as demonstrated by a creative, interesting, and scientifically rigorous dataset and evaluation design, and a well-written task overview paper.

 

Best Paper (task participants):  This award recognizes a system description paper that advances our understanding of a problem and available solutions with respect to a task. It need not be the highest-scoring system in the task, but it must have a strong analysis component in the evaluation, as well as a clear and reproducible description of the problem, algorithms, and methodology.

 

Thanks again for your participation, and as always, email your task organizers with task-specific questions and the general SemEval organizing committee with questions pertaining to SemEval at large.

 

Take care,

Aurelie, Xiaodan, Nathan, and Alexis,

your Semeval 2020 Organizing Committee

 

 

We hope you all are staying safe and healthy!

Sasha