[DBWorld] Deadline Extension (22 june) & Last CfP: Current Trends in Text Simplification (CTTS-2021) Workshop

Current Trends in Text Simplification (CTTS-2021) Workshop

Deadline Extension (22 June) and Last Call for Papers

In conjunction with the XXXVII edition of the annual Conference of the Span=
ish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN).
					(online event), September 21st, 2021
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*** We are happy to announce that Matt Huenerfauth (Rochester Institute of =
Technology) will be our invited speaker. ***

Workshop URL: http://www.taln.upf.edu/pages/cttsr2021-ws/

Thanks to the availability of texts on the Web in recent years, increased k=
nowledge and information have been made available to broader audiences. How=
ever, the way in which a text is written=E2=80=94 vocabulary, syntax, text =
organization/structure =E2=80=94can be difficult to read and understand for=
 many people, especially those with low literacy, cognitive or linguistic i=
mpairment, or those with limited knowledge of the language of the text. Tex=
ts containing uncommon words or long and complicated sentences can be diffi=
cult to read and understand by people as well as difficult to analyse by ma=
chines. Automatic text simplification is the process of transforming a text=
 into another text which, ideally conveying the same message, will be easie=
r to read and understand by a broader audience.

Research in text simplification has been approached from different angles: =
rule-based linguistically informed methods, unsupervised corpus-based techn=
iques, supervised machine learning or statistical machine translation have =
all been attempted in text simplification. Recently, research in text simpl=
ification has, like in many other natural language processing areas, increa=
sed the use of methods derived from the deep learning paradigm, and more sp=
ecifically end-to-end sequence to sequence, and transformer-based learning =
methods. In spite of the current advances in the field, there are many impo=
rtant aspects of the simplification problem that need the attention of our =
community, including but not limited to: the design of appropriate evaluati=
on metrics, the development of context-aware simplification solutions, the =
creation of appropriate language resources to support research and evaluati=
on, the deployment of simplification in real environments for real users, t=
he study of di!
 scourse f
 actors in text simplification, the identification of factors affecting the=
 readability of a text, etc.

The workshop aims at bringing together researchers, developers and industri=
es of assistive technologies, public organizations representatives, and oth=
er parties interested in the problem of making information more accessible =
to all citizens.  We will discuss recent trends and developments in the are=
a of automatic text simplification, automatic readability assessment, langu=
age resources and evaluation for text simplification, etc.

Topics

The workshop aims to receive contributions in the following topics:

=E2=97=8F      Lexical Simplification (LS)

=E2=97=8F      Syntactic Simplification (SS)

=E2=97=8F      Sequence to Sequence Models for LS and SS

=E2=97=8F      Modular and End-to-end Text Simplification

=E2=97=8F      Zero-shot Text Simplification

=E2=97=8F      Controllable Simplification

=E2=97=8F      Text Complexity Assessment

=E2=97=8F      Corpora, Lexical Resources, Benchmarks for Text Simplificati=
on

=E2=97=8F      Studies on Text Simplification Evaluation

=E2=97=8F      Assistive Technologies for improving readability and compreh=
ension including those going beyond text

=E2=97=8F      Domain Specific Text Simplification (e.g. health, legal)

=E2=97=8F      Other Related topics in Text Simplification (e.g. eye-tracki=
ng simplification studies)

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We invite long papers (8 pages) and short papers and demos (4 pages). Both =
long and short papers and demos have unlimited references, and their final =
versions will be given one additional page (up to 9 and 5 pages, respective=
ly, in the proceedings and unlimited pages for references).

CTTS-2021 uses a double-blind reviewing process. Papers must conform to the=
 official CEUR-WS style guidelines, be in PDF format, and be submitted via =
the Easychair conference management system using this link: Easychair CTTS-=
2021 (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=3Dctts2021)

The paper submission deadline for both long and short workshop paper, and d=
emo description is 22nd June, 2021.

Multiple submissions policy: Multiple submissions are allowed, but the auth=
ors should indicate clearly whether they have submitted or plan to submit a=
 paper with the same content to another venue.

Templates, guidelines and other policies: The CEUR-ART paper style with 1-C=
olum will be used. An Overleaf page for LaTeX users is available at https:/=
/www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt. You can also download an offline versi=
on with the style files from ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip.

Workshop Organizers

Horacio Saggion (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Sanja =C5=A0tajner (ReadableAI)  =


Daniel Ferr=C3=A9s (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Publication

            Kim Cheng Sheang (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Invited Speakers

Matt Huenerfauth (Rochester Institute of Technology) http://huenerfauth.ist=
.rit.edu/

Language of the event and publications: English

Program Committee

Rodrigo Alarc=C3=B3n (Universidad Carlos III, Spain)

Sandra Alu=C3=ADsio (University of S=C3=A3o Paulo, Brazil)

Fernando Alva Manchego (University of Sheffield, UK)

Susana Bautista (Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Spain)

Antoine Bordes (Facebook, UK)

Stefan Bott (=E2=80=8ELoveToKnow Corp., Spain)

Remi Cardon (Universit=C3=A9 de Lille)

Eric De la Clergerie (INRIA, France)

Felice Dell'Orletta (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale =E2=80=9CAntoni=
o Zampolli=E2=80=9D, Italy)

Richard Evans (University of Wolverhampton, UK)

Thomas Fran=C3=A7ois (Universit=C3=A9 catholique de Louvain,  Belgique)

Nuria Gala (Universit=C3=A9 Aix-Marseille, France)

Goran Glava=C5=A1 (University of Mannheim, Germany)

Itziar Gonzalez-Dios (University of the Basque Country, Spain)

Natalia Grabar (Universit=C3=A9 de Lille)

Raquel Herv=C3=A1s (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)

David Kauchak (Pomona College, USA)

Elena Lloret (Universidad de Alicante, Spain)

Louis Martin (Facebook, UK)

Lourdes Moreno L=C3=B3pez (Universidad Carlos III,  Spain)

Gustavo Henrique Paetzold (Universidade Tecnol=C3=B3gica Federal do Paran=
=C3=A1, Brazil)

Beno=C3=AEt Sagot (INRIA, France)

Carolina Scarton (University of Sheffield, UK)

Matthew Shardlow (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)

Advaith Siddharthan (The Open University, UK) Lucia Specia (Imperial Colleg=
e, UK)

Giulia Venturi (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale =E2=80=9CAntonio Zam=
polli=E2=80=9D, Italy)

Victoria Yaneva (National Board of Medical Examiners, USA)  =


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Workshop Date:

 September 21st  2021 (confirmed)

Workshop Schedule (on-line):

            Extended Submission deadline:  22nd June 2021 =


            Accept/Reject Communications: 15th July 2021

            Camera Ready: 30th July 2021

Related Previous Workshops

Workshops on text simplification and accessibility (NLP4ITA) at LREC 2012 a=
nd NAACL 2013. Quality Assessment for Text Simplification collocated with L=
REC 2016.


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