31.12, Calls: Computational Linguistics/USA

LINGUIST List: Vol-31-12. Thu Jan 02 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.12, Calls: Computational Linguistics/USA

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Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2020 06:29:43
From: Erika Varis Doggett [[email protected]]
Subject: Fourth Workshop in Widening Natural Language Processing

 
Full Title: Fourth Workshop in Widening Natural Language Processing 
Short Title: WiNLP 

Date: 05-Jul-2020 - 05-Jul-2020
Location: Seattle, WA, USA 
Contact Person: Erika Varis Doggett
Meeting Email: [email protected]
Web Site: http://www.winlp.org/winlp-2020-workshop/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2020 

Meeting Description:

The fourth WiNLP (“Widening NLP”) Workshop will be held in conjunction with
ACL 2020 in Seattle, WA, United States. 
The WiNLP workshop is open to all to foster an inclusive and welcoming ACL
environment.  It aims to promote diversity and highlight the work of
underrepresented groups in NLP: anyone who self-identifies within an
underrepresented demographic [gender, ethnicity, nationality, etc]. The 2020
iteration of the workshop will, in particular, seek to highlight diversity in
scientific background, discipline, training, obtained degrees, seniority, and
communities from underrepresented languages. The full-day event includes
invited talks, oral presentations, and poster sessions. The workshop provides
an excellent opportunity for junior members in the community to showcase their
work and connect with senior mentors for feedback and career advice.  It also
offers recruitment opportunities with leading industrial labs.  Most
importantly,  the workshop will provide an inclusive and accepting space, and
work to lower structural barriers to joining and collaborating with the NLP
community at large.

While everyone is encouraged to attend, the opportunity to present a talk or
poster is intended for members of underrepresented groups at all career
levels: students, post-docs, professors, and other researchers. We invite
submissions in the form of an extended 2-page abstract on topics in
computational linguistics and natural language processing, including but not
limited to:

Cognitive modeling and psycholinguistics
Computational social science
Corpus development and evaluation
Dialog and interactive systems
Discourse and pragmatics
Document analysis including text categorization, topic models, and retrieval
Ethics in NLP
Natural language generation
Information extraction, text mining, and question answering
Language-inclusive multimodal integration
Linguistic theories for NLP
Low-resource or endangered languages
Machine learning
Machine translation
Mathematical models of language
Multilinguality
Phonology, morphology, and word segmentation
Resources and evaluation
Semantics
Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
Social media: Twitter, blogs, discussion forums, and other social media
Sociolinguistics
Speech, prosody, and spoken dialog
Summarization
Tagging, chunking, syntax, and parsing
Vision, robots, and other grounding applications


Call for Papers:

This early call-for-papers targets authors who may require extra time to apply
for a visa.

In the past years some authors were unable to present at NLP conferences
because they could not obtain a visa in time. Following WiNLP 2019, WiNLP 2020
is adding a visa-friendly submission deadline, to allow authors of accepted
papers 4-5 months to obtain a US visa if their passport is not automatically
entitled to one. If your passport allows you to receive a US visa
automatically in less than 2 months, please use the regular submission
deadlines.

Submission guidelines:

Submissions must follow the standard one-column format. Each submission should
be a two-page extended abstract PDF, with any number of additional pages
allowed for references (WiNLP/COLING proceedings format). No appendices will
be accepted.
Submissions should follow the same style and format guidelines (LaTeX style
files, Word template) and be submitted electronically in PDF format via the
WiNLP 2020 online submission system.

Submission link: [ Softconf TBA ]
LaTeX template link:
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-and-instructions-for-winlp-2
020/wmghdyddktfd
Word template link:
http://www.winlp.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/WiNLP20_Template.docx

Peer Editing & Reviewing Procedure:

One week prior to the submission deadline, authors will have the option to
peer-review each others' abstracts in a non-anonymous format, in groups of two
or three authors. Authors taking this option commit to help their peers edit
and format their submissions, or revise for clarity, or provide general
feedback before the submission is reviewed. Authors may use the feedback
provided during this peer-editing period to update their submissions in time
for the submission deadline. Whether or not authors take advantage of this
peer-review option in advance of submission, all submissions are due on the
deadline.

After the submission deadline, abstracts will be reviewed in the traditional
double-blind format. Abstracts will be evaluated on relevance to the
community; the presentation format (talk or poster) will be decided based on
scientific merit and potential interest to a broad audience.

Multiple submissions:

As we aim for improved and increased representation of underrepresented
minorities, we will consider anonymized two pages abstracts of papers that
have been submitted to other venues or have already been published elsewhere
since January 1, 2019. WiNLP is non-archival, and we encourage our authors to
submit to other conferences and venues as well as WiNLP.

Travel Support:

There will be a limited amount of travel grants and/or additional funding to
cover expenses, similar to the 2018 and 2019 workshops. More information will
be made available closer to the submission deadline and linked from
http://www.winlp.org/winlp-2020-workshop.

Important Dates:

Visa-friendly deadlines
Peer-editing start date: January 24, 2020.
Early submission deadline: January 31, 2020.

Early notification deadline: February 28, 2020.

Regular deadlines
Peer-editing start date: Friday, April 3, 2020.
Submission deadline: Friday, April 10, 2020.

Acceptance notification date:  Friday, May 8, 2020

All deadlines are 11:59 PM GMT -12

Workshop Date: July 5, 2020 (Sunday)

Contact information:

Website: http://www.winlp.org/winlp-2020-workshop/ 
Twitter: @winlpworkshop
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WideningNLP/
E-mail: [email protected]




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