(apologies for cross-posting) The Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact <https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4positiveimpact> has now gotten extra. The deadline has been shifted to *September 7* allowing more time to prepare your positively wonderful submissions in this space.
On Mon, Aug 8, 2022 at 12:24 AM Joel Tetreault <[email protected]> wrote: > (apologies for cross-posting) > > > Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4positiveimpact > > Submission website: > https://softconf.com/emnlp2022/NLPforPositiveImpact2022/ > > Important Dates > > - > > (Submission channel 1) Latest submission deadline to Softconf: Aug 15, > 2022 > - > > (Submission channel 2; alternative) Latest ARR commitment deadline: > Oct 2, 2022 (As the ARR site explains, authors can commit to venues when > they have their reviews and meta-reviews. By Oct 2, you need to "commit" > your ARR paper through Softconf, as in EMNLP 2022). > - > > Notification of Acceptance: Oct 9, 2022 > - > > Camera-Ready Papers Due: Oct 16, 2022 > - > > Workshop Date: Dec 7, 2022 > > All deadlines are 11:59 PM (Anywhere on Earth > <https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe>) > > Summary > > The widespread and indispensable use of language-oriented AI systems > presents new opportunities to have a positive social impact. NLP > technologies are starting to mature to the point where they could have an > even broader impact, supporting the UN sustainability goals > <https://sdgs.un.org/goals> by helping to address big problems such as > poverty, hunger, healthcare, education, inequality, COVID-19 and climate > change. > > Our workshop aims to promote innovative NLP research that will positively > impact society, focusing on responsible methods and new applications. We > will encourage submissions from areas including (but not limited to): > > - > > Work that grounds the impact of NLP: Beyond developing a > better-performing NLP model, can we make a step further to connect the > model to actual social impact? Example directions include: case > studies of real-world deployments; or improving the deployment and > maintenance of NLP models in practice. > > In addition to commonly recognized NLP for social good areas such as > NLP for healthcare, mental well-being, and many others, we also call for > work > on neglected areas such as NLP for poverty, hunger, energy, climate change, > among others. > > We also highly value work that builds on interdisciplinary expertise, > and encourage submissions of case studies or worked examples that seek to > expand the social impact of NLP through collaboration with other fields > (e.g., philanthropy, social science, political science, economics, HCI). > > > - > > Work that guides researchers in NLP for Social Good: Can we provide > insights and guidance to the field? Example directions include: measures > of social impact; automatic identification of various social needs, their > corresponding sizes and demographics of people affected; position papers to > propose promising new tasks or directions that the field should pursue; > literature review of a subfield; philosophical discussions of what social > good is; approaches to interdisciplinary collaboration; user study designs, > user surveys; ethical considerations, and other related topics. > > > > Note that we want submissions to our workshop to have some distinctive > features of social good implications, beyond a general paper on NLP. We > will require each submission to discuss the ethical and societal > implications of their work, and encourage a discussion of what "positive > impact" means in the work. > > Organizers > > - > > Zhijing Jin (Max Planck Institute & ETH Zurich) > - > > Laura Biester (University of Michigan) > - > > Dora Demszky (Stanford University) > - > > Mrinmaya Sachan (ETH Zurich) > - > > Joel Tetreault (Dataminr, Inc.) > - > > Steven Wilson (Oakland University) > - > > Lu Xiao (Syracuse University) > - > > Jieyu Zhao (University of Maryland, College Park) > > > Contact Email > > - > > [email protected] > >
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