Dear Sender,

I am currently out of the office and will not be checking emails regularly. I 
will return on September 9, and will respond to your message as soon as 
possible after that date.

Best regards,
Charlott Jakob

On 24 Jul 2024, at 14:28, Daryna Dementieva via Corpora 
<[email protected]> wrote:

Second Call for Papers
NLP for Positive Impact Workshop
Miami, USA
November 15 or 16, 2024
(co-located with EMNLP 2024)
https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4positiveimpact




Submission


Direct submission via ARR: link Deadline: August, 15th


For papers submitted to June (or earlier) ARR cycle: Commitment deadline to the 
Workshop: August 20, 2024 Commit to the workshop: via this link


Notification of Acceptance: September 20, 2024


Camera-Ready Papers Due: October 3, 2024


Workshop Date: either November 15 or 16


All deadlines are 11:59 PM (Anywhere on Earth)



Submission Information
We are using the EMNLP Submission Guidelines for the workshop. Authors are 
invited to submit a full paper of up to 8 pages of content with unlimited pages 
for references. We also invite short papers of up to 4 pages of content, 
including unlimited pages for references. Final camera ready versions of 
accepted papers will be given an additional page of content to address reviewer 
comments.


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 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 encourages 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).


Special theme: This year, we would like to encourage submission providing 
solutions or concepts to address digital violence. Digital violence encompasses 
various forms of violence that utilize digital tools and media, such as cell 
phones, apps, internet applications, and emails, and occurs within digital 
spaces like online portals and social platforms. We aim to explore how modern 
NLP and AI technologies can contribute to enhancing safety in digital 
environments. At the workshop, you will have an opportunity to connect and 
share your results with NGO representatives from this field!


Submission types:

Thus, we would appreciate to see various types of works on this (but not only) 
topic like:

        •       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 how positive impact can be 
achieved with NLP methods;

        •       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)


Daryna Dementieva (Technical University of Munich)



Giorgio Piatti (ETH Zürich)


Steven Wilson (Oakland University)


Oana Ignat (Santa Clara University)


Jieyu Zhao (University of Maryland, College Park)


Joel Tetreault (Dataminr, Inc.)


Rada Michaela (University of Michigan)


Contact Email


        •       [email protected]

_______________________________________________
Corpora mailing list -- [email protected]
https://list.elra.info/mailman3/postorius/lists/corpora.list.elra.info/
To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
_______________________________________________
Corpora mailing list -- [email protected]
https://list.elra.info/mailman3/postorius/lists/corpora.list.elra.info/
To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]

Reply via email to