2nd Call for papers, Widening NLP Workshop at NAACL.
The second WiNLP Workshop will be held in conjunction with NAACL 2018 in
New Orleans, Louisiana. The workshop will consist of (1) Invited Talks,
(2) Career panel-discussion, (3) Contributed oral talks and posters,(4)
Recruitment/General mentoring Lunch, and (5) Individual mentoring.
The first call-for-papers targeted researchers who required an early
deadline to allow for extended period to apply for visa. For this second
call for paper we invite manuscripts that have not been previously
submitted to WiNLP18. This deadline aims to enable every interested
author from an under-represented group to submit to WiNLP while
minimizing conflicts between other ACL-related submission deadlines.
Authors should take into consideration that this deadline may not allow
sufficient time to apply for a visa if needed.
Workshop Date: June 1, 2018 (Tutorial day)
Paper Submission Deadline: March 9, 2018
The WiNLP workshop is open to all. Its aim is to highlight the work of
underrepresented groups in NLP — anyone who self-identifies within an
underrepresented demographic, and would benefit from a more inclusive
ACL environment. The full-day event includes invited talks, oral
presentations, and poster sessions, and 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 serves to share and promote the work of
subpopulations in NLP that face additional barriers to entry and
acceptance in the NLP community.
While everyone is encouraged to attend, the opportunity to present a
talk or poster is intended for underrepresented genders and minorities
(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
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
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Invited Speakers:
Claire Cardie, Cornell University
Su Jian, Baidu
Natalie Schluter, IT University of Copenhagen
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Invited Panelists:
Houda Bouamor, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar
Barbara Plank, University of Groningen
Mugizi Robert Rwebangira, Howard University
Amanda Stent, Bloomberg
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Submission Guidelines
Papers:
Submissions must follow the standard two-column format of the ACL 2018
proceedings. Each submission should be a two-page Extended Abstract pdf,
with any number of additional pages allowed for references.
Authors should use the NAACL 2018 style files: Latex or Word.
We have also made the Latex available on Overleaf, including an example
Extended Abstract
(https://www.overleaf.com/read/zdnchjnsfmmm#/31156414/).
The deadline for submission is 11:59pm GMT -12 on Jan, 30th, 2018.
Submission will be electronic using the paper submission web page at
https://www.softconf.com/naacl2018/winlp18.
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Reviewing Procedure:
Submissions will be peer-reviewed in the 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.
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Multiple-Submission Policy:
As our goal is to highlight contribution to the community from women and
underrepresented minorities, we will consider anonymized 2-page
abstracts of papers that were submitted to other venues or published
elsewhere in the past year (i.e. after Jan 1st, 2017), though authors
must indicate this at submission time.
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Travel Support
There will be a limited amount of travel grant and/or additional funding
to cover expenses. Applications for travel grants are due April 27,
2018.
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Important Dates
Submission deadline: March 9, 2018
Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2018
Travel grant application deadline: March 27, 2018
Camera-ready submission deadline: April 25, 2018
Travel grant notification: April 27, 2018
Workshop date: June 1, 2018
NAACL conference dates: June 1 – June 6, 2018
All deadlines are 11:59 PM GMT -12.
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WiNLP Organizers
Libby Barak, Princeton University
Diyi Yang, Carnegie Mellon University
Amittai Axelrod, Amazon.com
Lucie Flekova, Amazon.com
Zeerak Waseem, University of Sheffield
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Contact
Website: winlp.org
E-mail: winlp-cha...@googlegroups.com
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