***Second Call for Papers***
**News**
We are happy to announce that Emily Bender (University of Washington), Anne Lauscher (University of Hamburg), and Lilian Wanzare (Maseno University, Kenya) have accepted our invitations to give keynotes at LAW XVII.
- Contact e-mail of workshop chairs: law-xvii-2023 [at] outlook.de
- Workshop date confirmed: July 13, 2023
- Submission is open: https://softconf.com/acl2023/law/
- Submission deadline confirmed: April 7, 2023
- ARR commitment date: May 10, 2023
- Our workshop will be hybrid (on-site and virtual)
*Workshop Description*
LAW-XVII will be the 17th annual meeting endorsed by the ACL Special Interest Group for Annotation (SIGANN). It will take place in July 2023 at ACL in Toronto, Canada.
Linguistic annotation of natural language corpora is the backbone of supervised methods in both statistical and neural natural language processing. Annotated corpora are also a major supporting source of information for unsupervised methods, multitask learning, and evaluation of both NLP tools and theories about language within and outside of linguistics. The LAW-XVII will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of innovative research on all aspects of linguistic annotation, including creation/evaluation of annotation schemes, methods for automatic and manual annotation, use and evaluation of annotation software and frameworks, representation of linguistic data and annotations, semi-supervised “human in the loop” methods of annotation, crowd-sourcing approaches, and more.
The LAW will also provide a forum for annotation researchers to work towards standardization, best practices, and interoperability of annotation information and software.
*Special Theme*
The special theme of LAW-XVII is “Ethics and Annotation.” In addition to LAW’s general topics, we specifically invite submissions on the following topics:
- Aspects of ethics related to annotation work: How do we treat annotators? How do we ensure that they feel good about the work that they are doing? Are there dangers related to psychological health?
- Aspects of ethics related to bias.
- Ethics in crowd-sourcing annotation scenarios.
- Annotation of information regarding ethics in text.
- Any other topics related to the special theme.
*Submissions*
We welcome submissions of long and short papers, posters, and demonstrations relating to the special theme or any aspect of linguistic annotation, including:
- Annotation procedures
- Innovative automated and manual strategies for annotation
- Machine learning and knowledge-based methods for automation of corpus annotation
- Creation, maintenance, and interactive exploration of annotation structures and annotated data
- Annotation evaluation
- Inter-annotator agreement and other evaluation metrics and strategies
- Qualitative evaluation of linguistic representations
- Innovative means to evaluate annotation quality
- Annotation access and use
- Representation formats/structures for annotations of different phenomena, especially annotations at multiple levels, and means to explore/manipulate them
- Linguistic considerations for merging annotations of distinct phenomena
- Annotation schemes, guidelines and standards
- New and innovative annotation schemes, comparison of annotation schemes
- Methodologies and resources for annotation scheme development
- Best practices for annotation procedures and/or development and documentation of annotation schemes
- Interoperability of annotation formats and/or frameworks among different systems as well as different tasks, frameworks, modalities, and languages
- Results from the application and evaluation of standards for linguistic annotation
- Annotation software and frameworks
- Development, evaluation and/or innovative use of annotation software frameworks
Submissions should report original and unpublished research on topics of interest to the workshop. We also invite substantiated position papers, in particular with regard to our special theme. Accepted papers are expected to be presented at the workshop and will be published in the workshop proceedings. They should emphasize obtained results rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results.
A paper accepted for presentation at the workshop must not be or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings.
Long/short paper submissions must use the official ACL style templates. Long papers must not exceed eight (8) pages of content. Short papers and demonstration papers must not exceed four (4) pages of content. References do not count against these limits.
Papers can be submitted at https://softconf.com/acl2023/law/.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the program co-chairs at law-xvii-2023 [at] outlook.de or check the workshop website (https://sigann.github.io/LAW-XVII-2023/) for updates.
*Dates*
(All submission deadlines are 11:59 p.m. UTC-12:00 “anywhere on Earth”)
Anonymity period starts: 7th March 2023
Submission of long and short papers: 7th April 2023
ARR Commitment deadline: May 10, 2023
Notification of acceptance: May 22, 2023
Camera-ready papers due: May 29, 2023
Workshop: 13th July, 2023
*Workshop Organizers*
Annemarie Friedrich (Program Co-Chair)
Jakob Prange (Program Co-Chair)
Amir Zeldes (ACL SIGANN President)
Ines Rehbein (ACL SIGANN Secretary)