*** CMCL – 2nd Call for Papers***
The 13th edition of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2024) will be co-located with the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024).
Webpage: https://cmclorg.github.io/
Direct submission page: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/CMCL
ARR commitment page: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/CMCL_ARR_Co...
*Workshop Description*
CMCL 2024 is a one-day workshop held in conjunction with ACL 2024. CMCL invites papers on cognitive modeling, cognitively-inspired natural language processing, and, more broadly, the alignment of language models with human cognition/perception. The 2024 workshop follows in the tradition of earlier meetings at ACL 2010, ACL 2011, NAACL-HLT 2012, ACL 2013, ACL 2014, NAACL 2015, EACL 2017, LSA 2018, NAACL 2019, EMNLP 2020, NAACL 2021, and ACL 2022.
*Scope and Topics*
The research interests/questions include, but are not limited to:
- Human-like language acquisition/learning: How is language acquisition of language models (LMs) (dis)similar to humans, and why?
- Contrasting/aligning NLP models with human behavior data: What do humans compute during language comprehension/production, and how/why?
- Linguistic probing of NLP models: How well do current language models understand/represent/generalize language behaviorally/internally?
- Linguistically-motivated data modeling/analysis: How can one quantify a particular aspect of language?
- Emergent communication/language: What are the sufficient conditions for the emergence of language?
A more formal description of the workshop scope is:
- Stochastic models of factors influencing a speaker's production or comprehension decisions.
- Models of semantic interpretation, including psychologically realistic notions of word and phrase meaning and composition.
- Incremental parsers for diverse grammar formalisms and their psychological plausibility.
- Models of speaker-specific linguistic adaptation and/or generalization.
- Models of first and second language acquisition and bilingual language processing.
- Behavioral tasks for better understanding neural models of linguistic representation.
- Models and empirical analysis of the relationship between mechanistic psycholinguistic principles and pragmatics or semantics.
- Models of lexical acquisition, including phonology, morphology, and semantics.
- Psychologically motivated models of grammar induction.
- Psychologically plausible models of lexical or conceptual representations.
- Models of language disorders, such as aphasia, dyslexia, or dysgraphia.
- Behavioral datasets or resources for modeling language processing or production in languages other than English.
- Models of language comprehension difficulty.
- Models of language learning and generalization.
- Models of linguistic information propagation and language evolution in communities.
- Cognitively-motivated models of discourse and dialogue.
*Invited Speakers*
Aida Nematzadeh (Google DeepMind)
Frank Keller (University of Edinburgh)
*Important Dates*
- May 17, 2024: Paper submission/commitment deadline (cf. May 15, 2024: notification of ACL 2024)
- June 17, 2024: Notification of acceptance
- July 1, 2024: Camera-ready paper due
- August 15, 2024: Workshop dates
Deadlines are at 11:59 pm AOE.
*Workshop submissions*
CMCL accepts direct submissions through the OpenReview site: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/CMCL
We also receive papers already reviewed in ACL Rolling Review (ARR) February or earlier: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/CMCL_ARR_Co...
(There is no need that "CMCL" is mentioned as a preferred venue in the original ARR submission)
Detailed submission flow/schedule is shown on our workshop webpage: https://cmclorg.github.io/
*Submission types*
We invite three types of submissions:
(1) Archival regular workshop submissions that present original research in either long (8 pages + references) or short (4 pages + references) paper format.
(2) Non-archival submissions of extended abstracts that present preliminary results (from 2 to 4 pages + references).
(3) Non-archival cross-submission of long/short papers that present relevant research submitted/published elsewhere (including ACL "Findings of..." papers).
- Only regular workshop papers submitted via (1) will be included in the proceedings, but all types of papers will have a presentation opportunity in the workshop.
- Submissions must be formatted using the ACL style template (https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files) and be submitted as a PDF file.
- We adhere to the ACL anonymity policy: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Anonymity_Policy
- This year, we don't host a shared task.
*Workshop Organizers*
Tatsuki Kuribayashi (MBZUAI, tatsuki.kuribayashi [at] mbzuai.ac.ae)
Giulia Rambelli (University of Bologna, giulia.rambelli4 [at] unibo.it)
Ece Takmaz (University of Amsterdam, ece.takmaz [at] uva.nl)
Philipp Wicke (Ludwig Maximilian University LMU, pwicke [at] cis.lmu.de)
Yohei Oseki (University of Tokyo, oseki [at] g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
*Program Committee*
Abdellah Fourtassi (Aix-Marseille University)
Adina Williams (FAIR)
Afra Alishahi (Tilburg University)
Aniello De Santo (University of Utah)
Carina Kauf (MIT)
Cassandra Jacobs (University of Buffalo)
Christos Christodoulopoulos (Amazon)
Cory Shain (MIT)
Ethan Wilcox (ETH Zurich)
Frances Yung (Saarland University)
Fred Mailhot (Dialpad)
Gianluca Lebani (University Ca’ Foscari Venezia)
James Michaelov (The University of California San Diego)
John Hale (University of Georgia)
Laurent Prévot (Aix-Marseille University)
Lisa Beinborn (VU Amsterdam)
Ludovica Pannitto (University of Trento)
Micha Elsner (Ohio State University)
Nora Hollenstein (University of Copenhagen)
Rachel Ryskin (University of California Merced)
Raquel Garrido Alhama (Tilburg University)
Richard Futrell (UC Irvine Language Science)
Robert Frank (Yale University)
Ryo Yoshida (The University of Tokyo)
Samar Husain (IIT Delhi)
Sandra Kuebler (Indiana University)
Tal Linzen (New York University)
Ted Briscoe (MBZUAI)
Tiago Pimentel (ETH Zurich)
Tim Hunter (UCLA)
Vera Demberg (Saarland University)
William Schuler (Ohio State University)
Yao Yao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
*Website*
https://cmclorg.github.io/
*Sponsoring Institutions*
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
*Contact*
cmclorganizers2024 [at] gmail.com