3rd & Final CfP: First Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Papers
Abbreviated Title: 
RepL4NLP
Location: 
Berlin, Germany
Thursday, 11 August 2016
State: 
Country: 
Germany
City: 
Berlin
Contact: 
Phil Blunsom
Kyunghyun Cho
Shay Cohen
Edward Grefenstette
Karl Moritz Hermann
Laura Rimell
Jason Weston
Scott Wen-tau Yih
Submission Deadline: 
Sunday, 8 May 2016

The 1st Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP(https://sites.google.com/site/repl4nlp2016/) invites papers of a theoretical or experimental nature on all relevant topics. Relevant topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following areas (in alphabetical order):

  • Analysis of language using eigenvalue, singular value and tensor decompositions
  • Distributional compositional semantics
  • Integration of distributional representations with other models
  • Knowledge base embedding
  • Language modeling for automatic speech recognition, statistical machine translation, and information retrieval
  • Language modeling for logical and natural reasoning
  • Latent-variable and representation learning for language
  • Multi-modal learning for distributional representations
  • Neural networks and deep learning in NLP
  • The role of syntax in compositional models
  • Spectral learning and the method of moments in NLP
  • Language embeddings and their applications

Important Dates

  • Deadline for submission: 8 May 2016
  • Notification of acceptance: 5 June 2016
  • Deadline for camera-ready version: 22 June 2016
  • Early registration deadline (ACL'16): To be announced.
  • Workshop: 11 August 2016

Submissions

We solicit three categories of papers: regular workshop papers, extended abstracts and cross-submissions. Only regular workshop papers will be included in the proceedings as archival publications. All submissions should be in PDF format and made through the Softconf website set up for this workshop: https://www.softconf.com/acl2016/repl4nlp2016/.

Regular Workshop Paper
Authors should submit a long paper of up to 8 pages, with up to 2 additional pages for references, following the ACL 2016 formatting requirements (see the ACL 2016 Call For Papers for reference: http://acl2016.org/index.php?article_id=9). The reported research should be substantially original. Accepted papers will be presented as posters. Selected papers may also be presented orally at the discretion of the committee. Reviewing will be double-blind, and thus no author information should be included in the papers; self-reference that identifies the authors should be avoided or anonymized. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, where no distinction will be made on the basis of mode of presentation.
Extended Abstracts
Preliminary but interesting ideas or results that have not been published before may be submitted as extended abstracts, with length of 2 to 4 pages plus references, following the ACL 2016 formatting requirements (see the ACL 2016 Call For Papers for reference: http://acl2016.org/index.php?article_id=9). Reviewing will be double-blind, and thus no author information should be included in the papers; self-reference that identifies the authors should be avoided or anonymized. Accepted abstracts will be presented as posters, but will not be included in the workshop proceedings.
Cross Submissions
In addition to unpublished work, we also solicit papers on related topics that have appeared in a non-NLP venue (e.g., workshop or conference papers at NIPS or ICML). These papers will be presented as posters, but do not count as RepL4NLP workshop papers and will not be included in the proceedings. Interested authors need to submit their papers in PDF format through the same Softconf website at https://www.softconf.com/acl2016/repl4nlp2016/ with a note on the original venue. Papers in this category do not need to follow the ACL format and the selection is solely determined by the organizing committee.
Best Paper Prizes
Thanks to generous support from our sponsors: Google DeepMind, Microsoft Research, and Facebook, we will be awarding a prize of $300 to the three best regular workshop paper submissions as selected by our program committee, to be presented at the workshop.