5th Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference (CRAC 2022)

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Papers
Abbreviated Title: 
CRAC 2022
Location: 
COLING 2022
Sunday, 16 October 2022 to Monday, 17 October 2022
Country: 
South Korea
City: 
Gyeongju
Contact: 
Maciej Ogrodniczuk
Submission Deadline: 
Saturday, 30 July 2022

The aim of the workshop is to provide a forum where work on all aspects of computational work on anaphora resolution and annotation, including both coreference and types of anaphora such as bridging references resolution and discourse deixis, can be presented.

TOPICS:
– all aspects of annotation, resolution and evaluation of anaphora, coreference and other reference relations
– coreference resolution for less-researched languages
– interpretation of anaphoric relations, including relations other than identity coreference (e.g., bridging references)
– investigation of difficult cases of anaphora and their resolution
– coreference resolution in noisy data (e.g. in social media)
– new applications of coreference resolution
Universal Anaphora

WHAT's NEW IN 2022?
– a new CRAC 2022 shared task on multilingual coreference resolution
– a CODI-CRAC 2022 joint shared task on Anaphora Resolution in Dialogue co-organized with the CODI workshop

IMPORTANT DATES:
– Workshop papers due: Jul 30, 2022
– Notification of acceptance: Sep 1, 2022
– Camera-ready papers due: Sep 12, 2022
– Workshop date: Oct 16–17, 2022

PAPER CATEGORIES:
We welcome papers in the following categories:
– Research papers (theoretical computational linguistics, empirical/data-driven approaches, paradigms/techniques/strategies, analysis papers, resources and evaluation, negative result)
– Survey papers (surveys a popular or emerging area of anaphora/coreference resolution)
– Position papers (presents one side of an arguable opinion about an issue)
– Challenge papers (a challenge to the field in terms of setting out a goal for the next 5/10/20 years)
– Demo papers (systems, tools, visualizations)
– Extended abstracts (describe work in progress)

Research papers, survey papers, position papers, and challenge papers can have up to 8 pages of content for long papers and up to 4 pages of content for short papers, plus an unlimited number of pages for references. Demo papers can have up to 4 pages of content plus an unlimited number of pages for references. Extended abstracts can have up to 2 pages of content plus an unlimited number of pages for references.

You can also include a supplementary document and/or (sample) data along with your paper. Essentially, materials that can help the program committee make a better determination of the quality of your submission. Code/data submission is strongly encouarged for resource/evaluation papers.

All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Final versions of all types of papers will be given one additional page of content.

DOUBL SUBMISSION:
We allow for double submissions. Please indicate during submission to which other conference or workshop your work has been submitted.

We also invite authors of papers accepted to Findings of the main conferences (e.g. ACL, NAACL, EMNLP) to present their work at the workshop. It these papers were removed from the Findings, they can be included in the proceedings of the workshop without additional review.

SUBMISSION LINK:
Please submit your paper to SoftConf. All submissions must follow the COLING 2022 formatting instructions.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
– Antonio Branco (University of Lisbon)
– Arie Cattan (Bar-Ilan University)
– Jackie Chi Kit Cheung (McGill University)
– Dan Cristea (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi)
– Stephanie Dipper (Ruhr-University Bochum)
– Elisa Ferracane (Abridge)
– Yulia Grishina (Amazon)
– Christian Hardmeier (IT University of Copenhagen)
– Lars Hellan (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
– Veronique Hoste (Ghent University)
– Yufang Hou (IBM)
– Mohit Iyyer (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
– Sobha Lalitha Devi (AU-KBC Research Center, Anna University of Chennai)
– Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski (Saarland University)
– Sharid Loáiciga (University of Potsdam)
– Costanza Navaretta (University of Copenhagen)
– Anna Nedoluzhko (Charles University in Prague)
– Michal Novák (Charles University in Prague)
– Constantin Orasan (University of Surrey)
– Sameer Pradhan (University of Pennsylvania and cemantix)
– Marta Recasens (Google)
– Manfred Stede (University of Potsdam)
– Don Tuggener (Zurich University of Applied Sciences)
– Yannick Versley (Amazon)
– Bonnie Webber (University of Edinburgh)
– Juntao Yu (Queen Mary University of London)
– Yilun Zhu (Georgetown University)
– Heike Zinsmeister (University of Hamburg)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
– Maciej Ogrodniczuk (Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences)
– Sameer Pradhan (University of Pennsylvania and cemantix)
– Anna Nedoluzhko (Charles University in Prague)
– Vincent Ng (University of Texas at Dallas)
– Massimo Poesio (Queen Mary University of London)