Deadline Extended: First Workshop on Women and Underrepresented Minorities in NLP (WiNLP)

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Papers
Abbreviated Title: 
WiNLP
Country: 
Canada
City: 
Vancouver
Contact: 
Libby Barak
Isabelle Augenstein
ChloƩ Braud
He He
Margaret Mitchell
Submission Deadline: 
Friday, 28 April 2017

Call for papers

The first WiNLP Workshop will be held in conjunction with ACL 2017 in Vancouver, Canada. WiNLP stands for Women and Underrepresented Minorities in NLP.

Workshop Date: July 30, 2017 (Tutorial day)
Paper Submission Deadline: April 28, 2017 (extended from April 21, 2017)

The WiNLP workshop is open to all. Its aim is to highlight the work of women and other underrepresented genders and minorities 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
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

Submission Guidelines
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Papers:
Submissions must follow the standard two-column format of the ACL 2017 proceedings and they must be submitted as a PDF file. Authors should use the style files from the conference web site (http://acl2017.org/calls/papers/).
All submissions are limited to 2 pages of content, with any number of additional pages allowed for references.
The deadline for submission is 11:59pm Pacific Standard Time on April 21, 2017. Submission will be electronic using the paper submission web page at https://www.softconf.com/acl2017/winlp.

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.

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, 2016), though authors must indicate this at submission time.

Travel Support
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There will be a limited amount of travel support and/or additional funding to cover expenses. More information will be made available closer to the submission deadline.

Important Dates
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- Submission deadline: April 28, 2017
- Notification of acceptance: May 19, 2017
- Camera-ready submission deadline: May 26, 2017
- Travel grant application deadline: June 13, 2017
- Travel grant notification: June 18, 2017
- Workshop date: July 30, 2017
- ACL conference dates: July 30 - August 4, 2017

All deadlines are 11:59 PM GMT -12.

WiNLP Organizers
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Libby Barak Princeton University
Isabelle Augenstein University College London
ChloƩ Braud University of Copenhagen
He He Stanford University
Margaret Mitchell Google Research

Contact
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Website: winlp.org
E-mail: winlp-chairs [at] googlegroups.com
Twitter: WiNLPWorkshop
Facebook: WomenInNaturalLanguageProcessing