After the successful completion of NALOMA’20 (NAtural LOgic Meets MAchine Learning), NALOMA’21 seeks to continue the series and attract exciting contributions. It will take place on June 16, 2021, during IWCS 2021.
** Call for Papers **
The workshop invites submissions on any (theoretical or computational) topic concerning NLI, including but not limited to:
• hybrid NLI systems integrating symbolic/logic-based methods with ML/DL approaches (particularly, approaches combining Natural Logic with ML/DL)
• explainable models of NLI
• opening the “black box” of NLI models
• probabilistic semantics for NLI
• downstream applications of NLI
• creation, evaluation, and criticism of NLI datasets,
• theoretical notions and refinement of the NLI task to address inherent disagreements
• comparison and contrast between human-level and machine-level work in NLI
• using symbolic/logic-based methods for data cleaning and augmentation
• NLI for other languages than English
We invite two types of submission:
• Archival (long or short) papers should report on complete, original and unpublished research. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and appear in the ACL anthology.
• Extended abstracts may report on work in progress or work that was recently published/accepted at a different venue. Extended abstracts will not be included in the workshop proceedings. Thus, the unpublished work will retain the status and can be submitted to another venue. This webpage will link to the accepted extended abstracts.
Both accepted papers and extended abstracts are expected to be presented at the workshop. Extended abstracts will be presented as talks or posters at the discretion of the program committee.
Authors must submit non-anonymized extended abstracts or papers by March 26. Both extended abstracts and papers must be formatted according to the IWCS guidelines (available soon). The extended abstracts should not contain an abstract section and may consist of up to 2 pages of content, plus unlimited references. Short and long papers may consist of up to 4 and 8 pages of content, respectively, plus unlimited references. Camera-ready versions of papers will be given one additional page of content so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account.
Both extended abstracts and follow-up papers should be submitted via SoftConf.
** Important Dates **
Submissions of papers & extended abstracts: April 4 (extended)
Notification: April 16
Final versions due: May 7
Workshop: June 14-18 (exact workshop dates will be announced soon)
** Invited Speakers **
Vered Shwartz, Allen Institute for AI (AI2) and University of Washington
Benjamin Van Durme, Johns Hopkins University and Microsoft Semantic Machines
** Program Committee **
Lawrence S. Moss (co-Chair), Indiana University
Aikaterini-Lida Kalouli (co-Chair), University of Konstanz
Lasha Abziniadize, University of Groningen / Utrecht University
Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, University of Gothenburg
Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin
Hai Hu, Indiana University
Thomas Icard, Stanford University
Valeria de Paiva, Topos Institute
Hitomi Yanaka, Riken