SocialNLP 2016@EMNLP

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Papers
Abbreviated Title: 
SocialNLP 2016@EMNLP
Location: 
Wednesday, 2 November 2016
State: 
TX
Country: 
USA
City: 
Austin
Contact: 
Lun-Wei Ku
Cheng-Te Li
Submission Deadline: 
Friday, 5 August 2016

****** About SocialNLP 2016 ******

To realize the cross-disciplinary communication, we have organized the SocialNLP workshop chapters aligned with two top conferences of the related research domains. This year, they are IJCAI 2016 and EMNLP 2016. Our purpose is to bring an excellent opportunity for AI people and NLP people to find the role of AI and NLP techniques in SocialNLP together. Especially, we have a strong program committee (around 100 researchers) this year, in which 88% members have been reviewers for ACL series of conferences, which are top ones for NLP related research, and they can be very helpful in promoting our workshop. Therefore, we believe that SocialNLP 2016 can draw much interest and attract many audiences from potential academic or industrial participants of NLP. The most exciting thing is that we start to call for data paper this year to reach our aim of making data available to the research community by sharing datasets. Through the publication of data papers, SocialNLP participants can get familiar with the data by consulting the data creators in the workshop. We sincerely invite you to join us in this exciting event as well as share your experience, thoughts and comments on natural language processing for social media in your preferred time and venue!

****** Topics ******

Topics of interests for the workshop include, but are not limited to:

Content analysis on Social Media
- Concept-level sentiment analysis
- Summarization of posts/replies on social media
- Name entity Recognition on Social media
- Relationship extraction on social media
- Entity resolution for social media
- Search, Indexing, and Evaluation on Social Web
- Improving Speech Recognition using Social Media Content
- Multilingual and Language specific Information Retrieval on Social Web

Natural language processing on Web 2.0
- Folksonomy and Social Tagging
- Trend analysis on Wikipedia
- Trustworthiness analysis on Wikipedia
- Human computing for social-media corpus generation
- Social structure and position analysis using Microblog content
- Trust and Privacy analysis in social contexts
- Community detection using blogs or Microblog content

Sentiment and Opinion Analysis on Social Media
- Big social data analysis
- Lexical semantic resources, corpora and annotations of social media for sentiment analysis
- Opinion retrieval, extraction, classification, tracking and summarization
- Domain specific sentiment analysis and model adaptation Emotion detection
- Sentiment analysis for automatic public opinion poll and surveys of user satisfaction
- Improvement of NLP tasks using subjectivity and/or sentiment analysis on social platform
- Sentiment analysis and human computer interface on social platform
- Real-world sentiment applications and systems on social platform

Disaster Management Using Social Media
- Modeling global events or human activities based on social media texts
- Identification and geo-location of social media content
- Social-based web platform for disaster management
- Disaster or disease prediction and forecasting
- Resource allocation using social media
- Monitoring emergency responses among social crowds
- Analyzing the diffusion of emergent information
- Exploiting social media for crisis response and search and rescue activities

Models and Tools Development for SocialNLP
- Biologically-inspired opinion mining
- Social-network motivated methods or tools for natural language processing
- Advanced topic model for social media
- Learning to rank for social media
- Clustering and Classification tools for Social Media
- Content-based and social-based Recommendation
- Multi-lingual machine translation on Microblog

****** Keynote Speaker ******

Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Assistant Professor, Department of Information Science, Cornell University

****** Paper Submission ******

SocialNLP review is double-blind. Therefore, please anonymize your submission: do not put the au-thor(s) names or affiliation(s) at the start of the paper, and do not include funding or other acknowl-edgments in papers submitted for review. In addition to regular paper, we call for DATA PAPER this year. A data paper should include the details of the created dataset and an experiment illustrating how to use it. Authors should note it as a data paper using the author field and submit at least partial data as accompanied materials. The created dataset should be able to be downloaded or acquired through an application process freely. If the data paper is accepted, we will list the link for accessing the dataset in the SocialNLP website. Note that the review for data papers is also double-blind and it is authors’ re-sponsibility to avoid revealing their identities.

Papers submitted to the SocialNLP workshop must not have been accepted for publication elsewhere or be under review for another workshop, conference or journal. Papers should be written in English. Each submission will be evaluated by at least 3 program committee members. For Social-NLP@IJCAI-2016, the workshop proceedings will be published in IJCAI Paper Repository. For Social-NLP@EMNLP-2016, the workshop proceedings will be published in ACL Anthology.

To pursue high quality submission, we will have a best paper award for both venues. The selection process will depend on not only the review comments/ratings, but also the quality of paper that is rated by paper authors. In addition, selected, expanded versions of papers presented at the workshop will be published in the follow-on Special Issue of the International Journal of Computational Linguis-tics and Chinese Language Processing (IJCLCLP) and we are working on the application of the Special Issue of the Journal of Information Science and Engineering (JISE).

****** Submissions Details ******

- Page Limit: Regular papers: 8 pages, Data papers: 5 pages (allow additional 2 pages for references)
- Template: http://acl2016.org/index.php?article_id=9
- Submission Site: https://www.softconf.com/emnlp2016/NLPSM/

****** Important Dates ******

- Submission Deadline: August 2, 2016 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time)
- Author notification: August 30, 2016
- Camera-ready Submission: September 12, 2016
- Workshop Date: November 2, 2016

****** Organizers ******

Lun-Wei Ku, Academia Sinica
Cheng-Te Li, Academia Sinica

For other details, please visit our website! https://sites.google.com/site/socialnlp2016/
We are looking forward to seeing you in SocialNLP 2016!