STARSEM 2020: THE NINTH JOINT CONFERENCE ON LEXICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS
September 13-14, 2020, Barcelona, Spain
Co-located with COLING 2020
Submission deadline: May 20
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/starsem2020/
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
We are pleased to announce that SIGLEX, the ACL Special Interest
Group on the Lexicon, is organizing the 9th Joint Conference on Lexical
and Computational Semantics: STARSEM 2020. This time STARSEM will be
co-located with COLING in Barcelona (Spain), and it will take
place on the 13-14 of September 2020.
STARSEM brings together researchers interested in the semantics of
natural languages and its computational modeling. The conference
embraces symbolic and probabilistic approaches, and everything in
between; theoretical contributions as well as practical applications
are welcome. The long-term goal of STARSEM is to provide a stable
forum for the growing number of NLP researchers working on all aspects
of semantics.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Lexical semantics and word representations
- Compositional semantics and sentence representations
- Statistical, machine learning and deep learning methods for semantics
- Multilingual and cross-lingual semantics
- Word sense disambiguation and induction
- Semantic parsing; syntax-semantics interface
- Frame semantics and semantic role labeling
- Textual inference, entailment and question answering
- Formal approaches to semantics
- Extraction of events and causal and temporal relations
- Entity linking; pronouns and coreference
- Discourse, pragmatics, and dialogue
- Machine reading
- Extra-propositional aspects of meaning
- Multiword and idiomatic expressions
- Metaphor, irony, and humour
- Knowledge mining and acquisition
- Common sense reasoning
- Language generation
- Semantics in NLP applications: sentiment analysis, abusive language detection, summarization, fact-checking, etc.
- Multidisciplinary research on semantics
- Grounding and multimodal semantics
- Human semantic processing
- Semantic annotation, evaluation, and resources
- Ethical aspects and bias in semantic representations
We encourage authors to think about the ethical aspects of their work, and to address
and discuss all ethical questions and implications relevant to their research.
*SEM values reproducibility and particularly welcomes submissions that adhere to the
reproducibility guidelines as specified in:
https://folk.idi.ntnu.no/odderik/reproducibility_guidelines_how_to.html
https://folk.idi.ntnu.no/odderik/reproducibility_guidelines.pdf
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline: May 20, 2020
Notification of acceptance: June 24, 2020
STARSEM conference: September 13-14, 2020
ORGANISERS
General Chair: Iryna Gurevych, Technische Universität Darmstadt
Program Chairs: Marianna Apidianaki, University of Helsinki
Manaal Faruqui, Google Assistant
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Submissions to STARSEM 2020 must describe unpublished work and be
written in English. We solicit both long and short papers.
Long papers describe original research and may consist of up to eight
(8) pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. Final
versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content
(up to 9 pages) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account.
Short papers describe original focused research and may consist of up to
four (4) pages, plus unlimited pages for references. Upon acceptance,
short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings.
Authors are encouraged to use this additional page to address reviewers
comments in their final versions.
As the reviewing will be double-blind, the paper must not include the
authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that
reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith,
1991) ..." must be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith
previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". As for online paper sharing, at
STARSEM, we adopt the ACL policy for submission, which can be found here:
https://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Policies_for_Submission...
Papers that do not conform to requirements will be rejected without
review. For a paper to be included in the conference proceedings, at
least one of the authors must be registered as a participant at the
STARSEM conference.
Submissions to STARSEM should follow this year's ACL style, as detailed here:
https://acl2020.org/calls/papers/#paper-submission-and-templates
Please note that double submission of papers will need to be notified
at submission.
Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system.
The submission site is now available at: https://www.softconf.com/coling2020/starsem/