The second UnImplicit workshop will be co-located with NAACL 2022.
Workshop: July 14 or 15, 2022 (TBD on which of the two days)
NAACL Conference: July 10-15, 2022
Website: https://unimplicit2022.github.io/
Paper submission: https://www.softconf.com/naacl2022/UnImplicit2022/
* Paper submission deadline: April 8, 2022 *
* Paper submission deadline for papers with ARR Reviews: April 21, 2022 *
Implicitness and underspecification are ubiquitous in language. Specifically, language utterances may contain empty or fuzzy elements, such as the following: units of measurement, as in she is 30 or it costs 30 (30 what?); bridges and other missing links, as in she tried to enter the car, but the door was stuck (the door of what?); implicit semantic roles, as in I met her while driving (who was driving?); and various sorts of gradable phenomena, as in is a small elephant smaller than a big bee? Even though these phenomena may increase the chance of having misunderstandings, our conversational partners often manage to understand our utterances because they consider context-specific elements, such as time, culture, background knowledge and previous utterances in the conversation.
Despite the recent advancements on various semantic tasks, modeling implicitness and underspecification remains a challenging problem in NLP because the elements are not realized on the surface level. Instead of relying on superficial patterns, models are required to leverage contextual aspects of discourse that go beyond the sentence-level, for which there is a lack of available datasets or resources.
The 1st Workshop on Implicit and Underspecified Language (held at ACL 2021) brought together a diverse group of NLP practitioners and theoreticians to address the challenges that implicit and underspecified language poses for NLP. The goal of the second edition of the workshop is to continue eliciting future progress on implicit and underspecified language with a strong focus on the annotation and development of aspects that go beyond the sentence level of the phenomena. Similar to the first edition, we accept theoretical and practical contributions (long, short and non-archival) on all aspects related to the modeling (benchmarks, evaluation schemes, annotation, applications) of phenomena such as (but not restricted to): implicit arguments, fuzzy elements, zero anaphora, metonymy, and discourse markers.
In addition, we specifically encourage papers with a strong focus on the discourse, pragmatic and cognitive levels of language understanding with respect to implicit and underspecified phenomena.
For reference, consider the program of last year’s UnImplicit workshop 2021: https://unimplicit.github.io/#
This year’s website for more information:
https://unimplicit2022.github.io
Important Dates
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Apr 8, 2022: Workshop Paper or Extended Abstract Due Date for Softconf submissions
Apr 21, 2022: Workshop Paper Due Date for ACL Rolling Review submissions
May 6, 2022: Notification of Acceptance
May 20, 2022: Camera-ready papers due
July 14-15, 2022: Workshop Dates (TBD on which of the two days)
All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h (“anywhere on Earth”).
Submissions
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We invite two types of submissions:
Archival: long (up to 8 pages) or short (up to 4 pages) papers, with unlimited references. These papers should report on complete, original and unpublished research and cannot be under submission elsewhere. If accepted, archival papers will appear in the workshop proceedings.
Non-archival: Extended abstracts (up to 2 pages), which can take two forms: Works in progress, that are not yet mature enough for a full submission. Or already published work, or work currently under submission elsewhere, which can be submitted in the form of the original abstract and a copy of the submission/publication.
We are not enforcing any anonymity period. The workshop will run its own review process, and papers can be submitted directly to Softconf by April 8, 2022, link: https://www.softconf.com/naacl2022/UnImplicit2022/. It is also possible to submit a paper accompanied with reviews from the ACL Rolling Review system by April 21, 2022.
Both papers and extended abstracts must follow the NAACL 2022 format.
Accepted papers and extended abstracts must be presented at the workshop and at least one author must be registered for the workshop.
Workshop organizers
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Daniel Fried, FAIR and University of Washington
Talita Anthonio, Stuttgart University
Valentina Pyatkin, Bar-Ilan University
Advisory committee
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Michael Roth, Stuttgart University
Reut Tsarfaty, Bar-Ilan University and AI2
Yoav Goldberg, Bar-Ilan University and AI2
Any questions regarding the workshop can be sent
to unimplicitworkshop [at] gmail.com.