computational linguistics

LaTeCH-CLfL 2020:
The 4th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature

to be held on 13 September 2020 in conjunction with COLING 2020 in Barcelona

https://sighum.wordpress.com/events/latech-clfl-2020/

First Call for Papers (with apologies for cross-posting)

Organisers: Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Anna Kazantseva, Nils Reiter, Stan Szpakowicz

LaTeCH-CLfL 2020 is a fourth joint meeting of two communities with overlapping research goals and a similar research focus. The SIGHUM Workshops on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH) have been a forum for researchers who develop new technologies for improved information access to data from the broadly understood humanities and social sciences. The ACL Workshops on Computational Linguistics for Literature (CLfL) have focussed on applications of NLP to a wide variety of literary data. The first three joint workshop (LaTeCH-CLfL 2017, 2018 and 2019) brought together people from both communities. We count on this workshop to broaden the scope of our work even further, and to encourage new common research initiatives.

Topics and Content

In the Humanities, Social Sciences, Cultural Heritage and literary communities, there is increasing interest in, and demand for, NLP methods for semantic and structural annotation, intelligent linking, discovery, querying, cleaning and visualization of both primary and secondary data. This is even true of primarily non-textual collections, given that text is also the pervasive medium for metadata. Such applications pose new challenges for NLP research: noisy, non-standard textual or multi-modal input, historical languages, vague research concepts, multilingual parts within one document, and so no. Digital resources often have insufficient coverage; resource-intensive methods require (semi-)automatic processing tools and domain adaptation, or intense manual effort (e.g., annotation).

Literary texts bring their own problems, because navigating this form of creative expression requires more than the typical information-seeking tools. Examples of advanced tasks include the study of literature of a certain period, author or sub-genre, recognition of certain literary devices, or quantitative analysis of poetry.

NLP methods applied in this context not only need to achieve high performance, but are often applied as a first step in research or scholarly workflow. That is why it is crucial to interpret model results properly; model interpretability might be more important than raw performance scores, depending on the context.

More generally, there is a growing interest in computational models whose results can be used or interpreted in meaningful ways. It is, therefore, of mutual benefit that NLP experts, data specialists and Digital Humanities researchers who work in and across their domains get involved in the Computational Linguistics community and present their fundamental or applied research results. It has already been demonstrated how cross-disciplinary exchange not only supports work in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Heritage communities but also promotes work in the Computational Linguistics community to build richer and more effective tools and models.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• adaptation of NLP tools to Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and literature;
• automatic error detection and cleaning of textual data;
• complex annotation schemas, tools and interfaces;
• creation (fully- or semi-automatic) of semantic resources;
• creation and analysis of social networks of literary characters;
• discourse and narrative analysis/modelling, notably in literature;
• emotion analysis for the humanities and for literature;
• generation of literary narrative, dialogue or poetry;
• identification and analysis of literary genres;
• linking and retrieving information from different sources, media, and domains;
• modelling dialogue literary style for generation;
• modelling of information and knowledge in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Heritage;
• profiling and authorship attribution;
• search for scientific and/or scholarly literature;
• work with linguistic variation and non-standard or historical use of language.

Information for Authors

We invite papers on original, unpublished work in the topic areas of the workshop. In addition to long papers, we will consider short papers and system descriptions (demos). We also welcome position papers.

• Long papers, presenting completed work, may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content plus additional pages of references; final camera-ready versions of accepted long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account.
• A short paper / demo can present work in progress, or the description of a system, and may consist of up to four (4) pages of content plus additional pages of references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings.
• A position paper — clearly marked as such — should not exceed six (6) pages including references.

All submissions are to use the COLING stylesheets (for LaTeX, MS Word or Overleaf) posted at https://coling2020.org/pages/submission. Papers should be submitted electronically, in PDF, via the LaTeCH-CLfL2020 submission website, which will be announced soon.

Reviewing will be double-blind. Please do not include the authors’ names and affiliations, or any references to Web sites, project names, acknowledgements and so on — anything that immediately reveals the authors’ identity. Self-references should be kept to a reasonable minimum, and anonymous citations cannot be used.

Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings, and later available in the ACL Anthology.

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: May 20, 2020
Notification of acceptance: June 24, 2020
Camera-ready papers due: July 11, 2020
Workshop date: September 13, 2020

More on the organisers

Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Language Science and Technology, Saarland University
Anna Kazantseva, National Research Council of Canada
Nils Reiter, Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS), Stuttgart University
Stan Szpakowicz, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa

Contact

latech-clfl [at] googlegroups.com

View on the web: https://blogs.umass.edu/scil/call-for-papers-scil-2020/

The Society for Computation in Linguistics invites submissions to its third meeting, SCiL 2020, which will be co-located with LSA 2020 in New Orleans, January 2-5. The theme of the plenary session is “Computation and Meaning” and the invited speakers are Ellie Pavlick (Brown University) and Christopher Potts (Stanford University).

We seek high-quality research on computational and mathematical approaches in any area of linguistics. There will be two submission tracks: papers and abstracts. Accepted papers and abstracts will be presented (either orally or as posters) at the SCiL 2019 meeting. Papers will be published prior to the conference in the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Anthology. Authors of accepted abstracts will have the option to submit extended abstracts prior to the conference. Both papers and extended abstracts will be published online in the open-access SCiL proceedings.

Submissions are limited to one first-authored paper or abstract per author; there is no limit on the number of non-first authored submissions per author. Do not submit an abstract to both SCiL and the LSA – these meetings are being held jointly, and your submission will be returned without review.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline (papers and abstracts): August 7, 2019
Notification of Acceptance: mid-September, 2019
Camera Ready Papers and Abstracts Due: October 15, 2019
Conference: January 2-5, 2020

Submissions

Papers (8pp) and abstracts (2pp) are due August 7 2019 by 11:59pm pacific time. Papers and abstracts must be anonymous and prepared in PDF format according to the following guidelines.

Papers

Paper submissions must describe original, completed, and unpublished work. They are limited to 8 content pages (plus unlimited pages for references) and should follow the two-column ACL format. Here are the NAACL HLT 2018 style templates:

LaTeX
Microsoft Word
Overleaf

All submissions must in PDF format.

Accepted papers will be published in the ACL Anthology prior to the conference, and will be presented either as oral or poster presentations at SCiL 2020. Abstracts and papers will also be published online in the open-access SCiL proceedings.

Abstracts

Abstract submissions must describe original and completed work. To facilitate exchange of research ideas across disciplines, this track will consider work that has been previously presented (and potentially published) at venues with distinct scope and target audiences from SCiL. Submissions describing previously presented/published work must indicate so at submission time.

Abstract length is limited to a maximum of two single-spaced pages (US Letter), figures and references included. The abstract should follow the two-column ACL format OR the following guidelines. Abstract submissions should not have abstracts. Font should be 12-point Times or Times New Roman throughout, and the document should be single-spaced, left justified, with margins of exactly one inch on all sides. Title and section headings (if used) should be bold.

Accepted abstracts will be presented at SCiL 2019 as posters or oral presentations. Authors of accepted abstracts will have the option to extend abstracts up to 4 pages (extended abstracts). The extended abstracts should follow the two-column ACL format. Abstracts and extended abstracts will be published before the conference in the forthcoming open-access SCiL Proceedings.

Submission

To submit your paper or abstract, please proceed to the link below. If you do not already have an EasyChair account, you will need to set one up :

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scil2020

As stated above, recall that submissions are limited to one first-authored paper or abstract per author; there is no limit on the number of non-first authored submissions per author. Do not submit an abstract to both SCiL and LSA – these meetings are being held jointly, and your submission will be returned without review.

Organization

Co-Chairs

Gaja Jarosz, UMass Amherst
Joe Pater, UMass Amherst

Program committee chairs

Gaja Jarosz, UMass Amherst
Allyson Ettinger, University of Chicago

Contact: scil [at] umass.edu

Second Call for Papers

Conference on Rational Approaches in Language Science (RAILS)

24-26 October, 2019
Saarbruecken, Germany

The language sciences increasingly have in common their adoption of rational probabilistic approaches, such as Bayesian, Information Theoretic, and Game Theoretic frameworks. The goal of this conference is to bring together speech and language researchers whose scientific contributions reflect the full diversity of disciplines and methodologies — from speech to discourse, on-line processing to corpus-based investigation, through to language change and evolution — that have benefited from, and share, such rational explanations.

Keynote speakers:

Gerhard Jaeger, University of Tuebingen
Bayesian typology

Gina Kuperberg, Tufts University and Massachusetts General Hospital
What a probabilistic computational approach can tell us about us about the neurobiology of language comprehension

Hannah Rohde, University of Edinburgh
Why are you telling me this: Comprehension as a process of reverse engineering

Rory Turnbull, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Phonetic reduction, natural selection, and bounded rationality

We seek submissions from across the language sciences — including speech science, theoretical linguistics, empirical linguistics, psycholinguistics and neuroscience, computational linguistics, as well as language development, change and evolution — which apply rational probabilistic explanations to linguistic phenomena, or bring novel experimental findings to bear on such accounts.

Submissions in the form of a 400 word abstract (excluding references), in text format, are to be submitted electronically at: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/rails2019

Submissions open: 1 May
Submissions due: 1 June
Notification of acceptance: 1 July
Conference: October 24-26

Submission will be considered for either oral or poster presentation. Details on the submission format and procedure are also available at the conference web-page: http://rails.sfb1102.uni-saarland.de

Scientific and financial support for this conference comes from the Collaborative Research Center SFB1102 “Information Density and Linguistic Encoding”: sfb1102.uni-saarland.de

Conference organizers:
Matthew Crocker (chair)
Bistra Andreeva
Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb
Vera Demberg
Robin Lemke
Noortje Venhuizen

Apologies if you have received multiple copies of this email
Please consider contributing papers and distribute to your colleagues who may be interested

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6th International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium (6th ISCLS)
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India -- 721302
October 23-25, 2019
Website: https://iscls.github.io/
Convenor: Pawan Goyal, IIT Kharagpur
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Call for papers (Deadline Extended to May 25th, 2019)

Dear Colleagues,

FULL papers are invited on original and unpublished research on various aspects of Computational Linguistics and Digital Humanities related to Sanskrit (Classical and Vedic), Prakrit, Pali, Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, etc.

Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: May 25th, 2019 (Extended)
Notification of Acceptance: July 20th, 2019
Camera Ready Version Due: August 10th, 2019

You are requested to submit your research paper using the EasyChair Submission Portal: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=6thiscls. The submissions should not exceed 20 pages, and will be reviewed by the program committee members, as listed below. To prepare your submission, please use the latex source files listed on the website, and follow the instructions provided there.

The areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

The areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Sanskrit Computational linguistics: with extensions to related ancient Indian languages (Vedic, Pali, Prakrits)
- Digital lexicons, thesauri and wordnets
- Computational phonology and morphology
- Syntactic analysis
- Prose order normalisation
- Parsing
- Structural semantics
- Machine Translation
- Automatic analysis of Sanskrit corpus
- Machine Learning approaches to computational processing
- Navya Nyāya technical language processing and semantic analysis
- Information extraction

* Shāstric Sanskrit texts and computation
- Computer modeling and simulation of Paninian and other traditional grammars
- Theories of Śābdabodha and Sanskrit computational processing

* Sanskrit digital libraries management:
- Tools for acquisition & maintenance of Sanskrit digital corpus
- Library crawlers or search tools in Sanskrit corpus
- Incorporation of grammatical information in Sanskrit corpus
- Automated tools for evaluation of Sanskrit poetry, e.g., meter recognition/verification, alaṃkāra identification, śleṣa analysis
- Software tools for phylogenic studies, intertextuality management, establishment of critical editions, and other philological applications
- OCR recognition of romanized Sanskrit as well as ancient Indian scripts
- Digital cataloguing of manuscripts
- Digital font creation, rendering of phonetic features, etc.
- Encoding procedures and workflows
- Presentation and transformation of TEI data
- Named entity recognition
- Collaborative annotation and editing
- Alignment of text with images (including manuscripts)
- User interface design

* Misc computer applications relevant to Sanskrit:
- Software tools for teaching Sanskrit
- Sanskrit speech recognition and synthesis
- Social media applications for Sanskrit dissemination

Programme Committee

Stefan Baums (University of Munich)
Laxmidhar Behera (IIT Kanpur)
Pawan Goyal (IIT Kharagpur)
Brendan Gillon (McGill University)
Olivier Hellwig (University of Zurich)
Gérard Huet (Inria Paris)
Amba Kulkarni (University of Hyderabad)
Malhar Kulkarni (IIT Bombay)
Pavan Kumar Satuluri (Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth, Veliyanad)
Girish Nath Jha (JNU, Delhi)
Andrew Ollett (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA)
Dhaval Patel (Ahmedabad)
Ganesh Ramakrishnan (IIT Bombay)
Peter Scharf (IIIT Hyderabad)
Srinivasa Varakhedi (KKSU, Ramtek)
K Varalakshmi (Osmania University, Hyderabad)

Web Chair: Amrith Krishna, IIT Kharagpur

Previous Editions:
INRIA Paris Rocquencourt (2007), Brown University, USA (2008), University of Hyderabad, India (2009), JNU, Delhi, India (2010) and IIT Bombay (2013)
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Due to many requests, we have decided to extend the submission deadline of *Sem 2019 to March 10!

SIGLEX and SIGSEM, special interest groups of the ACL, are organizing the 8th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics: *SEM. This time *SEM will be co-located with NAACL-HLT 2019 in Minneapolis (USA), and it will take place on the 6-7 of June 2019.

*SEM 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 *SEM 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 in semantic tasks
-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

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline: March 10, 2019
Notification of acceptance: April 3, 2019
Camera-ready papers due: April 10, 2019
*SEM conference: June 6-7, 2019
Timezone: as long as it’s the date mentioned, anywhere on earth; UTC-12.

ORGANISERS
General Chair: Rada Mihalcea, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Program Chairs: Ekaterina Shutova, University of Amsterdam
Lun-Wei Ku, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Publications Chair: Kilian Evang, University of Düsseldorf
Publicity Chair: Soujanya Poria, NTU - Singapore

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Submissions to *SEM 2019 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, project or system description, 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 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 *SEM, 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 *SEM conference.
Submissions to *SEM should follow this year's NAACL style, as detailed here: https://naacl2019.org/calls/papers/

Please note that double submission of papers will need to be notified at submission.

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DEADLINE EXTENSION - 4th Swiss Text Analytics Conference – SwissText 2019
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Please note that we are extending the deadline for submissions to the SwissText Conference for all tracks to 10.3.2019, 23:59 (AOE - anywhere on Earth).

For more information, please visit https://www.swisstext.org/call-for-presentations/

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About the 4th Swiss Text Analytics Conference (SwissText 2019)
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The Swiss Text Analytics Conference (SwissText) is an annual conference that brings together text analytics experts from industry and academia. The conference is held on June 18-19, 2019 in Winterthur, Switzerland, which is a short train ride (20min) from Zurich. It is funded by InnoSuisse, the Swiss Innovation Agency, and the Alliance for Data Intensive Services, and supported by more than 10 universities and scientific associations.

This is already the 4th edition of the SwissText Conference. In the previous years, we had approx. 200 participants and a distinguished lineup of presentations from various universities, international IT giants such as Google and IBM and Swiss SME companies and startups.

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Keynote Speakers
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Confirmed keynote speakers for 2019 are: :
- Mona Diab, Full Professor of Computational Linguistics and NLP in the Department of Computer Science at George Washington University
- Lisa Gibbs, Director of News Partnerships at The Associated Press, AP’s Automation and Artificial Intelligence Strategy Group
- Hinrich Schütze, Professor of Computational Linguistics and Director of the Center for Information and Language Processing at LMU Munich

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Tracks
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The SwissText Conference will have three tracks:
- Swiss Track, with a strong focus on Swiss industry and research.
- Scientific Track, with technical research papers from the international community.
- Demo Track, with hands-on, interactive presentations of current NLP solutions.

The full scientific papers will be published in the conference proceedings, as well as the abstracts of the presentations of the Swiss and the Demo Track.

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Important Dates
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- Submission Deadline: March 10, 2019 (AOE - anywhere on Earth)
- Author Notification: April 14, 2019
- Camera Ready: May 3, 2019
- Conference: June 18-19, 2019

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SwissText Organization
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Conference Chair: Mark Cieliebak

Organizing Committee: Fernando Benites, Jan Deriu, Don Tuggener, Ada Wan, Andrea Aguilar Ibáñez, Pamela Hunziker

The conference is organized by Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) and co-organized by the Swiss Alliance for Data-Intensive Services. It is supported by the Swiss Innovation Agency (Innosuisse) and industrial sponsors.

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Program Committees
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Swiss Track – Program Committee
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Noah Bubenhofer, Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW)
Hatem Ghorbel, HEG - Haute école de gestion Arc
Martin Jaggi, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Roberto Mastropietro, Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana (SUPSI)
Thoralf Mildenberger, Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW)
Andrei Popescu-Belis, School of Business and Engineering Vaud (HEIG-VD)
Fabio Rinaldi, University of Zurich
Maria Sokhn, HEG - Haute école de gestion Arc
Jürgen Spielberger, Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW)
Jürgen Vogel, Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH)
Manfred Vogel, Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz (FHNW)
Tim Vor der Brück, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU)
Egon Werlen, Swiss Distance University of Applied Sciences (FFHS)

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Scientific Track – Program Committee
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Adrien Barbaresi, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW)
Roberto Basili, University of Roma Tor Vergata
Ivo Blohm, University of St. Gallen
Ernst Buchberger, Medical University of Vienna
Miriam Butt, Universität Konstanz
Pascual Cantos, Associate Professor, University of Murcia
Sylviane Cardey, Centre Tesniere, Universite de Franche-Comte
Ernesto William De Luca, Georg-Eckert-Institute for international Textbook Research
Gaël Dias, University of Caen Normandie
Nicola Ferro, University of Padova
Xavier Gómez Guinovart, Universidade de Vigo
Martin Jaggi, ETH Zurich
Manfred Klenner, University of Zurich
Valia Kordoni, Humboldt University Berlin
Udo Kruschwitz, University of Essex
Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski, Saarland University
Roberto Mastropietro, SUPSI
Alexander Mehler, Goethe University Frankfurt
Margot Mieskes, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt
Marie-Francine Moens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Guenter Neumann, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
Johann Petrak, The University of Sheffield
Hannes Pirker, Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities (ACDH) ÖAW
Andrei Popescu-Belis, HEIG-VD / HES-SO
Uwe Quasthoff, University Leipzig
Fabio Rinaldi, University of Zurich
Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politècnica de València
Tanja Samardzic, University of Zurich
Yves Scherrer, University of Helsinki
Gerold Schneider, University of Zurich
Rico Sennrich, The University of Edinburgh
Kurt Stockinger, Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Manfred Vogel, Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz (FHNW)
Juergen Vogel, BFH
Tim Vor der Brück, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU)
Egon Werlen, Swiss Distance University of Applied Sciences (FFHS)
Torsten Zesch, University of Duisburg-Essen
Heike Zinsmeister, University of Hamburg

For further information, visit: https://www.swisstext.org/

LaTeCH-CLfL 2019:
The 3rd Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature

to be held in conjunction with NAACL 2019 in Minneapolis, MN, USA

https://sighum.wordpress.com/events/latech-clfl-2019/

Third Call for Papers (with apologies for cross-posting)

Organisers: Beatrice Alex, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Anna Kazantseva, Nils Reiter, Stan Szpakowicz

LaTeCH-CLfL 2019 is a third joint meeting of two communities with overlapping research goals and a similar research focus. The SIGHUM Workshops on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH) have been a forum for researchers who develop new technologies for improved information access to data from the broadly understood humanities and social sciences. The ACL Workshops on Computational Linguistics for Literature (CLfL) have focussed on applications of NLP to a wide variety of literary data. The first two joint workshops (LaTeCH-CLfL 2017 and 2018) brought together people from both communities. We count on this workshop to broaden the scope of our work even further, and to encourage new common research initiatives.

Topics and Content

In the Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Heritage communities, there is increasing interest in and demand for NLP methods for semantic annotation, intelligent linking, discovery, querying, cleaning and visualization of both primary and secondary data; this is even true of primarily non-textual collections, given that text is also the pervasive medium for metadata. Such applications pose new challenges for NLP research, such as noisy, non-standard textual or multi-modal input, historical languages, multilingual parts within one document, lack of digital resources, or resource-intensive approaches that call for (semi-)automatic processing tools and domain adaptation, or, as a last resort, intense manual effort (e.g., annotation).

Literary texts bring their own problems, because navigating this form of creative expression requires more than the typical information-seeking tools. Examples of advanced tasks include the study of literature of a certain period or sub-genre, recognition of certain literary devices, or quantitative analysis of poetry. More generally, there is a growing interest in computational models whose results can be interpreted in meaningful ways.

A common forum is mutually beneficial to NLP experts, data specialists, digital humanities researchers, and those who study literature. The second edition of the joint workshop has something for everyone in all such communities. We invite contributions on these, and closely related, topics:

• adapting NLP tools to Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and to the humanities including literature;
• fully- or semi-automatic creation of semantic resources;
• automatic error detection and cleaning of textual data;
• building and analyzing social networks of literary characters;
• complex annotation schemas, tools and interfaces;
• dealing with linguistic variation and non-standard or historical use of language;
• discourse and narrative analysis/modelling, notably in literature;
• emotion analysis for the humanities and for literature;
• generation of literary narrative, dialogue or poetry;
• identification and analysis of literary genres;
• linking and retrieving information from different sources, media, and domains;
• modelling dialogue literary style for generation;
• modelling of information and knowledge in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Heritage;
profiling and authorship attribution;
• research infrastructure and standardisation efforts in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Heritage;
• searching for scientific and/or scholarly literature.


Information for Authors

We invite papers on original, unpublished work in the topic areas of the workshop. In addition to long papers, we will consider short papers and system descriptions (demos). We also welcome position papers.

* A long paper, presenting completed work, may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, with two (2) additional pages of references; final camera-ready versions of accepted long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account.

* A short paper / demo can present work in progress, or the description of a system, and may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, with one (1) additional page of references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings.

* A position paper -- clearly marked as such -- should not exceed six (6) pages including references.

All submissions are to use the ACL stylesheets (for LaTeX, MS Word or Overleaf) posted at https://naacl2019.org/calls/papers/. Papers should be submitted electronically, in PDF, via the LaTeCH-CLfL2019 submission website at https://www.softconf.com/naacl2019/latechclfl/.

Reviewing will be double-blind. Please do not include the authors’ names and affiliations, or any references to Web sites, project names, acknowledgements and so on -- anything that immediately reveals the authors’ identity. Self-references should be kept to a reasonable minimum, and anonymous citations cannot be used.

Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings, and later available in the ACL Anthology.

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: February 25, 2019
Notification of acceptance: March 25, 2019
Camera-ready papers due: April 3, 2019
Workshop date: June 7, 2019

More on the organisers

Beatrice Alex, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Language Science and Technology, Saarland University
Anna Kazantseva, National Research Council of Canada
Nils Reiter, Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS), Stuttgart University
Stan Szpakowicz, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa

Contact

latech-clfl [at] googlegroups.com

LaTeCH-CLfL 2019:
The 3rd Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature

to be held in conjunction with NAACL 2019 in Minneapolis, MN, USA

https://sighum.wordpress.com/events/latech-clfl-2019/

Second Call for Papers (with apologies for cross-posting)

Organisers: Beatrice Alex, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Anna Kazantseva, Nils Reiter, Stan Szpakowicz

LaTeCH-CLfL 2019 is a third joint meeting of two communities with overlapping research goals and a similar research focus. The SIGHUM Workshops on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH) have been a forum for researchers who develop new technologies for improved information access to data from the broadly understood humanities and social sciences. The ACL Workshops on Computational Linguistics for Literature (CLfL) have focussed on applications of NLP to a wide variety of literary data. The first two joint workshops (LaTeCH-CLfL 2017 and 2018) brought together people from both communities. We count on this workshop to broaden the scope of our work even further, and to encourage new common research initiatives.

Topics and Content

In the Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Heritage communities, there is increasing interest in and demand for NLP methods for semantic annotation, intelligent linking, discovery, querying, cleaning and visualization of both primary and secondary data; this is even true of primarily non-textual collections, given that text is also the pervasive medium for metadata. Such applications pose new challenges for NLP research, such as noisy, non-standard textual or multi-modal input, historical languages, multilingual parts within one document, lack of digital resources, or resource-intensive approaches that call for (semi-)automatic processing tools and domain adaptation, or, as a last resort, intense manual effort (e.g., annotation).

Literary texts bring their own problems, because navigating this form of creative expression requires more than the typical information-seeking tools. Examples of advanced tasks include the study of literature of a certain period or sub-genre, recognition of certain literary devices, or quantitative analysis of poetry. More generally, there is a growing interest in computational models whose results can be interpreted in meaningful ways.

A common forum is mutually beneficial to NLP experts, data specialists, digital humanities researchers, and those who study literature. The second edition of the joint workshop has something for everyone in all such communities. We invite contributions on these, and closely related, topics:

• adapting NLP tools to Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and to the humanities including literature;
• fully- or semi-automatic creation of semantic resources;
• automatic error detection and cleaning of textual data;
• building and analyzing social networks of literary characters;
• complex annotation schemas, tools and interfaces;
• dealing with linguistic variation and non-standard or historical use of language;
• discourse and narrative analysis/modelling, notably in literature;
• emotion analysis for the humanities and for literature;
• generation of literary narrative, dialogue or poetry;
• identification and analysis of literary genres;
• linking and retrieving information from different sources, media, and domains;
• modelling dialogue literary style for generation;
• modelling of information and knowledge in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Heritage;
profiling and authorship attribution;
• research infrastructure and standardisation efforts in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Heritage;
• searching for scientific and/or scholarly literature.


Information for Authors

We invite papers on original, unpublished work in the topic areas of the workshop. In addition to long papers, we will consider short papers and system descriptions (demos). We also welcome position papers.

* A long paper, presenting completed work, may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, with two (2) additional pages of references; final camera-ready versions of accepted long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account.

* A short paper / demo can present work in progress, or the description of a system, and may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, with one (1) additional page of references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings.

* A position paper -- clearly marked as such -- should not exceed six (6) pages including references.

All submissions are to use the ACL stylesheets (either .sty and .bst or .dot) to be found at https://naacl2019.org/calls/papers/. Papers should be submitted electronically, in PDF, via the LaTeCH-CLfL2019 submission website -- the link will be announced soon (most probably, https://www.softconf.com/naacl2019/latechclfl).

Reviewing will be double-blind. Please do not include the authors’ names and affiliations, or any references to Web sites, project names, acknowledgements and so on -- anything that immediately reveals the authors’ identity. Self-references should be kept to a reasonable minimum, and anonymous citations cannot be used.

Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings, and later available in the ACL Anthology.

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: February 25, 2019
Notification of acceptance: March 25, 2019
Camera-ready papers due: April 3, 2019
Workshop date: June 7, 2019

More on the organisers

Beatrice Alex, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Language Science and Technology, Saarland University
Anna Kazantseva, National Research Council of Canada
Nils Reiter, Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS), Stuttgart University
Stan Szpakowicz, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa

Contact
latech-clfl [at] googlegroups.com

LaTeCH-CLfL 2019:
The 3rd Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature

to be held in conjunction with NAACL 2019 in Minneapolis, MN, USA

https://sighum.wordpress.com/events/latech-clfl-2019/

First Call for Papers (with apologies for cross-posting)

Organisers: Beatrice Alex, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Anna Kazantseva, Nils Reiter, Stan Szpakowicz

LaTeCH-CLfL 2019 is a third joint meeting of two communities with overlapping research goals and a similar research focus. The SIGHUM Workshops on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH) have been a forum for researchers who develop new technologies for improved information access to data from the broadly understood humanities and social sciences. The ACL Workshops on Computational Linguistics for Literature (CLfL) have focussed on applications of NLP to a wide variety of literary data. The first two joint workshops (LaTeCH-CLfL 2017 and 2018) brought together people from both communities. We count on this workshop to broaden the scope of our work even further, and to encourage new common research initiatives.

Topics and Content

In the Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Heritage communities, there is increasing interest in and demand for NLP methods for semantic annotation, intelligent linking, discovery, querying, cleaning and visualization of both primary and secondary data; this is even true of primarily non-textual collections, given that text is also the pervasive medium for metadata. Such applications pose new challenges for NLP research, such as noisy, non-standard textual or multi-modal input, historical languages, multilingual parts within one document, lack of digital resources, or resource-intensive approaches that call for (semi-)automatic processing tools and domain adaptation, or, as a last resort, intense manual effort (e.g., annotation).

Literary texts bring their own problems, because navigating this form of creative expression requires more than the typical information-seeking tools. Examples of advanced tasks include the study of literature of a certain period or sub-genre, recognition of certain literary devices, or quantitative analysis of poetry. More generally, there is a growing interest in computational models whose results can be interpreted in meaningful ways.

A common forum is mutually beneficial to NLP experts, data specialists, digital humanities researchers, and those who study literature. The second edition of the joint workshop has something for everyone in all such communities. We invite contributions on these, and closely related, topics:

• adapting NLP tools to Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and to the humanities including literature;

 • fully- or semi-automatic creation of semantic resources;

 • automatic error detection and cleaning of textual data;

• building and analyzing social networks of literary characters;

• complex annotation schemas, tools and interfaces;

• dealing with linguistic variation and non-standard or historical use of language;

• discourse and narrative analysis/modelling, notably in literature;

• emotion analysis for the humanities and for literature;

 • generation of literary narrative, dialogue or poetry;

• identification and analysis of literary genres;

• linking and retrieving information from different sources, media, and domains;

• modelling dialogue literary style for generation;

 • modelling of information and knowledge in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Heritage;

• profiling and authorship attribution;

• research infrastructure and standardisation efforts in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Heritage;

• searching for scientific and/or scholarly literature.


Information for Authors

We invite papers on original, unpublished work in the topic areas of the workshop. In addition to long papers, we will consider short papers and system descriptions (demos). We also welcome position papers.

* Long papers, presenting completed work, may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, with two (2) additional pages of references; final camera-ready versions of accepted long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account.

* A short paper / demo can present work in progress, or the description of a system, and may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, with one (1) additional page of references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings.

* A position paper -- clearly marked as such -- should not exceed six (6) pages including references.

All submissions are to use the ACL stylesheets (either .sty and .bst or .dot). Papers should be submitted electronically, in PDF, via the LaTeCH-CLfL2019 submission website -- the link will be announced soon (most probably, https://www.softconf.com/naacl2019/latech-clfl).

Reviewing will be double-blind. Please do not include the authors’ names and affiliations, or any references to Web sites, project names, acknowledgements and so on -- anything that immediately reveals the authors’ identity. Self-references should be kept to a reasonable minimum, and anonymous citations cannot be used.

Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings, and later available in the ACL Anthology.

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: February 25, 2019
Notification of acceptance: March 25, 2019
Camera-ready papers due: April 3, 2019
Workshop date: June 6 or 7, 2019

More on the organisers

Beatrice Alex, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Language Science and Technology, Saarland University
Anna Kazantseva, National Research Council of Canada
Nils Reiter, Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS), Stuttgart University
Stan Szpakowicz, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa

Contact

latech-clfl [at] googlegroups.com

CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS -- SECOND ROUND

13th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS)

University of Gothenburg, Sweden

23-27th May 2019

https://sites.google.com/view/iwcs2019/home

IWCS is the bi-yearly meeting of SIGSEM [1], the ACL special interest group on semantics [2]; this year's edition is hosted by the Centre of Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP) [3] at the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science (FLoV) [4] and will be held at the Wallenberg Conference Centre of University of Gothenburg [5].

[1] http://sigsem.org/

[2] http://aclweb.org/

[3] https://clasp.gu.se/

[4] https://flov.gu.se/english

[5] https://www.gu.se/english/conferences/conference-packages/wallenberg

The aim of the IWCS conference is to bring together researchers interested in any aspects of the computation, annotation, extraction, and representation of meaning in natural language, whether from a lexical or structural semantic perspective. IWCS embraces both symbolic and machine learning approaches to computational semantics, and everything in between. The main conference will be run from 25-27 May 2019, preceded by workshops on 23-24 May.

Topics of interest

The areas of interest for the conference include all computational aspects of meaning of natural language within written, spoken, or multimodal communication. Papers are invited on topics in these and closely related areas, including the following:

* representation of meaning

* syntax-semantics interface

* representing and resolving semantic ambiguity

* shallow and deep semantic processing and reasoning

* hybrid symbolic and statistical approaches to representing semantics

* alternative approaches to compositional semantics

* inference methods for computational semantics

* recognising textual entailment

* learning by reading

* methodologies and practices for semantic annotation

* machine learning of semantic structures

* statistical semantics

* computational aspects of lexical semantics

* semantics and ontologies

* semantic web and natural language processing

* semantic aspects of language generation

* semantic relations in discourse and dialogue

* semantics and pragmatics of dialogue acts

* multimodal and grounded approaches to computing meaning

* semantics-pragmatics interface

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Proposals for workshops should contain:

* A title and brief (2-page max) description of the workshop topic and content.

* An estimate of the audience size

* The names, postal addresses, and email addresses of the organisers, with one-paragraph statements of their research interests and areas of expertise.

* A list of potential members of the program committee, with an indication of which members have already agreed.

* A description of special requirements for technical needs.

* Whether you prefer a half or a full day workshop

Proposals should be submitted by email to

iwcs2019 [at] easychair.org

as soon as possible, but no later than 10th December 2018.

Notification of acceptance of workshop proposals will occur no later than 20th December 2018.

AFTER ACCEPTANCE

Organisers of accepted workshops must provide descriptions of their workshops, for inclusion in the conference registration material, by 20th January 2019. The description must be provided in two formats: an ASCII version that can be included with the email announcement, and an HTML version that can be included on the conference home page. These descriptions should be mailed to: iwcs2019 [at] easychair.org

The final workshop materials must be received by the IWCS organisers by 2nd May 2019. This includes the detailed proceedings (camera-ready versions of papers), which will be made available electronically, as well as a short workshop program, which will be printed together with the main conference program.

FINANCES

Workshops must be financially self-supporting. The conference organisers will establish registration rates so as to provide the room, audio-visual equipment, internet access, snacks for breaks, and the workshop proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES

10th December 2018 Workshop proposal submissions due

20th December 2018 Workshop proposal notification of acceptance

20th January 2019 Workshop description mailed to IWCS organisers

2nd May 2019 Workshop material due to IWCS organisers

23rd-24th May 2019 Workshop date

Local organisation

Local Chairs: Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Simon Dobnik

Workshops: Asad Sayeed

Student Track: Vlad Maraev and Kathrein Abu Kwaik

Hackathon: TBA