Natural Language Processing

Dear Colleague,

We invite you to submit your contribution to the upcoming December 2020 Edition of the SIGIR Forum, the official newsletter of the ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR). The SIGIR Forum consists of two issues (June, December). It serves as a medium for disseminating general information and opinions on matters of interest to the IR community, conference and workshop reports, papers and book reviews, and Ph.D. dissertation abstracts.

*** Call for Contributions for the December 2020 issue ***

Second announcement and call for papers for EACL 2021.

The 16th conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) will be held from 19 to 23 April, 2021. While we were planning to hold the conference in Kyiv, due to the current COVID situation the conference will be held entirely online.

The European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) is the prime European forum for the presentation of original research in the field of Information Retrieval. ECIR will be held fully online, organised from Lucca, Italy.

ECIR 2021 is seeking high-quality and original submissions on theory, experimentation, and practice regarding the retrieval, representation, management, and usage of textual, visual and multi-modal information.
Topics of Interest

CALL FOR PAPERS
4th Workshop on Structured Prediction for NLP
Continuous representations, task-level supervision and latent linguistic structure

November 20, 2020
(co-located with EMNLP 2020)

https://structuredprediction.github.io/SPNLP20
*Submission Deadline: August 20, 2020, 11:59pm GMT-12*

The EmotionGIF Challenge
With the proliferation of animated GIFs in social networks, their importance as a way to express affective states, including emotions, is growing. Given their expressiveness, GIFs offer a more nuanced and precise way to convey emotions.

This year we present a novel challenge EmotionGIF. Our dataset contain 40,000 tweets and their GIF responses, labeled with the categories of the animated GIFs. The challenge: given unlabeled tweets, predict the category(ies) of a GIF response.

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LIST OF PRESENTATIONS
G21C Grapholinguistics in the 21st century—From graphemes to knowledge
https://grafematik2020.sciencesconf.org
June 17-18-19, 2020
Contact: Yannis Haralambous <grafematik2020@sciencesconf.org>
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With the proliferation of animated GIFs in social networks, their importance as a way to express affective states, including emotions, is growing. Given their expressiveness, GIFs offer a more nuanced and precise way to convey emotions.

In this year's EmotionX challenge we present a novel challenge EmotionGIF. Our dataset contains around 40,000 tweets and their GIF responses, labeled with the categories of the animated GIFs provided with the corresponding GIF files. Given unlabeled tweets, the challenge is to predict the category of a GIF response.

Join us now!

The 2nd Workshop on Natural Legal Language Processing (NLLP)

24 August 2020
San Diego, CA, USA
Collocated with KDD 2020

Website: http://nllpw.org - Twitter: @nllpworkshop - Contact: nllp.chairs@gmail.com

The 8th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Social Media (SocialNLP) 2020

Due to many requests and the Covid-19 pandemic, we will extend the paper submission deadline to April 20. New important dates are as follows:

- Submission Deadline: April 20, 2020 (extended)
- Author notification: May 8, 2020 (extended)
- Camera-ready Submission: May 18, 2020
- Workshop Date: July 10, 2020

Submission details:

SocialNLP@ACL 2020 Call for Paper!
EmotionX challenge Call for Participants!