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3rd CfP: ACL workshop on NLP and Social Dynamics
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3rd Call for Papers
1st workshop on NLP and Social Dynamics, collocated with ACL 2014
Baltimore, USA
WS date: June 27, 2014
Submission deadline: March 21, 2014
Details: https://sites.google.com/site/orentsur/acl-workshop-on-nlp-and-social-dy...
Confirmed panelists:
Hanna Wallach (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Jacob Eisenstein (Georgia Tech), and Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil ( Max Plank Institute SWS)
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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
Language is a set of publicly agreed conventions that serves the purpose of inter-personal communication. Speakers (or writers) try to convey a message, instill an idea or make an impression on the listeners. Listeners (or readers), in turn, are affected by the message and may respond to it. Language, in that sense, is an important vehicle that shapes (and is shaped by) social dynamics.
Traditional NLP research, however, focuses on ‘documents’ (either of full length or on the sentence level), rather than on the communication process as reflected by language use. Common examples of traditional NLP research are parsing, document classification, machine translation, and sentiment analysis at the sentence and document level without considering the social dynamics of the people who are writing and reading those texts.
In this workshop we move beyond analyzing the informational aspect of documents and discuss ways in which NLP can contribute to gaining insights about the interplay between language use and various levels of social dynamics.
The first Workshop on NLP and Social Dynamics is aiming at bringing together researchers from various disciplines such as computational linguistics, web science, sociology and digital humanities to demonstrate and discuss the potential of the state-of-the-art NLP algorithms applied to social and historical data.
The workshop will will feature long and short presentations and a panel discussion of critical issues at the intersection of computational linguistics and social science.
TOPICS
- Demographics, identity making, and psychological view of social media language
- Emergence and diffusion of slang and neologisms
- Emergence of metaphors
- Emotion dynamics in social media conversation threads
- Evolution of word formation and word meaning
- Language coordination and lexical entrainment
- Language evolution through history
- Language variation across communities
- Linguistic (phonological, morphological, etc) factors in word formation
- Linguistic and social factors in acceptance of new words and phrases
- Linguistic factors in information diffusion and information cascades.
- NLP techniques for analyzing social media
- Online (social) news outlets and public opinion
- Persuasive language and (online) campaigns
- Pragmatics of language
- Social dynamics in (blog/news story) comment threads
- Social relationships and language use
- Sociolinguistic perspective of social media language use
IMPORTANT DATES
- Submission deadline (long & short papers): March 21, 2014
- Author notification: April 11, 2014
- Camera ready: April 28, 2014
- Workshop: June 27, 2014
ORGANIZERS
Alice Oh KAIST, currently visiting Harvard University
Oren Tsur Harvard University, Northeastern University
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Carlo Strapparava FBK
Alejandro Jaimes Yahoo Research Barcelona
Alice Oh KAIST
Ancsa Hannak Northeastern University
Ari Rappaport The Hebrew University
Branden O'Connor Carnegie Mellon University
Brian Keagan Northeastern University
Chin-Yew Lin Microsoft Research Asia
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil Max Plank Institute SWS
Dan Jurafsky Stanford University
Daniel Romerro Northwestern University
David Smith Northeastern University
Gideon Dror Yahoo! Research
Haewoon Kwak Telefonica
Idan Szpektor Yahoo! Research
Ingmar Weber Qatar Computing Research Institute
Jacob Eisenstein Georgia Tech
James Caverlee Texas A&M University
Omri Abend University of Edinburgh
Oren Tsur Harvard | Northeastern University
Paul Cook University of Melbourne
Reut Tzarfati Weizman Institute of Science
Rivka Levitan Columbia University
Roi Reichart Israel Institute of Technology
Roy Schwartz The Hebrew University
Souneil Park University of Michigan
Vivi Nastase FBK
Yael Netzer Ben Gurion University
Yoav Goldberg Bar Ilan University
Yuval Pinter Yahoo! Research
Yuru Lin University of Pittsburgh
FORMATTING and SUBMISSION
We welcome long (8 pages) and short (4 pages) submissions. All submissions must be electronic, complying with the general ACL formatting and submission guidelines. More information regarding formatting as well as TeX and MS Word style sheets and templates can be found here.
Submission are only possible via the START system.
Submission page: https://www.softconf.com/acl2014/NLPSD/
MORE DETAILS
https://sites.google.com/site/orentsur/acl-workshop-on-nlp-and-social-dy...
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