CALL FOR PAPERS: ACL 2014 Workshop on Language Technologies and Computational Social Science
Co-located with ACL 2014 (http://www.cs.jhu.edu/ACL2014)
Baltimore, Maryland
June 26, 2014
Website: http://www.mpi-sws.org/~cristian/LACSS_2014.html
Contact: ltcss2014 [at] gmail.com
This workshop invites a broad spectrum of work in the intersection between computational linguistics and social science. All submissions will be presented as posters, and active discussion of preliminary and ongoing work are especially encouraged. Topics include, but are not limited to:
Inferring social relations (e.g., power dynamics, stance, accommodation) from conversation and other linguistic behavior
Automatic extraction of international relations event data from news
Inference of author and speaker properties (geography, age, gender, etc) from text and speech
Measuring and tracking political ideology in text, including the framing and positioning of ideological content
Understanding the political system, including public opinion, legislative and judicial processes, and popular unrest
Relating text datasets to author social networks: for example, predicting social ties from text, or smoothing textual topics over network structure
Tracking language change over time, space, and communities
Measuring linguistic influence
Computational analysis of literary and historical corpora
Tracking the flow of information, ideas, and sentiment through social networks, include information cascades
Position papers that draw implications from social science theory (sociology, political science, sociolinguistics, economics) for language technology
New applications of language technology to social science research
We especially welcome submissions with the potential to increase engagement between NLP researchers and social scientists, and which will help to build a community interested in language technologies and computational social science. Submissions should be no more than four pages long in the 2014 ACL format, excluding references; review will be double-blind. On acceptance, authors will have the option of either the paper or just the abstract being included in the workshop proceedings.
Dates:
21 March 2014: paper deadline
11 April 2014: notification of acceptance
28 April 2014: camera-ready papers due
26 June 2014: workshop date
Confirmed speakers:
Justin Grimmer (Stanford University)
Lillian Lee (Cornell University)
Philip Resnik (University of Maryland)
Sali Tagliamonte (University of Toronto)
Workshop organizers:
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil (Max Planck Institute SWS)
Jacob Eisenstein (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Kathleen McKeown (Columbia University)
Noah Smith (Carnegie Mellon University)