Student Research Workshop 2024 co-located with ACL 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand (August 11th-16th, 2024)
**Paper Submission Deadline: June 1st, 2024**
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**Important Dates**
- Pre-submission mentoring deadline: April 17, 2024
- Pre-submission feedback: May 15, 2024
- Paper submission deadline: June 1, 2024
- Review deadline: June 20, 2024
- Acceptance notifications: July 5, 2024
- Camera-ready deadline: July 15, 2024
- ACL 2024 conference dates: August 11- 16, 2024
All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth").
**About the Student Research Workshop**
The ACL 2024 Student Research Workshop (SRW) is a forum to bring together students investigating various areas of Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning. The workshop provides an excellent opportunity for participants to present their work and to receive mentorship and valuable feedback from the international research community.
The workshop’s goal is to aid students at multiple stages of their education, including undergraduate, MSc/MA, junior, and senior PhD students, in getting familiar with conducting and presenting their research.
**General Rules for Submission**
We invite papers in two different categories:
- Thesis Proposals: This category is appropriate for PhD students who have decided on a thesis topic and wish to get feedback on their proposal and broader ideas for their continuing work.
- Research Papers: Papers in this category can describe completed work, or work in progress with preliminary results. For these papers, the first author MUST BE a current student. Topics of interest for the SRW are the same as for the main ACL 2024 conference.
Submissions (in both categories) may either be archival or non-archival, based on the wish of the authors. All archival papers will be published in the ACL 2024 SRW Proceedings. Non-archival papers may be submitted to any venue in the future except for another SRW.
**Why Submit to ACL SRW?**
There are many good reasons to submit to the ACL SRW, such as:
- Mentorship program: ACL SRW provides a unique opportunity for students to receive constructive feedback and to improve their work through a pre-submission mentorship program.
- Improving your publication record: publishing a paper as an undergraduate or as a MSc/MA student is beneficial when applying for a PhD program. Publishing a paper in an ACL SRW workshop can be really helpful for improving students’ publication record.
- Negative results: we encourage submission of studies with negative results providing insights on why and in which scenarios a particular method fails.
All accepted papers and thesis proposals will be presented in the main conference poster session, which will give students an opportunity to interact with and to present their work to a large and diverse audience, including top researchers in the field and assigned mentors.
**Pre-Submission Mentorship Program**
The SRW offers students the opportunity to receive feedback prior to submitting their work for review. The goal of the pre-submission mentorship program is to improve the quality of writing and presentation of the student's work, not to critique the work itself. Participation is optional but encouraged. The pre-submission mentorship is not anonymous.
Students wishing to participate in the pre-submission mentorship must submit their paper draft by April 10, 2024.
Note that even though the mentoring is not done anonymously, the paper needs to be anonymized. We will check for the formality of the paper including formatting before we match it with mentors.
The participants will be assigned a mentor who will review and will provide feedback within four weeks. This mentor will not be the same person who will review the final submission. The feedback will be in the form of guidelines and suggestions to improve the overall writing, which should ideally be incorporated before the actual submission deadline.
You CAN submit a paper at the main workshop deadline even if you did not participate in the pre-submission mentoring. If you did submit a draft for pre-submission mentoring, you will need to make a new submission for the final version of the paper.
**Submission Requirements**
We accept both archival submissions (i.e., the work can be included in the conference proceedings) and non-archival submissions (i.e., the work will be presented in the workshop, but will not be part of the proceedings).
The archival submissions should follow the anonymity period and restrictions of the main conference.
Long papers consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Upon acceptance, papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages).
Short papers consist of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Upon acceptance, papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 5 pages).
Authors are encouraged to use the additional page to address reviewers’ comments. Paper submissions must use the official ACL style templates, which are available as an Overleaf template and also a downloadable directly (Latex and Word). We strongly encourage participants to use the Latex template. All submissions must be in PDF format and must conform to the official style guidelines, which are contained in these template files. The review process will be double-blind, and thus all submissions must be anonymized.
The SRW invites papers on topics related to computational linguistics, including but not limited to the following:
- Computational Social Science and Social Media
- Dialogue and Interactive Systems
- Discourse and Pragmatics
- Ethics and NLP
- Information Extraction
- Information Retrieval and Text Mining
- Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP
- Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond
- Linguistic theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics
- Machine Learning for NLP
- Machine Translation and Multilinguality
- NLP Applications
- Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation
- Question Answering
- Resources and Evaluation
- Semantics: Lexical
- Semantics: Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference and Other areas
- Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining
- Speech and Multimodality
- Summarization
- Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing
- Thesis Proposals
**Grant**
We expect to have grants to offset some portion of the students' travel, conference registration, and accommodation expenses. Further details will be posted on the SRW website. To contact the organizers of the workshop, please email us at: acl.2024.srw@gmail.com
**Organizers**
Xiyan Fu (Heidelberg University, Germany)
Eve Fleisig (UC Berkeley, America)
Ekapol Chuangsuwanich (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)
Yuval Pinter (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)