EMNLP 2020: call for affinity group socials

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Proposals
Abbreviated Title: 
EMNLP 2020: affinity group socials
Monday, 16 November 2020 to Thursday, 19 November 2020
Contact: 
EMNLP 2020 Diversity & Inclusions chairs
Submission Deadline: 
Tuesday, 20 October 2020

EMNLP 2020 -- Call for affinity group socials

As part of the virtual 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2020, 16th – 20th November 2020, https://2020.emnlp.org/), we would like to call for expressions of interest to host affinity group socials.

Affinity group socials are meant to serve the purpose of cohort and community building within ACL, and can both be fora for scientific and social exchange. The format of virtual affinity group socials has been successful at ACL 2020, where both Queer in AI (https://sites.google.com/view/queer-in-ai/home) and Black in AI (https://blackinai.github.io/) organised events. Another example could be “Linguists at EMNLP”, “Professors in NLP”, or anything we missed that is not primarily technical.
Note that purely scientific events, such as sessions on “machine translation”, will also take place at EMNLP 2020 in the form of birds of a feather sessions. Expressions of interest to organise such events should thus not be made via this call.

Affinity groups hosting socials will decide on the content, timing and length of socials themselves, and will also handle sign-up to these events. EMNLP 2020 will promote the socials on the conference website, virtual conference platform and social media and, if desired, create virtual conference rooms and promote links for those.

To express interest in organising an affinity group social, please fill in the following form by 20 October: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=kX-So6HNlkaviYyfHO_6...

Affinity group socials have to abide by ACL’s code of conduct: https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-code-ethics
Requests for affinity group socials which are in conflict with the above, or not in line with the goals of an affinity group social, will be rejected.

Enquiries can be made to the EMNLP 2020 Diversity & Inclusions chairs: emnlp2020diversity [at] googlegroups.com