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Call for Papers
The Fourth Annual Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology Workshop (CLPsych, at ACL 2017)
Vancouver, Canada, 3 August 2017
Website: http://clpsych.org/
Submissions deadline: 21 April 2017
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-- Description --
This workshop will once again focus on language technology applications in mental and neurological health. We aim to bring together natural language processing (NLP) researchers with clinicians, with the following four goals:
-- To increase language technologists’ understanding of what people working in the field of mental and neurological health — clinicians, psychologists, and social workers — do, and what their real needs are;
-- To increase clinicians’ understanding of what’s possible in language technology and what it might have to offer;
-- To formulate targets and priorities for near-term improvement of the practical state of the art; and
To help facilitate the creation and development of high-value NLP tools that can be used in the clinical community.
Instead of the traditional presentation+questions format, each paper will also have a clinically-oriented discussant, who reads the paper thoroughly in advance and briefly presents prepared commentary at the workshop.
We are particularly interested in submissions that bear on issues like the following, relative to psychological conditions and neurological disorders:-- What features of language or speech could play a prominent role in diagnosis, monitoring, and other elements of clinical practice?
-- What algorithms and forms of modeling are applicable?
-- What kinds of data exists or could be obtained?
-- What tools or resources does this research make available?
-- What practical or ethical issues require attention?
We aim to emerge from the workshop discussions with a further strategy for progress in this field, informed by both the NLP and clinical psychologist participants. This could include, for example, identifying additional topics, tasks, and data; formulating a plan for creating and sharing IRB application templates for NLP work in psychology; or identifying the top-level requirements for an NLP toolkit specifically devoted to practical issues in the clinical space.
-- Shared Task --
CLPsych is planning to once again include a Shared Task, very similar to last year's but now with additional training data. The task will again center on classifying posts from an online community for young Australians facing tough times, in order to assist forum moderators in triaging and escalating posts requiring immediate attention. ReachOut has implemented and is using some of the shared task research done last year, and excited to see what comes out this year. Watch this space for further details: http://clpsych.org/shared-task-2017/
-- Paper Submission instructions --
A key goal of this workshop is to foster the conversation with clinicians, both at the workshop and when these papers are read in the future. We therefore include practicing clinicians and clinical researchers on our program committee; the ability to communicate ideas, approaches, and results clearly to people who are not computational linguists will be as important as the quality of the work itself.
This year we introduce a new track of non-archival submissions, which should take the form of a one-page abstract. (These submissions will not be published in the workshop proceedings.)
Archival submissions can contain up to 8 pages of content, plus references of any length. Papers must conform to the ACL 2017 submission format guidelines, as detailed in the ACL 2017 Call for Papers. Submissions should be anonymous. Papers must be submitted using the START system here: https://www.softconf.com/acl2017/clpysch/.
We accept submissions for either oral or poster presentation.
-- Important dates --
Submissions deadline: 21 April 2017
Notifications sent to authors: 19 May 2017
Final, camera-ready papers due: 26 May 2017
Workshop in Vancouver: 3 August 2017
-- Organizers --
Kristy Hollingshead, IHMC
Molly E. Ireland, Texas Tech University
Kate Loveys, Qntfy
To contact the organizers, please email clpsych-organizers [at] googlegroups.com.
-- Web sites --
General information: http://clpsych.org/
ACL conference site: http://acl2017.org/