First Call for Main Conference Papers
NAACL 2024 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. NAACL 2024 has a goal of a diverse technical program—in addition to traditional research results, papers may contribute negative findings, survey an area, announce the creation of a new resource, argue a position, report novel linguistic insights derived using existing computational techniques, and reproduce, or fail to reproduce, previous results.
As in recent years, some of the presentations at the conference will be of papers accepted by the Transactions of the ACL (TACL) and the Computational Linguistics (CL) journals.
Submission Topics
NAACL 2024 aims to have a broad technical program. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics
Dialogue and Interactive Systems
Discourse and Pragmatics
Efficient/Low-resource Methods for NLP
Ethics, Bias, and Fairness
Generation
Information Extraction
Information Retrieval and Text Mining
Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP
Linguistic theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics
Machine Learning for NLP
Machine Translation
Multilinguality and Language Diversity
Multimodality and Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond
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 recognition, text-to-speech and spoken language understanding
Summarization
Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing / ML
NLP Applications
Special Theme: Languages of Latin America
NAACL 2024 Theme Track: “Languages of Latin America"
This is an exciting opportunity to explore and showcase the rich linguistic diversity of the region. For the call for papers on this theme, we expect authors to submit research contributions that focus on various aspects of language and computational linguistics within the context of Latin America. The special theme track “Languages of Latin America” aims to foster a deeper understanding of the linguistic landscape in the region and promote the development of language technologies that are culturally relevant and inclusive. We hope to receive innovative and insightful research papers that contribute to advancing computational linguistics in Latin America.
ACL Rolling Review
NAACL 2024 will use ACL Rolling Review (ARR) as a reviewing system, but final decisions will be made by the conference. Both submissions of articles for review and commitment of reviewed articles to the conference will be performed via the Open Review platform. Specifically, authors will follow a two-step process:
Authors submit articles to ARR, where submissions receive reviews and meta-reviews from ARR reviewers and action editors;
Authors commit their reviewed articles to a publication venue (e.g., NAACL 2024), where Senior Area Chairs and Program Chairs make acceptance decisions from the ARR reviews and meta-reviews.
NAACL 2024 has chosen this approach in coordination with the other *ACL 2024 conferences, which are adopting the same procedure and a coordinated submission plan to allow maximum flexibility during their submission periods for the authors. At each cycle an author must choose whether to have their paper under review at ARR, or committed to a conference. So for example, a paper submitted to ARR on 15 Dec 2023 cannot also be committed to EACL on their commitment deadline of 20 Dec 2023, but it could be either re-submitted to ARR on 15 Feb 2023 or committed to NAACL on 20 Feb 2023.
The reviewing process will continue to be double-blind. Reviewers will not see authors nor will authors see reviewers, and reviews on ARR will not be made publicly visible. However, authors will be given the option through ARR to make their anonymized submitted articles publicly visible.
Contact Information
General chair: Katrin Erk, The University of Texas at Austin
Program co-chairs :
Kevin Duh, Johns Hopkins University
Helena Gómez-Adorno, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Steven Bethard, University of Arizona