Second Call For Papers
The Third Workshop on Understanding Implicit and Underspecified Language (UnImplicit) will be co-located with EACL 2024.
Workshop: March 21 or 22, 2024 (TBD on which of the two days)
EACL Conference: March 17-22, 2024
Website: https://unimplicit2024.github.io/
Paper submission: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/UnImplicit
ARR direct commit: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/UnImplicit_A...
* Paper submission deadline: December 18, 2023 *
* Paper submission deadline for papers with ARR Reviews: January 17, 2024 *
Real language is underspecified, vague, and ambiguous. Indeed, past work (Zipf, 1949; Piantadosi, 2012) has suggested that ambiguity may be an inextricable feature of natural language, resulting from competing communicative pressures. Resolving the meaning of language is a never-ending process of making inferences based on implicit knowledge. For example, we know that “the girl saw the man with the telescope” is ambiguous and could refer to two situations, while “the girl saw the man with the hamburger” is not, or that “near” in “the house near the airport” and “the ant near the crumb” does not refer to the same distance. Being able to capture this kind of knowledge is central to building systems with a human-like understanding of language, as well as to providing a full account of natural language itself.
We welcome submissions related to, but not limited to, the following topics:
Creating corpora or new annotations for underspecified, vague, or ambiguous language
Studies of annotator disagreement
Methods of resolving underspecification, vagueness, or ambiguity
Studies of how multimodal settings interact with underspecification in language
Ambiguities in non-linguistic domains, like images or videos
Perspectives on the role of vagueness and ambiguity in NLP
If you are interested, you can check out the last two UnImplicit workshops held at ACL 2021 and NAACL 2022.
Important Dates
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Dec. 18, 2023: Workshop paper deadline (OpenReview)
Jan. 17, 2024: Deadline to commit papers with ARR Reviews (OpenReview)
Jan. 20, 2024: Notification of Acceptance
Jan. 30, 2024: Camera-ready papers due
Mar. 21-22, 2024: Workshop Dates (TBD which of the two days)
All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h (“anywhere on Earth”).
Submissions
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We invite two types of submissions:
Archival: long (up to 8 pages) or short (up to 4 pages) papers, with unlimited additional pages for references. These papers should report on complete, original and unpublished research and cannot be under submission elsewhere. If accepted, archival papers will appear in the workshop proceedings.
Non-archival: Extended abstracts (up to 2 pages) or copies of submissions/publications, which can take two forms:
Works in progress that are not yet mature enough for a full submission. Up to 2 pages, with unlimited pages for references.
Already published work, or work currently under submission elsewhere, which can be submitted as a copy of the submission/publication (please indicate the venue where it has been submitted to).
There are two possible deadlines for submissions:
Standard Submission: This deadline, on the 18th of December 2023, is for papers which do not have any reviews through ARR yet. Papers submitted on this deadline will be reviewed by the workshop PCs. Please submit your papers at https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/UnImplicit
Direct Submission (with reviews): This submission deadline, on January 17th 2024, is for papers that are either pre-reviewed by ARR, rejected from EACL (with reviews) and for Findings papers looking for a presentation slot. Please commit these papers with their reviews here: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/UnImplicit_A...
Both papers and extended abstracts must follow the EACL 2024 format.
Accepted papers and extended abstracts must be presented at the workshop and at least one author must be registered for the workshop.
Workshop organizers
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Valentina Pyatkin, AI2 and University of Washington
Elias Stengel-Eskin, UNC Chapel Hill
Alisa Liu, University of Washington
Sandro Pezzelle, University of Amsterdam
Daniel Fried, Carnegie Mellon University
Advisory committee
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Michael Roth, Stuttgart University
Reut Tsarfaty, Bar-Ilan University
Yoav Goldberg, Bar-Ilan University and AI2
If you have any questions please email us at unimplicitworkshop -AT- gmail.com