Call for Abstracts Widening NLP Workshop 2020
Submission link: https://www.softconf.com/acl2020/WiNLP/
Important Dates:
Early Submission:
Submission deadline: January 31, 2020
Notification date: February 28, 2020
Regular Submission:
Submission deadline: April 10, 2020
Notification date: May 8, 2020
Workshop date: July 5, 2020 (Sunday)
Workshop Description:
The fourth WiNLP (“Widening NLP”) Workshop will be held in conjunction with ACL 2020 in Seattle, WA, United States.
The WiNLP workshop is open to all to foster an inclusive and welcoming ACL environment. It aims to promote diversity and highlight the work of underrepresented groups in NLP: anyone who self-identifies within an underrepresented demographic [gender, ethnicity, nationality, etc]. The 2020 iteration of the workshop will, in particular, seek to highlight diversity in scientific background, discipline, training, obtained degrees, seniority, and communities from underrepresented languages. The full-day event includes invited talks, oral presentations, and poster sessions. The workshop provides an excellent opportunity for junior members in the community to showcase their work and connect with senior mentors for feedback and career advice. It also offers recruitment opportunities with leading industrial labs. Most importantly, the workshop will provide an inclusive and accepting space, and work to lower structural barriers to joining and collaborating with the NLP community at large.
While everyone is encouraged to attend, the opportunity to present a talk or poster is intended for members of underrepresented groups at all career levels: students, post-docs, professors, and other researchers. We invite submissions in the form of an extended 2-page abstract on topics in computational linguistics and natural language processing, including but not limited to:
Cognitive modeling and psycholinguistics
Computational social science
Corpus development and evaluation
Dialog and interactive systems
Discourse and pragmatics
Document analysis including text categorization, topic models, and retrieval
Ethics in NLP
Natural language generation
Information extraction, text mining, and question answering
Language-inclusive multimodal integration
Linguistic theories for NLP
Low-resource or endangered languages
Machine learning
Machine translation
Mathematical models of language
Multilinguality
Phonology, morphology, and word segmentation
Resources and evaluation
Semantics
Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
Social media: Twitter, blogs, discussion forums, and other social media
Sociolinguistics
Speech, prosody, and spoken dialog
Summarization
Tagging, chunking, syntax, and parsing
Vision, robots, and other grounding applications
Submission guidelines:
Submissions must follow the standard one-column format. Each submission should be a two-page extended abstract PDF, with any number of additional pages allowed for references (WiNLP/COLING proceedings format). No appendices will be accepted.
Submissions should follow the same style and format guidelines (LaTeX style files, Word template) and be submitted electronically in PDF format via the WiNLP 2020 online submission system: https://www.softconf.com/acl2020/WiNLP/
Editing and Reviewing Procedure:
One week prior to the submission deadline, authors will have the option to peer-review each others’ abstracts in a non-anonymous format, in groups of two or three authors. Authors taking this option commit to help their peers edit and format their submissions, or revise for clarity, or provide general feedback before the submission is reviewed. Authors may use the feedback provided during this peer-editing period to update their submissions in time for the submission deadline. As in WiNLP 2019, the program committee may still provide reviews, feedback, and direct writing mentorship for applicants, but the intent of peer-editing is to share this responsibility with the participants so that it can scale with the size of the workshop. Whether or not authors take advantage of this peer-review option in advance of submission, all submissions are due on the deadline.
After the submission deadline, abstracts will be reviewed in the traditional double-blind format. Abstracts will be evaluated on relevance to the community; the presentation format (talk or poster) will be decided based on scientific merit and potential interest to a broad audience.
Multiple-Submission Policy:
As we aim for improved and increased representation of underrepresented minorities, we will consider anonymized two pages abstracts of papers that have been submitted to other venues or have already been published elsewhere since January 1, 2019. However, authors must clearly indicate this at submission time.
Authors may not submit to both the regular and visa-friendly deadlines.
Travel support:
There will be a limited amount of travel grants and/or additional funding to cover expenses, similar to the 2018 and 2019 workshops. More information will be made available closer to the submission deadline and linked from http://www.winlp.org/winlp-2020-workshop/.
Important Dates:
Regular deadlines
Submission: Monday, April 10, 2020.
Acceptance notification date: Monday, May 11, 2020
Workshop Date: July 5, 2020 (Sunday)
All deadlines are 11:59 PM GMT -12
Contact information:
Website: http://www.winlp.org/winlp-2020-workshop/
Twitter: @winlpworkshop
Facebook: Widening NLP
E-mail: winlp-chairs [at] googlegroups.com
WiNLP 2020 Organizers:
Rossana Cunha, Federal University of Minas Gerais
Samira Shaikh, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Erika Varis, Walt Disney Studios
Ryan Georgi, University of Washington
Antonios Anastasopoulos, Carnegie Mellon University
Khyathi Raghavi Chandu, Carnegie Mellon University
Alicia Tsai, UC Berkeley
Advisory Board:
Isabelle Augenstein, University of Copenhagen
Amittai Axelrod, University of Maryland
Libby Barak, Rutgers University
Daniel Beck, University of Melbourne
Chloe Braud, CNRS - LORIA
Hal Daumé, University of Maryland
Mourad Gridach, University of Colorado
Valia Kordoni, Humboldt University Berlin
Cisca Odalipo, Kampala International University
Martha Palmer, University of Colorado
Natalie Schluter, University of Copenhagen
Tiago Torrent, Federal University of Juiz de Fora,
Aline Villavicencio, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, University of Essex
Hanna Wallach, Microsoft Research
Zeerak Waseem, University of Sheffield