Call for Papers: Workshop on Games and Natural Language Processing (GAMNLP-19) at FDG 2019
Co-Located at Foundations of Digital Games (FDG) 2019: http://fdg2019.org/
Workshop Date: August 26 or 27, San Luis Obispo, California, USA
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/gamnlp19/
Contact: gamnlp19 [at] googlegroups.com
Call For Papers
The Games and Natural Language Processing workshop (GAMNLP) will examine the overlap between the fields of games and natural language processing, and promote interaction and collaboration among researchers and practitioners in these research areas. The workshop will be a full day workshop and consist of 2 invited speakers in the Games and NLP communities, and talks of full papers, position papers, and late-breaking and work-in-progress reports.
Paper topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Game design, usability, and mechanics based on natural language interfaces
- Novel uses of natural language processing or generation as a game mechanic
- Player immersion in language-enabled mixed reality or physically embodied games
- Narrative plot or text generation of text-based interactive narrative systems
- Narrative or story-arc comprehension
- Discourse planning and dialogue management in games
- Natural language understanding and generation of character dialogue
- Analysis of large-scale game-related corpora (e.g., game reviews, gameplay logs)
- Real-time sentiment analysis of player discourse or chat
- Summarization of gameplay or real-time commentary for games
- Serious games for learning languages
- Gamification of natural language processing tasks
- Lessons from historical applications of natural language processing in games, including post-mortems
- Ethical and privacy concerns of ownership of text and audio chat in massively multiplayer online games
- Natural language in games as an alternative method of input for people with disabilities
Submission Types
- Full papers will present original research and be 5-6 pages in length, excluding references. Papers will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Full papers will be presented as talks. If we do not receive enough submissions or meet the acceptance rate of FDG, we may not be able to publish the workshop proceedings in the ACM Digital Library.
- Position papers will allow authors to raise thought-provoking discussions within the research community. Submissions are limited to 2 page extended abstracts and will be presented as short talks.
- Late-breaking and work-in-progress papers will showcase ongoing work and focused, relevant contributions. Submissions need not present original work and are limited to 2 page extended abstracts. These papers will be presented as short or lightning talks. Authors will retain the copyright to their work so that they may submit to other venues as their work matures.
Submission Format
All submissions must be formatted following the ACM style guidelines https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template (Word, LaTex, and Overleaf templates are available). Full and position papers are anonymized and submitted via Easy chair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gamnlp2019). Late-breaking and works-in-progress need not be anonymized and are emailed directly to the organizers (gamnlp19 [at] googlegroups.com)
Important Dates
- April 5, 2019: Full and position papers submission deadline
- May 3, 2019: Notification of acceptance
- June 7, 2019: Camera-ready submission deadline
- July 26, 2019: Late-breaking and work-in-progress submission deadline
- August 26 or 27, 2019: Workshop date (exact day TDB)
Organizers
- Paulo F. Gomes, University of California Santa Cruz
- Stephanie M. Lukin, U.S. Army Research Laboratory
- Adam Summerville, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona