Call for Abstracts
Widening NLP Workshop 2022
The Sixth Widening Natural Language Processing Workshop (WiNLP) will be
held in conjunction with EMNLP 2022 https://2022.emnlp.org/ in Abu Dhabi,
UAE. Since EMNLP is anticipating a hybrid format for their conference, we
also anticipate our workshop will be hybrid, with both online and in-person
attendees. The one-day workshop will occur during EMNLP’s workshop period
either December 7th or 8th, 2022.
We invite authors from underrepresented groups in Natural Language
Processing (NLP) to submit a two-page abstract to be considered for a
poster presentation at our workshop. Submissions will be accepted through
two reviewing cycles:
Our early visa-friendly deadline will be June 23, 2022 (anywhere on
Earth/UTC-12). Decisions will be sent out by July 25, 2022. This
deadline exists primarily for attendees interested in traveling in person
who may need additional time to process their visa.
Our regular deadline will be September 7, 2022 (anywhere on
Earth/UTC-12). Decisions will be sent out by October 9, 2022. Note that
this is only two months before the event, and WiNLP does not have our own
legal services to help with expediting visas. Individuals not eligible for
visas on arrival or visa-free travel to the UAE should plan to submit to
the early deadline (see this list
https://visitabudhabi.ae/en/plan-your-trip/essential-info/getting-a-visa
for eligible countries).
Important DatesEarly (visa-friendly) deadlines
Last date to join author workshopping
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=DQSIkWdsW0yxEjajBLZtrQAAAAAAAAAAAAZAAKZOe8BURFBVRDhSVlEzSllGRVhWUDJWS1FCOVhHTS4u:
June 9, 2022
Submission deadline: June 23, 2022
Acceptance notification: July 25, 2022
Travel grant applications due: August 15, 2022
Travel grant notification: August 18, 2022
Regular deadlines
Last date to join author workshopping
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=DQSIkWdsW0yxEjajBLZtrQAAAAAAAAAAAAZAAKZOe8BURFBVRDhSVlEzSllGRVhWUDJWS1FCOVhHTS4u:
August 24, 2022
Submission deadline: September 7, 2022
Acceptance notification: October 9, 2022
Travel grant applications due: October 21, 2022
Travel grant notification: October 25, 2022
Workshop Date
December 7th or 8th, 2022 (date TBD)
EMNLP 2022
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Workshop Description
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 group [based on gender, ethnicity, nationality, sexual
orientation, disability status, or otherwise] is invited to submit a
two-page abstract for a poster presentation. In our 2022 iteration, we hope
to be more intentional about centering discussions of access and
disability, as well as contributing to 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.
Submission guidelines
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. Since many
submissions are works in progress, we act as a non-archival repository for
these works: while authors may elect to have their papers linked from our
website, they will not be archived in the ACL Anthology. Authors may elect
to not have their submission listed on the website if they wish to avoid
de-anonymizing themselves for later submissions to other venues.
For review, submissions must be anonymized and follow the standard
one-column format used in past WiNLP workshops. Each submission should be a
two-page extended abstract PDF, with any number of additional pages allowed
for references. No appendices will be accepted.
Submissions should be two pages long (not including references). Authors
must use the ACL Rolling Review style files
https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html#style-files to format
their submission, and must submit it electronically in PDF format via the
WiNLP 2022 online submission system:
https://softconf.com/emnlp2022/WiNLP22/.
We invite submissions on topics in computational linguistics and NLP,
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 link: https://softconf.com/emnlp2022/WiNLP22/
ARR style files:
https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html#style-files
Multiple Submission Policy
As we aim for improved and increased representation of underrepresented
minorities, we will consider anonymized two page abstracts of papers that
have been submitted to other venues or have already been published
elsewhere since January 1, 2022. However, authors must clearly indicate
this at submission time in the submission form. While our reviewers are
instructed not to seek to de-anonymize submissions, authors from previously
published works acknowledge that anonymity may not be guaranteed in those
cases should a reviewer recognize their work.
Authors may NOT submit the same work to both the regular and visa-friendly
deadlines. While an author may appear on works in both submission
deadlines, they must have substantially distinct content. Submissions to
the main deadline deemed to duplicate early submissions will be rejected
without review.
ACL Rolling Review (ARR)
Authors who have work submitted to ARR on or after January 1, 2022 may also
submit an extended abstract to the WiNLP workshop. Because our conference
accepts two-page abstracts as our primary form of submission, we ask that
authors still submit an extended abstract through our SoftConf page to
ensure every poster has a corresponding two-page abstract. By default,
abstracts are listed with their authors on the website, but our accepted
abstracts are not archived in the ACL Anthology. Authors may elect to have
their abstract linked from the conference website as a camera-ready. If
your work is accepted while it should be under anonymity for reviewing
purposes, please let us know when we solicit your camera-ready paper if you
need your submission to be either unlisted or listed with anonymous authors.
Peer Workshopping and Reviewing Procedure
Ten days 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. To participate in this process, authors must sign up
using this form
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=DQSIkWdsW0yxEjajBLZtrQAAAAAAAAAAAAZAAKZOe8BURFBVRDhSVlEzSllGRVhWUDJWS1FCOVhHTS4u
no less than two weeks before the deadline to which they choose to submit:
either June 9 for early review or August 24 for regular review. 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. 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 (anywhere on earth).
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.
Travel Support
There will be a limited amount of travel grants and/or additional funding
to cover expenses, similar to the previous editions. Funding is available
for travel, lodging, registration, and visa costs for one author for each
submission. The funded author may elect to attend virtually if they prefer.
The selected author should be identified as part of the travel grant
submission form. If we find ourselves with extra funds, we will attempt to
support further funding for virtual attendance for additional authors, but
we do not guarantee we can support any further in-person attendance. We
recommend additional student authors keep an eye out for the EMNLP call for
student volunteers or call for D&I subsidies as opportunities for further
funding.
Different institutions have different funding availability, so we ask
authors to please explore their funding options locally in addition to
through WiNLP so we can extend our funds to as many participants as
possible. More information will be made available closer to the submission
deadline and linked from our workshop website at
http://www.winlp.org/winlp-2022-workshop/. Travel expenses are handled via
reimbursement (primarily through $USD check or PayPal). If you will be
unable to front the cost of travel expenses and your school or employer is
unable to assist, please reach out to the organizers as soon as possible.
Contact information
Website: http://www.winlp.org/winlp-2021-workshop/
Twitter: @winlpworkshop https://twitter.com/WiNLPWorkshop
Facebook: Widening NLP https://www.facebook.com/WideningNLP
LinkedIn: Widening NLP https://www.linkedin.com/company/winlp
E-mail: winlp-chairs@googlegroups.com
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Tirthankar Ghosal
Researcher at UFAL, Charles University, CZ
https://member.acm.org/~tghosal
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Call for Abstracts
Widening NLP Workshop 2022
The Sixth Widening Natural Language Processing Workshop (WiNLP) will be
held in conjunction with EMNLP 2022 <https://2022.emnlp.org/> in Abu Dhabi,
UAE. Since EMNLP is anticipating a hybrid format for their conference, we
also anticipate our workshop will be hybrid, with both online and in-person
attendees. The one-day workshop will occur during EMNLP’s workshop period
either December 7th or 8th, 2022.
We invite authors from underrepresented groups in Natural Language
Processing (NLP) to submit a two-page abstract to be considered for a
poster presentation at our workshop. Submissions will be accepted through
two reviewing cycles:
-
Our early visa-friendly deadline will be June 23, 2022 (anywhere on
Earth/UTC-12). Decisions will be sent out by July 25, 2022. This
deadline exists primarily for attendees interested in traveling in person
who may need additional time to process their visa.
-
Our regular deadline will be September 7, 2022 (anywhere on
Earth/UTC-12). Decisions will be sent out by October 9, 2022. Note that
this is only two months before the event, and WiNLP does not have our own
legal services to help with expediting visas. Individuals not eligible for
visas on arrival or visa-free travel to the UAE should plan to submit to
the early deadline (see this list
<https://visitabudhabi.ae/en/plan-your-trip/essential-info/getting-a-visa>
for eligible countries).
Important DatesEarly (visa-friendly) deadlines
Last date to join author workshopping
<https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=DQSIkWdsW0yxEjajBLZtrQAAAAAAAAAAAAZAAKZOe8BURFBVRDhSVlEzSllGRVhWUDJWS1FCOVhHTS4u>:
June 9, 2022
Submission deadline: June 23, 2022
Acceptance notification: July 25, 2022
Travel grant applications due: August 15, 2022
Travel grant notification: August 18, 2022
Regular deadlines
Last date to join author workshopping
<https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=DQSIkWdsW0yxEjajBLZtrQAAAAAAAAAAAAZAAKZOe8BURFBVRDhSVlEzSllGRVhWUDJWS1FCOVhHTS4u>:
August 24, 2022
Submission deadline: September 7, 2022
Acceptance notification: October 9, 2022
Travel grant applications due: October 21, 2022
Travel grant notification: October 25, 2022
Workshop Date
December 7th or 8th, 2022 (date TBD)
EMNLP 2022
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Workshop Description
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 group [based on gender, ethnicity, nationality, sexual
orientation, disability status, or otherwise] is invited to submit a
two-page abstract for a poster presentation. In our 2022 iteration, we hope
to be more intentional about centering discussions of access and
disability, as well as contributing to 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.
Submission guidelines
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. Since many
submissions are works in progress, we act as a non-archival repository for
these works: while authors may elect to have their papers linked from our
website, they will not be archived in the ACL Anthology. Authors may elect
to not have their submission listed on the website if they wish to avoid
de-anonymizing themselves for later submissions to other venues.
For review, submissions must be anonymized and follow the standard
one-column format used in past WiNLP workshops. Each submission should be a
two-page extended abstract PDF, with any number of additional pages allowed
for references. No appendices will be accepted.
Submissions should be two pages long (not including references). Authors
must use the ACL Rolling Review style files
<https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html#style-files> to format
their submission, and must submit it electronically in PDF format via the
WiNLP 2022 online submission system:
https://softconf.com/emnlp2022/WiNLP22/.
We invite submissions on topics in computational linguistics and NLP,
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 link: https://softconf.com/emnlp2022/WiNLP22/
ARR style files:
https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html#style-files
Multiple Submission Policy
As we aim for improved and increased representation of underrepresented
minorities, we will consider anonymized two page abstracts of papers that
have been submitted to other venues or have already been published
elsewhere since January 1, 2022. However, authors must clearly indicate
this at submission time in the submission form. While our reviewers are
instructed not to seek to de-anonymize submissions, authors from previously
published works acknowledge that anonymity may not be guaranteed in those
cases should a reviewer recognize their work.
Authors may NOT submit the same work to both the regular and visa-friendly
deadlines. While an author may appear on works in both submission
deadlines, they must have substantially distinct content. Submissions to
the main deadline deemed to duplicate early submissions will be rejected
without review.
ACL Rolling Review (ARR)
Authors who have work submitted to ARR on or after January 1, 2022 may also
submit an extended abstract to the WiNLP workshop. Because our conference
accepts two-page abstracts as our primary form of submission, we ask that
authors still submit an extended abstract through our SoftConf page to
ensure every poster has a corresponding two-page abstract. By default,
abstracts are listed with their authors on the website, but our accepted
abstracts are not archived in the ACL Anthology. Authors may elect to have
their abstract linked from the conference website as a camera-ready. If
your work is accepted while it should be under anonymity for reviewing
purposes, please let us know when we solicit your camera-ready paper if you
need your submission to be either unlisted or listed with anonymous authors.
Peer Workshopping and Reviewing Procedure
Ten days 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. To participate in this process, authors must sign up
using this form
<https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=DQSIkWdsW0yxEjajBLZtrQAAAAAAAAAAAAZAAKZOe8BURFBVRDhSVlEzSllGRVhWUDJWS1FCOVhHTS4u>
no less than two weeks before the deadline to which they choose to submit:
either June 9 for early review or August 24 for regular review. 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. 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 (anywhere on earth).
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.
Travel Support
There will be a limited amount of travel grants and/or additional funding
to cover expenses, similar to the previous editions. Funding is available
for travel, lodging, registration, and visa costs for one author for each
submission. The funded author may elect to attend virtually if they prefer.
The selected author should be identified as part of the travel grant
submission form. If we find ourselves with extra funds, we will attempt to
support further funding for virtual attendance for additional authors, but
we do not guarantee we can support any further in-person attendance. We
recommend additional student authors keep an eye out for the EMNLP call for
student volunteers or call for D&I subsidies as opportunities for further
funding.
Different institutions have different funding availability, so we ask
authors to please explore their funding options locally in addition to
through WiNLP so we can extend our funds to as many participants as
possible. More information will be made available closer to the submission
deadline and linked from our workshop website at
http://www.winlp.org/winlp-2022-workshop/. Travel expenses are handled via
reimbursement (primarily through $USD check or PayPal). If you will be
unable to front the cost of travel expenses and your school or employer is
unable to assist, please reach out to the organizers as soon as possible.
Contact information
Website: http://www.winlp.org/winlp-2021-workshop/
Twitter: @winlpworkshop <https://twitter.com/WiNLPWorkshop>
Facebook: Widening NLP <https://www.facebook.com/WideningNLP>
LinkedIn: Widening NLP <https://www.linkedin.com/company/winlp>
E-mail: winlp-chairs@googlegroups.com
--
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Tirthankar Ghosal
Researcher at UFAL, Charles University, CZ
https://member.acm.org/~tghosal
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++