2nd Call for Papers for the 8th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH)
*** Second Call for Papers ***
*** The 8th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) ***
Website: https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/
Dates
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Submission due: March 10, 2024
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ARR reviewed submission due: April 7, 2024
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Notification of acceptance: April 14, 2024
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Camera-ready papers due: April 24, 2024
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Workshop: June 21 or 22, 2024
All deadlines are 11:59 PM AoE time.
Overview
The Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) invites paper submissions from a wide range of fields, including natural language processing, machine learning, computational social sciences, law, politics, psychology, sociology and cultural studies. We explicitly encourage interdisciplinary submissions, technical as well as non-technical submissions, and submissions that focus on under-resourced languages. We also invite non-archival submissions and civil society reports.
The topics covered by WOAH include, but are not limited to:
- New models or methods for detecting abusive and harmful online content, including misinformation;
- Biases and limitations of existing detection models or datasets for abusive and harmful online content, particularly those in commercial use;
- New datasets and taxonomies for online abuse and harms;
- New evaluation metrics and procedures for the detection of harmful content;
- Dynamics of online abuse and harms, as well as their impact on different communities
- Social, legal, and ethical implications of detecting, monitoring and moderating online abuse
In addition, we invite submissions related to the theme for this eighth edition of WOAH, which will be online harms in the age of large language models. Highly capable Large Language Models (LLMs) are now widely deployed and easily accessible by millions across the globe. Without proper safeguards, these LLMs will readily follow malicious instructions and generate toxic content. Even the safest LLMs can be exploited by bad actors for harmful purposes. With this theme, we invite submissions that explore the implications of LLMs for the creation, dissemination and detection of harmful online content. We are interested in how to stop LLMs from following malicious instructions and generating toxic content, but also how they could be used to improve content moderation and enable countermeasures like personalised counterspeech. To support our theme, we have invited an interdisciplinary line-up of high-profile speakers across academia, industry and public policy.
Submission Guidelines
Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system.
Submission link: https://softconf.com/naacl2024/WOAH2024/manager/scmd.cgi?scmd=submitPaperCustom&pageid=0&isPreview=yes
The workshop will accept three types of papers.
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Academic Papers (long and short): Long papers of up to 8 pages, excluding references, and short papers of up to 4 pages, excluding references. Unlimited pages for references and appendices. Accepted papers will be given an additional page of content to address reviewer comments. Previously published papers cannot be accepted.
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Non-Archival Submissions: Up to 2 pages, excluding references, to summarise and showcase in-progress work and work published elsewhere.
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Civil Society Reports: Non-archival submissions, with a minimum of 2 pages and no upper limit. Can include work published elsewhere.
All submissions must use the official ACL style fileshttps://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. All submissions should adhere to the workshop policies https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/policies.html.
All submissions, except for civil society reports, must be fully anonymised. Self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...".
Following the NAACL 2024 guidelines, we believe that it is also important to discuss the limitations of your work, in addition to its strengths. The “Limitations” section will appear at the end of the paper, after the discussion/conclusions section and before the references, and will not count towards the page limit.
Multiple Submissions Policy
The workshop allows for multiple submissions.
Papers that have been or will be presented at other venues may only be presented as non-archival. Papers that are presented at the main conference (NAACL 2024) can be presented at the workshop as non-archival.
WOAH Community
We are excited to share the WOAH community Slack channel — a workspace for researchers interested in or working on understanding and addressing online abuse and harms!
Join us here: https://join.slack.com/t/hatespeechdet-47d7560/shared_invite/zt-2a8d96j4z-gkNk_aLrliUK4NxA8woqIw
Organizers
Paul Röttger, Bocconi University
Yi-Ling Chung, The Alan Turing Institute
Debora Nozza, Bocconi University
Aida Mostafazadeh Davani, Google
Agostina Calabrese, University of Edinburgh
Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Bocconi University
Zeerak Talat, Digital Democracies Institute, Simon Fraser University
Please send any questions about the workshop to organizers@workshopononlineabuse.commailto:organizers@workshopononlineabuse.com
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.
*** Third Call for Papers ***
*** The 8th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) ***
Website: https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/
Dates
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Submission due: March 10, 2024 March 17, 2024
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ARR reviewed submission due: April 7, 2024
-
Notification of acceptance: April 14, 2024
-
Camera-ready papers due: April 24, 2024
-
Workshop: June 21 or 22, 2024
All deadlines are 11:59 PM AoE time.
Overview
The Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) invites paper submissions from a wide range of fields, including natural language processing, machine learning, computational social sciences, law, politics, psychology, sociology and cultural studies. We explicitly encourage interdisciplinary submissions, technical as well as non-technical submissions, and submissions that focus on under-resourced languages. We also invite non-archival submissions and civil society reports.
The topics covered by WOAH include, but are not limited to:
- New models or methods for detecting abusive and harmful online content, including misinformation;
- Biases and limitations of existing detection models or datasets for abusive and harmful online content, particularly those in commercial use;
- New datasets and taxonomies for online abuse and harms;
- New evaluation metrics and procedures for the detection of harmful content;
- Dynamics of online abuse and harms, as well as their impact on different communities
- Social, legal, and ethical implications of detecting, monitoring and moderating online abuse
In addition, we invite submissions related to the theme for this eighth edition of WOAH, which will be online harms in the age of large language models. Highly capable Large Language Models (LLMs) are now widely deployed and easily accessible by millions across the globe. Without proper safeguards, these LLMs will readily follow malicious instructions and generate toxic content. Even the safest LLMs can be exploited by bad actors for harmful purposes. With this theme, we invite submissions that explore the implications of LLMs for the creation, dissemination and detection of harmful online content. We are interested in how to stop LLMs from following malicious instructions and generating toxic content, but also how they could be used to improve content moderation and enable countermeasures like personalised counterspeech. To support our theme, we have invited an interdisciplinary line-up of high-profile speakers across academia, industry and public policy.
Submission Guidelines
Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system.
Submission link: https://softconf.com/naacl2024/WOAH2024/manager/scmd.cgi?scmd=submitPaperCustom&pageid=0&isPreview=yes
The workshop will accept three types of papers.
-
Academic Papers (long and short): Long papers of up to 8 pages, excluding references, and short papers of up to 4 pages, excluding references. Unlimited pages for references and appendices. Accepted papers will be given an additional page of content to address reviewer comments. Previously published papers cannot be accepted.
-
Non-Archival Submissions: Up to 2 pages, excluding references, to summarise and showcase in-progress work and work published elsewhere.
-
Civil Society Reports: Non-archival submissions, with a minimum of 2 pages and no upper limit. Can include work published elsewhere.
All submissions must use the official ACL style fileshttps://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. All submissions should adhere to the workshop policies https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/policies.html.
All submissions, except for civil society reports, must be fully anonymised. Self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...".
Following the NAACL 2024 guidelines, we believe that it is also important to discuss the limitations of your work, in addition to its strengths. The “Limitations” section will appear at the end of the paper, after the discussion/conclusions section and before the references, and will not count towards the page limit.
Multiple Submissions Policy
The workshop allows for multiple submissions.
Papers that have been or will be presented at other venues may only be presented as non-archival. Papers that are presented at the main conference (NAACL 2024) can be presented at the workshop as non-archival.
WOAH Community
We are excited to share the WOAH community Slack channel — a workspace for researchers interested in or working on understanding and addressing online abuse and harms!
Join us here: https://join.slack.com/t/hatespeechdet-47d7560/shared_invite/zt-2a8d96j4z-gkNk_aLrliUK4NxA8woqIw
Organizers
Paul Röttger, Bocconi University
Yi-Ling Chung, The Alan Turing Institute
Debora Nozza, Bocconi University
Aida Mostafazadeh Davani, Google
Agostina Calabrese, University of Edinburgh
Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Bocconi University
Zeerak Talat, Digital Democracies Institute, Simon Fraser University
Please send any questions about the workshop to organizers@workshopononlineabuse.commailto:organizers@workshopononlineabuse.com
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.
*** UPDATED SUBMISSION LINK AND DEADLINE ***
*** The 8th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) ***
Website: https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/
Dates
-
Submission due: March 10, 2024 March 18, 2024
-
ARR reviewed submission due: April 7, 2024
-
Notification of acceptance: April 14, 2024
-
Camera-ready papers due: April 24, 2024
-
Workshop: June 21 or 22, 2024
All deadlines are 11:59 PM AoE time.
Overview
The Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) invites paper submissions from a wide range of fields, including natural language processing, machine learning, computational social sciences, law, politics, psychology, sociology and cultural studies. We explicitly encourage interdisciplinary submissions, technical as well as non-technical submissions, and submissions that focus on under-resourced languages. We also invite non-archival submissions and civil society reports.
The topics covered by WOAH include, but are not limited to:
- New models or methods for detecting abusive and harmful online content, including misinformation;
- Biases and limitations of existing detection models or datasets for abusive and harmful online content, particularly those in commercial use;
- New datasets and taxonomies for online abuse and harms;
- New evaluation metrics and procedures for the detection of harmful content;
- Dynamics of online abuse and harms, as well as their impact on different communities
- Social, legal, and ethical implications of detecting, monitoring and moderating online abuse
In addition, we invite submissions related to the theme for this eighth edition of WOAH, which will be online harms in the age of large language models. Highly capable Large Language Models (LLMs) are now widely deployed and easily accessible by millions across the globe. Without proper safeguards, these LLMs will readily follow malicious instructions and generate toxic content. Even the safest LLMs can be exploited by bad actors for harmful purposes. With this theme, we invite submissions that explore the implications of LLMs for the creation, dissemination and detection of harmful online content. We are interested in how to stop LLMs from following malicious instructions and generating toxic content, but also how they could be used to improve content moderation and enable countermeasures like personalised counterspeech. To support our theme, we have invited an interdisciplinary line-up of high-profile speakers across academia, industry and public policy.
Submission Guidelines
Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system.
Submission link: https://softconf.com/naacl2024/WOAH2024
The workshop will accept three types of papers.
-
Academic Papers (long and short): Long papers of up to 8 pages, excluding references, and short papers of up to 4 pages, excluding references. Unlimited pages for references and appendices. Accepted papers will be given an additional page of content to address reviewer comments. Previously published papers cannot be accepted.
-
Non-Archival Submissions: Up to 2 pages, excluding references, to summarise and showcase in-progress work and work published elsewhere.
-
Civil Society Reports: Non-archival submissions, with a minimum of 2 pages and no upper limit. Can include work published elsewhere.
All submissions must use the official ACL style fileshttps://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. All submissions should adhere to the workshop policies https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/policies.html.
All submissions, except for civil society reports, must be fully anonymised. Self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...".
Following the NAACL 2024 guidelines, we believe that it is also important to discuss the limitations of your work, in addition to its strengths. The “Limitations” section will appear at the end of the paper, after the discussion/conclusions section and before the references, and will not count towards the page limit.
Multiple Submissions Policy
The workshop allows for multiple submissions.
Papers that have been or will be presented at other venues may only be presented as non-archival. Papers that are presented at the main conference (NAACL 2024) can be presented at the workshop as non-archival.
WOAH Community
We are excited to share the WOAH community Slack channel — a workspace for researchers interested in or working on understanding and addressing online abuse and harms!
Join us here: https://join.slack.com/t/hatespeechdet-47d7560/shared_invite/zt-2a8d96j4z-gkNk_aLrliUK4NxA8woqIw
Organizers
Paul Röttger, Bocconi University
Yi-Ling Chung, The Alan Turing Institute
Debora Nozza, Bocconi University
Aida Mostafazadeh Davani, Google
Agostina Calabrese, University of Edinburgh
Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Bocconi University
Zeerak Talat, Digital Democracies Institute, Simon Fraser University
Please send any questions about the workshop to organizers@workshopononlineabuse.commailto:organizers@workshopononlineabuse.com
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.