Fourth Workshop on Threat, Aggression and Cyberbullying
May 20, 2024
Lingotto Conference Centre - Torino (Italia)
@ LREC-COLING 2024
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/trac2024
Submission Link: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/trac2024/
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Call for Papers and Shared Task Proposals
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We are happy to announce that the Fourth Workshop on Threat, Aggression and
Cyberbullying will be co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 on May 20, 2024.
We invite papers/proposals under the following categories on any of the
following themes from academic researchers, industry and any other
group/team working in the area-
- Long papers describing a substantial, completed original research (8
pages + unlimited reference)
- Short papers describing a small but interesting research (4 pages +
unlimited references)
- Position papers and opinion pieces (5 - 20 pages + unlimited
references)
- Demo of the tools (2 pages + unlimited references)
- Non-archival submissions (including already-presented work, project
plans or recently started projects)
- Proposal to organise a shared task as part of the workshop (the
shared task will be completely managed and organised by the task
organisers).
Linguistic Theories, Analysis and Models
Theories and models of aggression and conflict in language.
Grammar of hate, impoliteness and aggression incl phonological and
morphosyntactic properties
Pragmatic and Discourse Analysis of impolite, aggressive and hateful
language
Sociolinguistic analysis of impolite, aggressive and hateful language
Corpus-based analysis of impolite, aggressive and hateful language
Cognitive and Psycholinguistic Studies of hate and aggression.
Online Aggression and Physical Harm
Cyberbullying, threatening, hateful, aggressive and abusive language on
the web.
Multilingualism and aggression.
Multimodality and aggression
Resource Development and Computational Modelling
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Resource Development - Corpora, Annotation Guidelines, Standards and
Best Practices for threat and aggression detection.
Detection of threats and bullying on the web - data collection
methodologies and approaches.
Crowdsourcing and resource development for threatening, aggressive and
hateful language.
Replicability and Reproducibility of resources for aggression, hate
speech and offensive language detection.
Inter-annotator agreement, Perspectivist Datasets and Issues with
traditional methods of annotation.
Annotation Tools and Infrastructure for working on threatening,
aggressive and hateful language.
Computational Models and Methods for aggression, hate speech and
offensive language detection in text and speech.
Aggressive and Offensive Language Detection in and through Large
Language Models (LLMs).
Methods of building diverse, multilingual and multimodal resources and
models with a focus on under-resourced languages.
Evaluating and benchmarking resources and models for aggression, hate
speech and offensive language detection
Automatic censorship and moderation: ethical, legal and technological
issues and challenges.
Important Dates
For workshop papers
Submission Deadline: February 25, 2024
Notification of acceptance: April 5, 2024
Camera-ready due: April 15, 2024
All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth
For Shared Tasks
Proposals Due: January 29, 2024
Notification of acceptance: February 5, 2024
Training Set Release: February 7, 2024
Test Set Release: March 10, 2024
Submission due: March 13, 2024
System Description Papers due: March 31, 2024
Reviews for papers: April 7, 2024
Camera-ready due: April 15, 2024
Fourth Workshop on Threat, Aggression and Cyberbullying
May 20, 2024
Lingotto Conference Centre - Torino (Italia)
@ LREC-COLING 2024
*Website:* https://sites.google.com/view/trac2024
*Submission Link:* https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/trac2024/
====================================
Call for Papers and Shared Task Proposals
===================================
We are happy to announce that the Fourth Workshop on Threat, Aggression and
Cyberbullying will be co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 on May 20, 2024.
We invite papers/proposals under the following categories on any of the
following themes from academic researchers, industry and any other
group/team working in the area-
- Long papers describing a substantial, completed original research (8
pages + unlimited reference)
- Short papers describing a small but interesting research (4 pages +
unlimited references)
- Position papers and opinion pieces (5 - 20 pages + unlimited
references)
- Demo of the tools (2 pages + unlimited references)
- Non-archival submissions (including already-presented work, project
plans or recently started projects)
- Proposal to organise a shared task as part of the workshop (the
shared task will be completely managed and organised by the task
organisers).
Linguistic Theories, Analysis and Models
=================================
Theories and models of aggression and conflict in language.
Grammar of hate, impoliteness and aggression incl phonological and
morphosyntactic properties
Pragmatic and Discourse Analysis of impolite, aggressive and hateful
language
Sociolinguistic analysis of impolite, aggressive and hateful language
Corpus-based analysis of impolite, aggressive and hateful language
Cognitive and Psycholinguistic Studies of hate and aggression.
Online Aggression and Physical Harm
Cyberbullying, threatening, hateful, aggressive and abusive language on
the web.
Multilingualism and aggression.
Multimodality and aggression
Resource Development and Computational Modelling
===========================================
Resource Development - Corpora, Annotation Guidelines, Standards and
Best Practices for threat and aggression detection.
Detection of threats and bullying on the web - data collection
methodologies and approaches.
Crowdsourcing and resource development for threatening, aggressive and
hateful language.
Replicability and Reproducibility of resources for aggression, hate
speech and offensive language detection.
Inter-annotator agreement, Perspectivist Datasets and Issues with
traditional methods of annotation.
Annotation Tools and Infrastructure for working on threatening,
aggressive and hateful language.
Computational Models and Methods for aggression, hate speech and
offensive language detection in text and speech.
Aggressive and Offensive Language Detection in and through Large
Language Models (LLMs).
Methods of building diverse, multilingual and multimodal resources and
models with a focus on under-resourced languages.
Evaluating and benchmarking resources and models for aggression, hate
speech and offensive language detection
Automatic censorship and moderation: ethical, legal and technological
issues and challenges.
Important Dates
==============
For workshop papers
Submission Deadline: February 25, 2024
Notification of acceptance: April 5, 2024
Camera-ready due: April 15, 2024
All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth
For Shared Tasks
Proposals Due: January 29, 2024
Notification of acceptance: February 5, 2024
Training Set Release: February 7, 2024
Test Set Release: March 10, 2024
Submission due: March 13, 2024
System Description Papers due: March 31, 2024
Reviews for papers: April 7, 2024
Camera-ready due: April 15, 2024