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Date: 2021-07-06 13:48:20+00:00
From: Stan Szpakowicz <szpak44@gmail.com>
Subject: Third Call for Papers: The 5th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature
LaTeCH-CLfL 2021:
The 5th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for
Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature
to be held on-line on 11 November 2021 in conjunction with EMNLP 2021
https://sighum.wordpress.com/events/latech-clfl-2021/
Third -- and last -- Call for Papers
Organisers: Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Anna Kazantseva, Nils Reiter,
Stan Szpakowicz
LaTeCH-CLfL 2021 is the fifth in a series of meetings for NLP
researchers who work with data from the broadly understood arts,
humanities and social sciences, and for specialists in those disciplines
who apply NLP techniques in their work. The workshop continues a long
tradition of annual meetings. The SIGHUM Workshops on Language
Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities
(LaTeCH) ran from 2007 to 2016. The ACL Workshops on Computational
Linguistics for Literature (CLfL) took place from 2012 to 2016. The
first four joint workshops (LaTeCH-CLfL) were held from 2017 to 2020.
Topics and Content
In the Humanities, Social Sciences, Cultural Heritage and literary
communities, there is increasing interest in, and demand for, NLP
methods for semantic and structural annotation, intelligent linking,
discovery, querying, cleaning and visualization of both primary and
secondary data. This is even true of primarily non-textual collections,
given that text is also the pervasive medium for metadata. Such
applications pose new challenges for NLP research: noisy, non-standard
textual or multi-modal input, historical languages, vague research
concepts, multilingual parts within one document, and so no. Digital
resources often have insufficient coverage; resource-intensive methods
require (semi-)automatic processing tools and domain adaptation, or
intense manual effort (e.g., annotation).
Literary texts bring their own problems, because navigating this form of
creative expression requires more than the typical information-seeking
tools. Examples of advanced tasks include the study of literature of a
certain period, author or sub-genre, recognition of certain literary
devices, or quantitative analysis of poetry.
NLP methods applied in this context not only need to achieve high
performance, but are often applied as a first step in research or
scholarly workflow. That is why it is crucial to interpret model results
properly; model interpretability might be more important than raw
performance scores, depending on the context.
More generally, there is a growing interest in computational models
whose results can be used or interpreted in meaningful ways. It is,
therefore, of mutual benefit that NLP experts, data specialists and
Digital Humanities researchers who work in and across their domains get
involved in the Computational Linguistics community and present their
fundamental or applied research results. It has already been
demonstrated how cross-disciplinary exchange not only supports work in
the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Heritage communities but
also promotes work in the Computational Linguistics community to build
richer and more effective tools and models.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
• adaptation of NLP tools to Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences,
Humanities and literature;
• automatic error detection and cleaning of textual data;
• complex annotation schemas, tools and interfaces;
• creation (fully- or semi-automatic) of semantic resources;
• creation and analysis of social networks of literary characters;
• discourse and narrative analysis/modelling, notably in literature;
• emotion analysis for the humanities and for literature;
• generation of literary narrative, dialogue or poetry;
• identification and analysis of literary genres;
• linking and retrieving information from different sources,
media, and domains;
• modelling dialogue literary style for generation;
• modelling of information and knowledge in the Humanities,
Social Sciences, and Cultural Heritage;
• profiling and authorship attribution;
• search for scientific and/or scholarly literature;
• work with linguistic variation and non-standard or historical
use of language.
Information for Authors
We invite papers on original, unpublished work in the topic areas of the
workshop. In addition to long papers, we will consider short papers and
system descriptions (demos). We also welcome position papers.
• Long papers, presenting completed work, may consist of up to
eight (8) pages of content plus additional pages of references; final
camera-ready versions of accepted long papers will be given one
additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ comments
can be taken into account.
• A short paper / demo can present work in progress, or the
description of a system, and may consist of up to four (4) pages of
content plus additional pages of references. Upon acceptance, short
papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings.
• A position paper — clearly marked as such — should not exceed
six (6) pages including references.
All submissions are to use the EMNLP stylesheets (for LaTeX / Overleaf
and MS Word), to be announced soon at
https://2021.emnlp.org/call-for-papers/.
Papers should be submitted electronically, in PDF, via the
LaTeCH-CLfL2021 submission website at
https://www.softconf.com/emnlp2021/LaTeCHCLfL/.
Reviewing will be double-blind. Please do not include the authors’ names
and affiliations, or any references to Web sites, project names,
acknowledgements and so on — anything that immediately reveals the
authors’ identity. Self-references should be kept to a reasonable
minimum, and anonymous citations cannot be used. Please see
https://2021.emnlp.org/call-for-papers/#anonymity-period for the
official EMNLP policy (except that our anonymity period starts later).
Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings, and later
available in the ACL Anthology.
Important Dates
Anonymity period begins on July 1, 2021.
Paper submission deadline: August 5, 2021
Notification of acceptance: September 5, 2021
Camera-ready papers due: September 15, 2021
Workshop date: December 11, 2021
More on the organisers
Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Language Science and Technology, Saarland
University
Anna Kazantseva, National Research Council of Canada
Nils Reiter, Department for Digital Humanities, University of Cologne
Stan Szpakowicz, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
University of Ottawa
Contact
latech-clfl@googlegroups.com
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