LINGUIST List 28.5222

Mon Dec 11 2017

Calls: Computational Linguistics/USA

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08-Dec-2017Ekaterina Shutova Workshop on Figurative Language ProcessingFull Title: Workshop on Figurative Language ProcessingDate: 05-Jun-2018 - 06-Jun-2018Location: New Orleans, USAContact Person: Ekaterina ShutovaMeeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: https://sites.google.com/site/figlangworkshop/ Linguistic Field(s): Computational LinguisticsCall Deadline: 12-Mar-2018Meeting Description:NAACL 2018 Workshop on Figurative Language ProcessingNew Orleans, Louisiana, USA – June 5 or 6, 2018Submission deadline: March 12, 2018Figurative language processing is a rapidly growing area in NLP, including processing of metaphors, idioms, puns, irony, sarcasm, as well as other figures. Characteristic to all areas of human activity (from poetic to ordinary to scientific) and, thus, to all types of discourse, figurative language becomes an important problem for NLP systems. Its ubiquity in language has been established in a number of corpus studies and the role it plays in human reasoning has been confirmed in psychological experiments. This makes figurative language an important research area for computational and cognitive linguistics, and its automatic identification and interpretation indispensable for any semantics-oriented NLP application.The work on figurative language in NLP and AI started in the 1980s, mainly focusing on metaphor and metonymy, and providing us with a wealth of ideas on the structure and mechanisms of these phenomena. In recent years, the problem of figurative language understanding has been steadily gaining interest within the NLP community, with a growing number of approaches exploiting statistical techniques and venturing into further areas, such as sarcasm, irony and puns. Advances in other areas of computational semantics continue to open many new avenues for the creation of open-domain, large-scale tools for recognition, interpretation, and generation of figurative language. In addition, the growth of the area of social media analysis provides an exciting platform to study figurative language in its social and pragmatic context.The goal of the proposed workshop is to build upon the successful start of the Metaphor in NLP workshop series, substantially expanding its scope to incorporate the rapidly growing body of research on various types of figurative language in NLP, with the aim of maintaining and nourishing a community of NLP researchers interested in this topic. The main focus of the workshop will be on computational modelling of figurative language using state-of-the-art NLP techniques. However, papers on cognitive, linguistic, social, rhetorical, and applied aspects are also of interest, provided that they are presented within a computational, a formal, or a quantitative framework. In addition, we will also conduct a shared task on metaphor detection.Workshop Co-ChairsBeata Beigman Klebanov, Educational Testing Service, USAEkaterina Shutova, University of Cambridge, UKSmaranda Muresan, Columbia University, USAPatricia Lichtenstein, University of California, Merced, USABen Leong, Educational Testing Service, USACall for Papers:Submission deadline: March 12, 2018Figurative language processing is a rapidly growing area in NLP, including processing of metaphors, idioms, puns, irony, sarcasm, as well as other figures. Characteristic to all areas of human activity (from poetic to ordinary to scientific) and, thus, to all types of discourse, figurative language becomes an important problem for NLP systems. Its ubiquity in language has been established in a number of corpus studies and the role it plays in human reasoning has been confirmed in psychological experiments. This makes figurative language an important research area for computational and cognitive linguistics, and its automatic identification and interpretation indispensable for any semantics-oriented NLP application.The work on figurative language in NLP and AI started in the 1980s, mainly focusing on metaphor and metonymy, and providing us with a wealth of ideas on the structure and mechanisms of these phenomena. In recent years, the problem of figurative language understanding has been steadily gaining interest within the NLP community, with a growing number of approaches exploiting statistical techniques and venturing into further areas, such as sarcasm, irony and puns. Advances in other areas of computational semantics continue to open many new avenues for the creation of open-domain, large-scale tools for recognition, interpretation, and generation of figurative language. In addition, the growth of the area of social media analysis provides an exciting platform to study figurative language in its social and pragmatic context.The goal of the proposed workshop is to build upon the successful start of the Metaphor in NLP workshop series, substantially expanding its scope to incorporate the rapidly growing body of research on various types of figurative language in NLP, with the aim of maintaining and nourishing a community of NLP researchers interested in this topic. The main focus of the workshop will be on computational modelling of figurative language using state-of-the-art NLP techniques. However, papers on cognitive, linguistic, social, rhetorical, and applied aspects are also of interest, provided that they are presented within a computational, a formal, or a quantitative framework. In addition, we will also conduct a shared task on metaphor detection.The workshop will solicit both full papers and short papers for either oral or poster presentation.Topics will include, but will not be limited to, the following:Identification and interpretation of different types of figurative language- Linguistic, conceptual and extended metaphor- Irony, sarcasm, puns- Simile, metonymy, personification, synecdoche,Systems for processing figurative language that incorporate state-of-the-art NLP methods- Machine learning for figurative language processing- The use of lexical resources in figurative language processing- Paraphrasing of figurative language- Generation of figurative language- Multilingual processing and translation of figurative languageResources and evaluation- Annotation of figurative language in corpora- Figurative language in lexical resources- Datasets for evaluation of tools for automated processing of figurative language- Evaluation methodologies and frameworksProcessing of figurative language for NLP applications- Figurative language in sentiment analysis- Figurative language in computational social science- Figurative language in educational applications- Figurative language and mental health- Figurative language in dialog systems- Figurative language in digital humanitiesFigurative language and cognition- Computational approaches to metaphor and other figures inspired by cognitive evidence- Cognitive models of processing of figurative language by the human brain- Models of metaphor and other figures across languages and culturesFigurative language in social context- Figurative language in political communication- Figurative language in education- Figurative language in social mediaInteraction of figurative language with other linguistic phenomena- Figurative language and compositionality- Figurative language and abstractness / concreteness- Figurative language and sentiment- Figurative language and argumentation- Figurative language and grammarImportant Dates:March 12, 2018 Paper submissions due (23:59 West Coast USA time)April 2, 2018 Notification of acceptanceApril 16, 2018 Camera-ready papers dueJune 5 or 6, 2018 Workshop in New Orleans, LouisianaSubmission Information:Authors are invited to submit a full paper of up to 8 pages, with up to 2 additional pages for references. We also invite short papers of up to 4 pages, with up to 2 additional pages for references.All submissions should follow the two-column format of NAACL 2018 proceedings. Please use ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word style files tailored for this year's conference; these style files are available at http://naacl2018.org/call_for_paper.html . Submissions must conform to the official style guidelines, which are contained in the style files, and they must be electronic in PDF format. Please see naaclhlt2018.pdf for detailed formatting instructions.Previously published papers cannot be accepted. The submissions will be reviewed by the program committee. As reviewing will be blind, please ensure that papers are anonymous. 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) ...''. Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. In addition, please do not post your submissions on the web until after the review process is complete.Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must indicate this at submission time. Authors of papers accepted for presentation at the workshop must notify the program chairs as to whether the paper will be presented by 16 April at the latest. All accepted papers must be presented at the workshop to appear in the proceedings.Please submit papers electronically at: https://www.softconf.com/naacl2018/Fig-Lang18/