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** DEADLINE EXTENSION - FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS**
Computing News Storylines 2016 (CNewsStory 2016)
Workshop in conjunction with EMNLP 2016, Austin, Texas, U.S.A
More info: https://sites.google.com/site/newsstorylines2016/home
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[Apologies for multiple posting]
Submission website: https://www.softconf.com/emnlp2016/CNS/
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Important Dates
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Paper submission: *DEADLINE EXTENSION* 12 August 2016 23:59 Hawaii time
Notification: 5 September 2016 23:59 Hawaii time
Camera-ready due: 26 September 2016 23:59 Hawaii time
Workshop: 5 November 2016
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Scope and Topics
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Today’s digital media ecosystem generates massive streams of news, largely in the form of individual documents (‘articles’) within which news events and narrative structures are communicated using natural language text. The increasing quantity of text documents produced by the ecosystem has presented challenges to those seeking to understand and contextualize news events and narratives over long periods of time, leading to demands for new multidimensional, multimodal and distributed representations of news events and of the narrative structures that are constructed from them. Currently, most work on cross-document temporal processing focuses on linear timelines (i.e. representations of chronologically ordered events), however not every timeline necessarily forms a good and useful storyline.
Following the success of 1st Workshop on Computing News Storylines (CNewsStory, ACL 2015), the 2nd edition of the Workshop on Computing News Storylines (CNewsStory, EMNLP 2016) aims at further exploring, investigating and understanding the cross-document connections between news events and stories.
This multidisciplinary workshop aims at gathering researchers in NLP, AI, knowledge representation and structured journalism together with journalists, policy makers and stakeholders in the news industry to discuss how NLP technology can help to deal with the current stream of information, manage the risks of information overload, identify different sources and perspectives, and provide unitary and easily intelligible representations of the larger and long-term storylines behind news articles.
We invite work on all aspects relating to the computational generation, representation, analysis or use of news storylines or their components, and on the relationships between news storylines or their components. This includes (but is not limited to) the following topics:
Identifying and filtering relevant events
Accumulating information from news streams
Detecting opinions and perspectives on events
Tracing perspective change through time
Modelling plot structures
Storyline stability and completeness
Annotating storylines
Crowdsourcing Storylines
Temporal or causal ordering of events
Script activation
Big data for storylines
Evaluation of storylines
Discourse structure and storylines
Visualisation of storylines
Visualisation of news clusters
Event factuality profiling
Multimodal storyline generation
Event-centred structured journalism
Event-centered natural language generation
Event taxonomies and ontologies
Characteristics of journalistic events and narratives
Representation of journalistic events and narratives
Narrative networks
Pattern detection in news
Advanced NLP news applications
Automatic Temporal Processing
Tools for automatic fact-checking on information extracted from corpora
News summarisation
Pattern detection in news reports
Trend prediction
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Submissions
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This call solicits full papers reporting original and unpublished research on storylines from news. Full papers should emphasize obtained results rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Submission should not exceed a maximum 8 pages plus two additional pages containing references.
Authors are also invited to submit short papers not exceeding 4 pages (plus two additional pages for references). Short papers should describe:
a small, focused contribution;
work in progress;
a negative result;
a position paper.
The reviewing process will be double blind and papers should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. If you do include any author names on the title page, your submission will be automatically rejected. In the body of your submission, you should eliminate all direct references to your own previous work. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and available at the ACL Anthology.
Multiple Submission Policy Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications are acceptable, but authors must indicate this information at submission time. If accepted, authors must notify the organizers as to whether the paper will be presented at the workshop or elsewhere.
Submissions must be in PDF format and formatted following the official EMNLP 2016 submission styles
Contributions should be submitted in PDF via the submission site: https://www.softconf.com/emnlp2016/CNS/
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Invited Speaker
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Eduard Hovy, Language Technologies Institute, CMU, [Title to be announced]
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Organizing Committee
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Tommaso Caselli, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)
Ben Miller, Georgia State University (U.S.A)
Marieke van Erp, VU University Amsterdam (NL)
Piek Vossen, VU University Amsterdam (NL)
David Caswell, Reynolds Journalism Institute, University of Missouri (U.S.A)
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Program Committee
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Alexandra Balahur, European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
Sabine Bergler, Computer Science, Columbia University, Canada
Larry, Birnbaum, Northwestern University, USA
Matje van de Camp, De Taalmonsters, The Netherlands
Reginald Chua, Thomson Reuters, USA
Leon Derczynski, University of Sheffield, UK
Nick Diakopoulos, University of Maryland, USA
Mark Finlayson, Florida International University, USA
Martijn Kleppe, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag, The Netherlands
Bernardo Magnini, HLT-FBK, Italy
Roser Morante, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Nasrin Mostafazadeh, University of Rochester, USA
Vivi Nastase, Institut fur Computerlinguistik, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Silvia Pareti, Google Inc. & University of Edinburgh
Octavian Popescu, IBM Watson Research Center, USA
Ellen Riloff, University of Utah, USA
Roser Saurí, Oxford University Press, UK & Pompeu Fabra University, Catalonia
Jonathan Stray, Columbia University, USA
Simone Teufel, Cambridge University, UK
Xavier Tannier, LIMSI-CNRS, France
Marc Verhagen, Brandeis University, USA