KONVENS Teaching for NLP Workshop
Workshop Date & Venue
- September 18, 12pm - 6pm + Workshop Dinner
- TH Ingolstadt
- Co-located with KONVENS 2023
- Submission Deadline: June 9, 2023
- Notification: July 5, 2023
- Camera Ready Deadline: July 15, 2023
Aim of the Workshop
The fast-paced nature of progress in NLP poses unique challenges to educators engaging in curriculum design for NLP courses and NLP-related degree programs. Its rapid growth has led to the creation and revision of thousands of courses and degree programs at universities and online, as well as new educational materials focused on emerging subareas of NLP (e.g., prompting, ethics in NLP systems). For the Workshop on Teaching NLP we propose to bring the NLP community together at KONVENS 2023 to discuss the following topics:
- What are key elements of NLP and/or CL curricula?
- What adaptations are necessary to cater to different groups (i.e. core computer science students vs. core CL students vs. Digital Humanities students)
- What topics should be covered for students studying NLP/CL as major subject, which topics should be covered for students studying NLP/CL as minor subjects?
- What is unique about teaching NLP/CL in German speaking contexts?
- What challenges do we face when working with German or other non-English languages as a language, data sets, etc.?
- What are key differences between regular universities and universities of applied sciences?
We invite submissions relating to teaching CL/NLP in applied linguistics, digital humanities, computational linguistics, data science, or computer science.
Call for Contributions
One of our major goals is to provide resources for teachers and instructors that can last beyond the discussions held on the day of the workshop. We invite 2-3 page short papers or 6-8 page long papers (with unlimited pages of references) that can be position papers on teaching methodology and theory or teaching materials (lecture slides, exercises, project descriptions) with 2-3 page short papers describing the materials.
- Tools and methodologies (e.g. teaching with code, active learning, flipped classroom)
- Adapting existing curriculum to incorporate new NLP advancements
- Choice of topics to cover for different target audiences
- Developing courses for (IT) students without linguistics background
- Developing courses for students who have non-computer science backgrounds
- Teaching NLP in German speaking context (or using other languages than English in general)
- Position of NLP in curricula at universities of applied sciences
- Ethics, reproducibility, and responsible practices
Existing resources for teaching NLP are often scattered across course and faculty web pages or they are outdated, such as the ACL Wiki’s page on Teaching. We plan to join forces with the ACL-wide Teaching NLP workshop to add resources to their repository in order to make our material more generally available.
Submission will be single-blind (i.e., they should not be anonymous) and follow the ACL style guidelines.
Papers can be submitted at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/KONVENS2023/