Second Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology Workshop

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Papers
Abbreviated Title: 
CLPsych
Location: 
Sheraton Denver Downtown,at NAACL 2015
Friday, 5 June 2015
State: 
Colorado
Country: 
USA
City: 
Denver
Submission Deadline: 
Tuesday, 10 March 2015

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Last Call for Papers
The Second Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology Workshop (CLPsych, at NAACL 2015)
Denver, Colorado, June 5th
Website: http://clpsych.org/
Submissions deadline: March 10, 2015 <--- New and Improved Submission Deadline!!
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-- Description --

This workshop will focus on language technology applications in mental health. We aim to bring together natural language processing (NLP) researchers and clinicians, with the following four goals:

- To increase language technologists’ understanding of what mental health clinicians do and what their real needs are
- To increase clinicians’ understanding of what’s possible in language technology and what it might have to offer
- To formulate targets and priorities for near-term improvement of the practical state of the art
- To help facilitate the creation and development of high-value NLP tools that can be used in the clinical community

Instead of the traditional presentation+questions format, each paper will also have a clinically-oriented discussant, who will read the paper thoroughly in advance and briefly present prepared commentary.

We are particularly interested in submissions that bear on issues like the following, relative to psychological conditions and neurological disorders:

- What features of language or speech could play a prominent role in diagnosis, monitoring, and other elements of clinical practice?
- What algorithms and forms of modeling are applicable?
- What kinds of data exists or could be obtained?
- What tools or resources does this research make available?
- What practical or ethical issues require attention?

We aim to emerge from the workshop discussions with a further strategy for progress in this field, informed by both the NAACL and clinical psychologist participants. This could include, for example, identifying additional topics, tasks, and data; formulating a plan for creating and sharing IRB application templates for NLP work in psychology; or identifying the top-level requirements for an NLP toolkit specifically devoted to practical issues in clinical psychology.

-- Shared Task --

CLPsych 2015 will also include a Shared Task on detecting mental illness in social media.
Further details are available here: http://clpsych.org/shared_task/
If you intend to participate, please sign up at the given url as soon as possible. Due to the sensitive nature of this data, we will need to confirm our IRB with your institution's ethical review board before permitting access to the data and obtain signed data privacy agreements.

-- Paper Submission instructions --

A key goal of this workshop is to foster the conversation with clinicians, both at the workshop and when these papers are read in the future. We are therefore including practicing mental health clinicians and clinical researchers on our program committee; the ability to communicate ideas, approaches, and results clearly to people who are not computational linguistics experts will be as important as the quality of the work itself.

We encourage you to include supplementary materials (up to 2 pages) with technical details kept out of the body of the paper. These and other supplementary materials, such as code or datasets, will be linked via URL in the final version of the accepted paper.

Submissions can contain up to 8 pages of content, plus references of any length, plus up to 2 pages of supplementary materials as described above. Supplementary materials should be self-contained (i.e., should start on a separate page). Papers must conform to the NAACL 2015 submission format guidelines, as detailed in the NAACL 2015 Call for Papers. Submissions should be anonymous. Papers must be submitted using the START system at:
https://www.softconf.com/naacl2015/clpsych/

We will accept submissions for either oral or poster presentation.

-- Important dates --

Submissions deadline: March 10, 2015
Notifications sent to authors: March 22, 2015
Final, camera-ready papers due: April 08, 2015
Workshop in Denver: June 5, 2015

-- Organizers --

Margaret Mitchell, PhD, Microsoft Research
Glen Coppersmith, PhD, Johns Hopkins University HLTCOE
Kristy Hollingshead, PhD, Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition

To contact the organizers, please mail clpsych2015-organizers [at] googlegroups.com.

-- Web sites --

General information: http://clpsych.org/
Paper submissions: https://www.softconf.com/naacl2015/clpsych/
NAACL conference site: http://naacl.org/naacl-hlt-2015/