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The 1st Workshop on Multilingual Information Access (NAACL 2022)
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Location: Co-located with NAACL 2022, Friday, 15 July 2022
Event Notification Type: [Deadline Extension] Call for Papers
Abbreviated Title: MIA 2022
State:
Washington
Country:
United States
Contact Email:
mia.nlp.workshop [at] gmail.com
akari [at] cs.washington.edu
rmz5227 [at] psu.edu
chiahsuan.li [at] gmail.com
Website: https://mia-workshop.github.io/
Submission deadline: April 22, 2022 [*New Due Date*]
Paper submission deadline for papers with ARR Reviews / non-archival papers: April 29, 2022
Paper submission:
https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/NAACL/2022/Workshop/MIA
Non-archival paper submission: https://forms.gle/bv1gvi1mJzx5YFa47
***Overview and Main Focus***
Our workshop on Multilingual Information Access (MIA) focuses on building efficient, performant information access systems in a larger set of typologically diverse languages. We seek submissions on various aspects of this challenging task—(i) knowledge source, evaluation benchmark curation for low-resource languages, (ii) learning scenarios, and model architectures for building multilingual information access systems.
We are excited to announce that we will have the Best Paper Award! All of the archival papers will be considered for the Best Paper Award.
***Research Paper Track***
We encourage paper submissions that focus on various aspects of cross-lingual knowledge-intensive NLP tasks, including but not limited to:
- Multilingual machine reading comprehension (MRC)
- Multilingual open-retrieval question answering (QA)
- Cross-lingual information retrieval
- Multilingual information extraction
- Cross-lingual fact-checking
- Cross-lingual NLI
- Cross-lingual summarization
- System descriptions from our shared tasks (See below)
We also encourage submissions on related topics such as:
- Multilingual argument mining
- Cross-lingual semantic parsing
- Quantifying information content available in public
***Shared Task Track***
We also host a shared task on cross-lingual open-retrieval QA, which covers 14 typologically diverse languages with and without training data. See details on this page.
https://mia-workshop.github.io/shared_task.html
We accept system descriptions from our shared task as a workshop submission (Deadline: May 15). Please sign up from https://forms.gle/ioWDn4UCKyftTVCk6
***Submission Guidelines***
Please submit your papers at
https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/NAACL/2022/Workshop/MIA
Submissions should be at least 4 and at most 8 pages, not including citations; final versions of papers will be given one additional page (up to 9 pages). All submissions will be reviewed according to the same standards, regardless of length (i.e., there are no separate short and long paper tracks). Submissions may optionally include an appendix with no length restriction. The main paper must remain fully self-contained, as reviewers will not be asked to review appendices.
Please format your papers using the standard style files for ARR submission format:
- LaTeX & Word version: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files
- Overleaf template: https://www.overleaf.com/project/5f64f1fb97c4c50001b60549
*Non-archival Track (Deadline: April 29)
We also accept papers that have been published somewhere else including NAACL 2022 papers as non-archival papers. Presenting your work at our workshop may help you to reach out to the audience who are strongly interested in multilingual information access. For non-archival papers, please submit your papers at https://forms.gle/bv1gvi1mJzx5YFa47
Please note that the non-archival papers will not be considered for the best paper award.
ARR submissions with reviews can be submitted as non-archival papers as well. To commit your ARR submissions, please submit your paper information from the commitment form at https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/NAACL/2022/Workshop/MIA
*Dual submissions
We allow submissions that are also under review in other venues, but please note that many conferences do not allow it, so make sure that you do not violate their policy as well. Please follow the double-submission policy from ACL. Accepted cross-submissions will be presented as posters, with an indication of the original venue if it's already accepted elsewhere.
*Anonymity period
We do not enforce an anonymity period. We do not restrict posting on preprint servers such as arXiv at any point in time.
***Important dates***
Apr 22, 2022: Research Track Paper deadline for papers needing peer review
Apr 29, 2022: Deadlines for ARR-reviewed papers and non-archival previously published papers
May 6, 2022: Notification of Acceptance for Research Track Papers
May 20, 2022: Camera-ready papers due
July 15, 2022: MIA Workshop
For any queries please contact:
Akari Asai (akari [at] cs.washington.edu) or mia.nlp.workshop [at] gmail.com.
References
Hu et al. XTREME: A massively multilingual multi-task benchmark for evaluating cross-lingual generalisation. In ICML. 2020.
- Conneau et al. Unsupervised cross-lingual representation learning at scale. In ACL. 2020.
- Xue et al. mT5: A Massively Multilingual Pre-trained Text-to-Text Transformer. In NAACL. 2021.
- Petroni et al. KILT: a Benchmark for Knowledge Intensive Language Tasks. In NAACL. 2021.
- Asai et al. XOR QA: Cross-lingual Open-Retrieval Question Answering. In NAACL, 2021.
- Roy et al. Information asymmetry in Wikipedia across different languages: A statistical analysis. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 2021.
- Karpukhin et al. Dense Passage Retrieval for Open-Domain Question Answering. In EMNLP. 2020.