The International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the Asia-pacific Association for Computational Linguistics invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with IJCNLP-AACL 2023.We solicit proposals in all areas of computational linguistics, broadly conceived to include related disciplines such as linguistics, speech, information retrieval, and multi-modal processing.
Workshops will be held at IJCNLP-AACL 2023 (The 13th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 3rd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics), which will be held in Bali, Indonesia from November 1~4 2023.
Submission Information
Proposals should be submitted as PDF documents. Proposals should use the ARR paper submission format. Note that submissions should essentially be ready to be turned into a Call for Workshop Papers within four weeks of notification (see Timelines below).
The proposals should be at most two pages for the main proposal + at most two additional pages for information about organizers, program committee, and references. Thus the whole proposal should not be more than FOUR pages long.
The two pages for the main proposal must include:
Note that the only financial support available to workshops is a single free workshop registration for an invited speaker; all other costs must be borne independently by the workshop organizers.
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Important Dates
Workshop proposal due: June 10, 2023 (extended)
Notification of workshop acceptance: June 18, 2023
First call for workshop papers: July 10, 2023
Second call for workshop papers: August 10, 2023
Workshop paper due: August 25, 2023
Notification of acceptance: October 2, 2023
Camera-ready papers due: October 15, 2023
All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC-12 (“anywhere on Earth”).
Reviewing Policy
Submission is electronic. The workshop proposals will be evaluated according to their originality and impact, as well as the quality of the organizing team and Program Committee.
Diversity and Inclusion
The proposals should describe the ways in which the workshop will support diversity in NLP. We suggest organizers consider the following points while developing the proposal:
Contribution to academic diversity: The proposals could explain how the subject matter of the workshop will contribute to the diversity of the field, e.g. use of multilingual data, indications of how the described methods scale up to various languages or domains, accessibility of resources, supporting underrepresented communities of NLP and so on.
Diversifying representation: Following the WiNLP initiative, we recognize the current problems of demographic imbalance in the field. Therefore, we particularly encourage submissions including members of under-represented groups in computational linguistics. The proposals should describe how their selection of invited speakers, panelists, organizers, and program committee promotes diverse representation (for example, considering underrepresented demographics based on gender, ethnicity, nationality, and so on). We also suggest including speakers and panelists, who have not appeared as keynote speakers or panelists in recent conferences.
Diversifying participation: The proposals could describe how the call-for-papers and outreach will encourage people from marginalized groups to attend and submit to the workshop, e.g. providing mentoring, subsidies, coordinating with affinity groups, diversifying the selection of papers, and so on.
Workshop Organizer Responsibilities
The organizers of the accepted proposals will be responsible for publicizing and running the workshop, including reviewing submissions, producing the camera-ready workshop proceedings, organizing the meeting days, and playing their part to ensure that all participants are aware of ACL’s anti-harassment policy. It is crucial that organizers commit to all deadlines. In particular, failure to produce the camera-ready proceedings on time will lead to the exclusion of the workshop from the unified proceedings and author indexes. Workshop organizers cannot accept submissions for publication that will be (or have been) published elsewhere, although they are free to set their own policies on simultaneous submission and review. Since the conferences will occur at different times, the timelines for the submission and reviewing of workshop papers, and the preparation of camera-ready copies, will be different for each conference. Suggested timelines for each of the conferences are given below. The workshop organizers should not deviate from this schedule unless absolutely necessary and with explicit agreement from the relevant Workshop Chairs.
The ACL has a set of policies on workshops. You can find the ACL’s general policies on workshops, the financial policy for workshops, and the financial policy for SIG workshops at: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Conference_Handbook
Contact
For inquiries, send an email to the workshop co-chairs at: ijcnlp-aacl23-workshop-chairs [at] googlegroups.com.