SocialNLP@NAACL 10th Anniversary Speaker Reunion

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Call for Participation
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SocialNLP@NAACL 10th Anniversary Speaker Reunion
Location: 
Thursday, 14 July 2022 to Friday, 15 July 2022
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Country: 
USA
City: 
Seattle
Contact: 
Lun-Wei Ku
Cheng-Te Li

Happy 10th Anniversary to SocialNLP!

This year we have an special event: we have a two-day workshop with our past invited speakers reunion together! A total of 8 invited speakers plus our paper authors presentation in two workshop days. Check our exciting program below:

Day 1 (7/14) Tenth International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Social Media (SocialNLP 2022)
Time (PDT) Description (Invited talk / paper title) Presenter
08:30 - 08:40 Opening Remarks Dr. Lun-Wei Ku (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
08:40 - 09:40 Invited: Ethics Sheets for Social NLP: Task-Specific Guides to Responsible Research Dr. Saif M. Mohammad (National Research Council Canada)
09:40 - 10:00 Towards Toxic Positivity Detection Ishan Sanjeev Upadhyay
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30 Invited: Facilitating Citizens' Voices on Social Media to Address Regional Issues
Prof. Yohei Seki (University of Tsukuba)
11:30 - 11:50 Mask and Regenerate: A Classifier-based Approach for Unpaired Sentiment Transformation of Reviews for Electronic Commerce Websites Shuo Yang
11:50 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:30 Invited: Conversational Flow and Moral Judgment on Reddit Prof. Tim Weninger (University of Notre Dame)
14:30 - 14:50 Detecting Rumor Veracity with Only Textual Information by Double-Channel Structure Alex Kim
14:50 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:30 Invited: New Avenues in Dialogue Systems Prof. Soujanya Poria (Singapore University of Technology and Design)
16:30 - 16:50 OK Boomer: Probing the socio-demographic Divide in Echo Chambers Charlie Welch (for H. Geiss)

Day 2 (7/15) Tenth International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Social Media (SocialNLP 2022)
Time (PDT) Description (Invited talk / paper title) Presenter
08:40 - 09:40 Invited: Towards an artificial intuition: Conversational markers of (anti)social dynamics Prof. Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil (Cornell University)
09:40 - 10:00 Exploiting Social Media Content for Self-Supervised Style Transfer Dana Ruiter
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30 Invited: From Big Data to Big Picture in Social Media Analysis Prof. Dan Goldwasser (Purdue University)
11:30 - 11:50 Identifying Human Needs through Social Media: A study on Indian cities during COVID-19 Rohan Joseph
11:50 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:30 Invited: Linguistic Bias as a Window into Social Attitudes Prof. Ian Stewart (University of Michigan)
14:30 - 14:50 A Comparative Study on Word Embeddings and Social NLP Tasks Fatma Elsafoury
14:50 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:30 Invited: Code-switching and social media data: an overview of common challenges and recent developments Prof. Thamar Solorio (University of Houston)
16:30 - 16:50 Leveraging Dependency Grammar for Fine-Grained Offensive Language Detection using Graph Convolutional Networks

Join us in this special event! Looking forward to see you (online) there!
Details please check the workshop website:
https://sites.google.com/view/socialnlp2022/

Or just contact us!