Workshop on Shortcomings in Vision and Language (SiVL) @ NAACL-2019

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Papers
Abbreviated Title: 
SiVL
City: 
Minneapolis
Submission Deadline: 
Wednesday, 27 February 2019

(Apologies for cross-posting)

Workshop on Shortcomings in Vision and Language (SiVL)
NAACL-HLT 2019, Minneapolis
June, 2019
https://sites.google.com/view/sivl2019/

We call for papers and abstracts exploring shortcomings in current
vision and language models covering topics including but not limited
to

- Analysis of current vision and language models
- Analysis of current tasks and datasets
- Novel evaluation metrics
- Novel language and vision tasks
- Other pertinent work about shortcomings of vision and language

Papers must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished
work. Paper submissions must be anonymous and will receive at least two
peer-reviews. They may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus
unlimited pages for references and must be prepared as specified in
the NAACL guidelines (https://naacl2019.org/calls/papers/).
Camera-ready versions of accepted papers will be given one additional
page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ comments can be taken
into account. All accepted paper will be presented in the Poster
Session and a few selected works will also be presented as Spotlight
talks. Accepted papers will be published in the ACL Anthology.

Abstracts can describe work in progress, work under review, accepted
to be published elsewhere or already published work. They may consist
of up to two (2) pages of content, plus additional pages for
references. Abstract submissions are subject to single-blind review to
evaluate relevance to the workshop topics. Accepted abstracts will be
posted online on the workshop website and will be presented only at the
Poster session. Abstracts are not published in the ACL Anthology.

Submission instructions are available on the workshop website.

Important Dates
- February 27, 2019: Submission deadline
- March 27, 2019: Notification of acceptance
- April 5, 2019: Camera-ready papers due (firm deadline)
- June 6-7, 2019: NAACL workshop dates
All deadlines are 11:59 PM in UTC -12h timezone.

Invited Speakers:
- Yoav Artzi, Cornell Tech
- Angeliki Lazaridou, DeepMind
- Margaret Mitchell, Google Research

Organizers:
Raffaella Bernardi, University of Trento
Raquel Fernandez, University of Amsterdam
Spandana Gella, University of Edinburgh
Kushal Kafle, Rochester Institute of Technology
Christopher Kanan, Rochester Institute of Technology
Stefan Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology
Moin Nabi, SAP SE

The workshop is sponsored by SAP SE.