CoNLL-2015
Nineteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning
July 30-31, 2015
Beijing, China
http://www.conll.org/
CoNLL is a top-tier conference, yearly organized by SIGNLL (the ACL
Special Interest Group on Natural Language Learning). This year, CoNLL
will be collocated with ACL 2015 in Beijing, China and for the first
time, it will accept both long and short papers.
The shared task of CoNLL will be Shallow Discourse Parsing (SDP), see
details below.
Important Dates
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* Paper submission deadline: May 4, 2015, 23:59 EST (GMT-6)
* Notification of acceptance:June 15, 2015
* Camera-ready copy deadline: June 21, 2015
* Conference: July 30-31 (after ACL 2015)
Topics
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We invite the submission of papers on all aspects of computational
approaches to natural language learning, including, but not limited
to:
* Development and empirical evaluation of machine learning methods
applied to any natural language or speech processing task in
supervised, semi-supervised or unsupervised settings (e.g. structured
prediction, graphical models, deep learning, relational learning,
reinforcement learning, etc.).
* Theoretical analyses of learning-based approaches to natural
language processing.
* Computational models of human language acquisition and processing,
models of language evolution and change, and simulation and analysis
of psycholinguistic findings.
Best Paper Award
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As in recent CoNLL conferences, a Best Paper Award will be given to
the authors of the highest quality paper. The most important aspects
in judging the quality of a paper will be: originality,
innovativeness, relevance, and impact of the presented research.
Submission Details
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A paper submitted to CoNLL-2015 must describe original, unpublished
work. This year we will accept both long (8 pages of content plus 2
additional pages of references) and short (4 pages of content plus 2
additional pages of references) papers. Long papers will be presented
orally, whereas short papers will be both presented as a poster and a
five minute oral presentation (poster booster). Both long and short
papers will be published in the conference proceedings.
We require the use of the ACL 2015 LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word
Style files tailored for this year's conference. Papers must conform
to the official ACL 2015 style guidelines. Authors who are unable to
use these style files or submit a PDF file electronically should
contact the program co-chairs.
Authors may also optionally submit a second document containing
supporting information such as proofs or algorithmic
details. Reviewers will have access to the supporting information and
may refer to it at their discretion. Any information that is critical
to understanding the paper should be included within the paper itself.
Since reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the
authors' names and affiliations, and there should be no
self-references that reveal the authors' identity. In the submission
form, you will be asked for the following information: paper title,
authors' names, affiliations and email addresses, corresponding
author's email address, a list of keywords, an abstract of no more
than 300 words, and information on whether the paper has been or will
be simultaneously submitted to other conferences (and if so which
conferences). The corresponding authors of accepted papers under
multiple submission will need to promptly inform the program co-chairs
whether they intend the accepted paper to appear in CoNLL-2015. A
paper that is submitted to be included in CoNLL-2015 must be withdrawn
from other conferences.
Authors of accepted submissions are to produce a final document to be
published in the proceedings of the conference, which will be
available at the ACL Anthology website
(http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/). At least one author must register
for the conference and present the paper. Please do not submit a paper
if you do not plan to attend the conference.
As in previous years, CoNLL-2015 will include a shared task, which is
organized by a separate committee. The details of the shared task are
included in this CFP (see below). Please note the different submission
details and deadlines for the shared task.
Conference Chairs
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Afra Alishahi
Tilburg center for Cognition and Communication
Tilburg University, Netherlands
Alessandro Moschitti
Qatar Computing Research Institute
Contact email: conll2015 [at] conll.org
Shared Task: Shallow Discourse Parsing
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CoNLL-2015 will continue the tradition of having a high-profile shared
task in natural language processing. This year's shared task will be
Shallow Discourse Parsing (SDP). A participant system is given
English newswire texts as input and returns discourse relations in the
form of a discourse connective (explicit or implicit) taking two
arguments (which can be clauses, sentences, or multi-sentence
segments). Specifically, a participant system needs to i) identify
explicit discourse connectives (e.g., "because", "however", "and") in
a text, ii) predict the sense of the discourse relations (e.g.,
"Cause", "Condition", "Contrast"), both explicit and implicit, and
iii) identify the spans of text that serve as the two arguments for
each discourse relation. Understanding such discourse relations is an
important step in understanding the discourse structure of a text and
will potentially benefit a wide range of natural language
applications.
Questions about the shared task can be sent to
conll15st [at] gmail.com. More information about the shared task is
available at the shared task home page:
http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~clp/conll15st.
Important Dates
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January 2, 2015: Announcement of the shared task and set up of the shared task website.
January 26, 2015: registration begins, and release of training set and scorer.
March 1, 2015: Registration deadline.
April 20, 2015: Test set available.
April 24, 2015: Submission of participating systems.
May 1, 2015: System results due to participants.
May 8, 2015: Shared task system papers due.
May 18, 2015: Reviews due.
May 21, 2015: notification of acceptance.
May 28, 2015: camera-ready version of system papers due.
July 30-31, 2015. CoNLL conference (Beijing China).
SIGNLL
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See http://www.signll.org and http://www.signll.org/conll for more
information about SIGNLL and CoNLL