Deadline extension & Final Call for Papers
3rd International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change 2022 (LChange’22)
May 26-27, co-located with ACL
https://languagechange.org/events/2022-acl-lchange/
Contact email: PC-ACLws2022 [at] languagechange.org
Workshop description
The third LChange workshop will be co-located with ACL (2022) to be held in Dublin, during May 26-27, 2022 as a hybrid event.
* All aspects around computational approaches to historical language change with the focus on digital text corpora are welcome. LChange explores state-of-the-art computational methodologies, theories and digital text resources on exploring the time-varying nature of human language.
* The aim of this workshop is to provide pioneering researchers who work on computational methods, evaluation, and large-scale modelling of language change an outlet for disseminating research on topics concerning language change. Besides these goals, this workshop will also support discussion on the evaluation of computational methodologies for uncovering language change.
* LChange’22 will feature a shared task on semantic change detection for Spanish as one track of the workshop.
This year we will offer mentoring for PhD students and young researchers in one-on-one meetings during the workshop. If you are interested, send us a short description of your work and we will set you up with one of the organizers of this workshop. If your paper is rejected from the workshop, we can also provide advice on improving it for future submission. This offer is limited, and will be chosen based on topical fit and availability of appropriate mentors. Deadline for applying for mentorship is May 30th via .
Via our sponsor, Iguanodon.ai, we can offer one free registration for a PhD student! Apply by emailing us your short cv and why you need your registration paid.
Important Dates
* March 2, 2022: Paper submission
* March 14, 2022: Task description papers
* March 26, 2022: Notification of acceptance
* March 30, 2022: Deadline for mentorship application
* April 10, 2022: Camera-ready papers due
* May 26-27, 2022: Workshop date
Keynote Talks
We can announce that Prof. Dirk Geeraerts and Dominik Schlechtweg will give keynotes.
More information to come.
Submissions
We accept three types of submissions, long and short papers, following the ACL2022 style, and the ACL submission policy, and shared task papers.
Long and short papers may consist of up to eight (8) and four (4) pages of content, respectively, plus unlimited references; final versions will be given one additional page of content so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Shared task papers may consist of up to four (4) pages plus unlimited references, but without an additional page upon acceptance. Overleaf templates are available here.
Submission is electronic, using the ACL Rolling Review (ARR), and is now open: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2022/Workshop/LChange
We invite original research papers from a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:
* Novel methods for detecting diachronic semantic change and lexical replacement
* Automatic discovery and quantitative evaluation of laws of language change
* Computational theories and generative models of language change
* Sense-aware (semantic) change analysis
* Diachronic word sense disambiguation
* Novel methods for diachronic analysis of low-resource languages
* Novel methods for diachronic linguistic data visualization
* Novel applications and implications of language change detection
* Quantification of sociocultural influences on language change
* Cross-linguistic, phylogenetic, and developmental approaches to language change
* Novel datasets for cross-linguistic and diachronic analyses of language
Submissions are open to all, and are to be submitted anonymously. All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process by at least three reviewers with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organizers.
The workshop is scheduled for May 26-27. Contact us at PC-ACLws2022 [at] languagechange.org if you have any questions.
Workshop organizers:
Nina Tahmasebi, University of Gothenburg
Lars Borin, University of Gothenburg
Simon Hengchen, University of Gothenburg
Syrielle Montariol, University Paris-Saclay
Haim Dubossarsky, Queen Mary University of London
Andrey Kutuzov, University of Oslo