Call for papers

Computational Linguistics for Literature

Call for papers

Fourth Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature

Denver, Colorado, USA, co-located with NAACL HLT 2015

https://sites.google.com/site/clfl2015/

Contact: clfl2015@googlegroups.com

The 4th Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature at NAACL HLT 2015 invites original unpublished submissions on topics relevant to literature. The series of CLfL workshops is designed to bring together NLP researchers interested in working with literary data – prose and poetry – in any human language. This is a friendly forum to discuss ideas, bring up problems and chart new directions.

Literature differs, often quite dramatically, from modern expository texts, much more common in large corpora. It presents unique challenges. A few examples: readers of literature have different objectives (information need is seldom a concern); literary prose usually has little formal structure (there are, say, few overt discourse markers); poetry, on the other hand, is often all about structure (such that parsers routinely ignore); and so on, and so forth.

We will welcome particularly warmly papers which propose new language processing methods designed with literature in mind. To be sure, we will also gladly consider papers on applying existing NLP tools and techniques to literary data. Here are the most plausible topics, but sure enough more is possible (you tell us -:):

• • the readers’ needs and their mapping onto NLP tasks;

  • search for literary work, and useful recommendation systems for literature;

  • identification and analysis of literary genres;

  • literature versus other types of writing from the viewpoint of computational analyses;

  • profiling and authorship attribution;

  • computational modeling of narratives, computational narratology, computational folkloristics;

  • discourse structure in literature;

  • summarization of literature;

  • emotion analysis for literature;

  • building and analyzing social networks of characters;

  • generation of literary narrative, dialogue or poetry.

We will consider regular papers which describe experimental methods or theoretical work, and we will gladly welcome position papers. The NLP community does not study literature often enough, so it is important to discuss and formulate the problems before proposing solutions.

The deadlines -- see Dates. Submission details -- see Submission.