Call for papers
This fourth edition of the NLP+CSS workshop builds on several successful editions with many interdisciplinary submissions. The goal is to make NLP techniques and insights standard practice in CSS research.
Our focus is on NLP for social sciences - to continue the progress of CSS, and to integrate CSS with current trends and techniques in NLP.
We especially invite graduate students from both disciplines (i.e. social sciences and NLP) to apply, and connect with experts in the respective other field (e.g. NLP student with an expert in social sciences or vice versa).
Important Dates
Sep 15 Sep 17: submission deadline via Softconf (https://www.softconf.com/emnlp2020/nlpcss2020/). Due by midnight anywhere in the world (23:59 UTC-12).
Sep 29: notification date
Oct 2: notification date
Oct 10: Camera Ready submission
Wednesday, November 20, 2020: Workshop
Submission Details
We invite both long and short papers of interest to be submitted through https://www.softconf.com/emnlp2020/nlpcss2020/ (note that this requires a START account, which can be created there). While all submissions will be reviewed equally, authors can choose a non-archival submission, since some social sciences do not accept journal articles published in archived proceedings before.
Archival submissions should present completed work. Papers submitted to this track will be published in the workshop proceedings. Long papers should present new and substantial contributions related to the workshop’s themes and have a maximum length of 8 pages (not including appendix). Short papers may be a small and focused contribution or describe a work in progress and have a maximum length of 4 pages. For accepted camera-ready versions of the paper, an extra page of content may be added to address reviews. (Nine pages content for long; five pages for short.) Both formats may contain unlimited references and supplementary material (i.e., the Bibliography does not count towards the page limit).
If you have an appendix, you can include it at the end of the PDF you submit. Unlike the main part of the paper, reviewers are not obliged to read and review the appendix.
Non-Archival submissions. Since many journals, especially in the social sciences, do not accept articles previously published in archived proceedings, we also solicit contributions that are non-archival; work submitted through this track should take the form of a 2-page abstract. (These submissions will not be published in the workshop proceedings.) Again, the bibliography does not count towards this page limit.
All papers will have to follow the EMNLP 2020 Style guidelines. The relevant style files can be found here:
They use the required two-column layout, font sizes, and spacing. Incorrectly formatted papers will be desk-rejected. Please ask the organizers if you have any further questions.
Topics
We invite research on any of the following general topics:
NLP models and data analytics that incorporate extra-linguistic social information
Application of NLP tools to computational social science problems
Methods or studies that test or revisit research from sociolinguistics
Approaches to identify bias based on language use in different communities
Predictive modeling of extra-linguistic attributes (age, gender, location, etc.)
The importance of extra-linguistic attributes from NLP models across languages and cultures
Areas of interest include all levels of linguistic analysis and social sciences, including (but not limited to):
phonology,
syntax,
pragmatics,
stylistics,
economics,
marketing,
management,
psychology,
sociology,
sociolinguistics,
political science,
geography,
public health