NLP+CSS at ACL 2017

Submission Details

We invite research on any of the following general topics:

• NLP models that incorporate extra-linguistic social information

• Application of NLP tools to computational social science problems

• Predictive modeling of extra-linguistic attributes (age, gender, location, etc.)

Areas of interest include all levels of linguistic analysis and social sciences, including (but not limited to): phonology, syntax, pragmatics, stylistics, economics, psychology, sociology, sociolinguistics, political science, geography, and public health.

We especially invite graduate students from both disciplines (i.e. social sciences and NLP) and connect them with experts in the respective other field (e.g. NLP student with an expert in social sciences or vice versa). We would like to again provide mentorship for social science students who could not otherwise attend a computer science conference.

We invite both long and short papers of interest to be submitted through https://www.softconf.com/acl2017/nlpandcss.  Long papers should present new and substantial contributions related to the workshop’s theme. Short papers may be a small and focused contribution or describe a work in progress.  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.

Papers will follow the ACL Style guidelines.  Long papers are recommended to be 8 pages, with a maximum length of 10 pages including references; short papers are recommended to 4 pages with a maximum length of 5.