May 22, 2016, Hannover, Germany.

One of two companion workshops on NLP+CSS in 2016.

This workshop will consist of invited talks, and presentations and a poster session for submitted papers.

We invite research on any of the following general topics, with an emphasis on drawing data and methods from the web and social media:

• • Application of NLP tools to computational social science problems

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

  • NLP models that incorporate extra-linguistic social information

  • Validity and evaluation of social science methods in NLP, and vice versa

  • Privacy and ethical implications of demographic inference

  • The end of social theory in the time of big data

  • Interaction between social science theory and industry (e.g. feature engineering)

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

Important Dates

• • March 25, 2016: submission deadline via EasyChair

  • April 2, 2016: submission deadline via EasyChair

  • April 17, 2016: notification date

  • April 31, 2016: Camera Ready submission

  • May 22, 2016: Workshop at WebSci-2016 in Hannover, Germany

Submission Details

We invite both long and short papers of interest to be submitted through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nlpcss2016.  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 peer reviewed equally, authors can choose a non-archival submission to allow for later publication.  The best papers of the workshop will be invited to submit to a special journal issue on NLP and CSS.

Papers will follow the ACM 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.

Format and Schedule

This full day workshop will include

• • Multiple talks from invited speakers

  • Two sessions of short-form talks from the best papers

  • A poster session for all papers

We intend to draw invited speakers from diverse fields relating to web science, social science, and sociology in order to bring outside perspectives on the problems relevant to the field.  Our current program committee provides a sample of prominent researchers in these areas who will potentially be invited.