Student Research Workshop colocated with ACL-IJCNLP 2021 in Bangkok, Thailand.
Main Conference: August 2–4, 2021
Workshop Dates: August 5–6, 2021
***Paper Submission Deadline: April 2, 2021****
Submissions will be made on the START conference system. The form for the main paper submission is found here: https://www.softconf.com/acl2021/SRW/user/scmd.cgi?scmd=submitPaperCustom&pageid=1
You CAN submit a paper to the main deadline, even if you didn't participate in the pre-submission mentoring. If did submit a draft for pre-submission mentoring, please make a new submission for the final version of the paper.
The ACL-IJCNLP 2021 Student Research Workshop (SRW) provides a forum for student researchers who are investigating various areas related to Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. The workshop provides an excellent opportunity for student participants to present their work and receive valuable feedback from the international research community as well as from selected panelists - experienced researchers, specifically assigned according to the topic of their work, who will prepare in-depth comments and questions in advance of the presentation.
The workshop's goal is to aid students at multiple stages of their education: including undergraduate, masters, junior and senior PhD students.
We invite papers in two different categories:
Thesis Proposals: This category is appropriate for advanced PhD students who have decided on a thesis topic and wish to get feedback on their proposal and broader ideas for their continuing work.
Research Papers: Papers in this category can describe completed work, or work in progress with preliminary results. For these papers, the first author **MUST BE** a current graduate or undergraduate student. Topics of interest for the SRW are the same as for the ACL-IJCNLP main conference: https://2021.aclweb.org/calls/papers/.
Please see the submission guidelines for more information.
All accepted papers and thesis proposals will be presented in the main conference poster session, giving students an opportunity to interact with and present their work to a large and diverse audience, including top researchers in the field and assigned mentors.
Submissions (in both categories) may either be archival or non-archival, based on the wishes of the authors. All archival papers will be published in the ACL 2021 SRW Proceedings. All non-archival papers may be submitted to any venue in the future except another SRW.
Each participant is also assigned a mentor - an experienced researcher - who can provide valuable advice on the submission during the pre-submission period and mentoring during the conference.
Pre-submission mentoring deadline: March 1, 2021
Pre-submission feedback: March 19, 2021
Paper submission deadline: April 2, 2021
Review deadline: May 7, 2021
Acceptance notifications: May 14, 2021
Camera-ready deadline: June 1, 2021
ACL-IJCNLP 2021 conference dates: August 1–6, 2021
All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth").
We accept both archival submissions (i.e., the work can be included in the conference proceedings) and non-archival submissions (the work will be presented in the workshop, but will not be part of the proceedings).
The archival submissions should follow the anonymity period and restrictions of the main conference.
Long papers consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Upon acceptance, papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages).
Short papers consist of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Upon acceptance, papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 5 pages).
Authors are encouraged to use the additional page to address reviewers’ comments in their final versions.
Paper submissions must use the official ACL-IJCNLP 2021 style templates. All submissions must be in PDF format and must conform to the official style guidelines, which are contained in these template files. The review process is blind hence all submissions must be anonymized.
The SRW invites papers on topics related to computational linguistics, including but not limited to:
Computational Social Science and Social Media
Dialogue and Interactive Systems
Discourse and Pragmatics
Ethics and NLP
Information Extraction
Information Retrieval and Text Mining
Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP
Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond
Linguistic theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics
Machine Learning for NLP
Machine Translation and Multilinguality
NLP Applications
Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation
Question Answering
Resources and Evaluation
Semantics: Lexical
Semantics: Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference and Other areas
Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining
Speech and Multimodality
Summarization
Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing
We expect to have grants to offset some portion of the students travel; conference registration and accommodation expenses. Further details will be posted on the SRW website.