ACL 2020 Student Research Workshop Call for Papers
Student Research Workshop Collocated with ACL 2020, Seattle, Washington.
Main Conference: July 5 - 10, 2020
Workshop Dates: July 9 - 10, 2020
***Paper Submission Deadline: March 6, 2020 ****
Submissions should be made on the START conference system: https://www.softconf.com/acl2020/SRW/.
You CAN submit a paper to the main deadline, even if you didn't participate in the pre-submission mentoring.
General Rules for Submission
The ACL 2020 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 ACL main conference https://acl2020.org/calls/papers/.
- Please see the submission guidelines page for more information: https://sites.google.com/view/acl20studentresearchworkshop/submission-guidelines.
Benefits of participation
- 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 2020 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: January 17, 2020
- Pre-submission feedback: February 14, 2020
- Paper submission deadline: March 6, 2020
- Acceptance notifications: April 17, 2020
- Camera-ready deadline: May 15, 2020
- ACL conference dates: July 5 - July 10, 2020
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 as appears in https://acl2020.org/calls/papers/.
All papers consist of up to five (5) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Upon acceptance, papers will be given six (6) content page. Authors are encouraged to use this additional page to address reviewers’ comments in their final versions.
Paper submissions must use the official ACL 2020 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:
- Cognitive modeling and psycholinguistics
- Corpus development and evaluation
- Dialog and interactive systems
- Discourse and pragmatics
- Document analysis including text categorization, topic models, and retrieval
- Natural language generation
- Information extraction, text mining, and question answering
- Language-inclusive multimodal integration
- Linguistic theories for NLP
- Low-resource or endangered languages
- Machine learning
- Machine translation
- Mathematical models of language
- Multilinguality
- Phonology, morphology, and word segmentation
- Resources and evaluation
- Semantics
- Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
- Social media: Twitter, blogs, discussion forums and other social media
- Sociolinguistics
- Speech, prosody and spoken dialog
- Summarization
- Tagging, chunking, syntax, and parsing
- Vision, robots, and other grounding applications
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.