CRAC 2024
7th Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference
CRAC 2024, the Seventh Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference, will be held at EMNLP 2024 (in Miami, Florida, on November 15).
About the workshop series
Background: Since 2016, the yearly CRAC (and its predecessor, CORBON) workshop has become the primary forum for researchers interested in the computational modeling of reference, anaphora, and coreference to discuss and publish their results. Over the years, this workshop series has successfully organized five shared tasks, which stimulated interest in new problems in this area of research, facilitated the discussion and dissemination of results on new problems/directions (e.g., multimodal reference resolution), and helped expand the coreference community that used to be dominated by European researchers to include young researchers from the Americas. .
Objectives: The aim of the workshop is to provide a forum where work on all aspects of computational work on anaphora resolution and annotation can be presented.
Topics
The workshop welcomes submissions describing theoretical and applied computational work on anaphora/coreference resolution. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
coreference resolution for less-researched languages
annotation and interpretation of anaphoric relations, including relations other than identity coreference (e.g., bridging references)
investigation of difficult cases of anaphora and their resolution
coreference resolution in noisy data (e.g. in social media)
new applications of coreference resolution
Shared Task associated with the workshop
In 2022 and 2023, CRAC ran two editions of a shared task on Multilingual Coreference Resolution, using the multilingual collection coreference datasets (now: 17 datasets for 12 languages) harmonized under a common CoNLL-U scheme. The shared tasks dealt with coreference resolution in all these languages. The goal of the tasks was to bring together researchers from various countries in a multilingual setting for the purpose of paving the way to advances in the area of coreference resolution.
Its third edition in 2024 extends the datasets with new corpora and new languages.
Important Dates
Shared Task submission deadline: June 24, 2024 (extended)
Shared Task evaluation results: after June 24, 2024
Paper submission deadline: Aug 22, 2024
ARR commitment date: Sep 16, 2024
Notification of acceptance: Sep 22, 2024
Camera-ready deadline: Oct 4, 2024
iaPaper submission
Paper categories
CRAC 2024 has the goal of a broad technical program. Thus, we welcome papers in the following categories:
Research papers (theoretical computational linguistics, empirical/data-driven approaches, paradigms/techniques/strategies, analysis papers, resources and evaluation, negative result)
Survey papers (surveys a popular or emerging area of anaphora/coreference resolution)
Position papers (presents one side of an arguable opinion about an issue)
Challenge papers (a challenge to the field in terms of setting out a goal for the next 5/10/20 years)
Demo papers (systems, tools, visualizations)
Extended abstracts (describe work in progress)
Research papers, survey papers, position papers, and challenge papers can have up to 8 pages of content for long papers and up to 4 pages of content for short papers, plus an unlimited number of pages for references. Demo papers can have up to 4 pages of content plus an unlimited number of pages for references. Extended abstracts can have up to 2 pages of content plus an unlimited number of pages for references.
You can also include a supplementary document and/or (sample) data along with your paper. Essentially, materials that can help the program committee make a better determination of the quality of your submission. Code/data submission is strongly encouarged for resource/evaluation papers.
All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Final versions of all types of papers will be given one additional page of content.
Double submission
We allow for double submissions. Please indicate during submission to which other conference or workshop your work has been submitted.
We also invite authors of papers accepted to Findings of the main conferences (e.g. ACL, NAACL, EMNLP) to present their work at the workshop. It these papers were removed from the Findings, they can be included in the proceedings of the workshop without additional review.
Submission link and hybrid submissions
You can either submit your paper to SoftConf (by the August 22 submission deadline) or commit your ARR-reviewed paper to CRAC 2024 (by the September 16 commitment deadline; the link to the commitment site will appear here when it is available). If you choose to commit your ARR-reviewed paper to CRAC, the latest ARR cycle to which you need to submit your paper for review is the June 2024 cycle.
All submissions must follow the *ACL formatting instructions. An Overleaf template is also available.
Program Committee (confirmed)
Arie Cattan (Bar-Ilan University)
Sobha Lalitha Devi (AU-KBC Research Center, Anna University of Chennai)
Elisa Ferracane (Abridge)
Yulia Grishina (Amazon)
Lars Hellan (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Veronique Hoste (Ghent University)
Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski (Saarland University)
Sharid Loáiciga (University of Gothenburg)
Costanza Navaretta (University of Copenhagen)
Michal Novák (Charles University in Prague)
Massimo Poesio (Queen Mary University of London)
Carolyn Rosé (Carnegie Mellon University)
Juntao Yu (University of Essex)
Yilun Zhu (Georgetown University)
Program Committee (invited)
Antonio Branco (University of Lisbon)
Haixia Chai (Heidelberg University)
Stephanie Dipper (Ruhr-University Bochum)
Yansong Feng (Peking University)
Christian Hardmeier (IT University of Copenhagen)
Ruihong Huang (Texas A&M University)
Loic De Langhe (Ghent University)
Anna Nedoluzhko (Charles University in Prague)
Michael Strube (Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies)
Nobuhiro Ueda (Kyoto University)
Bonnie Webber (University of Edinburgh)
Yaqin Yang (Brandeis University)
Amir Zeldes (Georgetown University)
Heike Zinsmeister (University of Hamburg)
Organizing Committee
Maciej Ogrodniczuk (Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences)
Massimo Poesio (Queen Mary University of London)
Sameer Pradhan (University of Pennsylvania and cemantix)
Anna Nedoluzhko (Charles University in Prague)
Vincent Ng (University of Texas at Dallas)