Call for Papers

About the Student Research Workshop

The EACL 2024 Student Research Workshop (SRW) is a forum to bring together students investigating various areas of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. The workshop provides an excellent opportunity for participants to present their work and to receive mentorship and valuable feedback from the international research community.

The workshop's goal is to aid students at multiple stages of their education, including undergraduate, MSc/MA, junior and senior PhD students, in getting familiar with conducting and presenting their research. 

General Invitation for Submission

We invite papers in two different categories:

• Thesis Proposals: This category is appropriate for 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 student (undergraduate or graduate). 

• Topics of interest for the SRW are the same as for the main EACL 2024 conference: https://2024.eacl.org/calls/papers/

We are opening a unique opportunity for the submission of research papers that, while not accepted to the EACL main conference, align well with the themes of this workshop. To be eligible for submission, the first author must be a current student. Additionally, submissions should be complemented with the reviews from ARR to provide context and insights for evaluation. The submission deadline for this will be January 17, 2024.

Why Submit to EACL SRW?

• Mentorship program: EACL SRW provides a unique opportunity for students to receive constructive feedback and advise from more senior researchers through our on-site mentorship program.

• Improving your publication record: Publishing a paper as an undergraduate or as a Master student is beneficial when applying for a PhD program. Publishing a paper in an EACL SRW workshop can be really helpful for improving students’ publication records.

• Negative results: we encourage the submission of studies with negative results providing insights on why and in which scenarios a particular method fails. 

All accepted papers and thesis proposals will be presented in the main conference poster sessions, which will give students an opportunity to interact with and to present their work to a large and diverse audience, including top researchers in the field and assigned mentors.

Important Dates

• Direct Workshop paper submission:  18 December 2023

• Reviews deadline: 7 January 2024

• Pre-reviewed ARR paper submission: 17 January 2024

• Notification of acceptance: 20 January 2024

• Camera-ready papers: 30 January 2024

• Workshop dates: 21-22 March 2024

All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth").

Topics of Interest

EACL SRW 2024 follows the same ToI as EACL 2024. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas (in alphabetical order):

• Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics

• Dialogue and Interactive Systems

• Discourse and Pragmatics

• Efficient/Low-resource methods in NLP

• Ethics and NLP

• Generation

• Information Retrieval and Text Mining

• Information Extraction

• Interpretability and Model Analysis in NLP

• Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond

• Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics

• Machine Learning for NLP

• Machine Translation

• Multilinguality and Language Diversity

• 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

Submission Requirements

We accept both archival submissions (which will be included in the conference proceedings) and non-archival submissions (which will be presented at the workshop but will not be included in the proceedings).

The archival submissions must follow the anonymity period and the restrictions of the main conference.

Short papers consist of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Upon acceptance, they will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings. 

Long papers consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Upon acceptance, they will be given nine (9) content pages in the proceedings. 

Thesis proposals consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited references. The title must begin with “Thesis Proposal:”. Upon acceptance, they will be given nine (9) content pages in the proceedings. 

We strongly recommend the use of the official ARR style templates. The paper templates are available as an Overleaf template and can also be downloaded directly (LaTeX and Word) via https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp under 'Paper Submission and Templates'. 

All submissions must be in PDF format. Submissions that do not adhere to the above author guidelines or ACL policies will be rejected without review. 

Submission is electronic, using the OpenReview conference management. The submission link is available here: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/SRW 

Grants

We expect to have grants to offset some portion of students' travel, conference registration, and accommodation expenses. Further details will be posted on the SRW website. To contact the organizers of the workshop, please email us at: eaclsrw@gmail.com

Website and Contact Information

For more information, please visit https://sites.google.com/view/eacl2024srw and follow us on X/Twitter @eacl_srw.

To contact the organizers of the workshop, please email us at eaclsrw@gmail.com