The Games and NLP workshop will examine the use of games and gamification for Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, as well as how NLP research can advance player engagement and communication within games. The Games and NLP workshop aims to promote and explore the possibilities for research and practical applications of games and gamification that have a core NLP aspect, either to generate resources and perform language tasks or as a game mechanic itself. This workshop investigates computational and theoretical aspects of natural language research that would be beneficial for designing and building novel game experiences, or for processing texts to conduct formal game studies. NLP would benefit from games in obtaining language resources (e.g., construction of a thesaurus or a parser through a crowdsourcing game), or in learning the linguistic characteristics of game users as compared to those of other domains.
Paper topics may include, but are not limited to:
We encourage participants to share frequently used metrics for assessing game and player performance, further instructions for how to produce these can be found on our workshop website.
"When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones).
As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work so as to allow the community to understand the whole context and also replicate the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2020 endorses the need to uniquely Identify LRs through the use of the International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN, www.islrn.org), a Persistent Unique Identifier to be assigned to each Language Resource. The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers will be offered at submission time.
We invite submissions of full papers (8 pages), short papers (4 pages), and extended abstracts (2 pages). Page lengths are excluding references and metrics.
All submissions must be formatted following the LREC style guidelines https://lrec2020.lrec-conf.org/en/submission2020/authors-kit/ (Word, OpenOffice, and LaTeX templates are available).
Submissions should be made via the START conference system https://www.softconf.com/lrec2020/GAMESandNLP/.
We acknowledge the difficulty of attending these events in person. For those with personal, financial, or political inability for travel we are happy to organize remote presentations.
Games and NLP is dedicated to a harassment-free workshop experience for everyone. Our anti-harassment policy can be found on the Code of Conduct section.