Call for Participation

Submission

We invite researchers and practitioners to submit extended abstracts or short papers, of 1 to 4 pages in length, plus unlimited pages of references. Authors can choose to make either an archival or non-archival submission. We invite submissions that include (but are not limited to):

  • works-in-progress;

  • research proposals;

  • provocations or critical approaches;

  • surveys or meta-analyses highlighting opportunities for new research.


Submissions should be made via softconf and follow the EACL 2021 style guidelines. Authors may include an appendix of any length with the main paper, but submissions should be self-contained as reviewers are not asked to review appendices. Review will be blind and submissions should be anonymized as much as possible.

Topics

Topics that submissions might address include, but are not limited to:

  • Research on human experiences of language-based systems, such as user evaluations.

  • Methods or case studies focused on

    • exploring the design space of novel interfaces, interactions, and experiences;

    • problem formulation or task specification;

    • development, selection, and annotation of corpora, including alternative approaches to modeling disagreement or dissensus in annotation processes;

    • evaluation methods and evaluation metrics;

    • explainable models and explainable systems;

    • human-in-the-loop pipelines.

  • Cross-cutting questions and challenges of interdisciplinary collaboration between the two communities (i.e., HCI and NLP), such as approaches to translating research, including challenges, implicit assumptions and tensions, and lessons learned.

  • Qualitative or participatory design methods for NLP research and practice.

  • Speculative design, value-sensitive design, and critical design approaches.

  • Fundamental questions of fairness, equity, and ethics in language-based systems.

  • Considerations of accessibility and disability throughout the NLP research and development lifecycle.

Important Dates

  • Feb. 5 Submission deadline (11:59pm anywhere on earth)

  • Feb. 24 Notification of acceptance

  • Mar. 1 Camera-ready papers due

  • Apr. 20 Workshop (8am-4pm ET)