We invite researchers and practitioners to submit long (up to 8 pages) or short (up to 4 pages) papers, plus unlimited pages of references and an ethics and limitations section. Authors can choose to make either an archival or non-archival submission: there will be no distinction in the reviewing process or presentations, but non-archival papers will not appear in the proceedings.
We also welcome extended abstracts (up to 4 pages, non-archival) presenting relevant ongoing or recently published work.
We invite submissions that include (but are not limited to):
provocations, critical approaches, or position papers;
surveys or meta-analyses highlighting opportunities for new research;
empirical studies, system demonstrations, or other research on practical issues when deploying language technology.
We also welcome fast-track submissions of papers rejected by other venues that are accompanied by previous reviews.
For this iteration of the workshop, we are delighted to include a special theme: Human involvement in post-training. Recent advances in frontier NLP labs emphasize the importance of Reinforcement Learning with AI Feedback (RLAIF) and synthetic data, reducing human presence in the post-training process. However, as humans are the end users of or are impacted by interactive systems, we see this as an opportunity to ask about the role humans should play in the development of human-centric language technologies. We welcome any submissions engaging with this question, including efficient learning of human preferences, user interfaces that enable the seamless and innovative collection of feedback, problems and tasks where human preferences are especially crucial, alternative paradigms for human input and involvement, different approaches' underlying assumptions and resulting impacts, and more.
Submission will be via OpenReview, and submissions should follow the *ACL conference formatting 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 two-way anonymized and submissions should be anonymized as much as possible.
For fast-track submissions, submissions should be made via a Google form (link to come); please include previous reviews as supplementary material along with your submission.
We do not allow dual archival submissions (i.e., submitted archivally to our workshop as well as another venue), but we welcome non-archival or extended abstract submissions that have or will be submitted elsewhere.
Upon acceptance, papers will be given an additional page of content (up to 9 pages for long papers and 5 for short). While non-archival papers will not be included in the proceedings, authors who wish to have their papers on our website should upload their camera-ready to OpenReview by the camera-ready deadline.
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;
development of NLP-infused interactive systems;
NLP and accessibility;
NLP to support text readability;
reformulation (text-to-text), generation of readable language from data (data-to-text), user evaluations of language simplification strategies;
human-centered approaches to NLP 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.
August 8 11 – Submission deadline (11:59pm anywhere on earth)
September 1 – Fast-track (with previous reviews) submission deadline
September 8 – Notification of acceptance
September 22 – Camera-ready archival papers due
November 9 – Workshop