Call for Participation

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 invite submissions that include (but are not limited to):

• provocations or critical approaches;

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

• empirical studies, system demonstrations, or other research on practical issues when deploying language technology.

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.

We also welcome submissions of work rejected by other venues because of their interdisciplinary nature or focus on HCI. For these fast track submissions, submissions should be made via this Google form; please include previous reviews as supplementary material along with your submission. (Note that the submission site for fast track submissions has changed; if you previously submitted on OpenReview, we have your submission and you do not need to re-submit via the Google form.)

Upon acceptance, archival 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 May 3, and papers will likewise be given an additional page of content.

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;

  • 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.