Call for Papers
We invite the submission of papers on original and unpublished research in this upcoming area of interest.
Paper Submission Deadline: Monday, March 15th, 2021 11:59 PM UTC-12h.
Topics of Interest
The active areas of research include, but are not limited to:
Medical conversation summarization
Entity recognition in Medical conversations
Extraction of relations and events in Medical conversations
Entity Linking with medical ontologies
Topic Models for medical conversations
Dissemination of resources for Medical conversation analysis
Strategies to evaluate automated understanding of Medical conversations
Resource sharing or dataset release
Handling Multimodal clinical data
Infrastructures for Clinical Decision Making
Survey and Trends in Medical Conversational AI
Language Understanding (NLU / SLU)
Language Generation
Medical Conversational AI Deployment
Dialogue State Tracking
Dialogue Data Collection / Datasets
End-to-End Dialogue Modeling
Slot-based Conversational AI
Retrieval-based Conversational AI
Generative Conversational AI
Multimodal Dialogues
Contextual Modeling
Coreference Resolution
Semantic Representation
Dialogue Representation Learning
Emergence of Communication
Conversational Recommendations
Patient modeling for Conversational AI
Learning from user feedback
Submission Instructions
Two types of submissions are invited: full papers and short papers.
Full papers should not exceed eight (8) pages of text, plus unlimited references. Final versions of full papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account.
Short papers may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Upon acceptance, short papers will still be given up to five (5) content pages in the proceedings.
For styles, formatting, and templates, please refer to the main conference website: https://2021.naacl.org/calls/style-and-formatting/
Submission URL: https://www.softconf.com/naacl2021/nlpmc2021/
Cross Submissions
In addition to previously unpublished work, we invite papers on relevant topics which have been submitted to alternative venues (such as other NLP or ML conferences). Please follow double-submission policy from ACL. Accepted cross-submissions will be presented as posters, with an indication of the original venue. Selection of cross-submissions will be determined solely by the organizing committee.
Author responsibility
We encourage submitting interesting ideas, these ideas can also be preliminary and unpublished work. The goal is to trigger discussion even when the idea is not ready for publication. Reviewing will be blind, so please refrain from including any names, affiliations or obvious statements in the paper, such as, “in our previous paper \cite{John:19}”.