Keynote by Yunyao Li (IBM): Taming the Wild West of Natural Language Processing (Video)
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Natural Language Processing (NLP) research is typically associated with the advancement of language technologies. However, in today's growing digital landscape, where users engage with other users, products and service providers, NLP is becoming ubiquitous due to its ability to facilitate and personalize access to digital content of any nature. One case of particular relevance is the audio entertainment industry, as language is a key component of most audio content (e.g., songs, podcasts, radio shows, audio ads, etc.) as well as user-content interactions (e.g., textual queries, spoken utterances, social media activity, etc.). In this context, we propose the 2nd Workshop on NLP for Music and Spoken Audio, a forum for bringing together academic and industrial scientists and stakeholders interested in exploring synergies between NLP and music and audio.
We welcome both academic and industry submissions at the crossroads of NLP and music and audio, including (but not limited to) topics such as:
NLP for Music and Spoken Audio Understanding
Tagging and meta-tagging
Knowledge graph construction
Information extraction
Named entity recognition and linking
Speech to text
Song and podcast segmentation
Topic modeling
Sentiment analysis
Representation learning
Bias in music and audio corpora
Audio captioning
Debiasing music entity embeddings
NLP for Music and Audio Retrieval and Personalization
Conversational AI
Slot filling and intent prediction
Information retrieval
Cross-modal retrieval
Recommender systems
Ads personalization
Responsible recommendations
Fairness and transparency
NLP for Music and Audio Generation
Lyrics generation
Music generation with language models
Spoken audio/podcast generation
We invite short-papers of up to 4 pages (excluding references). The review process will be double-blind. Submissions should adhere to the ACL Anthology formatting guidelines.
A LaTeX template is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10sSh9JR6Q1644h6XP21lYEyCEoMyB0gQ/view
Only papers using the above template will be considered. Word templates will not be provided.
Papers should be submitted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nlp4musa0
To maximise the impact of work in the field of NLP for Music and Audio, we are open to the possibility of double submission, or submission of work which has been partially published elsewhere. Any double submission should however be reported to the programme committee at the time of submission.
Authors can submit works that were previously published on preprint websites like arXiv.org.
Submission Deadline: July 21, 2021 July 25, 2021
Notification of Acceptance: September 6, 2021 September 8, 2021
Camera-Ready Deadline: October 1, 2021
Workshop Date: November 12, 2021