NLP for Social Good

New Initiative

Starting from ACL 2021

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NLP for Social Good (NLP4SG) is a new initiative (starting from ACL 2021) aiming to empower NLP researchers who want to consider societal impacts of their work. We have a list of events, resources, and discussion channels for all that are interested :)!

I want to learn -- What is NLP4SG?

I want to discuss! -- Join our Slack

Resources on NLP4SG

What is NLP for Social Good?

1. Curated GitHub paper list of NLP on Social Good

2. ACL 2021 Findings paper "How Good Is NLP? A Sober Look at NLP Tasks through the Lens of Social Impact" by Zhijing Jin (Max Planck Institute&ETH), Geeticka Chauhan (MIT), Brian Tse (Oxford), Mrinmaya Sachan (ETH), Rada Mihalcea (University of Michigan)

3. Survey result overview "How Current NLP Researchers Think about NLP4SG" (2021, keep updating) compiled based on our NLP4SG survey

4. Register for a reading group (once a week for 8 weeks) to go through NLP4SG papers & questions with a group of NLP researchers! The tentative plan is to target at a small but focused reading group of 10-20 core attendees. [Link & Time: TBD, ~Sept 2021]

How can I participate & contribute to NLP4SG?

1. Join our slack "ACL with Love ❤️" => See our #nlp4sg-discussions channel! To keep updated, you are also welcome to join our Google Group mailing list "NLP4SG" [How to join a google group]

2. Contribute your opinions to our ongoing survey "What is NLP for Social Good?" (Short link for sharing: bit.ly/nlp4sg-survey)

3. Participate in various discussions:

ACL 2021 Workshop -- NLP for Positive Impact 2021 [Schedule (Aug 5)]

4. Tell us "what you want to get from the NLP4SG community" & "what you want to help others with" by filling in a community role form

5. Support our initiative by signing up as a supporter to be listed on our website.

6. Follow us on Twitter @nlp4sg !

Past Events

1. ACL 2021 Workshop -- NLP for Positive Impact 2021 [Schedule (Aug 5)]

Highlights: Our speakers and panelists include Jason Weston, Yulia Tsvetkov, Ndapa Nakashole, Yejin Choi, Pascale Fung, Inioluwa Deborah Raji, and Baobao Zhang.

2. ACL 2021 -- Theme Track "NLP for Social Good" [Register for ACL]

Aug 2, 5pm-7pm Berlin time: Poster session of the theme track
Aug 4, 1am-2am Berlin time: Oral session of NLP4SG
Aug 7, 12noon-1pm Berlin time: Findings papers on NLP4SG

3. ACL 2021 -- BoF/Meetup: NLP for Social Good

Time: 3rd Aug, 7pm-8:30pm (Berlin time)
Hosts: Alex Cristia, Markus Leippold, Rada Mihalcea, Sam Bowman, Zhijing Jin

Special thanks for the support of Mrinmaya Sachan and Dan Lahav!

Gather town link: Check the event on the ACL Underline

Please go to Gather.town and then navigate to the D&I session room located in the thematic spaces area in the top right of the lounge. Alternatively, you can navigate by tracing *Zhijing Jin*'s location in Gather Town.

Format: We will have several subgroups, where each subgroup can focus on a specific NLP4SG topic. Our pool of topics include: define NLP4SG, brainstorm impactful topics for the NLP4SG research agenda, evaluation metrics, interdisciplinary approaches, or a range of specific topics such as Healthcare, Education, Climate Change, Poverty, etc. We also welcome people to impromptu new topics.
Highlights: In response to the recent urgent problem of climate change, we invited Prof Markus Leippold (University of Zürich) to join our discussion on NLP for climate change.