News

• The winners of the best paper award sponsored by Google are Gabriel Grand and Yonatan Belinkov for their paper Adversarial Regularization for Visual Question Answering: Strengths, Shortcomings, and Side Effects
• Building where the workshop will be held: Hyatt Exhibit Hall on the Main Level
• The poster board measurements are: 8ft wide and 4ft high.
• The program is online.
• List of accepted papers and abstracts now available!
• The workshop will be on Thursday, June 6, 2019 - right after the NAACL-2019 main conference.

Call for Abstracts and Papers

We call for abstracts and papers exploring shortcomings in current vision and language models covering topics including but not limited to:

• Analysis of current vision and language models
• Analysis of current tasks and datasets
• Novel evaluation metrics
• Novel language and vision tasks
• Other pertinent work about shortcomings of vision and language

Papers must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Paper submissions must be anonymous and will receive at least two peer-reviews. They may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references and must be prepared as specified in the NAACL guidelines (https://naacl2019.org/calls/papers/). A separate file with supplementary material consisting of additional text (.pdf) or multimedia (.zip) can also be uploaded to aid exposition of the ideas presented in the main paper. Camera-ready versions of accepted papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. All paper submissions will be presented in the Poster Session and as Spotlight talks. Paper submissions will be published in the ACL Anthology.

Abstracts can describe work in progress, work under review, accepted to be published elsewhere or already published work. They may consist of up to two (2) page of content, plus additional pages for references. No supplementary materials are allowed for abstracts. Abstract submissions are subject to single-blind review to evaluate relevance to the workshop topics. Accepted abstracts will be posted online on the workshop website and will be presented only at the poster session. Abstracts are not published in the ACL Anthology.

All submissions are made via softconf page for SiVL.

[New!] Free Grammarly Premium accounts to authors

Diversity and Inclusion committee for NAACL 2019 has decided to send out access codes for Grammarly Premium accounts to authors of NAACL-2019 workshops. The aim of this step was to help authors from non-English speaking backgrounds improve their submissions in order to encourage participation. Please fill out the following link to request access codes: https://bit.ly/2Ssp4Pq

Organizers

For further information, please, contact: sivl2019@googlegroups.com