Call for Papers

Call for Papers

The 3rd Workshop on Simple and Efficient Natural Language Processing (SustaiNLP 2022) will be co-located with EMNLP2022 and will be held virtually on December 7, 2022.

Motivation

The NLP community in recent years focuses on improving performance on standard benchmarks, predominantly using neural models. While it has led to progress on various tasks, it also resulted in a worrisome increase in model complexity and the amount of computational resources required for training and using current state-of-the-art models. Moreover, the recent research efforts have, for the most part, failed to identify sources of empirical gains in models, failing to justify the model complexity beyond benchmark performance. In this context, the SustaiNLP workshop has two main objectives: (1) encouraging development of more efficient NLP models; and (2) providing simpler architectures and empirical justification of model complexity.

Topics of Interest

We encourage submissions in the following topics, including but are not limited to:

  • Models that yield competitive performance but require less training data, less computational resources, or less training time

  • Models with lower computational complexity of prediction/inference

  • Theoretical or empirical justification of the complexity of existing NLP models, e.g., by showing that meaningful simplifications of the model lead to significant deterioration in performances, interpretability, and/or robustness;

  • Conceptual or practical simplification of an existing model, yielding comparable performance, while offering advantages like interpretability, inference time, robustness, etc.

  • Suggesting new best practices in reporting experimental results

  • Critically analyzing existing evaluation protocols

  • Suggesting new evaluation protocols

Important Dates

  • Last ARR submission deadline: July 15, 2022

  • Commitment deadline: October 2, 2022

  • Notification of acceptance: October 25, 2022

  • Camera-ready papers due: November 16, 2022

  • Uploading pre-recorded videos to underline: November 16, 2022

  • Workshop: December 7, 2022

All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h (“anywhere on Earth”).

Submissions

  • We accept papers that are reviewed by ARR. The last possible ARR deadline for EMNLP workshop papers is July 15. Any paper with an ARR meta-reviews can be committed to SustaiNLP by October 2nd October 10th.

  • Apart from ARR papers, we accept papers which are rejected from EMNLP with borderline scores or unfair reviews! You can submit the pdf of your paper as well as its corresponding EMNLP reviews using the below link. The deadline is October 10th.

Submission Link

Please submit your paper via the following link:

https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2022/Workshop/SustaiNLP