Call for Papers

The 4th Workshop on Simple and Efficient Natural Language Processing (SustaiNLP 2023) will be co-located with ACL 2023 and will be held hybrid on July 13, 2023.

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

Direct paper submission deadline: April 24, 2023
Notification of acceptance: May 29, 2023
Camera-ready papers due: June 5, 2023
Pre-recorded video due: June 5, 2023 June 12, 2023
Workshop: July 13, 2023

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

Submissions

We accept both long (8 pages) and short (4 pages) papers. Submitted papers must follow the ACL 2023 two-column format, using the supplied official style files. The templates can be downloaded in Style Files and Formatting. There is no anonymity period for the submitted papers to SustaiNLP.

Please submit your paper via the following link: https://softconf.com/acl2023/SustaiNLP2023.

Dual Submission with ACL 2023 is allowed. You will be asked to specify the cross-submission information in the START system. If the paper is accepted to both ACL 2023 and the workshop, it will be considered as a cross-submission and will not be a part of the workshop proceedings. If it gets rejected from ACL 2023 and accepted to the workshop and you want us to consider it as a standard workshop paper which will be included in the proceedings, please contact us to let us know.