CALL FOR ARR Commitment
The 10th Workshop on Argument Mining @ EMNLP 2023
December 7, 2023
https://argmining-org.github.io/2023/
The 10th Workshop on Argument Mining will be held on December 7, 2023 in Singapore together with EMNLP 2023. This will be a hybrid event.
ArgMining 2023 will accept submissions of ARR-reviewed papers, provided that the ARR reviews and meta-reviews are available by the ARR commitment deadline (September 25).
The Workshop on Argument Mining provides a regular forum for the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research in argument mining (a.k.a argumentation mining) to both academic and industry researchers. By continuing a series of nine successful previous workshops, this edition will welcome the submission of long, short, and demo papers. It will feature two shared tasks, a panel on the last ten years of Argument Mining, and a keynote talk.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper commitment from ARR: September 25, 2023
Notification of acceptance: October 7, 2023
Camera-ready submission: October 18, 2023
Workshop: December 7, 2023
TOPICS OF INTEREST
The topics for submissions include but are not limited to:
Automatic identification of argument components (e.g., premises and conclusions), the structure in which they form an argument, and relations between arguments and counterarguments (e.g., support and attack) in as well as across documents
Automatic assessment of arguments and argumentation with respect to various properties, such as stance, clarity, and persuasiveness
Automatic generation of arguments and their components, including the consideration of discourse goals (e.g., stages of a critical discussion or rhetorical strategies)
Creation and evaluation of argument annotation schemes, relationships to linguistic and discourse annotations, (semi-) automatic argument annotation methods and tools, and creation of argumentation corpora
Argument mining in specific genres and domains (e.g., social media, education, law, and scientific writing), each with a unique style (e.g., short informal text, highly structured writing, and long-form documents)
Argument mining and generation from multi-modal and/or multilingual data
Integration of commonsense and domain knowledge into argumentation models for mining and generation
Combination of information retrieval methods with argument mining, e.g., in order to build the next generation of argumentative (web) search engines
Real-world applications, including argument web search, opinion analysis in customer reviews, argument analysis in meetings, misinformation detection
Perspectivist approaches to subjective argument mining tasks for which multiple ”ground truths” may exist, including multi-perspective machine learning and the creation of non-aggregated datasets
Reflection on the ethical aspects and societal impact of argument mining methods
Reflection on the future of argument mining in light of the fast advancement of large language models (LLMs).
SUBMISSIONS
The organizing committee welcomes the submission of long papers, short papers, and demo descriptions. Accepted papers will be presented either via oral or poster presentations. They will be included in the EMNLP proceedings as workshop papers.
- Long paper submissions must describe substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Long papers must be no longer than eight pages, including title, text, figures and tables. An unlimited number of pages is allowed for references. Two additional pages are allowed for appendices, and an extra page is allowed in the final version to address reviewers’ comments.
- Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. Please note that a short paper is not a shortened long paper. Instead, short papers should have a point that can be made in a few pages, such as a small, focused contribution; a negative result; or an interesting application nugget. Short papers must be no longer than four pages, including title, text, figures and tables. An unlimited number of pages is allowed for references. One additional page is allowed for the appendix, and an extra page is allowed in the final version to address reviewers’ comments.
- Demo descriptions must be no longer than four pages, including title, text, examples, figures, tables, and references. A separate one-page document should be provided to the workshop organizers for demo descriptions, specifying furniture and equipment needed for the demo.
Submission Format
All long, short, and demonstration submissions must follow the two-column EMNLP 2023 format. Authors are expected to use the LaTeX or Microsoft Word style template (https://2023.emnlp.org/calls/style-and-formatting/). Submissions must conform to the official EMNLP style guidelines, which are contained in these templates. Submissions must be electronic, in PDF format.
Submission Link
Authors have to fill in the submission form in the START system indicating relevant information to their ARR paper before September 25, 2023, 11:59 pm UTC-12h (anywhere on earth).
https://softconf.com/emnlp2023/ArgMining2023/
Double Blind Review
ArgMining 2023 will follow the ACL policies for preserving the integrity of double-blind review for long and short paper submissions. Papers must not include authors’ names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references or links (such as github) that reveal the author’s identity, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” must be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Papers should not refer, for further detail, to documents that are not available to the reviewers. For example, do not omit or redact important citation information to preserve anonymity. Instead, use third person or named reference to this work, as described above (“Smith showed” rather than “we showed”). If important citations are not available to reviewers (e.g., awaiting publication), these paper/s should be anonymised and included in the appendix. They can then be referenced from the submission without compromising anonymity. Papers may be accompanied by a resource (software and/or data) described in the paper, but these resources should also be anonymized.
Unlike long and short papers, demo descriptions will not be anonymous. Demo descriptions should include the authors’ names and affiliations, and self-references are allowed.
BEST PAPER AWARDS
In order to recognize significant advancements in argument mining science and technology, ArgMining 2023 will include best paper awards. All papers at the workshop are eligible for the best paper awards and a selection committee consisting of prominent researchers in the fields of interest will select the recipients of the awards.
ArgMining 2023 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Milad Alshomary, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
Chung-Chi Chen, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
Smaranda Muresan, Columbia University, USA
Joonsuk Park, University of Richmond, USA
Julia Romberg, Heinrich Heine University of Duesseldorf, Germany
Dear ACL Community,
ACL is considering multiple proposals to change its anonymity period
policy.
We seek immediate feedback from our community about two specific
proposed changes. The first proposed change would allow authors to
freely make versions of their submitted papers available online at any
time, for example, on preprint servers such as arXiv or on their
personal websites. The second proposed change would allow authors to
mention their preprints at any time, including on social media. Taken
together, these changes amount to canceling the anonymity period.
ACL Call for participation:
https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/survey-anonymity-period-policy
Submission Deadline: Friday, 22 September 2023
Please use this link to submit your feedback:
https://tinyurl.com/aclarxivpolicy.
The survey might take 5 to 10 minutes, and your responses will remain
anonymous. Feel free to forward this as you think appropriate. For
additional information or suggestions, please feel free to contact any
of us.
Your contribution is greatly appreciated, and we look forward to hearing
from you!
Sincerely,
ACL Working Group
Dear Colleagues,
Please see below a call for abstracts for a special issue that my
collaborators and I are putting together for *Journal of Second Language
Studies* on QRPs in the context of applied linguistics. Thanks for
considering this call. Please feel free to share with anyone else who you
think might be interested.
Best,
Luke
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*Call for abstracts for special issue in Journal of Second Language
Studies on*
*Questionable Research Practices*
Questionable research practices (QRPs) comprise the vast gray area in
between ideal researcher behavior, on the one hand, and behaviors that are
clearly unethical or inappropriate, on the other (see Yaw et al., 2022
<https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261444823000010>). Building on a growing body of
QRP-based research both within and beyond applied linguistics (e.g.,
Fanelli, 2009; Isbell et al., 2022), Larsson et al. (2023)
<https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmal.2023.100064> present a taxonomy of 58 QRPs
(found here)
<https://sites.google.com/view/qrp-humanities/home/what-are-qrps?authuser=0>
for
applied linguistics along with ratings for their corresponding frequency
and severity.
These and other efforts have sought to raise awareness of QRPs in applied
linguistics, noting that many present potentially serious threats to the
validity of our findings. Nevertheless, this set of QRPs—both individually
and in the aggregate—needs to be more fully examined in order to gain a
clearer understanding of (a) how, when, and to what extent QRPs occur, (b)
when and to what extent they may be problematic, and (c) their
context-dependent nature. For example, one QRP is “excessive
self-citation”. But what is “excessive” in the context of applied
linguistics? Under what circumstances is it all right to frequently cite
your own work? Do (excessive) self-citation practices vary across journals,
author demographics, and so forth?
For this special issue of the *Journal of Second Language Studies*
<https://benjamins.com/catalog/jsls>, we invite proposals for articles that
explore one or multiple QRPs in applied linguistics, going beyond Larsson
et al.’s findings of QRP frequency and perceived severity. We invite
contributions applying any methodological approach including surveys,
corpus-based techniques, coding of primary studies for evidence of QRPs
(i.e., synthetic/meta-analytic techniques), case studies, reviews of
curricula and training materials, and interviews (e.g., with researchers at
different career stages).
The following article types/lengths will be considered:
- Full-length articles (maximum 9000 words)
- Short reports (3000-5000 words)
- Position papers (max 9000 words)
*Timeline*
October 10, 2023
Abstracts (300 words max + references) sent to luke.plonsky(a)nau.edu
November 10, 2023
Decisions with invitations to submit sent to authors
July 1, 2024
Initial submission of complete manuscripts for editorial and peer review
October 1, 2024
Final submission of manuscripts
2025
Anticipated publication
*Special issue editors*
Luke Plonsky, Northern Arizona University
Tove Larsson, Northern Arizona University
Scott Sterling, Indiana State University
Kate Yaw, University of South Florida
Merja Kytö, Uppsala University
Dear Colleagues,
The deadline to submit a paper in the WIESP workshop is TODAY!
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2023/
We have a new shared task on *Citation Classification*.
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2023/shared_task_1
If you are interested, please register to participate:
https://forms.office.com/g/cUyC00LnWB
All the participating teams would be invited to submit a paper describing
their system and those would be published as part of WIESP @ IJCNLP-AACL
2023 proceedings in the ACL Anthology.
Please feel free to reach us for any questions.
Thank you.
Best regards,
Tirthankar Ghosal
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Tirthankar Ghosal
https://elitr.eu/tirthankar-ghosal/
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Second Call for Papers
Special Issue of Computational Linguistics: Language Learning, Representation, and Processing in Humans and Machines
** Guest Editors **
Marianna Apidianaki (University of Pennsylvania)
Abdellah Fourtassi (Aix Marseille University)
Sebastian Padó (University of Stuttgart)
** NEW: Abstract submission deadline: November, 10 **
** Paper submission deadline: December, 10 **
Large language models (LLMs) acquire rich world knowledge from the data they are exposed to during training, in a way that appears to parallel how children learn from the language they hear around them. Indeed, since the introduction of these powerful models, there has been a general feeling among researchers in both NLP and cognitive science that a systematic understanding of how these models work and how they use the knowledge they encode, would shed light on the way humans acquire, represent, and process this same knowledge (and vice versa).
Yet, despite the similarities, there are important differences between machines and humans that have prevented a direct translation of insights from the analysis of LLMs to a deeper understanding of human learning. Chief among these differences is that the size of data required to train LLMs far exceeds -- by several orders of magnitude -- the data children need to acquire sophisticated conceptual structures and meanings. Besides, the engineering-driven architectures of LLMs do not appear to have obvious equivalents in children's cognitive apparatus, at least as studied by standard methods in experimental psychology. Finally, children acquire world knowledge not only via exposure to language but also via sensory experience and social interaction.
This edited volume aims to create a forum of exchange and debate between linguists, cognitive scientists and experts in deep learning, NLP and computational linguistics, on the broad topic of learning in humans and machines. Experts from these communities can contribute with empirical and theoretical papers that advance our understanding of this question. Submissions might address the acquisition of different types of linguistic and world knowledge. Additionally, we invite contributions that characterize and address challenges related to the mismatch between humans and LLMs in terms of the size and nature of input data, and the involved learning and processing mechanisms.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
• Grounded learning: comparison of unimodal (e.g., text) vs multimodal (e.g., images and video) learning.
• Social learning: comparison of input-driven mechanisms vs. interaction-based learning.
• Exploration of different knowledge types (e.g., procedural / declarative); knowledge integration and inference in LLMs.
• Methods to characterize and quantify human-like language learning or processing in LLMs.
• Interpretability/probing methods addressing the linguistic and world knowledge encoded in LLM representations.
• Knowledge enrichment methods aimed at improving the quality and quantity of the knowledge encoded in LLMs.
• Semantic representation and processing in humans and machines in terms of, e.g., abstractions made, structure of the lexicon, property inheritance and generalization, geometrical approaches to meaning representation, mental associations, and meaning retrieval.
• Bilingualism in humans and machines; second language acquisition in children and adults; construction of multi-lingual spaces and cross-lingual correspondences.
• Exploration of language models that incorporate cognitively plausible mechanisms and reasonably-sized training data.
• Use of techniques from other disciplines (e.g., neuroscience or computer vision) for analyzing and evaluating LLMs.
• Open-source tools for analysis, visualization, or explanation.
Submission Instructions
** NEW ** Authors are strongly encouraged to submit a short (max 1 page) abstract of their paper by November 10.
Abstracts will be sent to the Guest Editors (e-mails below). Minor modifications to the abstract will still be possible until final submission.
Papers should be formatted according to the Computational Linguistics style guidelines: http://cljournal.org/
We accept both long and short papers. Long papers are between 30 and 40 journal pages in length; short papers are between 15 and 25 pages in length.
Papers for this special issue will be submitted through the CL electronic submission system, just like regular papers: http://cljournal.org/submissions.html
Authors of special issue papers will need to select “Special Issue on LLPR” under the Journal Section heading in the CL submission system.
Please note that papers submitted to a special issue undergo the same reviewing process as regular papers.
Timeline
Deadline for abstract submission: November, 10 2023
Deadline for paper submission: December, 10 2023
Notification after 1st round of reviewing: February, 10 2024
Revised versions of the papers: April, 30 2024
Final decisions: June, 10 2024
Final version of the papers: July, 1 2024
Inquiries
All inquiries should be directed to the guest editors of this special issue.
Guest Editors
Marianna Apidianaki
marapi(a)seas.upenn.edu <mailto:marapi@seas.upenn.edu>
Abdellah Fourtassi
abdellah.fourtassi(a)gmail.com <mailto:abdellah.fourtassi@gmail.com>
Sebastian Padó
pado(a)ims.uni-stuttgart.de <mailto:pado@ims.uni-stuttgart.de>
Reviewers
Afra Alishahi, Tilburg University
Rachel Bawden, INRIA
Philippe Blache, Aix-Marseille University, CNRS
Idan Blank, UCLA
Gemma Boleda, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, UCLouvain, FNRS, The Ohio State University
Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin
Benoit Favre, Aix-Marseille University
Richard Futrell, UC Irvine
Aina Garí Soler, Télécom-Paris
Mario Giulianelli, University of Amsterdam
Gabriel Grand, MIT
Dieuwke Hupkes, META
Anna Ivanova, MIT
Jordan Kodner, Stony Brook University
Andrew Lampinen, DeepMind
Roger Levy, MIT
Tal Linzen, New York University (NYU)
Barbara Plank, LMU Munich
Christopher Potts, Stanford University
Veronica Qing Lyu, University of Pennsylvania
Okko Räsänen, Tampere University
Anna Rogers, IT University of Copenhagen
Thomas Schatz, Aix-Marseille University
Sebastian Schuster, Saarland University
Cory Shain, Stanford University
Jörg Tiedemann, University of Helsinki
Sean Trott, University of California, San Diego
Ivan Vuliç, University of Cambridge
Computational Linguistics is the longest-running flagship journal of the Association for Computational Linguistics. The journal has a high impact factor: 9.3 in 2022 and 7.778 in 2021. Average time to first decision of regular papers and full survey papers (excluding desk rejects) is 34 days for the period January to May 2023, and 47 days for the period January to December 2022.
Dear Esteemed Colleagues,
We are a research group of the Computer Science Department and Polin
Laboratory at University of Turin.
We need your contribution to test a dialogue system for exploring finite
automata with the accessibility goal in mind.
*Introducing the NoVAGraphS Research Experiment*
Our research team comprising Alessandro Mazzei, Luca Anselma, Pier Felice
Balestrucci, Cristian Bernareggi, Elisa Di Nuovo and Manuela Sanguinetti,
is thrilled to extend a heartfelt invitation to individuals with a basic
knowledge of *English* and* finite state automata*.
We need your valuable insights to evaluate our prototype system designed to
enhance the accessibility of automata, a graphical structure usually taught
in Computer Science courses which is not yet fully accessible for
individuals with visual impairments.
*What would you expect?*
- You will interact with a prototype dialogue system using a web interface
to explore a simple automaton.
- Moreover, you will explore another simple automaton using a state
transition table.
- Finally, we will ask you some questions to assess your understanding of
the two automata and collect your precious feedback on the usability of the
dialogue system. Rest assured, any personal information collected will
remain completely anonymous.
- It will take approximately 15 minutes (standard deviation = 5 minutes :D).
*Interested in participating or needing more information to decide?*
In both cases, please contact Pier at the following email address:
pierfelice.balestrucci[at]unito.it
Kind regards,
Elisa Di Nuovo on behalf of NoVAGraphS Research Group
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Alessandro Mazzei, Luca Anselma, Pier Felice Balestrucci, Cristian
Bernareggi, Elisa Di Nuovo, Manuela Sanguinetti
http://www.integr-abile.unito.it/progetto-novagraphs/
(website only in Italian)
Dear Colleagues,
We received some requests about the extension of the submission deadline.
Because we still have some time to wait for more interesting submissions,
we have decided to extend the submission deadline to 15 Sep. 2023 (AoE).
FinNLP@IJCNLP-AACL-2023 will be held in hybrid mode. While we encourage
in-person attendance, we understand the need for flexibility and will also
be accommodating live online presentations.
We also have a Multi-Lingual ESG Impact Type Identification (ML-ESG-2)
shared task. Please join us if you are interested in ESG topics.
We are looking forward to your participation in FinNLP@IJCNLP-AACL-2023.
For more details, please refer to FinNLP-2023 website:
https://sites.google.com/nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw/finnlp2023/home
Best Regards,
Chung-Chi Chen
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陳重吉 (Chung-Chi Chen), Ph.D.
Researcher
Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced
Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
E-mail: c.c.chen(a)acm.org
Website: http://cjchen.nlpfin.com
Hello,
in the research project "BoTox - Bot and context detection in the environment of hate speech" a position for a research assistant is advertised.
https://h-da.de/fileadmin/h_da/Hochschule/Stellenangebote/Mitarbeiter/378_2…
There is a possibility to do a PhD in the Hessian PhD Center for Applied Computer Science. For questions about the position and the project, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Best regards,
Melanie Siegel
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Information Science
Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences
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D-64295 Darmstadt
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*Task:* We call for automated systems to extract and normalize the findings
of dysmorphology physical examinations. The dataset consists of 3136
de-identified observations with dysmorphic findings manually annotated and
normalized with their corresponding HumanPhenotype Ontology
<https://hpo.jax.org/app/> (HPO) terms.
*Motivation:* Dysmorphology physical examinations catalog minor
morphological differences of patients’ bodies and may also identify general
medical signs such as neurologic dysfunction. These findings enable
correlations of patients with known rare genetic diseases and allow
researchers to delineate undescribed genetic conditions. These medical
findings are nearly always captured as unstructured free text within the
electronic health record, making them unavailable for downstream
computational analysis. Advanced natural language processing methods are
therefore required to retrieve the information from the records.
*Challenge:* Both extraction and normalization are challenging. The
extraction is challenging due to the descriptive style of the examinations
which, for conciseness, report findings with disjoint and overlapping
mentions. The normalization is challenging due to the large scale of the
HPO ontology which requires a normalizer to learn the task without
supervision since our training set does not provide examples of all terms
in the HPO.
See
https://biocreative.bioinformatics.udel.edu/tasks/biocreative-viii/track-3/ for
details., in short:
- 3136 de-identified observations with dysmorphic and normal findings
manually annotated and normalized with their corresponding Human
Phenotype Ontology <https://hpo.jax.org/app/> terms
- Baseline systems available (e.g. doc2HPO
<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefens…>
, NeuralCR
<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefens…>
, PhenoTagger
<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefens…>
, PhenoBERT
<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefens…>,
and txt2HPO
<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefens…>
)
- Codalab opened at https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/11351
- Evaluation period: Sept. 15, 9:00 UTC - Sept. 18, 23:59 UTC
[Apologies for cross-posting]
Best regards,
Davy
NLP4DH 2023 & IWCLUL 2023
The Joint 3rd International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities and 8th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages will be held in Tokyo, Japan. The proceedings will be published in the ACL anthology<https://aclanthology.org/>. The workshop will take place on December 1-3 2023.
https://rootroo.com/en/joint-nlp4dh-iwclul-2023/
Submission deadline: October 1, 2023
Registration/publication fees: 0€!
The focus of NLP4DH is on applying natural language processing techniques to digital humanities research. The topics can be anything of digital humanities interest with a natural language processing or generation aspect. A list of suitable NLP4DH topics include but are not limited to:
-Text analysis and processing related to humanities using computational methods
-Dataset creation and curation for NLP (e.g. digitization, digitalization, datafication, and data preservation).
-Research on cultural heritage collections such as national archives and libraries using NLP
-NLP for error detection, correction, normalization and denoising data
-Generation and analysis of literary works such as poetry and novels
-Analysis and detection of text genres
-Submissions are not limited to Uralic languages!
In addition, IWCLUL solicits papers that focus on NLP methods for Uralic languages. Many of these languages are endangered and call for innovative NLP approaches that can deal with small amounts of data. A list of suitable IWCLUL topics include but are not limited to:
-Parsers, analysers and processing pipelines of Uralic languages
-Lexical databases, electronic dictionaries
-Finished end-user applications aimed at Uralic languages, such as spelling or grammar checkers, machine translation or speech processing
-Evaluation methods and gold standards, tagged corpora, treebanks
We solicit original and unpublished work related to digital humanities and natural language processing (NLP4DH) or NLP methods for Uralic languages (IWCLUL).
Short papers can be up to 4 pages in length (5 for camera-ready version). Short papers can report on work in progress or a more targeted contribution such as software or partial results.
Long papers can be up to 8 pages in length (9 for camera-ready version). Long papers should report on previously unpublished, completed, original work.
Lightning talks submitted as 750-word abstracts. Lightning talks are suited for discussing ideas or presenting work in progress. The abstracts will not be published or indexed and will only be made available on the conference website.
All submission formats can have an unlimited number of pages for references. All submissions must follow the ACL stylesheet<https://2023.aclweb.org/calls/style_and_formatting/>.
The submissions must be anonymous and they will be peer-reviewed by our program committee. The peer review is double blinded. Papers must be submitted using the conference submission system by the deadline. At least one of the authors of an accepted paper must attend the event and present their paper.
Accepted papers (short and long) will be published in the joint proceedings that will appear in the ACL Anthology. Accepted papers will also be given an additional page to address the reviewers’ comments. The length of a camera ready submission can then be 5 pages for a short paper and 9 for a long paper with an unlimited number of pages for references.
The authors of the accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to a special issue in the Journal of Data Mining & Digital Humanities<https://jdmdh.episciences.org/>.
Important dates
-Paper submission (full and short): October 1, 2023
-Notification of acceptance: November 3, 2023
-Camera ready deadline: November 17, 2023
-NLP4DH & IWCLUL in Tokyo: December 1-3, 2023