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*Fourth Workshop on Bridging Human-Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing (HCI+NLP)*
We are excited to announce that the 4th iteration of HCI+NLP will be *co-located with @EMNLP in Suzhou, China* and online!
The rapid advancement of NLP research has led to a variety of applications spanning a wide range of domains. With the recent popularity and growing capabilities of large language models, language technologies have been integrated into various daily applications, such as conversational search, text analysis, and writing assistance. While this widespread adoption ignites excitement, it raises pressing concerns and challenges for NLP research, including those related to real-world evaluation, bias and fairness, and model interpretability and explainability, and it is more important than ever that NLP research adopt and develop methods to incorporate people into research in meaningful ways. Perspectives from human-computer interaction (HCI) can help NLP research practitioners to advance the field in ways that are aligned with people’s needs, raising novel questions and research directions for both NLP and HCI.
*Special Theme*
For this iteration of the workshop, we are delighted to include a special theme: *Human involvement in post-training*. Recent advances in frontier NLP labs emphasize the importance of Reinforcement Learning with AI Feedback (RLAIF) and synthetic data, reducing human presence in the post-training process. However, as humans are the end users of or are impacted by interactive systems, we see this as an opportunity to ask about the role humans should play in the development of human-centric language technologies. We welcome any submissions engaging with this question, including *efficient learning of human preferences*, *novel forms of human feedback*, user interfaces that enable the *seamless and innovative collection of feedback*, *problems and tasks where human preferences are especially crucial*, *alternative paradigms *for human input and involvement, *different approaches’ underlying assumptions and resulting impacts*, and more.
*Submissions*
We welcome *research papers (up to 8 pages)*, submitted *archivally or non-archivally*. We also welcome *extended abstracts* (up to 4 pages, non-archival) presenting relevant ongoing or recently published work. We invite submissions that include (but are not limited to): provocations, critical approaches, or position papers; surveys or meta-analyses highlighting opportunities for new research; and empirical studies, system demonstrations, or other research on practical issues when deploying language technology.
We also welcome *fast-track submissions* of papers rejected by other venues that are accompanied by previous reviews.
For the full call for papers, including formatting guidelines and the submission site, see the workshop website.
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*Submission Deadlines*:
Regular submission: August 8
Fast-track submission: September 1
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*For more information, visit our website: * https://sites.google.com/view/hciandnlp