CRAC 2024, the Seventh Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference, will be held at EMNLP 2024 in Miami on November 15, 2024.

About the workshop

The CRAC workshop is a forum for presenting work on all aspects of computational work on anaphora resolution and annotation, including both coreference and types of anaphora such as bridging reference resolution and discourse deixis.

Since 2016, the annual CRAC (and its predecessor, CORBON) workshop has become the main forum for researchers interested in computational modelling of reference, anaphora and coreference to discuss and publish their results. Over the years, this workshop series has been held at major NLP conferences and has successfully organised 7 shared tasks, which stimulating interest in new problems in this research area, facilitating discussion and dissemination of results on new problems/directions (e.g. multimodal reference resolution).

Topics of interest

We are interested in your work on any aspect of theoretical or applied computational work on anaphora/coreference resolution. Some suggested topics include:

– Coreference resolution for less-researched languages

– Annotation and interpretation of anaphoric relations, including relations other than identity coreference (e.g., bridging references)

– Investigation of difficult cases of anaphora and their resolution

– Coreference resolution in noisy data (e.g. in social media)

– New applications of coreference resolution

– Universal Anaphora

– CorefUD

CRAC 2024 Shared Task on Multilingual Coreference Resolution

The workshop will also present the results of our Shared Task on Multilingual Coreference Resolution, based on 17 coreference datasets for 12 languages harmonized under a common CoNLL-U scheme.

Important dates

– Workshop papers due: August 22, 2024

– ARR commitment date: September 16, 2024

– Notification of acceptance: September 22, 2024

– Camera-ready papers due: October 4, 2024

– Workshop date: November 15, 2024

Paper categories

– Research papers (theoretical computational linguistics, empirical/data-driven approaches, paradigms/techniques/strategies, analysis papers, resources and evaluation, negative result)
– Survey papers (surveys a popular or emerging area of anaphora/coreference resolution)
– Position papers (presents one side of an arguable opinion about an issue)
– Challenge papers (a challenge to the field in terms of setting out a goal for the next 5/10/20 years)
– Demo papers (systems, tools, visualizations)
– Extended abstracts (describe work in progress)

Double submission

We allow for double submissions. Please indicate at the time of submission which other conference or workshop your work has been submitted to.

We also invite authors of papers accepted for the Findings of major conferences (e.g. ACL, NAACL, EMNLP) to present their work at the workshop. If these papers have been removed from the Findings, they may be included in the workshop proceedings without further review.

Submission link

You can either submit your paper to SoftConf (by the August 22 submission deadline) or commit your ARR-reviewed paper to CRAC 2024 (by the September 16 commitment deadline). If you choose to commit your ARR-reviewed paper to CRAC, the latest ARR cycle to which you need to submit your paper for review is the June 2024 cycle.

All submissions must follow the *ACL formatting instructions. An Overleaf template is also available.

All other information

All other information can be found on the CRAC 2024 website or by e-mailing the organizers.

See you at CRAC 2024!

Maciej Ogrodniczuk
(on behalf of all the organizers: Vincent Ng, Sameer Pradhan, Anna Nedoluzhko and Massimo Poesio)