CALL FOR PAPERS

1st Symposium on Challenges for Natural Language Processing (CNLPS'23)

Warsaw, Poland, 17-20 September, 2023 https://fedcsis.org/sessions/aaia/cnlps

Organized within FedCSIS 2023 (IEEE: #57573) Strict submission deadline: May 23, 2023, 23:59:59 AOE (no extensions)

KEY FACTS: Proceedings: submitted to IEEE Digital Library; indexing: DBLP, Scopus and Web of Science; 70 MEiN points

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Recognizing developing issue that affects all academic disciplines, we would like to state that, in principle, papers that include text generated from a large-scale language model (LLM) are prohibited, unless the produced text is used within the experimental part of the work.

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Challenges for Natural Language Processing Symposium is a series of competitions oriented towards advancing human language technologies. The goal of the symposium is to evaluate natural language processing tools in demanding, non-obvious tasks that address multimodal problems, cross-lingual learning and processing of natural languages that are not widely represented in other evaluation campaigns.

This year we invite all interested teams and individuals to participate in the following events:

+ PolEval Competition https://fedcsis.org/sessions/aaia/cnlps/poleval + Center for Artificial Intelligence Challenge on Conversational AI Correctness https://fedcsis.org/sessions/aaia/cnlps/caiccaic + Temporal Image Caption Retrieval Competition https://fedcsis.org/sessions/aaia/cnlps/ticrc

More details about the competitions can be found in the linked subpages.

Apart from the competitions, we also welcome submissions to the General Session that includes the topics listed below:

* Corpora and Language Resources * Machine Learning in NLP * Speech Processing * Language Modeling * Language Generation * Conversational AI * Question Answering * Sentiment and Emotion Detection * Information Extraction

Papers submitted for the General Session must comply with all standard FedCSIS requirements. For this session we only accept regular papers that describe new research contributions, present experiences encountered in practice or report on research topics worthy of immediate communication as explained on the page on paper categories.

Submission rules:

- Authors should submit their papers as Postscript, PDF or MSWord files. - The total length of a paper should not exceed 10 pages IEEE style (including tables, figures and references). IEEE style templates are available here. - Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the workshop. - Preprints containing accepted papers will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. - Only papers presented at the conference will be published in Conference Proceedings and submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore® database. - Conference proceedings will be published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers and posted at the conference WWW site. - Conference proceedings will be submitted for indexation. - Organizers reserve right to move accepted papers between FedCSIS technical sessions.

Important dates:

+ Paper submission (strict deadline): May 23, 2023, 23:59:59 (AoE; there will be no extension) + Position paper submission: June 7, 2023 + Author notification: July 11, 2023 + Final paper submission and registration: July 31, 2023 + Payment (early fee deadline): July 26, 2023

CNLPS is organized in collaboration with (within the framework of) Multi-task, Multilingual, Multi-modal Language Generation COST Action CA18231; https://multi3generation.eu/