COLING 2022 Fifth Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom (NLP4IF): Censorship, Disinformation, and Propaganda

Workshop website: http://netsci.montclair.edu/nlp4if/ Co-located with COLING-2022, Oct 12-17, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea

*Submission deadline: August 5, 2022 (23:59 PM Pacific Standard Time)*

NLP4IF (http://netsci.montclair.edu/nlp4if/ is dedicated to NLP methods that potentially contribute (either positively or negatively) to the free flow of information on the Internet, or to our understanding of the issues that arise in this area. We hope that our workshop will have a transformative impact on society by getting closer to achieving Internet freedom in countries where accessing and sharing of information are strictly controlled by censorship.

The topics of interest include (but are not limited) to the following: Censorship detection: detecting deleted or edited text; detecting blocked keywords/banned terms; Censorship circumvention techniques: linguistically inspired countermeasure for Internet censorship such as keyword substitution, expanding coverage of existing banned terms, text paraphrasing, linguistic steganography, generating information morphs etc.; Identification of propaganda at different granularity levels: text fragment, document, and full website Detection of self-censorship; Identifying potentially censorable content; Disinformation/Misinformation detection: fake news, fake accounts, rumor detection, etc.; Identification of hate speech and offensive language (Comparative) analysis of the language of propagandistic and biased texts Automatic generation of persuasive content Automatic debiasing of news content Tools to facilitate the flagging, either automatic or manual, of propaganda and bias in social media Automatic detection of coordinated propaganda campaigns such as the use of social bots, botnets, and water armies Analysis of diffusion and consumption of propagandistic, hyperpartisan, and extremely biased content in social media Techniques to empirically measure Internet censorship across communication platforms; Investigations on covert linguistic communication and its limits; Identity and private information detection; Passive and targeted surveillance techniques; Ethics in NLP; “Walled gardens”, personalization and fragmentation of the online public space;

Multiple submission policy: papers that are under review in another COLING workshop at the time of submission will not be considered.

Submission page: https://www.softconf.com/coling2022/NLP4IF

Formatting requirements: https://coling2022.org/Submission Important Dates * Submission deadline: August 5, 2022 (23:59 PM Pacific Standard Time) * Notification of acceptance: August 22, 2022 * Camera-ready papers due: September 5, 2022 * Workshop: co-located with COLING-2022, October 12-17, 2022