Second Call for workshop papers and Shared Task participation: the 6th workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text - CASE @ EACL 2024

************************************************************************************ URL: https://emw.ku.edu.tr/case-2024/

Paper submission deadline: 18 December 2023 Paper acceptance notification: 20 January 2024 Paper camera-ready: 30 January 2024 Workshop dates: 21-22 March 2024

Softconf page of the workshop: https://softconf.com/eacl2024/CASE-2024/ ************************************************************************************

We invite contributions from researchers in computer science, NLP, ML, DL, AI, socio-political sciences, conflict analysis and forecasting, peace studies, as well as computational social science scholars involved in the collection and utilization of socio-political event data. This includes (but is not limited to) the following topics

1) Extracting events and their arguments such as time and location in and beyond a sentence or document, event coreference resolution. 2) Research in NLP technologies in relation to event detection: geocoding, temporal reasoning, argument structure detection, syntactic and semantic analysis of event structures, text classification, for event type detection, learning event-related lexica, event co-reference resolution, fake news analysis, and others with a focus on real or potential event detection applications. 3) New datasets, training data collection, and annotation for event information. 4) Event-event relations, e.g., subevents, main events, spatio-temporal relations, causal relations. 5) Event dataset evaluation in light of reliability and validity metrics. 6) Defining, populating, and facilitating event schemas and ontologies. 7) Automated tools and pipelines for event collection related tasks. 8) Lexical, syntactic, semantic, discursive, and pragmatic aspects of event manifestation. 9) Methodologies for development, evaluation, and analysis of event datasets. 10) Applications of event databases, e.g. early warning, conflict prediction, policymaking. 11) Estimating what is missing in event datasets using internal and external information. 12) Detection of new and emerging SPE types, e.g. creative protests. 13) Release of new event datasets. 14) Bias and fairness of the sources and event datasets. 15) Ethics, misinformation, privacy, and fairness concerns pertaining to event datasets. 16) Copyright issues on event dataset creation, dissemination, and sharing. 17) Cross-lingual, multilingual and multimodal aspects in event analysis. 18) Resources and approaches related to contentious politics around climate change.

**** Shared tasks **** We invite the community to participate in the shared task we organize and consider working on data from our previous shared tasks in the scope of the CASE workshop @ EACL 2024 (https://emw.ku.edu.tr/case-2024/).

Recent & Active Shared task: *T1: Climate Activism Stance and Hate Event Detection*

*Codalab Link:* https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/16206 https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/16206

Registration: In order to register for the shared task, please send a request in Codalab. The organizers will approve requests on a daily basis.

*GitHub Page:* https://github.com/therealthapa/case2024-climate https://github.com/therealthapa/case2024-climate Previous shared tasks for working on regular papers (no official competition), please see the regular paper submission timeline: PT1: Multilingual Protest News Detection

Contact person: Ali Hürriyetoğlu (ali.hurriyetoglu@gmail.com)

Github: https://github.com/emerging-welfare/case-2022-multilingual-event

PT2: Event Causality identification

Contact person: Fiona Anting Tan (tan.f@u.nus.edu)

Github: https://github.com/tanfiona/CausalNewsCorpus

PT3: Multimodal Hate Speech Event Detection

Contact person: Surendrabikram Thapa (surendrabikram@vt.edu)

Codalab page: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/16203

Github: https://github.com/therealthapa/case2023_task4

Note: The organizers follows a specific timeline. Please see the Codalab page.

*** Keynotes *** We will continue our tradition of inviting keynote speakers from both social and computational sciences. The up-to-date list of keynote speakers will be announced soon.

*** Submission guidelines *** This call solicits short and long papers reporting original and unpublished research on the topics listed above. The papers should emphasize obtained results rather than intended work and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. The page limits and content structure announced at ACL ARR page (https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp) should be followed for both short and long papers.

Papers should be submitted on the START page of the workshop ( https://softconf.com/eacl2024/CASE-2024/) in PDF format, in compliance with the ACL publication author guidelines for ACL publications https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html. The templates can be found on https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files.

The reviewing process will be double-blind and papers should not include the author’s names and affiliations. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. The workshop proceedings will be published on ACL Anthology.

*** Workshop organizers *** Ali Hürriyetoğlu, KNAW Humanities Cluster, the Netherlands, ali.hurriyetoglu@gmail.com Hristo Tanev, European Commission, Joint Research Centre (EU JRC), Italy Erdem Yörük, Koc University, Turkey Jatin Bedi, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, India. Surendrabikram Thapa, Virginia Tech, the USA S. Angel Deborah, SSN College of Engineering, India S. Rajalakshmi, SSN College of Engineering, India Onur Uca, Mersin University, Turkey Mark Lee, School of Computer Science University of Birmingham, United Kingdom Francielle Vargas, University of São Paulo, Brazil Farhana Ferdousi Liza, University of East Anglia, the United Kingdom Shruti Kulkarni, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States Vivek Kumar, University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Germany Milena Slavcheva, IICT, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Guneet Singh Kohli, Thapar University, India Vanni Zavarella, University of Cagliari, Italy