*SEM brings together researchers interested in the semantics of (many and diverse!) natural languages and its computational modeling. The conference embraces data-driven, neural, and probabilistic approaches, as well as symbolic approaches and everything in between; practical applications as well as theoretical contributions are welcome. The long-term goal of *SEM is to provide a stable forum for the growing number of NLP researchers working on all aspects of semantics of (many and diverse!) natural languages.

Topics of interest:

Lexical semantics and word representations Compositional semantics and sentence representations Statistical, machine learning, and deep learning methods in semantic tasks Multilingual and cross-lingual semantics Word sense disambiguation and induction Semantic parsing, and syntax-semantics interface Frame semantics and semantic role labeling Textual inference, textual entailment, and question answering Formal approaches to semantics Extraction of events and of causal and temporal relations Entity linking, pronouns and coreference Discourse, pragmatics, and dialogue Machine reading Extra-propositional aspects of meaning Multiword and idiomatic expressions Metaphor, irony, and humor Knowledge mining and acquisition Common sense reasoning Language generation Semantics in NLP applications: sentiment analysis, abusive language detection, summarization, fact-checking, etc. Multidisciplinary research on semantics Grounding and multimodal semantics Psycholinguistics Interpretability and Explainability Human semantic processing Semantic annotation, evaluation, and resources Ethical aspects and bias in semantic representations

We encourage authors to think about the ethical aspects of their work, and to address and discuss all ethical questions and implications relevant to their research. STARSEM values reproducibility and particularly welcomes submissions that adhere to the reproducibility guidelines as specified here.

Submission Instructions

Submissions must describe unpublished work and be written in English. We solicit both long and short papers. Please note that double submission of papers will need to be notified at submission.

Long papers describe original research and may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. Appendices are allowed after the references, but the paper should be self-contained and reviewers will not be required to check the appendices, if any. Final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Short papers describe original focused research and may consist of up to four (4) pages, plus unlimited pages for references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings. Authors are encouraged to use this additional page to address reviewers comments in their final versions.

Submissions should follow the ARR formatting requirements. The deadline for direct submissions is Feb 22, 2024, and these submissions will be reviewed by the *SEM-2024 program committee. ACL Rolling Review (ARR) submissions can be committed to *SEM up to March 22, 2024 (authors of ARR-reviewed papers need to include their OpenReview link with reviews in the submission form). Both types of submissions are through OpenReview. Limitations and Ethics Statement sections are allowed and encouraged, but they are not mandatory. They should be placed after the conclusion and they will not count towards the overall page limit.). In *SEM there is no special policy against multiple submissions, but this should be notified to the Program Chairs.

Submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/StarSEM/2024/Conference

Important Dates

Anonymity period for direct submissions begins Jan 22, 2024 Direct submission deadline Feb 22, 2024 ARR-reviewed paper submission deadline Mar 22, 2024 Notification of acceptance Apr 22, 2024 Camera-ready deadline May 5, 2024 Conference date Jun 16, 2024

Anonymity period

To protect the integrity of double-blind review and ensure that submissions are reviewed fairly, we adopt the rules and guidelines for ACL conferences. The following rules and guidelines make reference to the anonymity period, which runs from 1 month before the submission deadline (starting February 22, 2024 11:59PM UTC-12:00) up to the date when your paper is either accepted, rejected (Apr 22, 2024), or withdrawn.

You may not make a non-anonymized version of your paper available online to the general community (for example, via a preprint server) during the anonymity period. By a version of a paper we understand another paper having essentially the same scientific content but possibly differing in minor details (including title and structure) and/or in length (e.g., an abstract is a version of the paper that it summarizes).

If you have posted a non-anonymized version of your paper online before the start of the anonymity period, you may submit an anonymized version to the conference. The submitted version must not refer to the non-anonymized version, and you must inform the program chair(s) that a non-anonymized version exists.

You may not update the non-anonymized version during the anonymity period, and we ask you not to advertise it on social media or take other actions that would further compromise double-blind reviewing during the anonymity period.

Note that, while you are not prohibited from making a non-anonymous version available online before the start of the anonymity period, this does make double-blind reviewing more difficult to maintain, and we therefore encourage you to wait until the end of the anonymity period if possible. Alternatively, you may consider submitting your work to the Computational Linguistics journal, which does not require anonymization and has a track for “short” (i.e., conference-length) papers.