Dear Colleagues,

We are delighted to announce the first CfP for The First Workshop of Evaluation of Multi-Modal Generation @ COLING 2025. It is now open and closes on 20th November 2024 (11:59PM AoE UTC-12).

Website link: https://evalmg.github.io/

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The First Workshop of Evaluation of Multi-Modal Generation
Multimodal generation techniques have opened new avenues for creative content generation. However, evaluating the quality of multimodal generation remains underexplored and some key questions are unanswered, such as the contributions of each modal, the utility of pre-trained large language models for multimodal generation, and measuring faithfulness and fairness in multimodal outputs. This workshop aims to foster discussions and research efforts by bringing together researchers and practitioners in natural language processing, computer vision, and multimodal AI. Our goal is to establish evaluation methods for multimodal research and advance research efforts in this direction.

Call for Papers

Both long paper and short papers (up to 8 pages and 4 pages respectively with unlimited references and appendices) are welcomed for submission.

A list of topics relevant to this workshop (but not limited to):
* Evaluation metrics for multimodal text generation for assessing informativeness, factuality and faithfulness
* New benchmark datasets, evaluation protocols and annotations
* Challenges in evaluating multimodal coherence, relevance and contribution of modalities and inter- and intra-interactions
* Assessing information integration and aggregation across multiple modalities
* Adversarial evaluation approaches for testing the robustness and reliability of multimodal generation systems
* Ethical considerations in the evaluation of multimodal text generation, including bias detection and mitigation strategies
* Multilingual multimodal text generation systems for low-resource languages
* Evaluating fairness and privacy in multimodal learning and applications

Important Dates

* Nov 20, 2024: Paper submission due date
* Dec 05, 2024: Notification of acceptance
* Dec 11, 2024: Camera-ready version due
* Jan 19, 2025: Workshop Date

Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“Anywhere on Earth”)

Submission Instructions

You are invited to submit your papers in our START/SoftConf submission portal. All the submitted papers have to be anonymous for double-blind review. The content of the paper should not be longer than 8 pages for long papers and 4 pages for short papers, strictly following the COLING 2025 templates, with the mandatory limitation section not counting towards the page limit. Supplementary and appendices (either as separate files or appended after the main submission) are allowed. We encourage code link submissions for reproducibility.

Non-archival Option
To promote discussions within the community, our workshop includes non-archival track. Authors have the flexbility to submit their unpublished work or papers accepted to COLING main conference to our workshop. The organisers may offer the opportunity to give oral or poster presentation.


Organisers

* Wei Emma Zhang, The University of Adelaide
* Xiang Dai, CSIRO
* Desmond Elliot, University of Copenhagen
* Byron Fang, CSIRO
* Haojie Zhuang, The University of Adelaide
* Mong Yuan Sim, The University of Adelaide & CSIRO
* Weitong Chen, The University of Adelaide


Kind regards,
COLING25 EvalMG Organisers