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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS NAACL 2018 Workshop on Figurative Language Processing New Orleans, Louisiana, USA – June 5 or 6, 2018 https://sites.google.com/site/figlangworkshop/ Submission deadline: March 12, 2018 WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION Figurative language processing is a rapidly growing area in NLP, including processing of metaphors, idioms, puns, irony, sarcasm, as well as other figures. Characteristic to all areas of human activity (from poetic to ordinary to scientific) and, thus, to all types of discourse, figurative language becomes an important problem for NLP systems. Its ubiquity in language has been established in a number of corpus studies and the role it plays in human reasoning has been confirmed in psychological experiments. This makes figurative language an important research area for computational and cognitive linguistics, and its automatic identification and interpretation indispensable for any semantics-oriented NLP application. The work on figurative language in NLP and AI started in the 1980s, mainly focusing on metaphor and metonymy, and providing us with a wealth of ideas on the structure and mechanisms of these phenomena. In recent years, the problem of figurative language understanding has been steadily gaining interest within the NLP community, with a growing number of approaches exploiting statistical techniques and venturing into further areas, such as sarcasm, irony and puns. Advances in other areas of computational semantics continue to open many new avenues for the creation of open-domain, large-scale tools for recognition, interpretation, and generation of figurative language. In addition, the growth of the area of social media analysis provides an exciting platform to study figurative language in its social and pragmatic context. The goal of the proposed workshop is to build upon the successful start of the Metaphor in NLP workshop series, substantially expanding its scope to incorporate the rapidly growing body of research on various types of figurative language in NLP, with the aim of maintaining and nourishing a community of NLP researchers interested in this topic. The main focus of the workshop will be on computational modelling of figurative language using state-of-the-art NLP techniques. However, papers on cognitive, linguistic, social, rhetorical, and applied aspects are also of interest, provided that they are presented within a computational, a formal, or a quantitative framework. In addition, we will also conduct a shared task on metaphor detection. The workshop will solicit both full papers and short papers for either oral or poster presentation. Topics will include, but will not be limited to, the following: *Identification and interpretation of different types of figurative language* Linguistic, conceptual and extended metaphor Irony, sarcasm, puns Simile, metonymy, personification, synecdoche, hyperbole *Systems for processing figurative language that incorporate state-of- the-art NLP methods* Machine learning for figurative language processing The use of lexical resources in figurative language processing Paraphrasing of figurative language Generation of figurative language Multilingual processing and translation of figurative language *Resources and evaluation* Annotation of figurative language in corpora Figurative language in lexical resources Datasets for evaluation of tools for automated processing of figurative language Evaluation methodologies and frameworks *Processing of figurative language for NLP applications* Figurative language in sentiment analysis Figurative language in computational social science Figurative language in educational applications Figurative language and mental health Figurative language in dialog systems Figurative language in digital humanities *Figurative language and cognition* Computational approaches to metaphor and other figures inspired by cognitive evidence Cognitive models of processing of figurative language by the human brain Models of metaphor and other figures across languages and cultures *Figurative language in social context* Figurative language in political communication Figurative language in education Figurative language in social media *Interaction of figurative language with other linguistic phenomena* Figurative language and compositionality Figurative language and abstractness / concreteness Figurative language and sentiment Figurative language and argumentation Figurative language and grammar IMPORTANT DATES March 12, 2018 Paper submissions due (23:59 West Coast USA time) April 2, 2018 Notification of acceptance April 16, 2018 Camera-ready papers due June 5 or 6, 2018 Workshop in New Orleans, Louisiana SUBMISSION INFORMATION Authors are invited to submit a full paper of up to 8 pages, with up to 2 additional pages for references. We also invite short papers of up to 4 pages, with up to 2 additional pages for references. All submissions should follow the two-column format of NAACL 2018 proceedings. Please use ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word style files tailored for this year conference; these style files are available from NAACL 2018 website. Submissions must conform to the official style guidelines, which are contained in the style files, and they must be electronic in PDF format. Please see naaclhlt2018.pdf for detailed formatting instructions. Previously published papers cannot be accepted. The submissions will be reviewed by the program committee. As reviewing will be blind, please ensure that papers are anonymous. Self-references that reveal the author identity, e.g., We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ... should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ... Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. In addition, please do not post your submissions on the web until after the review process is complete. Please submit papers electronically at: https://www.softconf.com/naacl2018/Fig-Lang18/ WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Beata Beigman Klebanov, Educational Testing Service, USA Ekaterina Shutova, University of Cambridge, UK Smaranda Muresan, Columbia University, USA Patricia Lichtenstein, University of California, Merced, USA Ben Leong, Educational Testing Service, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Yulia Badryzlova, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia Susan Brown, University of Colorado, USA Paul Cook, University of New Brunswisk, Canada Gerard de Melo, Rutgers University, USA Ellen Dodge, ICSI, UC Berkeley, USA Jonathan Dunn, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Anna Feldman, Montclair State University, USA Elena Filatova, CUNY, USA Michael Flor, Educational Testing Service, USA Debanjan Ghosh, Rutgers University, USA Mark Granroth-Wilding, University of Helsinki, Finland Dario Gutierrez, IBM Research, USA Eduard Hovy, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Hyeju Jang, University of British Columbia, Canada Aditya Joshi, IITB-Monash Research Academy, India Valia Kordoni, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany Mark Last, Ben Gurion University, Israel Mark Lee, University of Birmingham, UK Xiaofei Lu, The Pennsylvania State University, USA Jean Maillard, University of Cambridge, UK James H. Martin,University of Colorado at Boulder, USA Rada Mihalcea, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, USA Saif Mohammad, National Research Council Canada, Canada Michael Mohler, Language Computer Corporation, USA Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar Srini Narayanan, Google, Switzerland Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania, USA Diarmuid OSeaghdha, Apple, UK Gözde Özbal, FBK-irst Trento, Italy Thierry Poibeau, Ecole Normale Superieure and CNRS, France Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK Marek Rei, University of Cambridge, UK Ellen Riloff, University of Utah, USA Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain Victoria Rubin, University of Western Ontario, CA Eyal Sagi, University of St. Francis, USA Agata Savary, Université François Rabelais Tours, France Sabine Schulte im Walde, University of Stuttgart, Germany Samira Shaikh, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Carlo Stapparava, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh, UK Tomek Strzalkowski, SUNY Albany, USA Marc Tomlinson, Language Computer Corporation, USA Yulia Tsvetkov, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Tony Veale, University College Dublin, Ireland Aline Villavicencio, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil |
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