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CoMeDiNLP: Context and Meaning--Navigating Disagreements in NLP Annotations
https://unimplicit.github.io/

Workshop held in conjunction with COLING 2025
January 19/20, 2025

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Disagreements among annotators pose a significant challenge in Natural Language
Processing, impacting the quality and reliability of datasets and consequently
the performance of NLP models. This workshop aims to explore the complexities of
annotation disagreements, their causes, and strategies towards their effective
resolution, with a focus on meaning in context.

The quality and reliability of annotated data is crucial for the development of
robust NLP models. However, managing disagreements among annotators poses
significant challenges to researchers and practitioners. Such disagreements can
stem from various factors, including subjective interpretations, cultural biases
and ambiguous guidelines. Early research has highlighted the impact of annotator
disagreements on data quality and model performance (e.g. Artstein and Poesio,
2008; Pustejovsky and Stubbs, 2012; Plank et al., 2014).

More recent work on perspectivism in NLP, such as that by Basile et al. (2021),
highlights the importance of embracing multiple perspectives in annotation tasks
to better capture the diversity of human language. This approach argues for the
inclusion of various viewpoints to improve the robustness and fairness of NLP
models. On the modeling side, various methods for dealing with annotation
disagreements have been proposed. For example, Hovy et al. (2013) and Passonneau
and Carpenter (2014) identify and weigh annotator reliability to better aggregate
contributions, whereas recent approaches following the perspectivism approach
leverage inherent disagreements in subjective tasks to train models handling
diverse opinions (Davani et al., 2022; Deng et al., 2023).


== Call for Submissions ==

We invite both long (8 pages) and short (4 page) papers. The limits refer to the
content and any number of additional pages for references are allowed. The
papers should follow the COLING 2025 formatting instructions.

Each submission must be anonymized, written in English, and contain a title and
abstract. We especially welcome papers that address the following themes, for a
single type of disagreement or annotation disagreements in general:

- New benchmarks for detecting or categorizing disagreements
- Models and modeling strategies for variations in annotation
- Evaluation schemes and metrics for phenomena without a single ground truth
- Phenomena that are not yet within reach with current NLP technology.

To encourage discussion and community building and to bootstrap potential
collaborations, we elicit, in addition to shared task papers and regular
"archival" track papers, also non-archival submissions. These can take 2 forms:

- Works in progress, that are not yet mature enough for a full submission, can
be submitted in the form of a title and abstract. Abstracts may be up to two
pages in length.
- Already published work, or work currently under submission elsewhere, can be
submitted in the form of an abstract and a copy of the submission/publication.

These works will be reviewed for topical fit and accepted submissions will be
presented as posters. Depending on the final workshop program, selected works
may be presented in panels. We plan for these to be an opportunity for
researchers to present and discuss their work with the relevant community.

Please submit your papers here: https://softconf.com/coling2025/CM-ND-NLP25/


== Important Dates ==

November 18, 2024: Due date for workshop and shared task papers [1]
December 1-3, 2024: Author response period
December 5, 2024: Notification of acceptance
December 13, 2024: Camera-ready submission deadline
January 19/20, 2025: Workshop date

All deadlines are 11:59pm UTC-12 ("anywhere on Earth").

[1] If you plan to submit a paper but require a deadline extension, please send
us an email to michael.roth@utn.de and dominik.schlechtweg@ims.uni-stuttgart.de


== Organizers ==

Michael Roth, University of Technology Nuremberg
Dominik Schlechtweg, University of Stuttgart


== Program Committee ==

David Alfter, University of Gothenburg
Valerio Basile, University of Turin
Felipe Bravo, University of Chile
Jing Chen, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Naihao Deng, University of Michigan
Aida Mostafazadeh Davani, Google Research
Diego Frassinelli, University of Konstanz / LMU Munich
Haim Dubossarsky, Queen Mary University
Simon Hengchen, iguanodon.ai & Université de Genève
Sandra Kübler, Indiana University
Andrei Kutuzov, University of Oslo
Elisa Leonardelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, UCLouvain
Maja Pavlovic, Queen Mary University
Siyao Peng, LMU Munich
Pauline Sander, University of Stuttgart
Pia Sommerauer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Nina Tahmasebi, University of Gothenburg
Alexandra Uma
Frank D. Zamora-Reina, University of Chile
Wei Zhao, University of Aberdeen