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<div class="">4th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text at EMNLP 2018</div>
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<div class="">Call for Papers</div>
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<div class="">The WNUT workshop focuses on Natural Language Processing applied to noisy user-generated text, such as that found in social media, online reviews, crowdsourced data, web forums, clinical records and language learner essays. </div>
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<div class="">We seek submissions of regular papers on original and unpublished work (same page limit EMNLP main conference; long or short papers). 1-page abstracts on work-in-progress or work published elsewhere are also welcome and will *not* be included
in the conference proceedings. All accepted submissions will be presented as posters. Additionally, selected submissions will be presented orally.</div>
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<div class="">Important Dates:</div>
<div class="">- Submission Deadline: Friday, July 20</div>
<div class="">- Acceptance Notification: Friday, August 17</div>
<div class="">- Camera-Ready: Friday, August 31</div>
<div class="">- Workshop: October 31 or November 1, EMNLP (Brussels, Belgium)</div>
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<div class="">Best paper award sponsor: Microsoft Research</div>
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<div class="">Topics of interest include but are not limited to:</div>
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<div class="">- NLP Preprocessing of Noisy Text</div>
<div class="">- Part of speech tagging</div>
<div class="">- Named entity tagging, including a wide range of categories, e.g. product names</div>
<div class="">- Chunking of user-generated text</div>
<div class="">- Parsing</div>
<div class="">- Text Normalization and Error Correction</div>
<div class="">- Normalizing noisy text for downstream tasks and for human readability</div>
<div class="">- Error detection and correction</div>
<div class="">- Multilingual NLP in noisy text</div>
<div class="">- Sentiment analysis</div>
<div class="">- Crowdsourcing of text data</div>
<div class="">- User prediction, e.g. geolocation, gender, age, etc</div>
<div class="">- Stylistics, e.g. formality, politeness, etc</div>
<div class="">- Colloquial language, e.g. code-switching, idiom detection</div>
<div class="">- Bilingual translation of the noisy text</div>
<div class="">- Paraphrase identification and semantic similarity of short text or noisy text</div>
<div class="">- Information extraction from noisy text</div>
<div class="">- Domain adaptation to user-generated text</div>
<div class="">- Geolocation prediction</div>
<div class="">- Global and regional trend detection and event extraction</div>
<div class="">- Detecting rumors, contradictory information, sarcasm and humor on social media</div>
<div class="">- Extracting user demographics, profiles, and major life events</div>
<div class="">- Temporal aspects of user-generated content (resolving time expressions, concept drift, diachronic analyses, etc...)</div>
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<div class="">All submissions should conform to EMNLP 2018 style guidelines (<a href="http://emnlp2018.org/calls/papers/" class="">http://emnlp2018.org/calls/papers/</a>). Long and short paper submissions must be anonymized. Abstract submissions should include
author information (and where the work was published in a footnote on the front page, if applicable). Please submit your papers at the SoftConf link (<a href="https://www.softconf.com/emnlp2018/w-nut/user/" class="">https://www.softconf.com/emnlp2018/w-nut/user/</a>).</div>
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<div class="">Double Submission Policy: </div>
<div class="">Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must indicate at submission time. Authors of a paper accepted for presentation must notify the workshop organizers by the camera-ready deadline as to whether the paper
will be presented or withdrawn. (Exception: 1-page abstracts can be work-in-progress or work published elsewhere.) </div>
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<div class="">Workshop Organizers:</div>
<div class="">- Wei Xu (Ohio State University)</div>
<div class="">- Alan Ritter (Ohio State University)</div>
<div class="">- Tim Baldwin (University of Melbourne)</div>
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<div class="">Program Committee:</div>
<div class="">- Hadi Amiri (Harvard University)</div>
<div class="">- Anietie Andy (University of Pennsylvania)</div>
<div class="">- Isabelle Augenstein (University of Copenhagen)</div>
<div class="">- Francesco Barbieri (UPF Barcelona)</div>
<div class="">- Eduardo Blanco (University of North Texas)</div>
<div class="">- Su Lin Blodgett (UMass Amherst)</div>
<div class="">- Cosmin Bejan (Vanderbilt University)</div>
<div class="">- Jackie Chi Kit Cheung (McGill University)</div>
<div class="">- Paul Cook (University of New Brunswick)</div>
<div class="">- Marina Danilevsky (IBM Research)</div>
<div class="">- Leon Derczynski (IT-University of Copenhagen)</div>
<div class="">- Seza Doğruöz (Tilburg University)</div>
<div class="">- Heba Elfardy (Amazon)</div>
<div class="">- Dan Garrette (Google Research)</div>
<div class="">- Masato Hagiwara (Duolingo)</div>
<div class="">- Hua He (Amazon)</div>
<div class="">- Yulan He (Aston University)</div>
<div class="">- Jing Jiang (Singapore Management University)</div>
<div class="">- Nobuhiro Kaji (Yahoo! Research)</div>
<div class="">- Emre Kiciman (Microsoft Research)</div>
<div class="">- Wuwei Lan (Ohio State University)</div>
<div class="">- Piroska Lendvai (University of Göttingen)</div>
<div class="">- Jessy Junyi Li (University of Texas Austin)</div>
<div class="">- Maria Liakata (University of Warwick)</div>
<div class="">- Nut Limsopatham (University of Glasgow)</div>
<div class="">- Patrick Littell (Carnegie Mellon University)</div>
<div class="">- Zhiyuan Liu (Tsinghua University)</div>
<div class="">- Nikola Ljubešić (University of Zagreb)</div>
<div class="">- Wei-Yun Ma (Academia Sinica)</div>
<div class="">- Nitin Madnani (Educational Testing Service)</div>
<div class="">- Héctor Martínez Alonso (INRIA)</div>
<div class="">- Aaron Masino (The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia)</div>
<div class="">- Chandler May (Johns Hopkins University)</div>
<div class="">- Rada Mihalcea (University of Michigan)</div>
<div class="">- Smaranda Muresan (Columbia University)</div>
<div class="">- Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute)</div>
<div class="">- Vincent Ng (University of Texas at Dallas)</div>
<div class="">- Eric Nichols (Honda Research Institute)</div>
<div class="">- Alice Oh (KAIST)</div>
<div class="">- Naoaki Okazaki (Tohoku University)</div>
<div class="">- Michael Paul (University of Colorado Boulder)</div>
<div class="">- Umashanthi Pavalanathan (Georgia Tech)</div>
<div class="">- Ellie Pavlick (Brown University)</div>
<div class="">- Barbara Plank (University of Groningen)</div>
<div class="">- Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro (Bloomberg)</div>
<div class="">- Roi Reichart (Technion)</div>
<div class="">- Alla Rozovskaya (City University of New York)</div>
<div class="">- Mugizi Rwebangira (Howard University)</div>
<div class="">- Keisuke Sakaguchi (Johns Hopkins University)</div>
<div class="">- Maarten Sap (University of Washington)</div>
<div class="">- Andrew Schwartz (Stony Brook University)</div>
<div class="">- Djamé Seddah (University Paris-Sorbonne)</div>
<div class="">- Satoshi Sekine (New York University)</div>
<div class="">- Hiroyuki Shindo (NAIST)</div>
<div class="">- Thamar Solorio (University of Houston)</div>
<div class="">- Richard Sproat (Google Research)</div>
<div class="">- Ian Stewart (Georgia Tech)</div>
<div class="">- Oren Tsur (Harvard University/Northeastern University)</div>
<div class="">- Rob van der Goot (University of Groningen)</div>
<div class="">- Svitlana Volkova (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)</div>
<div class="">- Byron Wallace (Northeastern University)</div>
<div class="">- Xiaojun Wan (Peking University)</div>
<div class="">- Diyi Yang (Carnegie Mellon University)</div>
<div class="">- Yi Yang (Bloomberg)</div>
<div class="">- Guido Zarrella (MITRE)</div>
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