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<p class="m_-6145402275125314954gmail-Standard" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:center;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" align="center"><font size="2"><b><span lang="EN-US">CfP: Special Issue of Computational Linguistics: <span></span></span></b></font></p><font size="2"> </font><p class="m_-6145402275125314954gmail-Standard" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:center;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" align="center"><font size="2"><b><span lang="EN-US">Multilingual and Interlingual Semantic Representations for<br>Natural Language Processing<span></span></span></b></font></p><font size="2"> </font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:24pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US"><span> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Special Issue of Computational Linguistics: Multilingual and Interlingual Semantic Representations for Natural Language Processing<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Guest Editors: Marta R. Costa-jussà, Cristina España-Bonet, Pascale Fung, Noah A. Smith</span><span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">* Submission deadline: March 1, 2019 *<br>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Call for Papers<br>---------------<span></span></span></p>
<p class="m_-6145402275125314954gmail-Standard" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">Semantic representations at different levels – word, sentence, paragraph – are central to many solutions to Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks.<span> </span>Text annotation, information retrieval, sentiment analysis, text summarisation, question answering, and machine translation solutions have achieved significant improvements using semantic representations of words. The number of tasks has also grown with the popularisation of unsupervised word embeddings, a fast and efficient way of estimating continuous representations of words. Now, representations derived from deep learning methods are giving a new boost to the field.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="m_-6145402275125314954gmail-Standard" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="m_-6145402275125314954gmail-Standard" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">But in an increasingly globalised world, multilingual and cross-language applications are needed. Extensions to monolingual representations of words such as multilingual Brown clusters, multilingual or interlingual word embeddings, multilingual topic models, and cross-lingual semantic parsers have been successfully applied, though performance lags behind their monolingual counterparts. On the other hand, multilinguality should be able to overcome one of the main limitations of standard representations: multiple senses of a word are conflated into a single vector. In addition, representations of sentences and paragraphs are arising through the encoder-decoder approach (in the fields of natural language inference, machine translation, and text summarization, among others) and the extension to multilingual inputs is equally or even more interesting for NLP applications.</span><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="m_-6145402275125314954gmail-Standard" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><s><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US"><span><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></span></span></s></p>
<p class="m_-6145402275125314954gmail-Standard" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">Abstract semantic representations attract interest both in academia and industry, as shown by the wide and varied publications from universities and companies on this topic. Achieving improvements in this direction will change the conception of translation (from pairwise to interlingua), enable greater sharing among different NLP applications, and overcome low-resource limitations through zero-shot learning, among other advantages. This research direction will not only increase the performance of current architectures in cross-language settings, but will also lead to novel language-independent architectures and tasks for NLP.</span><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Topics<br>------<span></span></span></p>
<p class="m_-6145402275125314954gmail-Standard" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">This call aims to motivate research on multilingual and interlingual representations that, in the context of any NLP task, go beyond projections from one language into another one and that target crosslinguality. The special topic proposed aims to put together a compact and openly accessible volume, which presents high quality research works that cover an overview of this multidisciplinary field as well as most recent advances.</span><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="m_-6145402275125314954gmail-Standard" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="m_-6145402275125314954gmail-Standard" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">Topics include, but are not limited to:<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="m_-6145402275125314954gmail-Standard" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black" lang="EN-US"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">Multilingual and crosslingual embeddings for words, sentences, paragraphs, or documents<span></span></span></p>
<p class="m_-6145402275125314954gmail-Standard" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black" lang="EN-US"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">Interlingual representations for disambiguation (e.g., embeddings of interlingual word senses, concepts, etc.)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="m_-6145402275125314954gmail-Standard" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black" lang="EN-US"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">Disambiguated representations through multilinguality<span></span></span></p>
<p class="m_-6145402275125314954gmail-Standard" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black" lang="EN-US"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">Intrinsic evaluation of multilingual or crosslingual representations<span></span></span></p>
<p class="m_-6145402275125314954gmail-Standard" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black" lang="EN-US"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">Extrinsic evaluation on NLP tasks<span></span></span></p>
<p class="m_-6145402275125314954gmail-Standard" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="m_-6145402275125314954gmail-Standard" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">We strongly encourage submissions that include experimental findings on languages and dialects less commonly studied in natural language processing at present.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Submission Date<br>---------------<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Submission of full articles: March 1st 2019<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Submission Instructions<br>-----------------------<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Papers should be submitted according to the Computational Linguistics style: <u><span style="color:rgb(163,20,20)"><a href="http://cljournal.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(163,20,20)">http://cljournal.org/</span></a></span></u><br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">As in regular submissions to the journal, paper submissions should be made through the CL electronic submission system</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">: <u><span style="color:rgb(163,20,20)"><a href="http://cljournal.org/submissions.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(163,20,20)">http://cljournal.org/submissions.html</span></a></span></u>. In Step 1 of the submission process, please select 'Special Issue: Multilingual and Interlingual Semantic Representations' under the 'Journal Section' heading. Please note that papers submitted to a special issue undergo the same reviewing process as regular papers. <span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Guest Editors<br>-------------<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Marta R. Costa-jussà<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain<br>marta.ruiz AT <a href="http://upc.edu" target="_blank">upc.edu</a><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Cristina España i Bonet<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">DFKI and Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany<br>cristinae AT <a href="http://dfki.de" target="_blank">dfki.de</a></span><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Pascale Fung<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Hong Kong University of Science and Technology<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">pascale AT <a href="http://ee.ust.hk" target="_blank">ee.ust.hk</a><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Noah A. Smith</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">University of Washington and Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">nasmith AT <a href="http://cs.washington.edu" target="_blank">cs.washington.edu</a><span></span></span></p>
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