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<span>5th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text at EMNLP 2019 - Call for Papers<br>
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<div>Workshop website: http://noisy-text.github.io/2019/<br>
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<div>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.<br>
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<div>We seek submissions of regular papers on original and unpublished work (same page limit EMNLP main conference; long or short papers). 1-page abstracts on work-in-progress or work published elsewhere are also welcome and will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.<br>
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<div>Important Dates:<br>
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<div>- Extended Submission Deadline: Wednesday, August 21 (anywhere on earth)<br>
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<div>- Acceptance Notification: Monday, September 16<br>
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<div>- Camera-Ready: Monday, September 30<br>
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<div>- Workshop: November 3 or November 4, EMNLP (Hong Kong)<br>
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<div>Submission URL: https://www.softconf.com/emnlp2019/ws-W-NUT2019/<br>
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<div>Best paper award sponsor: Google<br>
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<div>Topics of interest include but are not limited to:<br>
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<div>- NLP Preprocessing of Noisy Text<br>
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<div>- Part of speech tagging<br>
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<div>- Named entity tagging, including a wide range of categories, e.g. product names<br>
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<div>- Chunking of user-generated text<br>
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<div>- Parsing<br>
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<div>- Text Normalization and Error Correction<br>
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<div>- Normalizing noisy text for downstream tasks and for human readability<br>
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<div>- Error detection and correction<br>
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<div>- Robustness to Noise, both Natural and Adversarial<br>
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<div>- Multilingual NLP in noisy text<br>
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<div>- Sentiment analysis<br>
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<div>- Crowdsourcing of text data<br>
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<div>- User prediction, e.g. geolocation, gender, age, etc<br>
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<div>- Stylistics, e.g. formality, politeness, etc<br>
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<div>- Colloquial language, e.g. code-switching, idiom detection<br>
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<div>- Bilingual translation of the noisy text<br>
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<div>- Paraphrase identification and semantic similarity of short text or noisy text<br>
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<div>- Information extraction from noisy text<br>
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<div>- Domain adaptation to user-generated text<br>
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<div>- Geolocation prediction<br>
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<div>- Global and regional trend detection and event extraction<br>
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<div>- Detecting rumors, contradictory information, sarcasm and humor on social media<br>
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<div>- Extracting user demographics, profiles, and major life events<br>
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<div>- Temporal aspects of user-generated content (resolving time expressions, concept drift, diachronic analyses, etc...)<br>
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<div>All submissions should conform to EMNLP 2019 style guidelines (https://www.emnlp-ijcnlp2019.org/calls/papers). 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 (https://www.softconf.com/emnlp2019/ws-W-NUT2019/).<br>
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<div>Workshop Organizers:<br>
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<div>- Alan Ritter (Ohio State University)<br>
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<div>- Wei Xu (Ohio State University)<br>
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<div>- Tim Baldwin (University of Melbourne)<br>
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<div>- Afshin Rahimi (University of Melbourne)<br>
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<div>Program Committee:<br>
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<div>- Muhammad Abdul-Mageed (University of British Columbia)<br>
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<div>- Željko Agić (Corti)<br>
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<div>- Hadi Amiri (Harvard University)<br>
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<div>- Eiji Aramaki (NAIST)<br>
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<div>- Roy Bar-Haim (IBM)<br>
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<div>- Francesco Barbieri (UPF Barcelona)<br>
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<div>- Cosmin Bejan (Vanderbilt University)<br>
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<div>- Eric Bell (PNNL)<br>
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<div>- Adrian Benton (JHU)<br>
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<div>- Eduardo Blanco (University of North Texas)<br>
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<div>- Su Lin Blodgett (UMass Amherst)<br>
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<div>- Matko Bošnjak (University College London)<br>
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<div>- Julian Brooke (University of Melbourne)<br>
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<div>- Annabelle Carrell (JHU)<br>
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<div>- Xilun Chen (Cornell University)<br>
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<div>- Anne Cocos (University of Pennsylvania)<br>
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<div>- Arman Cohan (AI2)<br>
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<div>- Nigel Collier (University of Cambridge)<br>
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<div>- Paul Cook (University of New Brunswick)<br>
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<div>- Marina Danilevsky (IBM Research)<br>
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<div>- Leon Derczynski (IT-University of Copenhagen)<br>
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<div>- Seza Doğruöz (Tilburg University)<br>
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<div>- Eduard Dragut (Temple University)<br>
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<div>- Xinya Du (Cornell University)<br>
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<div>- Heba Elfardy (Amazon)<br>
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<div>- Micha Elsner (Ohio State University)<br>
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<div>- Manaal Faruqui (Google)<br>
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<div>- Lisheng Fu (New York University)<br>
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<div>- Dan Garrette (Google Research)<br>
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<div>- Kevin Gimpel (TTIC)<br>
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<div>- Dan Goldwasser (Purdue University)<br>
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<div>- Amit Goyal (Criteo)<br>
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<div>- Nizar Habash (NYU Abu Dhabi)<br>
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<div>- Masato Hagiwara (Duolingo)<br>
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<div>- Bo Han (Kaplan)<br>
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<div>- Abe Handler (University of Massachusetts Amherst)<br>
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<div>- Jack Hessel (Cornell University)<br>
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<div>- Dirk Hovy (Bocconi University)<br>
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<div>- Kenny Joseph (University at Buffalo)<br>
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<div>- David Jurgens (University of Michigan)<br>
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<div>- Nobuhiro Kaji (Yahoo! Research)<br>
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<div>- Pallika Kanani (Oracle)<br>
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<div>- Emre Kiciman (Microsoft Research)<br>
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<div>- Svetlana Kiritchenko (National Research Council Canada)<br>
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<div>- Roman Klinger (University of Stuttgart)<br>
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<div>- Ekaterina Kochmar (University of Cambridge)<br>
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<div>- Vivek Kulkarni (University of California Santa Barbara)<br>
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<div>- Jonathan Kummerfeld (University of Michigan)<br>
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<div>- Wuwei Lan (Ohio State University)<br>
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<div>- Chen Li (Tencent)<br>
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<div>- Jing Li (Tencent AI)<br>
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<div>- Jessy Junyi Li (University of Texas Austin)<br>
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<div>- Nut Limsopatham (University of Glasgow)<br>
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<div>- Patrick Littell (National Research Council Canada)<br>
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<div>- Zhiyuan Liu (Tsinghua University)<br>
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<div>- Nikola Ljubešić (University of Zagreb)<br>
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<div>- Wei-Yun Ma (Academia Sinica)<br>
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<div>- Mounica Maddela (Ohio State University)<br>
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<div>- Aaron Masino (The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia)<br>
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<div>- Chandler May (Johns Hopkins University)<br>
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<div>- Paul Michel (CMU)<br>
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<div>- Shachar Mirkin (Xerox Research)<br>
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<div>- Saif M. Mohammad (National Research Council Canada)<br>
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<div>- Ahmed Mourad (RMIT University)<br>
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<div>- Günter Neumann (DFKI)<br>
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<div>- Vincent Ng (University of Texas at Dallas)<br>
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<div>- Eric Nichols (Honda Research Institute)<br>
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<div>- Alice Oh (KAIST)<br>
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<div>- Naoki Otani (CMU)<br>
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<div>- Patrick Pantel (Microsoft Research)<br>
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<div>- Umashanthi Pavalanathan (Georgia Tech)<br>
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<div>- Barbara Plank (University of Groningen)<br>
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<div>- Christopher Potts (Stanford University)<br>
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<div>- Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro (Bloomberg)<br>
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<div>- Chris Quirk (Microsoft Research)<br>
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<div>- Preethi Raghavan (IBM Research)<br>
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<div>- Revanth Rameshkumar (Microsoft)<br>
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<div>- Marek Rei (University of Cambridge)<br>
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<div>- Roi Reichart (Technion)<br>
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<div>- Adithya Renduchintala (JHU)<br>
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<div>- Carolyn Penstein Rose (CMU)<br>
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<div>- Alla Rozovskaya (City University of New York)<br>
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<div>- Keisuke Sakaguchi (Johns Hopkins University)<br>
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<div>- Maarten Sap (University of Washington)<br>
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<div>- Natalie Schluter (IT University of Copenhagen)<br>
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<div>- Andrew Schwartz (Stony Brook University)<br>
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<div>- Djamé Seddah (University Paris-Sorbonne)<br>
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<div>- Dan Simonson (BlackBoiler)<br>
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<div>- Jan Šnajder (University of Zagreb)<br>
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<div>- Gabriel Stanovsky (AI2)<br>
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<div>- Ian Stewart (Georgia Tech)<br>
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<div>- Jeniya Tabassum (Ohio State University)<br>
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<div>- Joel Tetreault (Grammarly)<br>
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<div>- Sara Tonelli (FBK)<br>
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<div>- Rob van der Goot (University of Groningen)<br>
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<div>- Rob Voigt (Stanford University)<br>
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<div>- Byron Wallace (Northeastern University)<br>
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<div>- Xiaojun Wan (Peking University)<br>
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<div>- Zeerak Waseem (University of Sheffield)<br>
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<div>- Zhongyu Wei (Fudan University)<br>
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<div>- Diyi Yang (Georgia Tech)<br>
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<div>- Yi Yang (ASAPP)<br>
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<div>- Guido Zarrella (MITRE)<br>
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<span>- Justine Zhang (Cornell University)</span><br>
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