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<span>== The 6th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (WNUT 2020) ==<br>
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<div>The WNUT Workshop will be collocated with EMNLP 2020 (going virtual!). The website for the workshop is at: <br>
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<div>http://noisy-text.github.io/<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. This year, there will be a [shared
task] on Named Entity Recognition over Wet-lab Protocols. <br>
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<div>We seek submissions of both long and short papers on original and unpublished work (same format and page limit as EMNLP main conference). 1-page abstracts on work-in-progress or work published elsewhere are also welcome and will *not* be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. We have [best paper awards] sponsored by Twitter this year.<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>* Machine Translation of 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. 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>= IMPORTANT DATES =<br>
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<div>* Aug 25, 2020: Workshop paper due (dual-submission w/ EMNLP main conference allowed)<br>
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<div>* Sept 15, 2020: Retraction of workshop papers accepted for EMNLP main conference<br>
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<div>* Sept 29, 2020: Notification of acceptance<br>
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<div>* Oct 2, 2020: Retraction of workshop papers accepted for COLING main conference<br>
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<div>* Oct 8, 2020: Camera-ready papers due<br>
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<div>* Nov 19, 2020: Workshop date<br>
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<div>= SHARED TASKS = <br>
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<div>* June-July, 2020 (tentative): Named Entity Recognition over Wet-lab Protocols<br>
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<div>= ORGANIZERS =<br>
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<div>Wei Xu (Ohio State University)<br>
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<div>Leon Derczynski (IT University of Copenhagen)<br>
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<div>Alan Ritter (Ohio State University)<br>
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<div>Tim Baldwin (University of Melbourne)<br>
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<div>Afshin Rahimi (University of Queensland)<br>
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<div>= INVITED SPEAKERS =<br>
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<div>Eduardo Blanco (University of North Texas)<br>
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<div>Manaal Faruqui (Google Research)<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>Sweta Agrawal (University of Maryland)<br>
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<div>Gustavo Aguilar (University of Houston)<br>
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<div>Nikolaos Aletras (University of Sheffield)<br>
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<div>Rahul Aralikatte (University of Copenhagen)<br>
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<div>Eiji Aramaki (NAIST)<br>
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<div>Francesco Barbieri (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)<br>
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<div>John Beieler (ODNI Science and Technology)<br>
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<div>Eric Bell (PNNL)<br>
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<div>Anya Belz (University of Brighton)<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>Julian Brooke (University of British Columbia)<br>
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<div>Tuhin Chakrabarty (Columbia University)<br>
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<div>Stevie Chancellor (Northwestern University)<br>
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<div>Mingda Chen (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago)<br>
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<div>Sihao Chen (University of Pennsylvania)<br>
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<div>Colin Cherry (Google)<br>
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<div>Zewei Chu (University of Chicago)<br>
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<div>Manuel R. Ciosici (IT University of Copenhagen)<br>
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<div>Oana Cocarascu (Imperial College London)<br>
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<div>Nigel Collier (University of Cambridge)<br>
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<div>Çağrı Çöltekin (University of Tübingen)<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>Jay DeYoung (Northeastern University)<br>
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<div>Bhuwan Dhingra (Bhuwan Dhingra)<br>
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<div>Seza Doğruöz (Tilburg University)<br>
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<div>Xinya Du (Cornell University)<br>
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<div>Jacob Eisenstein (Google)<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>Lucie Flekova (Mainz University of Applied Sciences)<br>
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<div>Lisheng Fu (New York University)<br>
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<div>Yoshinari Fujinuma (University of Colorado, Boulder)<br>
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<div>Juri Ganitkevitch (Google)<br>
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<div>Dan Garrette (Google)<br>
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<div>Spandana Gella (Amazon)<br>
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<div>Kevin Gimpel (TTIC)<br>
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<div>Yvette Graham (Dublin City University)<br>
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<div>Mika Hämäläinen (University of Helsinki)<br>
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<div>William L. Hamilton (McGill University/MILA)<br>
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<div>Xiaochuang Han (Carnegie Mellon University)<br>
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<div>Devamanyu Hazarika (National University of Singapore)<br>
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<div>Jack Hessel (Cornell University)<br>
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<div>Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto)<br>
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<div>Nathan Hodas (PNNL)<br>
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<div>Dirk Hovy (Bocconi University)<br>
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<div>Sarthak Jain (Northeastern University)<br>
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<div>Nanjiang Jiang (Ohio State University)<br>
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<div>Lifeng Jin (Ohio State University)<br>
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<div>Ishan Jindal (IBM Research)<br>
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<div>Kristen Johnson (Michigan State University)<br>
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<div>Kenny Joseph (University at Buffalo)<br>
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<div>Katharina Kann (University of Colorado, Boulder)<br>
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<div>David Kauchak (Pomona College)<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>Reno Kriz (University of Pennsylvania)<br>
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<div>Sachin Kumar (Carnegie Mellon University)<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>Ophélie Lacroix (Siteimprove)<br>
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<div>Wuwei Lan (Ohio State University)<br>
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<div>Jiwei Li (ShannonAI)<br>
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<div>Jessy Junyi Li (University of Texas Austin)<br>
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<div>Jing Li (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)<br>
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<div>Yitong Li (University of Melbourne)<br>
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<div>Nut Limsopatham (University of Glasgow)<br>
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<div>Zhiyuan Liu (Tsinghua University)<br>
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<div>Fei Liu (University of Melbourne)<br>
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<div>Yiqun Liu (Tsinghua University)<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>Peter Makarov (University of Zurich)<br>
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<div>Héctor Martínez Alonso (Apple)<br>
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<div>Aaron Masino (The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia)<br>
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<div>Nitika Mathur (University of Melbourne)<br>
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<div>Ahmed Mourad (RMIT University)<br>
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<div>Hamdy Mubarak (Qatar Computing Research Institute)<br>
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<div>Graham Mueller (Leidos)<br>
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<div>Maria Nadejde (Grammarly)<br>
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<div>Guenter Neumann (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence)<br>
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<div>Vincent Ng (University of Texas at Dallas)<br>
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<div>Thien Huu Nguyen (University of Oregon)<br>
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<div>Eric Nichols (Honda Research Institute)<br>
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<div>Tong Niu (University of North Carolina at Chapel-Hill)<br>
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<div>Benjamin Nye (Northeastern University)<br>
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<div>Alice Oh (KAIST)<br>
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<div>Naoaki Okazaki (Tohoku University)<br>
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<div>Naoki Otani (CMU)<br>
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<div>Myle Ott (Facebook AI)<br>
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<div>Symeon Papadopoulos (CERTH-ITI)<br>
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<div>Umashanthi Pavalanathan (Georgia Tech)<br>
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<div>Yuval Pinter (Georgia Tech)<br>
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<div>Christopher Potts (Stanford University)<br>
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<div>Vinodkumar Prabhakaran (Stanford University)<br>
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<div>Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro (Bloomberg)<br>
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<div>Ella Rabinovich (University of Toronto)<br>
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<div>Dianna Radpour (University of Colorado Boulder)<br>
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<div>Preethi Raghavan (IBM Research)<br>
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<div>Afshin Rahimi (University of Queensland)<br>
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<div>Revanth Rameshkumar (Microsoft Research)<br>
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<div>Sudha Rao (Microsoft Research)<br>
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<div>Adithya Renduchintala (JHU)<br>
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<div>Carolyn Rose (CMU)<br>
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<div>Alla Rozovskaya (City University of New York)<br>
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<div>Derek Ruths (McGill University)<br>
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<div>Koustuv Saha (Georgia Tech)<br>
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<div>Keisuke Sakaguchi (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)<br>
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<div>Maarten Sap (University of Washington)<br>
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<div>Amirreza Shirani (University of Houston)<br>
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<div>Dan Simonson (BlackBoiler)<br>
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<div>Kevin Small (Amazon)<br>
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<div>Jan Šnajder (University of Zagreb)<br>
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<div>Xingyi Song (University of Sheffield)<br>
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<div>Evangelia Spiliopoulou (Carnegie Mellon University)<br>
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<div>Gabriel Stanovsky (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)<br>
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<div>Ian Stewart (Georgia Tech)<br>
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<div>Shivashankar Subramanian (University of Melbourne)<br>
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<div>Jeniya Tabassum (Ohio State University)<br>
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<div>Yi Tay (Google)<br>
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<div>Zhiyang Teng (Westlake University)<br>
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<div>Joel Tetreault (Dataminr)<br>
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<div>James Thorne (University of Cambridge)<br>
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<div>Rob van der Goot (University of Groningen)<br>
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<div>Vasudeva Varma (IIIT Hyderabad)<br>
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<div>Olga Vechtomova (University of Waterloo)<br>
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<div>Alakananda Vempala (Bloomberg)<br>
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<div>Rob Voigt (Stanford University)<br>
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<div>Soroush Vosoughi (Dartmouth 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>Hong Wei (University of Maryland)<br>
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<div>Steven Wilson (University of Edinburgh)<br>
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<div>Yu Ning (Leidos)<br>
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<div>Guido Zarrella (MITRE)<br>
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<div>Vicky Zayats (University of Washington)<br>
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<div>Justine Zhang (Cornell University)<br>
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<div>Xiao Zhang (Purdue University)<br>
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<div>Shi Zong (Ohio State University)<br>
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<div>= SUBMISSION =<br>
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<div>Formatting should be according to EMNLP 2020 specifications.<br>
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<div>Please submit through the START system at the following url:<br>
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<span><a href="https://www.softconf.com/emnlp2020/wnut2020/" id="LPlnk262735">https://www.softconf.com/emnlp2020/wnut2020/</a></span><br>
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