Connectionists: *SEM 2018 - First Call for Papers (The Seventh Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics)

[Johannes Bjerva]

*SEM 2018: THE SEVENTH JOINT CONFERENCE ON LEXICAL
                     AND COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS
                       June 5-6 2018, New Orleans (USA)
                           Co-located with NAACL 2018
                 https://sites.google.com/view/starsem2018/
                                 First Call for Papers

We are pleased to announce that SIGLEX and SIGSEM, special interest groups
of the ACL, are organizing the 7th Joint Conference on Lexical and
Computational Semantics: *SEM. This time *SEM will be co-located with NAACL
2018 in New Orleans (USA), and it will take place on the 5-6 of June 2018.

*SEM brings together researchers interested in the semantics of natural
languages and its computational modeling. The conference embraces symbolic
and probabilistic approaches, and everything in between; theoretical
contributions as well as practical applications are welcome. The long-term
goal of *SEM is to provide a stable forum for the growing number of NLP
researchers working on all aspects of semantics.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
    Data-driven semantics
    Word sense disambiguation and induction
    Distributional and statistical semantics
    Meaning Representations
    Multiword and idiomatic expressions
    Semantic parsing and interpretation
    Frames and semantic role labeling
    Formal approaches to semantics
    Semantic ambiguity and underspecification
    Mathematical methods for semantics
    Temporal entities and relations
    Extraction of events and causal and temporal relations
    (Named) Entity linking
    Pronouns and coreference
    Single- and cross-document coreference
    Discourse semantics
    Discourse structure and presupposition
    Rhetorical relations
    Sentiment analysis
    Extra-propositional aspects of meaning
    Metaphor, irony, and figurative meaning
    Semantic annotation and evaluation
    Textual inference and question answering
    Generation and summarization
    Semantics for social media
    Knowledge mining and acquisition
    Semantic web and ontologies
    Ontology learning and population
    Grounding and wikification
    Multimodal computational semantics
    Comparative computational semantics


IMPORTANT DATES
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Papers submission due:       March 2, 2018
Notification of acceptance:      April 2, 2018
Camera-ready:                      April 16, 2018
*SEM conference:               June 5-6, 2018

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
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Submissions to *SEM-2018 must describe unpublished work and be written in
English. We solicit both long and short papers.

Long papers describe original research and may consist of up to eight (8)
pages of content, plus at most two extra pages for references. Final
versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to
9 pages) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Long papers
will be presented orally.

Short papers describe original focused research, project or system
description, and may consist of up to four (4) pages, plus one extra page
for references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5)
content pages in the proceedings. Authors are encouraged to use this
additional page to address reviewers comments in their final versions.
Short papers will be presented as posters.

Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Final
versions should take into account the comments from the reviewers.

As the reviewing will be blind, the paper must not include the authors'
names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the
author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ..." must be
avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith,
1991) ...". As for online paper sharing, at *SEM, we adopt the ACL policy
for submission, which can be found here:
https://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Policies_for_Submission,_Review_and_Citation.
Papers that do not conform to requirements will be rejected without review.
For a paper to be included in the conference proceedings, at least one of
the authors must be registered as a participant at the *SEM conference.

Papers will be submitted using the START system, which will be made
available in due time.

Please note that double submission of papers will need to be notified at
submission.

ORGANIZERS
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General Chair:
Malvina Nissim, University of Groningen,The Netherlands
Program Chairs:
Jonathan Berant, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa, Italy
Publication chair:
Emmanuele Chersoni, University of Pisa, Italy / Aix-Marseille University,
France
Publicity chair:
Johannes Bjerva, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

CONTACT
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Contact email:
starsem2018-chairs at googlegroups.com

Conference website:
https://sites.google.com/view/starsem2018/

Twitter:
https://twitter.com/starsem2018

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/starsem2018/

*SEM is pronounced "starsem".
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