Connectionists: Call for Papers and Abstracts for the 2nd Workshop on Shortcomings in Vision and Language (SiVL) at NAACL

[Christopher Kanan]

*Workshop on Shortcomings in Vision and Language (SiVL)*NAACL-HLT 2019,
Minneapolis
June, 2019

*https://sites.google.com/view/sivl2019/
<https://sites.google.com/view/sivl2019/>*
*Purpose*
The primary purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers at
the intersection of vision and language to discuss shortcomings of modern
approaches, tasks, datasets, and evaluation metrics for problems including
image and video captioning, visual question answering, visual dialog,
activity recognition, image retrieval and referring expressions. By
highlighting common shortcomings in these domains, the workshop aims to
facilitate discussion of novel research directions and to steer the
community towards high-level challenges affecting the vision and language
community broadly.

*Call for Papers and Abstracts*
We call for papers and abstracts exploring shortcomings in current vision
and language models covering topics including but not limited to:

- Analysis of current vision and language models
- Analysis of current tasks and datasets
- Novel evaluation metrics
- Novel language and vision tasks
- Other pertinent work about shortcomings of vision and language

Papers must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work.
Paper submissions must be anonymous and will receive at least
two peer-reviews. They may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content,
plus unlimited pages for references and must be prepared as specified
in the NAACL guidelines (https://naacl2019.org/calls/papers/).

Camera-ready versions of accepted papers will be given one additional page
of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into
account. All paper submissions will be presented in the Poster Session and
a few selected works will also be presented as  Spotlight talks. Paper
submissions will be published in the ACL Anthology.

Abstracts can describe work in progress, work under review, accepted to be
published elsewhere or already published work. They may consist of up to
two (2) page of content, plus additional pages for references. Abstract
submissions are subject to single-blind review to evaluate relevance to the
workshop topics. Accepted abstracts will be posted online on the workshop
website and will be presented only at the Poster session. Abstracts are not
published in the ACL Anthology.

Submission Instructions are available on the workshop website.

*Important Dates*
February 27, 2019: Workshop Paper Due Date
March 27, 2019: Notification of Acceptance
April 5, 2019: Camera-ready papers due (firm deadline)
June 6-7, 2019: Workshop Dates
All deadlines are 11:59 PM in UTC -12h timezone.


*Invited Speakers:*Yoav Artzi,  Cornell Tech
Angeliki Lazaridou, DeepMind
Margaret Mitchell, Google Research

*Organizers*:
Raffaella Bernardi, University of Trento
Raquel Fernandez, University of Amsterdam
Spandana Gella, University of Edinburgh
Kushal Kafle, Rochester Institute of Technology
Christopher Kanan, Rochester Institute of Technology
Stefan Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology
Moin Nabi, SAP SE

The workshop is sponsored by SAP SE.

*Contact Email*: sivl2019 at googlegroups.com
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