Connectionists: *SEM 2018 2nd CFP and announcing invited speakers: 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.

*** The two fantastic invited speakers at *SEM 2018 will be Ellie Pavlick (shared with SemEval) and Christopher Potts ***

*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: http://www.softconf.com/naacl2018/starsem18/

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".