Connectionists: [2nd CfP] 3rd International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change 2022 (LChange’22)

[Haim Dubossarsky]

Second call for Papers

3rd International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical
Language Change 2022 (LChange’22)

May 26-27, co-located with ACL

https://languagechange.org/events/2022-acl-lchange/

Contact email: PC-ACLws2022 at languagechange.org

Workshop description

The third LChange workshop will be co-located with ACL (2022) to be held in
Dublin, during May 26-27, 2022 as a hybrid event.

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   All aspects around computational approaches to historical language
   change with the focus on digital text corpora are welcome. LChange explores
   state-of-the-art computational methodologies, theories and digital text
   resources on exploring the time-varying nature of human language.
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   The aim of this workshop is to provide pioneering researchers who work
   on computational methods, evaluation, and large-scale modelling of language
   change an outlet for disseminating research on topics concerning language
   change. Besides these goals, this workshop will also support discussion on
   the evaluation of computational methodologies for uncovering language
   change.
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   LChange’22 will feature a shared task on semantic change detection for
   Spanish as one track of the workshop.

This year we will offer mentoring for PhD students and young researchers in
one-on-one meetings during the workshop. If you are interested, send us a
short description of your work and we will set you up with one of the
organizers of this workshop. If your paper is rejected from the workshop,
we can also provide advice on improving it for future submission. This
offer is limited, and will be chosen based on topical fit and availability
of appropriate mentors. Deadline for applying for mentorship is May 30th
via <PC-ACLws2022 at languagechange.org>.

Via our sponsor, Iguanodon.ai <http://iguanodon.ai/>, we can offer one free
registration for a PhD student! Apply by emailing us your short cv and why
you need your registration paid.

Important Dates

* February 28, 2022: Paper submission
* March 14, 2022: Task description papers
* March 26, 2022: Notification of acceptance
* March 30, 2022: Deadline for mentorship application
* April 10, 2022: Camera-ready papers due
* May 26-27, 2022: Workshop date


Keynote Talks

We can announce our first confirmed keynote Prof. Dirk Geeraerts. More
information to come.

Submissions

We accept three types of submissions, long and short papers, following the
ACL2022 style, and the ACL submission policy, and shared task papers. See
ACL submission policy:

https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Policies_for_Submission,_Review_and_Citation


Long and short papers may consist of up to eight (8) and four (4) pages of
content, respectively, plus unlimited references; final versions will be
given one additional page of content so that reviewers' comments can be
taken into account. Shared task papers may consist of up to four (4) pages
plus unlimited references, but without an additional page upon acceptance.
Overleaf templates are available here:
https://www.overleaf.com/project/5f64f1fb97c4c50001b60549

Submission is electronic, using the ACL Rolling Review (ARR), and is now
open: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2022/Workshop/LChange


We invite original research papers from a wide range of topics, including
but not limited to:
* Novel methods for detecting diachronic semantic change and lexical
replacement
* Automatic discovery and quantitative evaluation of laws of language change
* Computational theories and generative models of language change
* Sense-aware (semantic) change analysis
* Diachronic word sense disambiguation
* Novel methods for diachronic analysis of low-resource languages
* Novel methods for diachronic linguistic data visualization
* Novel applications and implications of language change detection
* Quantification of sociocultural influences on language change
* Cross-linguistic, phylogenetic, and developmental approaches to language
change
* Novel datasets for cross-linguistic and diachronic analyses of language

Submissions are open to all, and are to be submitted anonymously. All
papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process by at
least three reviewers with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop
organizers.

The workshop is scheduled for May 26-27. Contact us at
PC-ACLws2022 at languagechange.org if you have any questions.

Workshop organizers:

Nina Tahmasebi, University of Gothenburg

Lars Borin, University of Gothenburg

Simon Hengchen, University of Gothenburg

Syrielle Montariol, University Paris-Saclay

Haim Dubossarsky, Queen Mary University of London

Andrey Kutuzov, University of Oslo
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