Calls for Papers, Shared Tasks, Workshops, Tutorials

SPECIAL THEME

Natural language processing (NLP) technology is already part of our everyday life. We hence particularly invite contributions discussing the interaction of language technology and its users, including the application of speech and text technology in various settings (e.g., dialogue processing, mobility, medicine, e-commerce, or digital humanities). We encourage authors to discuss ethical aspects.

We invite two types of submissions:

• Long and short papers that will be archived in the ACL Anthology, and
• Abstracts on ongoing work, student/PhD theses, etc., which will not be archived.

PAPER SUBMISSION INFORMATION

We welcome original, unpublished contributions on research, development, applications and evaluation, covering all areas of natural language processing, ranging from basic questions to practical implementations of natural language resources, components and systems. We encourage the submission of NLP approaches to the German language, and survey papers describing the state of the art in German language and speech processing. We invite contributions from both academia and industry.

We welcome the following types of paper submissions:

• Long papers (8 pages plus references and appendix), describing original research with substantial new results.
• Short papers (4 pages plus references and appendix), including small focused contributions, work in progress, as well as descriptions of projects, systems and resources.

Accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program chairs. The decisions will be based on the nature rather than the quality of the work. The conference languages are English and German. We encourage the submission of contributions in English. Each submission must include a mandatory discussion of Ethical Considerations as well as a section on Limitations (both sections do not count towards the page limit). Papers without these sections will be desk-rejected. The review process will be double-blind. Submissions must be anonymized accordingly. The conference proceedings will be published in the ACL Anthology.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION INFORMATION

To foster interaction and discussion in our community, we also invite abstracts (max. 2 pages plus references) on the following topics:

• Ongoing projects, open source toolkits and software, repositories, etc.
• Bachelor or Master theses, student projects
• PhD theses (ongoing or finished)
• Use of NLP technology within industrial products
• Opinion pieces

Abstracts should not be anonymized. They will be made available to conference participants, but they will not be archived. Accepted abstracts will be presented as posters at the conference.

We explicitly invite students and doctoral researchers to join the event and present their work and obtain feedback in our student poster session by submitting an abstract.

IMPORTANT DATES

• May 19th, 2023: Paper submission due (all submission types)
• June 30th, 2023: Notification of acceptance
• July 15th, 2023: Camera-ready papers due
• September 18-22, 2023: KONVENS

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

Papers and abstracts must be formatted in accordance with the ACL style sheets. We strongly encourage authors to use LaTeX in preparing their document. 

CALL FOR SHARED TASK PROPOSALS

Shared tasks need to be in line with the GermEval campaign that focus on NLP for the German language. See https://germeval.github.io/ for an overview of previous GermEval tasks. Proposals for shared tasks should contain:

• Title and brief description of the topic of the task and its potential impact on the NLP community and on society
• Description of the data sets that will be used in the shared task and their readiness
• Sketch of how the submitted systems will be evaluated

In addition, proposals need to contain the filled out GermEval Questionnaire, which aims to help with identifying potential ethical issues.
Please submit your shared task proposal by email to annemarie.friedrich@gmail.com no later than November 30, 2022. Notifications will be sent out by December 15, 2022.

While fixing the exact timeline for the shared task is up to the task organizers, we propose the following tentative schedule:

• Trial data ready: March 11, 2023
• Training data ready: April 16, 2023
• Test data ready: May 20, 2023
• Evaluation start: June 27, 2023
• Evaluation end: June 15, 2023
• Paper submission due: July 1, 2023
• Camera ready due: July 20, 2023
• KONVENS conference: September 18-22, 2023

CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

Workshop proposals should contain:

• Title and brief description of the workshop topic
• Desired workshop length (half-day or full-day)
• Names and email addresses of the organizers, with one-paragraph statements of their research interests and areas of expertise
• List of potential members of the program committee, with an indication of which members have already agreed to serve

Workshop proposals should be submitted by e-mail to annemarie.friedrich@gmail.com no later than November 30, 2022. Notifications will be sent out by December 15, 2022. Organizers of accepted proposals will be responsible for publicizing and running the workshop, including reviewing submissions and producing the camera-ready workshop proceedings.

CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS

Tutorials are intended to either provide a comprehensive introduction to core techniques/areas of interest or address advanced topics relevant for the KONVENS community. We invite half-day tutorials on established or emerging research topics in these areas but we also welcome tutorials from related research fields or applications. Tutorials may be explicitly introductory, targeting experienced researchers or attracting a wide audience by addressing basic as well as advanced topics. Tutorial proposals should contain:

• Title and abstract of the tutorial
• Brief description of the tutorial content and its relevance to the KONVENS community
• Brief outline of the tutorial structure showing that the tutorial’s core content can be covered in half a day
• Names and email addresses of the tutorial instructors, including one-paragraph statements of their research interests and areas of expertise
• List of previous venues and approximate audience sizes, if the same or a similar tutorial has been given elsewhere

Tutorial proposals should be submitted by e-mail to annemarie.friedrich@gmail.com no later than November 30, 2022. Notifications will be sent out by December 15, 2022.