Deadline: April 26, 2021
The 6th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP-2021),
co-located with ACL 2021 in Bangkok, Thailand, invites papers of a
theoretical or experimental nature describing recent advances in vector
space models of meaning, compositionality, and the application of deep
neural networks and spectral methods to NLP.
We encourage submissions in the following topics, including but not limited
to:
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Developing new representations: at the document, sentence, word, or
sub-word level, using language model objectives, word embeddings, spectral
methods, etc.
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Evaluating existing representations: probing representations for
generalization, compositionality & robustness, adversarial evaluation,
analysis of representations.
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Efficient learning and inference: with respect to training and inference
time, model size, amount of training data, etc.
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Beyond English / text: multi-modal, cross-lingual, knowledge-informed
embeddings, structure-informed embeddings (syntax, morphology), etc.
Important Dates
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Submission deadline: April 26, 2021
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Notification of acceptance: May 28, 2021
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Camera-ready papers due: June 7, 2021
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Workshop: August 5-6, 2021
All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth").
Submissions
We solicit three categories of papers: regular workshop papers, extended
abstracts and cross-submissions. Only regular workshop papers will be
included in the proceedings as archival publications, and only regular
workshop papers will be eligible for best paper prizes. All three
categories of papers may be long (maximum 8 pages plus references) or short
(maximum 4 pages plus references). All submissions should be in PDF format
and made through the Softconf website set up for this workshop:
<https://www.softconf.com/acl2021/RepL4NLP/>
https://www.softconf.com/acl2021/w15_repl4nlp2021/.
In line with the ACL main conference policy, camera-ready versions of
papers will be given one additional page of content, and no limit to
additional pages for references.\
Regular Workshop Papers
Authors should submit a long paper of up to 8 pages, or a short paper of up
to 4 pages, both with unlimited references, following the ACL 2021
formatting requirements (see the ACL 2021 Call For Papers for reference:
https://2021.aclweb.org/calls/papers/). The reported research should be
substantially original. Accepted papers will be presented as posters.
Reviewing will be double-blind, and thus no author information should be
included in the papers; self-reference that identifies the authors should
be avoided or anonymized. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop
proceedings.
Supplementary Material: Each submission can be accompanied by a single PDF
appendix. The paper submissions need to remain fully self-contained, as
these supplementary materials are completely optional, and reviewers are
not even asked to review or download them. Supplementary materials need to
be fully anonymized to preserve the double-blind reviewing policy.
Extended Abstracts
Preliminary but interesting ideas or results that have not been published
before may be submitted as extended abstracts. Accepted extended abstracts
will be presented as posters, and included in the workshop program and
handbook, but will not be included in the workshop proceedings (and are not
eligible for best paper prizes).
Extended abstract submissions are therefore ideal for preliminary work
which would benefit from exposure but is not ready for publication. Authors
should submit a long extended abstract of up to 8 pages, or a short
extended abstract of up to 4 pages, both with unlimited references.
Submissions should follow the ACL 2021 formatting requirements (see the ACL
2021 Call For Papers for reference:
https://2021.aclweb.org/calls/papers/).
Reviewing will be double-blind, and thus no author information should be
included in the papers; self-reference that identifies the authors should
be avoided or anonymized.
Cross-Submissions
In addition to previously unpublished work, we also solicit recent papers
on relevant topics that have appeared in a non-NLP venue (e.g., workshop or
conference papers at NeurIPS or ICML). Accepted cross-submissions will be
presented as posters, with an indication of original venue, but will not be
included in the workshop program and handbook, or the workshop proceedings
(and are not eligible for best paper prizes). Cross-submissions are ideal
for related work which would benefit from exposure to the RepL4NLP
audience. Submission length is determined by the original venue. Interested
authors should submit their papers in PDF format through the RepL4NLP
Softconf website (
https://www.softconf.com/acl2021/w15_repl4nlp2021/), with
a note on the original venue. Papers in this category do not need to follow
the ACL format and selection will be solely determined by the organizing
committee.
Best Paper Prizes
To be announced.
Keynote Speakers
- Karen Livescu (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago)
- Lena Voita (University of Edinburgh and University of Amsterdam)
- Noah Smith (University of Washington)
- Sameer Singh (University of California, Irvine)
Contact Information
The co-chairs of the workshop can be contacted by email at:
repl4nlp(a)googlegroups.com. More details will be posted at the workshop
website:
https://sites.google.com/view/repl4nlp-2021
<https://sites.google.com/view/repl4nlp-2021>
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*Iacer Calixto*
Postgraduate Research Fellow,
*Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow*
- Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University (NYU)
- Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, The University of
Amsterdam (UvA)
- e-mail: iacer.calixto(a)nyu.edu, iacer.calixto(a)uva.nl
- website: iacercalixto.github.io
- member: ELLIS, ACL, New York Academy of Sciences