NLPerspectives: The 3rd Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/w/3rd-workshop-on-perspectivist-approaches-to-nlp/

Until recently, the dominant paradigm in natural language processing (and other 
areas of artificial intelligence) has been to resolve observed label 
disagreement into a single “ground truth” or “gold standard” via aggregation, 
adjudication, or statistical means. However, in recent years, the field has 
increasingly focused on subjective tasks, such as abuse detection or quality 
estimation, in which multiple points of view may be equally valid, and a unique 
‘ground truth’ label may not exist (Plank, 2022). At the same time, as concerns 
have been raised about bias and fairness in AI, it has become increasingly 
apparent that an approach which assumes a single “ground truth” can erase 
minority voices. 

Strong perspectivism in NLP (Cabitza et al., 2023) pursues the spirit of recent 
initiatives such as Data Statements (Bender and Friedman, 2018), extending 
their scope to the full NLP pipeline, including the aspects related to 
modelling, evaluation and explanation.

In line with the first <https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/w/w2022/> and second 
<https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/w/2nd-workshop-on-perspectivist-approaches-to-nlp/>
 editions, the third NLPerspectives (Perspectivist Approaches to Disagreement 
in NLP) workshop will explore current and ongoing work on: the collection and 
labelling of non-aggregated datasets; and approaches to modelling and including 
these perspectives in NLP pipelines, as well as evaluation and applications of 
multi-perspective Machine Learning models. We also welcome opinion pieces and 
literature reviews, e.g., fairness and inclusion in a perspectivist framework.

Following our previous workshops, a key outcome of the third edition will be to 
continue the work begun at https://pdai.info/ to create a repository of 
perspectivist datasets with non-aggregated labels for use by researchers in 
perspectivist NLP modelling. 

Authors are, therefore, invited to share their LRs (data, tools, services, 
etc.) and provide  essential information about resources (i.e., also 
technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the 
work or are a result of their research. In addition, authors will be required 
to adhere to ethical research policies on AI and may include an ethics 
statement in their papers.

The NLPerspectives workshop will be co-located with  the 14th edition of 
LREC-COLING 2024 <https://lrec-coling-2024.org/> in Torino, Italy, in May 
20-25, 2024.

Submissions

The papers should be submitted as a PDF document, conforming to the formatting 
guidelines provided in the call for papers of LREC-COLING conference: 
authors-kit <https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/>
We accept three types of submissions:
Regular research papers;
Non-archival submissions: like research papers, but will not be included in the 
proceedings;
Research communications: 4-page abstracts summarising relevant research 
published elsewhere.

Research papers (archival or non-archival) may consist of up to 8 pages of 
content. Research communications may consist of up to 4 pages of content. More 
details will be up soon.

Topics

We invite original research papers from a wide range of topics, including but 
not limited to: 
Non-aggregated data collection and annotation frameworks
Descriptions of corpora collected under the perspectivist paradigm
Multi-perspective Modelling and Machine Learning
Evaluation of multi-perspective models/ models of disagreement
Multi-perspective disagreement as applied to NLP evaluation
Fairness and inclusive modelling
Perspectivist approaches for social good
Applications of multi-perspective modelling
Computing with (dis)agreement
Perspectivist Natural Language Generation
Foundational aspects of perspectivism
Opinion pieces and reviews on perspectivist approaches to NLP

Submissions are open to all, and are to be submitted anonymously (and must 
conform to the instructions for double-blind review). 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 organisers. 
Scientific papers will be evaluated based on relevance, significance of 
contribution, impact, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of 
presentation. 

Attendance

At least one author of each accepted paper is required to participate in the 
conference and present the work.

Important Dates

* Friday February 23, 2024: Paper submission
* Friday March 29, 2024: Notification of acceptance
* Friday April 12, 2024: Camera-ready papers due
* Tuesday May 21, 2024: Workshop

Workshop organisers: 

Gavin Abercrombie, Heriot-Watt University
Valerio Basile, University of Turin
Davide Bernardi, Amazon Alexa
Shiran Dudy, Northeastern University
Simona Frenda,  University of Turin
Lucy Havens, University of Edinburgh
Sara Tonelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler

Contact us at g.abercrom...@hw.ac.uk <mailto:g.abercrom...@hw.ac.uk> if you 
have any questions.
Website: https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/  


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