Thanks for this update, Isaac. While this is a great opportunity and many of us would like to submit, are Wikimedians, who already volunteer their time and labour, expected to pay to share findings from their work? Only a full waiver to Wikimedians would make sense.
Thanks, Subhashish On Mon, 10 Feb, 2025, 9:17 am Isaac Johnson, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello wiki-research community! > > I'm sharing a call-for-papers for a workshop that I'm helping to organize > at ACL 2025 (https://2025.aclweb.org/) that will be focused on celebrating > Wikimedia's contributions to the natural language processing (NLP) > community and highlighting approaches to ensuring the sustainability of > this relationship for years to come. Our website for the workshop is on > Meta (and I've summarized the content below): > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NLP_for_Wikipedia_(EMNLP_2024> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NLP_for_Wikipedia_(ACL_2025) > > The workshop will be hybrid (virtual and in-person components). We have not > been assigned a date yet but it will either be July 31st or August 1st, > 2025. Paper submission deadline is 23 April 2025. To get a sense of > potential costs to attend, you can see last year's conference registration: > <https://2023.emnlp.org/registration/#virtual-pricing> > https://2024.aclweb.org/registration > > There are three ways in which we are inviting contributions [1]: > > - > > Wikimedian provocations: we would like to collect ideas from Wikimedians > about what NLP tooling would be beneficial for your work. These are > informal and will help us guide future iterations. We will also do our > best > to summarize them for the workshop and welcome folks who provide these > to > attend (though that's not required). > - > > Datasets: these will be traditional peer-reviewed, archival papers (8 > pages max) that focus on describing datasets that would be useful to the > Wikimedia community. Given that we haven't collected the Wikimedian > provocations yet, we've provided a few seed ideas related to Wikipedia's > core content policies and the Community Wishlist: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NLP_for_Wikipedia_(ACL_2025)/Track_2_Guidance > - > > Ongoing or published work on NLP for Wikimedia: if you'd like to > participate in the workshop and have previous work that is relevant, > we'd > also love to have you. This track is also non-archival. > > We will also be providing a paper checklist shortly (check back on the Meta > site) to give authors guidance on how to better align their work with the > needs and some of the principles of the Wikimedia Movement. We encourage > questions to the organizing team (cc'ed) and I have office hours that folks > can book if they would benefit from a more extensive discussion about ideas > (in particular for the Datasets track): > > https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/appointments/schedules/AcZssZ05jfbOqpB-61Nhs7kCLgfYDx4YaxSb8DtjsPXYcr9QWoGu7OVxY3338-yNerJHq77dwCn76w0G > > Best, > Isaac > > [1] If you have early-stage work around Wikimedia that doesn't quite fit > into any of these tracks (and even if you don't), I'd highly encourage you > to check out WikiWorkshop: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Workshop_2025 > > -- > Isaac Johnson <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Isaac_(WMF)> (he/him) > -- Senior Research Scientist -- Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
