Call for Papers

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Workshop Date: 25th June 2022 (Saturday)

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LateRAISSE at LREC'22

As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work so as to allow the community to understand the whole context and also replicate the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2022 endorses the need to uniquely Identify LRs through the use of the International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN, www.islrn.org), a Persistent Unique Identifier to be assigned to each Language Resource. The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers will be offered at submission time.



We invite technical contributions for original, high-quality submissions that explore the following (non-exhaustive) list of topics:

  • Analysis of bias in word embeddings and/or texts in the HR and Legal domains.

  • Methods for debiasing pre-trained language models/word embeddings in multiple domains.

  • Language technologies for identifying/mitigating biased and non-inclusive language (gender, race, LGBTQ) in cross-disciplinary documents and online platforms.

  • Tools, technologies, datasets and multilingual resources to detect bias/discrimination and harmful contents, including flagging and reporting unethical practices such as workplace harassment and online cyberbullying to guarantee an inclusive society.

  • NLP applications for detecting offensive/abusive online content (e.g., cyber-aggression, cyberbullying, hate speech, misogyny, sexism, Homophobia and Transphobia etc.).

  • Corpus and Lexicon for offensive/abusive online content in various languages, especially in the multi-domain, low resource and multilingual settings.

  • Analysis of fairness and reliability of tools developed for bias-free recruiting, adjudication, and online harmful contents detection.

  • Text analysis and processing related to humanities using computational methods and especially focusing on low-resource languages.



Presentations

We will have both oral presentation sessions and a poster session. With respect to Covid-19, arrangements for a virtual presentation will be put in place where necessary. The decision on whether a presentation will be oral or poster will be made by the Organizing Committee on the advice of the Program Committee, taking into account the subject matter and how the content might be best conveyed. Oral and poster presentations will not be distinguished in the Proceedings.

Proceedings

The authors of accepted full papers (long or short) will be invited by the Organizing Committee to submit their papers for publication in LREC proceedings. Furthermore, authors of selected full papers (long) may be invited at a later time to submit extended versions of their papers for consideration in a Journal Special Issue or an Edited book as will be determined by the organizing and Programme Committee. Final versions of long and short papers will be allotted one additional page (altogether 5 and 9 pages) excluding references. Extended abstracts will be allotted up to 5 pages (according to the short paper format) excluding references. Any revisions should concern responses to reviewer comments or the addition of relevant details and clarifications, but not entirely new, unreviewed content. Proceedings papers should be revised and improved versions of the version that was submitted for, and which underwent, review. Camera-ready versions of the articles for publication will be due on May 23, 2022. At least one author for each accepted paper has to attend the workshop to present the paper. Submissions to multiple venues are allowed, but papers must be withdrawn from other venues if accepted by the workshop.

Identify, Describe and Share your LRs

Describing your LRs in the LRE Map is now a normal practice in the submission procedure of LREC. To continue the efforts initiated at LREC 2014 about “Sharing LRs” (data, tools, web-services, etc.), authors will have the possibility, when submitting a paper, to upload LRs in a special LREC repository. This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, may become a new “regular” feature for conferences in our field, thus contributing to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data.

As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work so as to allow the community to understand the whole context and also replicate the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2022 endorses the need to uniquely Identify LRs through the use of the International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN, www.islrn.org), a Persistent Unique Identifier to be assigned to each Language Resource. The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers will be offered at submission time.



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