4 Aug 2017
Vancouver BC, Canada
The submission deadline for the 'Events and Stories in the News' workshop at ACL 2017 in Vancouver, Canada in August has been extended, to May 7th. If you are working on computational analysis of news events and news storylines, please consider submitting a paper. Some travel grants are available. (This workshop combines the previous 'Workshop on Events' workshop and 'Computing News Storylines' Workshop.) ---------------------------- EVENTS AND STORIES IN THE NEWS 2017 Vancouver, Canada, Friday August 4, 2017 Workshop web site: https://sites.google.com/site/eventsandstoriesinthenews/home [1] IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------- Submission deadline: MAY 7TH, 2017 11:59 PM PST Notification of acceptance: MAY 22ND, 2017 Camera-ready copy due from authors: MAY 29TH, 2017 INVITED SPEAKER ---------------------------- James F. Allen, John H. Dessaurer Professor of Computer Science at the University of Rochester TRAVEL GRANTS --------------------------------------------------- Thanks to the generosity of NewsEdge Inc., there is a limited amount of money available for awarding travel grants. More information can be found on the workshop website. Preference will be given to early stage researchers (PhD students and junior postdoc) who do not have alternative sources of funding to support their travel costs. We will let you know which applications have been accepted by May 30th July. WORKSHOP OVERVIEW AND SCOPE --------------------------------------------------- Following the success of the two workshops on Computing News Storylines (CNewsStory, ACL 2015, CNewsStory, EMNLP 2016), the previous four editions of the EVENTS workshops (NAACL 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016), and the strong connections between these two initiatives, the organisers of the two series have decided to join efforts and propose this new workshop. We invite work on all aspects of event and storyline analysis, storyline generation, and relationships between events and storylines or their components, especially from news. This includes (but is not limited to) the following topics: - event detection - identifying and filtering relevant events - cumulation of information from news streams - detecting opinions and perspectives on events - tracing perspective change through time - modeling plot structures - storyline stability and completeness - annotating storylines - temporal or causal ordering of events - event coreference (in-document and cross-document) - sub-event and event subset relations - temporal event sequencing - script activation - big data for storylines - evaluation of storylines - discourse structure and storylines - visualisation of storylines - dynamic event modeling - counterfactuals modeling - event factuality profiling - multimodal storyline generation - event representation SHARED ANNOTATION TASK --------------------------------------------------- We are providing documents from different sources, stretching over a period of time and focused on a specific topic and will ask the participants to provide their own annotations, interpretations, and analyses of this dataset. We will collect these analyses before the workshop and summarise them to facilitate an insightful comparison. We will ask for clear documentation to enable meaningful comparisons. Furthermore, we will ask participants who have systems and tools for extracting events and/or storylines to run their systems on this common dataset. These results will be compared to the annotated data (only indirect comparisons would be possible). Check the available corpora: https://sites.google.com/site/eventsandstoriesinthenews/shared-annotation-task [2] Links: ------ [1] https://sites.google.com/site/eventsandstoriesinthenews/home [2] https://sites.google.com/site/eventsandstoriesinthenews/shared-annotation-task -- [LOGIC] mailing list http://www.dvmlg.de/mailingliste.html Archive: http://www.illc.uva.nl/LogicList/ provided by a collaboration of the DVMLG, the Maths Departments in Bonn and Hamburg, and the ILLC at the Universiteit van Amsterdam