Mission

This affinity workshop is aimed at LatinX individuals working on or interested in Computational Linguistics with a goal to increase the visibility of researchers of LatinX origin in a field that has been dominated by countries such as China, USA and Germany.

Those already working on Computational Linguistics will have the opportunity to connect with fellow LatinX and make their own work known, while those new to the field will benefit from the scientific exchange, guidance and advice of researchers with their same background. Participants will be able to engage in discussions about Computational Linguistics (formal and informal) and to share their thoughts on how to increase the presence of LatinX in Computational Linguistics.

Diversity and inclusion are key to achieve better and more creative science. By promoting this event, NAACL will not only advocate for an underrepresented community, it will also help to promote the development of technologies and language resources that take into account the different languages ​​that exist in Latin America.

CALL FOR PAPERS

We welcome extended abstracts that may introduce new theories, methodology, or applications of NLP. We also welcome position papers and demos. Work may be previously published, completed, or ongoing. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 2 reviewers in the area.  Specifically, we allow two type of submissions: Archival: Must be blind for the double-blind review process. Accepted works will be published in the Journal of LatinX in AI Research as proceedings. Non-archival: May be submitted to any venue in the future. Previously published work can also be submitted as non-archival, with the additional requirement to state in the first page the original publication source.  Specific topics include, but not limited to: - Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics - Dialogue and Interactive Systems  - Discourse and Pragmatics - Efficient Methods for NLP - Ethics and NLP - Generation - Information Extraction - Information Retrieval and Text Mining - Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP - Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond - Linguistic theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics - Machine Learning for NLP - Machine Translation and Multilinguality - NLP Applications - Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation - Question Answering - Resources and Evaluation - Semantics: Lexical - Semantics: Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference and Other areas - Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining - Speech and Multimodality - Summarization - Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing

NOTE: Works may be submitted in English, Spanish or Portuguese. We will assist authors in translating their accepted work into English (translated works will appear in both languages in the proceedings)

Important Dates:

Early Submissions

Submission deadline: April 10th, 2022

Author Notification: May 1st, 2022

Camera Ready: June 20th, 2022

Regular Submissions

Submission deadline: May 20th, 2022

Author Notification: June 10th, 2022

Camera Ready: June 20th, 2022

Submission Format

1. Up to 3 pages, excluding references

2. Submissions must be blind for the double-blind review process

3. For paper formatting, please use the ACL style templates and follow the ACL paper formatting guidelines

IMPORTANT: This year, NAACL will be held simultaneously as an in-person and virtual conference in Seattle, USA. Travel visas are required for all attendees traveling from outside USA. If you are interested in attending the LXNLP workshop in person, you should check your US visa status and apply as needed. There could be a big delay to obtain US visas due to the pandemic situation. Therefore, interested participants should apply for a US visa not later than March 1st and with enough time to complete the entire process. Such participants would be applicable for visa reimbursements (after applying to LXNLP travel grants).

If you have any questions, please email lxnlp2022@latinxinai.org