- Overview
AACL-IJCNLP 2022 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. As in recent years, some of the presentations at the conference will be of papers accepted by the Transactions of the ACL (TACL) and by the Computational Linguistics (CL) journals.

- Submission Topics
AACL-IJCNLP 2022 aims to have a broad technical program. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas (in alphabetical order):

Theme: “Fairness in Natural Language Processing”

Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics

Dialogue and Interactive Systems

Discourse and Pragmatics

Generation

Information Extraction

Information Retrieval and Text Mining

Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP

Language Modeling

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

Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining

Speech and Multimodality Processing

Summarization

Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing


- Theme Track: “Fairness in Natural Language Processing”
The past decade has witnessed the rapid development of natural language processing, which has resulted in many use cases in the real life of people around the world. As a result, there is an increasing need for developing more socially responsible natural language processing techniques to protect fairness.

We are glad to announce that AACL-IJCNLP 2022 will have a theme track on promoting fairness in natural language processing. We invite researchers to submit position, opinion, modeling, and resource papers on the following topics:

Reflection on current progress on improving fairness in natural language processing and how to make meaningful advances in the future.

Discussions on how computational linguistic research could make (and has made) both positive and negative impact on fairness and novel approaches to fostering the positive while mitigating any negative impact.

Techniques for measuring fairness in natural language processing quantitatively and qualitatively.

Techniques for solving constrained optimization problems with fairness constraints for natural language processing.

Techniques for minimizing harmful effects of natural language processing applications against vulnerable populations.

Automatic evaluation methods to assess fairness in natural language processing.

Empirical investigations of fairness in natural language processing.

Datasets, resources and tools that focus on promoting fairness in natural language processing.

We anticipate having a special session for this theme at the conference and a best Thematic Paper Award in addition to the traditional Best Paper Awards.


-- Important Dates for AACL-IJCNLP 2022 --


Anonymity period begins (Softconf)

June 15, 2022

Paper submission deadline (Softconf)

July 15, 2022

Author response period (Softconf)

August 15-21, 2022

Commitment deadline (ARR)

August 21, 2022

Notification of acceptance

September 20, 2022

Deadline for authors to withdraw papers from AACL-IJCNLP 2022 or Findings of AACL-IJCNLP 2022

September 26, 2022

Camera-ready version of papers due

October 10, 2022

Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”).


https://www.aacl2022.org/Submission/paper