Call For Papers
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Third Workshop on e-Commerce and NLP (ECNLP 3)
Co-located with ACL 2020 in Seattle, Washington, USA, July 9/10, 2020
https://sites.google.com/view/ecnlp/acl-2020

Submission Deadline: April 6, 2020

Workshop
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NLP techniques have been powering e-commerce applications since the early days of the fields. Today, NLP already plays a significant role in e-commerce tasks, including recommender systems, product question answering, product search, machine translation, sentiment analysis, product description, review summarization, and customer review processing. With the exploding popularity of chatbots and shopping assistants – both text- and voice-based – NLP, IR, question answering, and dialogue systems research is poised to transform e-commerce once again, but requires a forum where new and unfinished ideas could be discussed.

Co-located with ACL 2020, the ECNLP workshop will provide a venue for the dissemination of NLP and IR research results related to e-commerce and online shopping, bringing together researchers from both academia and industry. The workshop welcomes submission of late-breaking and preliminary research results, as well as opinion and position papers.

ECNLP invites quality research contributions in different formats:
- Original long research papers (8 pages plus references and appendix)
- Original short research papers (4 pages plus references and appendix)
- Position and opinion papers (4 pages)

All submissions will undergo a double-blind review process, and accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop either as oral presentation or as poster.

Topics of interest
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Workshop topics include, but are not limited to:

- Product classification and cataloguing
- NER for products, brands, attributes, and part names
- Search and product query auto-completion
- Recommender systems and product suggestions
- Machine Translation applied to e-commerce (e.g. translating product titles/reviews)
- Voice & dialogue-based e-commerce applications; ASR for e-commerce
- Advertising and ad prediction/forecasting models
- Fraud and spam detection in e-commerce (e.g. in customer reviews/comments)
- Product description and review summarization
- Product similarity and matching of seller-provided listings to catalog products
- Technical support request processing (user emails, chat agents, etc.)
- E-commerce-related social media processing
- The intersection of Computer Vision and NLP (e.g. product images and text)
- Product Question Answering
- Shopping assistants, agents, and chat bots
- Sentiment analysis, opinion mining, and stance detection in user-generated content
- Relevant resources and datasets

Important Dates
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Submission Deadline: April 6, 2020
Acceptance Notification: May 4, 2020
Camera-ready versions: May 18, 2020
Workshop: July 9 or 10, 2020


Instructions for Authors
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Papers must be submitted in PDF according to the format published in the ACL 2020 official style guidelines (https://acl2020.org/calls/papers/). Templates are available at the previous link.
Submissions will be made via START. The link will be available soon. More details will be available on the workshop website.


Additional Information and Contact Details
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https://sites.google.com/view/ecnlp/acl-2020
ecnlp@googlegroups.com