***NLPerspectives***

2nd Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to Disagreement in NLP (and Beyond)
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Until recently, the dominant paradigm in natural language processing (and other 
areas of artificial intelligence) has been to resolve observed label 
disagreement into a single “ground truth” or “gold standard” via aggregation, 
adjudication, or statistical means. However, in recent years, the field has 
increasingly focused on subjective tasks, such as abuse detection or quality 
estimation, in which multiple points of view may be equally valid, and a unique 
‘ground truth’ label may not exist (Plank, 2022). At the same time, as concerns 
have been raised about bias and fairness in AI, it has become increasingly 
apparent that an approach which assumes a single “ground truth” can erase 
minority voices.

Strong perspectivism in NLP (Cabitza et al., 2023) pursues the spirit of recent 
initiatives such as Data Statements (Bender and Friedman, 2018), extending 
their scope to the full NLP pipeline, including the aspects related to 
modelling, evaluation and explanation.

In line with the first edition, the NLPerspectives (Perspectivist Approaches to 
Disagreement in NLP)  workshop will explore current and ongoing work on: the 
collection and labelling of non-aggregated datasets; and approaches to 
modelling and including these perspectives, as well as evaluation and 
applications of multi-perspective Machine Learning models. We also welcome 
opinion pieces and literature reviews, e.g., in the context of fairness and 
inclusion.

A key outcome of this second edition will be to build on the work begun at 
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 to create a repository of perspectivist datasets with non-aggregated labels 
for use by researchers in perspectivist NLP modelling.
Authors are, therefore, invited to share their LRs (data, tools, services, 
etc.) and provide  essential information about resources (i.e., also 
technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the 
work or are a result of their research. In addition, authors will be required 
to adhere to ethical research policies on AI and may include an ethics 
statement in their papers.

The NLPerspectives workshop will be hosted in person during the 26th edition of 
ECAI 2023 in Kraków, Poland, on 30 September or 1 October 2023.

-->Submissions
The contributions cannot exceed 7 pages (4 for research communications, see 
below) not including references, and as established by ECAI 2023 conference, 
the over length submissions will be rejected without review.
The papers should be submitted as a PDF document, conforming to the formatting 
guidelines provided in the call for papers of ECAI 2023 conference: 
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We accept three types of submissions:
- Regular research papers;
- Non-archival submissions: like research papers, but will not be included in 
the proceedings;
- Research communications: 4-page abstracts summarising relevant research 
published elsewhere.

-->Topics
We invite original research papers from a wide range of topics, including but 
not limited to:
- Non-aggregated data collection and annotation frameworks
- Descriptions of corpora collected under the perspectivist paradigm
- Multi-perspective Modelling and Machine Learning
- Evaluation of multi-perspective models/ models of disagreement
- Multi-perspective disagreement as applied to NLP evaluation
- Fairness and inclusive modelling
- Perspectivist approaches for social good
- Applications of multi-perspective modelling
- Computing with (dis)agreement
- Perspectivist Natural Language Generation
- Foundational aspects of perspectivism
- Opinion pieces and reviews on perspectivist approaches to NLP

Submissions are open to all, and are to be submitted anonymously (and must 
conform to the instructions for double-blind review). All papers will be 
refereed through a double-blind peer review process by at least three 
reviewers, with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organisers. 
Scientific papers will be evaluated based on relevance, significance of 
contribution, impact, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of 
presentation.

More information about the submission, publication of proceedings and date of 
the workshop will be provided soon. We are seeking sponsors in order to provide 
financial support for conference registration, travel, and accommodation for 
participants.

-->Attendance
At least one author of each accepted paper is required to participate in the 
conference and present the work.

-->Important Dates
* Friday June 23, 2023: Paper submission
* Friday August 4, 2023: Notification of acceptance
* Friday September 1, 2023: Camera-ready papers due
* Saturday September 30 or Sunday October 1, 2023: Workshop

-->Workshop organisers:
Gavin Abercrombie, Heriot-Watt University
Valerio Basile, University of Turin
Davide Bernardi, Amazon Alexa
Shiran Dudy, University of Colorado, Boulder
Simona Frenda,  University of Turin
Lucy Havens, University of Edinburgh
Elisa Leonardelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Sara Tonelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler

Contact us at g.abercrom...@hw.ac.uk if you have any questions.
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