[open-linguistics] 2nd CFP: Second Workshop and Shared Tasks on Trolling, Aggression and Cyberbullying (TRAC – 2) @ LREC 2020.

Thu Jan 30 19:47:16 UTC 2020

Apologies for the multiple posting!
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Dear all

Kindly circulate the CFP for TRAC - 2020 among those who might be
interested.
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* Second Workshop on Trolling, Aggression and Cyberbullying (TRAC – 2) *

*                        @ LREC 2020 *
*            16 May, 2020, Palais du Pharo, Marseille, France*
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*Website*: https://sites.google.com/view/trac2/home
*LREC website: https://lrec2020.lrec-conf.org/en/
<https://lrec2020.lrec-conf.org/en/>*
*Submit papers on*: https://www.softconf.com/lrec2020/TRAC2
*Contact email*: comma.kmi at gmail.com

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*Call for Papers*

As the number of people and their interaction over the web has increased,
incidents of aggression and related activities like trolling,
cyberbullying, flaming, abusive, offensive and hate speech, have also
increased manifold globally. The reach and extent of Internet has given
such incidents unprecedented power and influence to affect the lives of
billions of people. It has been reported that such incidents of online
abuse have not only created mental and psychological health issues for
users, but they have impacted our lives in many other ways, spanning from
deactivating accounts to instances of self-harm and suicide. NLP and
related methods have shown great promise in dealing with such abusive
behavior through early detection of inflammatory content.

This workshop focuses on the applications of NLP and Machine Learning to
tackle these issues.

We invite original, unpublished research papers as well as demos around the
following themes and areas of research:

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   Theories and models of aggression and conflict in language.
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   Trolling, hate speech, cyberbullying and aggression on the web.
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   Multilingualism and aggression.
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   Resource Development - Corpora, Annotation Guidelines and Best Practices
   for aggression, trolling and cyberbullying detection
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   Computational Models and Methods for aggression, cyberbullying, hate
   speech and offensive language detection in text and speech.
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   Automatic detection of physical threats on the web.
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   Censorship, moderation and content governance on the web: ethical, legal
   and technological issues and challenges.

The LRE 2020 Map and the "Share your LRs!" initiative

When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to
provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also
technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the
work described in the paper or are a new result of your research.

Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs
(data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of
experiments (including evaluation ones).

*Shared Tasks*

The workshop includes two shared tasks as detailed below -

*Sub-task A: Aggression Identification Shared Task*. The task will be to
develop a classifier that could make a 3-way classification in between
‘Overtly Aggressive’, ‘Covertly Aggressive’ and ‘Non-aggressive’ text data.
We are making available a dataset of 5,000 aggression-annotated data from
social media each in Bangla (in both Roman and Bangla script), Hindi (in
both Roman and Devanagari script) and English for training and validation.
We will release additional data for testing your system. The train and test
sets for the tasks are different from the ones made available during TRAC -
1.

*Sub-task B: Misogynistic Aggression Identification Shared Task*: This task
will be to develop a binary classifier for classifying the text as
‘gendered’ or ‘non-gendered’. We will provide a dataset of 5,000 annotated
data from social media each in Bangla (in both Roman and Bangla script),
Hindi (in both Roman and Devanagari script) and English for training and
validation. We will release additional data for testing your system.

Please click here to register
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdEUHmYM6dRtbSBLSANGmCHT8DEi3r2T6QPXEVngDMaPrxeJg/viewform>
for
the shared tasks and get the dataset.

*Submission*

The papers might be submitted for one of the following categories -

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   Long Paper (completed work - 4-8 pages, excluding references)
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   Short Paper (work in progress - upto 4 pages, excluding references)
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   Demo of a working system/library / API (described in maximum 2 pages,
   with a link to the actual system, if available) - we strongly prefer
   open-source and free systems for demo at the workshop.

   Both long and short papers may be presented using PowerPoint or Poster,
   depending on the medium that is considered most appropriate for the paper
   by the Program Committee. Please note the workshop does not make any
   hierarchical distinction between papers and posters and the decision does
   NOT reflect the quality of the paper - the choice between the two mediums
   of the presentation will only be made based on its suitability and
   appropriateness for presenting the content of the paper.

   Submissions should be formatted according to the LREC 2020 template (
   https://lrec2020.lrec-conf.org/en/submission2020/authors-kit/) - these
   are provided in LaTeX and also Microsoft Word format on the LREC Website.
   As with the main conference, submissions will only be accepted in PDF
   format and deviations from the provided templates will result in rejections
   without review. Papers are to be submitted by the end of the deadline day
   via the workshop's SoftConf site (
   <https://www.softconf.com/lrec2020/TRAC2/>
   https://www.softconf.com/lrec2020/TRAC2/).

*Important Dates:*

*Short paper, Long paper, Poster and Demo Dates*

*Submission of Paper: February 07, 2020*
Notification of acceptance: March 13, 2020
Camera-ready version: April 02, 2020
Workshop Date: May 16, 2020

*Shared Task Dates*

*Training set release for shared task: January 25, 2020 *[now available on
registration]
Test set release: March 5, 2020
Submissions due: March 8, 2020
Results announcement: March 11, 2020
System papers deadline: March 21, 2020

*Contact*
For any further queries/clarifications, please send us an email to
comma.kmi at gmail.com

Sincerely,
Organizers, TRAC - 2020

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TRAC-2 2020 - https://www.softconf.com/lrec2020/TRAC2

Thanks,

Atul
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