Sarcasm SIGN: Sarcasm interpretation corpus

We are happy to announce the release of the Sarcasm SIGN corpus: a parallel corpus of sarcastic tweets and their non-sarcastic interpretations, as created by human experts (3000 tweets annotated by their authors with the hashtag #sarcasm, 5 human translations per tweet). The corpus was created as part of the paper: Sarcasm SIGN: Interpreting Sarcasm with Sentiment Based Monolingual Machine Translation, Lotem Peled and Roi Reichart, ACL 2017 (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.06836.pdf) The corpus and the project details can be found at: https://github.com/lotemp/SarcasmSIGN Sarcasm SIGN dataset, a parallel corpus of sarcastic tweets and their non-sarcastic…

[CfP] ALW1: 1st Workshop on Abusive Language Online (at ACL2017)

********************************************************** ALW1: 1st Workshop on Abusive Language Online to be held at ACL 2017 (Vancouver, Canada), August 3rd or 4th, 2017 Submission deadline: April 27, 2017 https://sites.google.com/site/abusivelanguageworkshop2017/ ********************************************************** Overview The last few years have seen a surge in abusive online behavior, with governments, social media platforms, and individuals struggling to cope with the consequences. Online forums, comment sections, and social media interaction in general have become a playground of bullying, scapegoating, and hate speech. These forms of online aggression not only poison the social climate of the communities that experience…

[CfP] 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2017), Vancouver, Canada

The 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Vancouver, Canada – July 30-August 4, 2017 The Association for Computational Linguistics is pleased to announce that its 55th annual meeting will take place in Vancouver, Canada, July 30-August 4, 2017. The conference invites the submission of long and short papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of automated language processing. As in recent years, some of the presentations at the conference will be of papers accepted for the Transactions of the ACL journal (http://www.transacl.org/). ACL 2017 has the…

12th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2016)

Second CALL FOR PAPERS The 12th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2016) http://multiword.sourceforge.net/mwe2016 Workshop at ACL 2016 (Berlin, Germany), August 11, 2016 Endorsed by the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the Association for Computational Linguistics (SIGLEX; http://www.siglex.org/); and SIGLEX’s Multiword Expressions Section (SIGLEX-MWE; http://multiword.sourceforge.net/PHITE.php?sitesig=MWE) Submission deadline: Long & short papers – May 15, 2016 (23:59 Pacific time – GMT-08:00) Online submission: https://www.softconf.com/acl2016/mwe ————————- Call For Papers Under the denomination “multiword expression” (MWE), we assume a wide range of linguistic constructions such as idioms (storm in a teacup, sweep…