We seek submissions of regular papers on original and unpublished work (same page limit EMNLP main conference). 1-page abstracts on work-in-progress or work published elsewhere are also welcome and will *not* be included in the conference proceedings. All accepted submissions will be presented as posters. Additionally, selected submissions will be presented orally.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
-NLP Preprocessing of Noisy Text
-Part of speech tagging
-Named entity tagging, including a wide range of categories, e.g. product names
-Chunking of user-generated text
-Parsing
-Text Normalization and Error Correction
-Normalizing noisy text for downstream tasks and for human readability
-Error detection and correction
-Multilingual NLP in noisy text
-Sentiment analysis
-Crowdsourcing of text data
-User prediction, e.g. geolocation, gender, age, etc
-Stylistics, e.g. formality, politeness, etc
-Colloquial language, e.g. code-switching, idiom detection
-Bilingual translation of the noisy text
-Paraphrase identification and semantic similarity of short text or noisy text
-Information extraction from noisy text
-Domain adaptation to user-generated text
-Geolocation prediction
-Global and regional trend detection and event extraction
-Detecting rumors, contradictory information, sarcasm and humors on social media
-Extracting user demographics, profiles, and major life events
-Temporal aspects of user-generated content (resolving time expressions, concept drift, diachronic analyses, etc...)