Call for Papers

We welcome submissions of long and short papers, posters, and demonstrations relating to the special theme or any aspect of linguistic annotation, including:

Annotation procedures

Innovative automated and manual strategies for annotation
Machine learning and knowledge-based methods for automation of corpus annotation
Creation, maintenance, and interactive exploration of annotation structures and annotated data

Annotation evaluation

Inter-annotator agreement and other evaluation metrics and strategies
Qualitative evaluation of linguistic representations
Innovative means to evaluate annotation quality

Annotation access and use

Representation formats/structures for annotations of different phenomena, especially annotations at multiple levels, and means to explore/manipulate them
Linguistic considerations for merging annotations of distinct phenomena

Annotation schemes, guidelines and standards

New and innovative annotation schemes, comparison of annotation schemes
Methodologies and resources for annotation scheme development
Best practices for annotation procedures and/or development and documentation of annotation schemes
Interoperability of annotation formats and/or frameworks among different systems as well as different tasks, frameworks, modalities, and languages
Results from the application and evaluation of standards for linguistic annotation

Annotation software and frameworks

Development, evaluation and/or innovative use of annotation software frameworks

We also invite proposals for a shared task to be hosted at LAW 2018. These should be submitted as short papers (up to 4 pages). The program will include a panel discussion of potential shared tasks.

Submissions and Reviewing

Submissions should report original and unpublished research on topics of interest to the workshop. Accepted papers are expected to be presented at the workshop and will be published in the workshop proceedings. They should emphasize obtained results rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results.

A paper accepted for presentation at the workshop must not be or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings.

The maximum length is eight (8) pages of content for long papers and four (4) pages of content for short papers, posters, and demonstrations. References do not count toward the page limit.

Reviewing of papers will be double-blind. Therefore, the paper must not include the authors' names and affiliations or self-references that reveal the authors’ identity--e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ..." should be replaced with citations such as "Smith (1991) previously showed ...". Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review.

Authors of papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information to the workshop co-chairs (law-xi-2017-chairs@googlegroups.com). Authors of accepted papers must notify the program chairs within 10 days of acceptance if the paper is withdrawn for any reason.

More precise intructions on submission, including style files and submission web site, will be posted later.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the program co-chairs.

Important Dates

All submission deadlines are at 11:59 p.m. PST.

Jan 21st, 2017	Workshop Paper Due Date
Feb 11th, 2017	Notification of acceptance
Feb 21st, 2017	Camera-ready papers due
April 3rd, 2017	Workshop Date