The 14th Linguistic Annotation Workshop Co-located with COLING 2020 – 12 December 2020 – Barcelona

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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

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Submissions should report original and unpublished research on topics of interest to the workshop.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.

Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system, which can be found at this address:

https://www.softconf.com/coling2020/LAW/

Long/short paper submissions must use the official COLING 2020 style templates (available here), which specify a one-column layout. Long papers must not exceed nine (9) pages of content. Short papers and demonstration papers must not exceed four (4) pages of content. References do not count against these limits.

Note: The supplementary material does not count towards page limit and should not be included in paper, but should be submitted separately using the appropriate field on the submission website.

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.

Dual Submission Policy

Dual submissions are allowed. 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-xiv-2020-chairs@googlegroups.com). In your message, please list the names and dates of the conferences, workshops or meetings where you have submitted or plan to submit your paper in addition to LAW. Authors of accepted papers must notify the program chairs within 10 days of acceptance if the paper is withdrawn for any reason.

Other Questions

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

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