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Topics

We seek papers on the following topics:

  • Work related to the shared tasks and our new dataset, including both modeling and linguistic analysis,
  • Work related to other multilingual datasets and benchmarks in the NLU field, whether public or proprietary, including tasks beyond intent classification and slot filling,
  • Exploration and visualization of multilingual representations,
  • Data reduction and augmentation techniques to improve privacy and data efficiency in multilingual NLU systems,
  • Analysis of tokenization methods, shared vocabulary strategies, and other orthographic and script-focused considerations,
  • NLU work focused on low-resourced languages,
  • Distillation, quantization, and compression of multilingual models, as well as other efforts related to production multilingual systems, and
  • Editorials and opinion pieces related to multilinguality in NLU.

In general, any work related to the advancement of multilingual NLU models and systems will be considered. Negative results are also valuable and welcome.

Submissions need not be related to the shared task and competition.

Formats

We will accept the following paper formats:

  • Long papers of original, unpublished research. Long papers must not exceed 8 pages, excluding references and appendices. Final versions will be given an additional page of content. Submissions must be anonymized.
  • Short papers of original, unpublished research. Short papers must not exceed 4 pages, excluding references and appendices. Final versions will be given an additional page of content. Submissions must be anonymized.
  • Non-archival extended abstracts with either previously-published content or content related to in-progress, unfinished work. Extended abstracts must be limited to 2 pages or fewer, excluding references and appendices. Anonymization is not required.

All submissions should use the EMNLP two-column format described here.

Submission Methods

We accept:

  • Submissions to OpenReview, which will undergo a double-blind peer review, and
  • Commitments of accepted papers from the ACL Rolling Review (ARR) process. Our OpenReview venue will be updated to accept ARR commitments soon.

Dates

  • July 15th: ACL Rolling Review (ARR) submission deadline
  • Sep 7th: OpenReview submission deadline
  • Oct 2nd: ARR commitment deadline
  • Oct 9th: Acceptance notifications
  • Oct 16th: Camera ready deadline
  • Dec 7th: Massively Multilingual NLU 2022 Workshop