We invite you to submit proposals for shared tasks to be run as part of WANLP 2023. WANLP 2023 will run as a conference for the first time. WANLP 2023 builds on seven previous workshop editions, which have been extremely successful drawing in a large active participation in various capacities. With the move to a conference format, we aim to bring a larger participation from the Arabic NLP community. The conference is organized by the Special Interest Group on Arabic NLP (SIGARAB), an Association for Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on Arabic Natural Language Processing.
Submission Details
The proposals should provide an overview of the proposed task, motivation, data/resources (how the data will be collected), task description (what are the tasks to be included), evaluation (proposed evaluation method for each task), pilot run (if available), tentative timeline that matches the submission dates below, and task organizers (name, affiliation). Proposals (up to 4 pages) should be sent to: wanlp-shared-task-chair@sigarab.org
Please use the ACL template files: https://2023.emnlp.org/calls/style-and-formatting/
Selection Process
The proposals will be reviewed by the organizing committee and will be selected based on multiple factors such as the novelty of the task, the expected interest from the community, how convincing the data collection plans are, the soundness of the evaluation method, and the expected impact of the task.
Task Organization
Upon acceptance, the task organizers are expected to verify that the task organization and data delivery to participants are happening in a timely manner, provide the participants with all needed resources related to the task, create a mailing list and maintain communication and support to participants, create and manage CodaLab or similar competition website, manage submissions to CodaLab, write a task description paper, manage participants submissions of system description papers, and review and maintain the quality of submitted system description papers.
Important Dates
May 7, 2023: submission of shared tasks proposals
May 14, 2023: notification of acceptance of shared tasks
August 29, 2023: shared task papers due date
October 12, 2023: notification of acceptance
October 20, 2023: camera-ready papers due
Conference Date (one day): TBD (timeframe: December 6-10)
All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h (“Anywhere on Earth”).
If you have any questions, please contact us at: wanlp-shared-task-chair@sigarab.org
The WANLP 2023 Organizing Committee