Call for papers

We invite submission of papers describing innovative research methods and applications in knowledge-enhanced NLP. Papers that introduce new theoretical proofs or methods, help to develop a better understanding of new emerging concepts topics extensive empirical experiments, or demonstrate a novel application in natural language processing of these methods to a domain are strongly encouraged.

The topics include but are not limited to the following:
  • 1. All about knowledge data: automatic or human-driven approaches for gathering, curating and constructing knowledge knowledge corpus / database.
  • 2. All about knowledge acquisition: web-based retrieval, tool / API usage, structured knowledge and other techniques for sourcing related knowledge.
  • 3. All about knowledge utilization: pre-training, fine-tuning with knowledge, plug-and-play knowledge injection, knowledge editing and updating in LMs.
  • 4. Knowledge in diverse modalities and novel applications: knowledge-augmented visual/code/math LMs, or applications such as chemistry, education and etc.
  • 5. LLM as parametric knowledge base: distillation and knowledge elicitation from LLMs and applications such as generative retrieval, recommendation and etc.

Paper submission

Regular papers are limited to a total of 8 pages, excluding all references and optional appendix. All submissions must be in PDF format and formatted according to the new Standard ACL Conference Proceedings Template. Following this ACL conference submission policy, reviews are double-blind, and author names and affiliations should NOT be listed. Submitted papers will be assessed based on their novelty, technical quality, potential impact, and clarity of writing. For papers that rely heavily on empirical evaluations, the experimental methods and results should be clear, well executed, and repeatable. Authors are strongly encouraged to make code publicly available.

The workshop comprises two distinct tracks: the archival track and the non-archival track.

For the archival track: Accepted papers in the archival track will be published in the official ACL anthology, categorized under ACL 2024. This provides authors with the opportunity for their work to be recognized and cited as part of the ACL proceedings.

For the non-archival track: In the non-archival track, there are no dual submission restrictions or anonymity requirements. We advise authors to consult the policies of the respective conferences, such as ACL, for specific guidance on dual submissions and anonymity.Accepted papers in the non-archival track will be made accessible on the workshop website but will not be included in the ACL proceedings. This allows authors to share their research while adhering to the policies of the corresponding conferences.

Submission link

https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/KnowledgeNLP&referrer=%5BHomepage%5D(%2F)#tab-your-consoles

Important dates

  • Paper submission deadline: May 17, 2024

    Extended to May 27, 2024

  • Author notification: June 17, 2024
  • Camera ready deadline: July 1, 2024

All deadlines are 11:59pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth")

Workshop website

https://knowledge-nlp.github.io/acl2024

Contact

Please email wyu1@nd.edu if you have any questions!