[Air-L] Deadline Extension: WOAH 2024 Final Call for Ppaers

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*** The 8th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) ***

Deadline Extended: Sunday March 17, 2024 11:59 PM Anywhere on Earth

Website: https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/

Dates
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- Submission due:                    March 17, 2024
- ARR reviewed submission due: April 7, 2024
- Notification of acceptance:       April 14, 2024
- Camera-ready papers due:    April 24, 2024
- Workshop:                            June 21 or 22, 2024

All deadlines are 11:59 PM AoE time.

Overview

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The Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) invites paper submissions from a wide range of fields, including natural language processing, machine learning, computational social sciences, law, politics, psychology, sociology and cultural studies. We explicitly encourage interdisciplinary submissions, technical as well as non-technical submissions, and submissions that focus on under-resourced languages. We also invite non-archival submissions and civil society reports.

The topics covered by WOAH include, but are not limited to:
New models or methods for detecting abusive and harmful online content, including misinformation;
Biases and limitations of existing detection models or datasets for abusive and harmful online content, particularly those in commercial use;
New datasets and taxonomies for online abuse and harms;
New evaluation metrics and procedures for the detection of harmful content;
Dynamics of online abuse and harms, as well as their impact on different communities
Social, legal, and ethical implications of detecting, monitoring and moderating online abuse
In addition, we invite submissions related to the theme for this eighth edition of WOAH, which will be online harms in the age of large language models. Highly capable Large Language Models (LLMs) are now widely deployed and easily accessible by millions across the globe. Without proper safeguards, these LLMs will readily follow malicious instructions and generate toxic content. Even the safest LLMs can be exploited by bad actors for harmful purposes. With this theme, we invite submissions that explore the implications of LLMs for the creation, dissemination and detection of harmful online content. We are interested in how to stop LLMs from following malicious instructions and generating toxic content, but also how they could be used to improve content moderation and enable countermeasures like personalised counterspeech. To support our theme, we have invited an interdisciplinary line-up of high-profile speakers across academia, industry and public policy.

Submission Guidelines
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Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system.

Submission link: https://softconf.com/naacl2024/WOAH2024/manager/scmd.cgi?scmd=submitPaperCustom&pageid=0&isPreview=yes

The workshop will accept three types of papers.

1) Academic Papers (long and short): Long papers of up to 8 pages, excluding references, and short papers of up to 4 pages, excluding references. Unlimited pages for references and appendices. Accepted papers will be given an additional page of content to address reviewer comments. Previously published papers cannot be accepted.

2) Non-Archival Submissions: Up to 2 pages, excluding references, to summarise and showcase in-progress work and work  published elsewhere.

3) Civil Society Reports: Non-archival submissions, with a minimum of 2 pages and no upper limit. Can include work published elsewhere.

All submissions must use the official ACL style files. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. All submissions should adhere to the workshop policies https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/policies.html.

All submissions, except for civil society reports, must be fully anonymised. Self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...".

Following the NAACL 2024 guidelines, we believe that it is also important to discuss the limitations of your work, in addition to its strengths. The “Limitations” section will appear at the end of the paper, after the discussion/conclusions section and before the references, and will not count towards the page limit.

Multiple Submissions Policy

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The workshop allows for dual submissions.

Papers that have been or will be presented at other venues may only be presented as non-archival. Papers that are presented at the main conference (NAACL 2024) can be presented at the workshop as non-archival.

WOAH Community
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We are excited to share the  WOAH community Slack channel — a workspace for researchers interested in or working on understanding and addressing online abuse and harms!

Join us here: https://join.slack.com/t/hatespeechdet-47d7560/shared_invite/zt-2a8d96j4z-gkNk_aLrliUK4NxA8woqIw

Organizers
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Agostina Calabrese, University of Edinburgh
Yi-Ling Chung, The Alan Turing Institute
Debora Nozza, Bocconi University
Aida Mostafazadeh Davani, Google
Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Bocconi University
Paul Röttger, Bocconi University
Zeerak Talat, Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

Please direct any questions about the workshop to organizers at workshopononlineabuse.com

Zeerak