Dear Colleagues, Partners and Friends,
We invite you to submit a contribution to the 6th Swiss Text Analytics Conference (SwissText), which takes place on June 14-16, 2021.
SwissText is an annual conference that brings together text analytics experts from industry and academia. It is organised by the Swiss Association for Natural Language Processing (SwissNLP) in collaboration with the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) as well as the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) and the data innovation alliance. SwissText 2021 is part of the “Networking Event Series – Natural Language Processing” funded by InnoSuisse, the Swiss Innovation Agency. It is supported by more than 10 universities and scientific associations.
The SwissText conference will feature the following tracks:
- Applied Track, with a strong focus on industry and applied research. This track constitutes the continuation of the “Swiss Track” from previous SwissText editions.
- Scientific Track, with technical research papers from the international scientific community.
- Demo Track, which provides a platform for companies and universities to showcase their interactive NLP solutions.
- <NEW> Highlights Track, where you can present any interesting talk or paper you have seen or given in the past year, in a top tier conference.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: Since the chances of a “return to normal” by June are getting slimmer by the day, SwissText 2021 will take place as a virtual conference. We’re working on converting all presentation types to a suitable online format. More information is to follow soon!
Overview of Presentation Types
| Submission | Presentation Type at Conference | Proceedings | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Applied Track | short abstract | talk or poster | short abstract |
| Scientific Track | long or short paper | poster or talk | long or short paper |
| Demo Track | short abstract | demo | – |
| Highlights Track | short abstract | talk | short abstract |
Applied Track
The goal of the Applied Track is to bring together experts from industry and academia. For this track, we are looking for presentations with a strong focus on practical applicability.
Presentations can be:
- Showcases
- Applications (if you have a live demonstration, please submit to the Demo Track instead)
- Resources such as corpora
- Applied research results
- Any other contribution that is interesting to the audience
Submission Format:
- Short abstract (up to 1500 characters)
- CV of the presenter (text format, no tables — max. 500 characters)
- Intended audience (e.g. developers, decision makers, project managers, max. 300 characters)
- All data is entered online via EasyChair
Presentation Mode:
- Talk or poster
Note: If you intend to publish a full scientific paper, please submit it to the Scientific Track.
Scientific Track
In this track, we welcome classical technical papers dealing with any topic in the fields of natural language processing, computational linguistics, and machine learning/data science with a focus on text analytics.
Important: We also welcome papers which did not get accepted at top-tier conferences but are interesting to the SwissText community.
We welcome the following two types of contributions:
- Long papers (8 pages plus references): substantial results
- Short papers (4 pages plus references): progress reports and similar
Submission Format:
- Please use the ACL LaTeX template
- Language: English
- Anonymization: The review process will be double blind; we ask authors to anonymize their submission reasonably. Instead of e.g. “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” write “Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …”
- Manuscripts for long and short papers must describe original work that has neither been published before nor is currently under review elsewhere.
- Submission will be made through EasyChair
Presentation Mode:
- Poster or talk
Demo Track
The SwissText Conference features a dedicated track for demonstrations of available NLP solutions (open source or proprietary). The goal is to give developers, companies, and researchers a platform to showcase their products and tools, and for the audience to get an overview of available and prototyped NLP solutions. All accepted demos will be presented live during the demo exhibition at the conference.
Submission Format:
- Short abstract of your demo (up to 1500 characters)
- Screenshot of your solution
- Description of the intended audience (e.g. developers, researchers, etc., max. 300 chars)
- Please submit online via EasyChair
Presentation Mode:
- Interactive demonstration during the demonstrations exhibition
Highlights Track
We want to bring the best of NLP to our SwissText audience! Therefore, we are introducing the Highlights Track, where we are looking for published work that is interesting to the Swiss community. This means you can present your own already published work, or you can recap and discuss an exciting talk or paper you have seen recently (e.g. at one of the top-level conferences such as ACL, EMNLP etc.). Our goal with this track is to disseminate new and thought-provoking ideas, so please state in your abstract what it is you want to bring across and why it is interesting.
Submission format:
- Short abstract of your highlight presentation (up to 1500 characters): reference to the paper/talk that is basis for your presentation; why is it interesting to the SwissText community; what are the main points you want to share with the audience?
- CV of the presenter (text format, no tables — max. 500 characters)
- Please submit online via EasyChair
Presentation mode:
- Oral presentation
Proceedings
All accepted scientific papers will be published in the conference proceedings. For presentations in the Applied and Highlights Tracks, the abstract will be included in the proceedings. There is no differentiation between oral or poster presentations in the proceedings. The proceedings will be published on CEUR-WS.org (open access). To appear in the proceedings, each contribution has to be presented by at least one author at the conference.
Presentation Types
Accepted submissions in the Applied Track and the Scientific Track will be presented orally or as posters, as determined by the program committee. All accepted submissions in the Highlights track will be presented orally. All accepted Demos will be presented live during the demo exhibition at the conference.
Presentations are in English and will be listed in the conference program.
Important Dates
- Submission deadline: March 7, 2021 (23:59 CEST)
- Author notification: April 18, 2021
- Conference: June 14-16, 2021
- Camera-ready version due: July 9, 2020
Venue
In light of the pandemic we decided to host SwissText 2021 as an online conference.
Organization
- Conference Chairs: Prof. Mark Cieliebak (ZHAW), Prof. Manfred Vogel (FHNW)
- Main Organizers: Manuela Hürlimann, Fernando Benites
- Organizing Committee: Michael Plüss, Don Tuggener, Marc Cuny
Contact
Please direct all questions regarding the submission process to our official inbox.