<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">liling tan</b> <br>Date: Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 9:09 PM<br>Subject: [Final CFP] Workshop for NLP Open Source Software<br>To: NLP OSS <<a href="mailto:nlposs.workshop@gmail.com">nlposs.workshop@gmail.com</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">(apologies for cross-posting) </span><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">------------------------------</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><wbr>------------------------------</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><wbr>--------------------</span><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Final CPF!!! Less than one week left !!!</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">*Workshop for<span> </span><span class="m_7433819177723185940gmail-m_272874379628129225gmail-il">NLP</span><span> </span>Open Source Software (<span class="m_7433819177723185940gmail-m_272874379628129225gmail-il">NLP</span>-<span class="m_7433819177723185940gmail-m_272874379628129225gmail-il">OSS</span>)*</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span class="m_7433819177723185940gmail-m_272874379628129225gmail-aBn" style="border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="m_7433819177723185940gmail-m_272874379628129225gmail-aQJ">20 July 2018</span></span>, Co-located with ACL 2018</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://nlposs.github.io/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://<span class="m_7433819177723185940gmail-m_272874379628129225gmail-il">nlposs</span>.github.io/</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Deadline for Long and Short Paper submission:<span> </span><span class="m_7433819177723185940gmail-m_272874379628129225gmail-aBn" style="border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="m_7433819177723185940gmail-m_272874379628129225gmail-aQJ">8th April 2018</span></span> </div><div style="font-size:12.8px">(<span class="m_7433819177723185940gmail-m_272874379628129225gmail-aBn" style="border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="m_7433819177723185940gmail-m_272874379628129225gmail-aQJ">23:59</span></span>, GMT-11)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>---------------------</div></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div style="font-weight:400;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">The First Workshop for<span> </span><span class="m_7433819177723185940gmail-m_272874379628129225gmail-il">NLP</span><span> </span>Open Source Software (<span class="m_7433819177723185940gmail-m_272874379628129225gmail-il">NLP</span>-<span class="m_7433819177723185940gmail-m_272874379628129225gmail-il">OSS</span>) <span style="font-size:12.8px">focuses more on </span></div><div style="font-weight:400;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:12.8px">the social and engineering aspect of</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><span class="m_7433819177723185940gmail-m_272874379628129225gmail-il" style="font-size:12.8px">NLP</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">software </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">and less on scientific novelty or </span></div><div style="font-weight:400;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:12.8px">state-of-art models.</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span></div><div style="font-weight:400;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span class="m_7433819177723185940gmail-m_272874379628129225gmail-il" style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-weight:400;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span class="m_7433819177723185940gmail-m_272874379628129225gmail-il" style="font-size:12.8px">NLP</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">-</span><span class="m_7433819177723185940gmail-m_272874379628129225gmail-il" style="font-size:12.8px">OSS</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">is an academic forum to advance open source developments for </span><span class="m_7433819177723185940gmail-m_272874379628129225gmail-il" style="font-size:12.8px">NLP</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span></div><div style="font-weight:400;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:12.8px">research, </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">teaching and application,</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> announce new software/features, </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">promote the </span></div><div style="font-weight:400;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:12.8px">collaborative culture and best practices that go beyond the conferences.</span></div><div style="font-weight:400;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><b>TL;DR</b></span></div></div><br class="m_7433819177723185940gmail-m_272874379628129225gmail-Apple-interchange-newline" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12.8px">You have used<span> </span><span class="m_7433819177723185940gmail-m_272874379628129225gmail-il">NLP</span><span> </span>open source tools and bore grievances but found the solution after </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12.8px">hours of coffee and computer staring. Share that at<span> </span><span class="m_7433819177723185940gmail-m_272874379628129225gmail-il">NLP</span>-<span class="m_7433819177723185940gmail-m_272874379628129225gmail-il">OSS</span><span> </span>and suggest how open </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12.8px">source could change for the better (e.g. best practices, documentation, API design etc.)</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12.8px">You've came across an awesome SOTA system on<span> </span><span class="m_7433819177723185940gmail-m_272874379628129225gmail-il">NLP</span><span> </span>task X that once ruled the F1 score. </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12.8px">But now the code is stale and it takes an dinosaur to understand the code. </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12.8px">Share your experience at<span> </span><span class="m_7433819177723185940gmail-m_272874379628129225gmail-il">NLP</span>-<span class="m_7433819177723185940gmail-m_272874379628129225gmail-il">OSS</span><span> </span>and propose how to "replicate" these forgotten systems. </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12.8px">You have tried 101<span> </span><span class="m_7433819177723185940gmail-m_272874379628129225gmail-il">NLP</span><span> </span>tools and there's none that really do what you want. </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12.8px">So you wrote your own shiny new package and made it open source. </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12.8px">Tell us why your package better than the existing tools; how did you design the code? </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12.8px">Sharing your experiences, suggestions and analysis from/of<span> </span><span class="m_7433819177723185940gmail-m_272874379628129225gmail-il">NLP</span>-<span class="m_7433819177723185940gmail-m_272874379628129225gmail-il">OSS</span><span> </span>at <a href="https://www.softconf.com/acl2018/NLPOSS" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://www<wbr>.softconf.com/acl2018/<span class="m_7433819177723185940gmail-m_272874379628129225gmail-il">NLPOSS</span></a><span> !</span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12.8px"><span><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12.8px"><span>Best Regards from </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">organizers, </span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Gulim,굴림,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span>Lucy Park, NAVER Corp.</span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Gulim,굴림,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span>Masato Hagiwara, Duolingo Inc.</span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Gulim,굴림,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span>Dmitrijs Milajevs, NIST and Queen Mary University of London</span></div><div class="m_7433819177723185940gmail-m_272874379628129225gmail-yj6qo" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"></div><div class="m_7433819177723185940gmail-m_272874379628129225gmail-m_-6510544053412721716gmail-yj6qo m_7433819177723185940gmail-m_272874379628129225gmail-adL" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"></div><div class="m_7433819177723185940gmail-m_272874379628129225gmail-m_-6510544053412721716gmail-m_8983881964713065924gmail-yj6qo m_7433819177723185940gmail-m_272874379628129225gmail-m_-6510544053412721716gmail-adL m_7433819177723185940gmail-m_272874379628129225gmail-adL" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-sty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