<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><h2 id="gmail-h.p_q8ID5XZGDr34" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-JYVBee" tabindex="-1" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:0px;outline:none;color:rgb(0,104,91);font-size:25px;font-weight:400;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:1.4;padding-top:0px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-TyBUR" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;max-width:100%">Call for Papers</div></h2><p id="gmail-h.p_dBmPVL3-D_PG" class="gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:12px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:15px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:1.6667;white-space:pre-wrap">The <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/gamnlp2020">7th Workshop on Games and Natural Language Processing</a> (Games and NLP 2020)—to be held at <a href="https://lrec2020.lrec-conf.org/en/">LREC 2020</a>—will examine the use of games and gamification for Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, as well as how NLP research can advance player engagement and communication within games. The Games and NLP workshop aims to promote and explore the possibilities for research and practical applications of games and gamification that have a core NLP aspect, either to generate resources and perform language tasks or as a game mechanic itself. This workshop investigates computational and theoretical aspects of natural language research that would be beneficial for designing and building novel game experiences, or for processing texts to conduct formal game studies. NLP would benefit from games in obtaining language resources (e.g., construction of a thesaurus or a parser through a crowdsourcing game), or in learning the linguistic characteristics of game users as compared to those of other domains.</p><p id="gmail-h.p_8q-arXPuDY9r" class="gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:12px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:15px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:1.6667;white-space:pre-wrap"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"></p><p id="gmail-h.p_asFkEu0MjpTM" dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:12px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:15px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:1.6667;white-space:pre-wrap">Paper topics may include, but are not limited to:</p><ul dir="ltr" class="gmail-n8H08c gmail-UVNKR" style="font-size:16px;list-style-type:square;box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:20px;margin:6px 0px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap"><li id="gmail-h.p_yl1AvRolDYXi" class="gmail-TYR86d gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:15px;font-style:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:1.6667;padding-top:0px">Games for collecting data useful for NLP (games in planning, under development, or deployed)</li><li id="gmail-h.p_dADx51c3DYXi" class="gmail-TYR86d gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:6px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:15px;font-style:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:1.6667">Gamification of NLP tasks (techniques, best practice and evaluation of gamification strategies)</li><li id="gmail-h.p_ct_1SiGxDYXj" class="gmail-TYR86d gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:6px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:15px;font-style:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:1.6667">Player motivation and experience (strategies for recruitment/retention and player profiling)</li><li id="gmail-h.p_dCYc7v1WDYXk" class="gmail-TYR86d gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:6px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:15px;font-style:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:1.6667">Game design (conceptual design elements and reports of success and/or failure of designs)</li><li id="gmail-h.p_MM3bRxaiDYXl" class="gmail-TYR86d gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:6px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:15px;font-style:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:1.6667">Novel uses of natural language processing or generation as a game mechanic</li><li id="gmail-h.p_SrhykwrNDYXl" class="gmail-TYR86d gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:6px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:15px;font-style:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:1.6667">Natural language in games as an alternative method of input for people with disabilities</li><li id="gmail-h.p_5Qe6EGD3DYXm" class="gmail-TYR86d gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:6px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:15px;font-style:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:1.6667">Processing NLP game data (aggregation methods and strategies for minimising noise and cheating)</li><li id="gmail-h.p_qN_5uN8kDYXn" class="gmail-TYR86d gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:6px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:15px;font-style:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:1.6667">Analysis of large-scale game-related corpora (e.g., game reviews, gameplay logs)</li><li id="gmail-h.p_ozoakr92DYXn" class="gmail-TYR86d gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:6px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:15px;font-style:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:1.6667">Real-time sentiment analysis of player discourse or chat</li><li id="gmail-h.p_HEq01Rl7DYXo" class="gmail-TYR86d gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:6px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:15px;font-style:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:1.6667">Evaluation of games for NLP (metrics for evaluating game performance, evaluating player performance, motivation and bias, and evaluating task difficulty)</li><li id="gmail-h.p_--DmdmoVDYXp" class="gmail-TYR86d gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:6px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:15px;font-style:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:1.6667">Serious games for learning languages </li><li id="gmail-h.p_VoMeWOxIDYXq" class="gmail-TYR86d gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:6px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:15px;font-style:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:1.6667">Player immersion in language-enabled mixed reality or physically embodied games</li><li id="gmail-h.p_c56iSpQODYXr" class="gmail-TYR86d gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:6px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:15px;font-style:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:1.6667">Narrative plot or text generation of text-based interactive narrative systems</li><li id="gmail-h.p_ATzaKmfbDYXr" class="gmail-TYR86d gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:6px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:15px;font-style:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:1.6667">Natural language understanding and generation of character dialogue</li><li id="gmail-h.p_TwgeERsHDYXs" class="gmail-TYR86d gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:6px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:15px;font-style:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:1.6667;padding-bottom:0px">Ethical and privacy concerns related to games (e.g., ownership of text and audio chat in massively multiplayer online games)</li></ul><p id="gmail-h.p_6Zmvfwcb-F0f" dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:12px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:15px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:1.6667;white-space:pre-wrap">We encourage participants to share frequently used metrics for assessing game and player performance, further instructions for how to produce these can be found on our workshop website. </p><h2 id="gmail-h.p_z5p4nq_KEMkQ" dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-JYVBee" tabindex="-1" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:20px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(0,104,91);font-size:25px;font-weight:400;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:1.4;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-TyBUR" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;max-width:100%"><div class="gmail-SSAUuc gmail-MmBOub" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:9px"><div class="gmail-U26fgb gmail-mUbCce gmail-fKz7Od gmail-LRAOtb gmail-nvteUb" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;border-top-left-radius:50%;border-top-right-radius:50%;border-bottom-right-radius:50%;border-bottom-left-radius:50%;display:inline-block;height:28px;outline:none;overflow:hidden;text-align:center;width:28px;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.541176);font-size:0px;opacity:0;vertical-align:middle"></div></div>LRE 2020 Map and the "Share your LRs!" initiative</div></h2><p id="gmail-h.p_EhUm3F7XEMNx" dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:12px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:15px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:1.6667;white-space:pre-wrap">"When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones).</p><p id="gmail-h.p_aPNh0poq510R" dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:12px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:15px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:1.6667;white-space:pre-wrap">As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work so as to allow the community to understand the whole context and also replicate the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2020 endorses the need to uniquely Identify LRs through the use of the International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN, <a href="http://www.islrn.org">www.islrn.org</a>), a Persistent Unique Identifier to be assigned to each Language Resource. The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers will be offered at submission time. </p><h2 id="gmail-h.p_uppgb_lYEPWc" dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-JYVBee" tabindex="-1" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:20px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(0,104,91);font-size:25px;font-weight:400;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:1.4;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-TyBUR" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;max-width:100%"><div class="gmail-SSAUuc gmail-MmBOub" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:9px"><div class="gmail-U26fgb gmail-mUbCce gmail-fKz7Od gmail-LRAOtb gmail-nvteUb" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;border-top-left-radius:50%;border-top-right-radius:50%;border-bottom-right-radius:50%;border-bottom-left-radius:50%;display:inline-block;height:28px;outline:none;overflow:hidden;text-align:center;width:28px;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.541176);font-size:0px;opacity:0;vertical-align:middle"><a class="gmail-FKF6mc gmail-TpQm9d" href="https://sites.google.com/view/gamnlp2020/call-for-papers?authuser=0#h.p_uppgb_lYEPWc" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:block;outline:none;text-decoration:none;height:28px;width:28px"><div class="gmail-VTBa7b gmail-MbhUzd" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-size:cover;opacity:0;background-image:radial-gradient(circle farthest-side,rgba(0,0,0,0.117647),rgba(0,0,0,0.117647) 80%,rgba(0,0,0,0) 100%)"></div><span class="gmail-xjKiLb" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span class="gmail-Ce1Y1c" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block"></span></span></a></div></div>Important Dates:</div></h2><ul dir="ltr" class="gmail-n8H08c gmail-UVNKR" style="font-size:16px;list-style-type:square;box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:20px;margin:6px 0px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap"><li id="gmail-h.p_erfq8_w2kssT" class="gmail-TYR86d gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:15px;font-style:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:1.6667;padding-top:0px"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">14th February 2020: </strong>Submission Deadline</li><li id="gmail-h.p_jCzhan_V5PoX" class="gmail-TYR86d gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:6px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:15px;font-style:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:1.6667"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">13th March 2020: </strong>Notification of Acceptance</li><li id="gmail-h.p_m001pXKs5PoX" class="gmail-TYR86d gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:6px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:15px;font-style:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:1.6667"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">2nd April 2020: </strong>Camera Ready Deadline</li><li id="gmail-h.p_YBYlW_F25PoY" class="gmail-TYR86d gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:6px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:15px;font-style:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:1.6667;padding-bottom:0px"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">11th May 2020: </strong>Workshop Date</li></ul><p id="gmail-h.p_gvFvqPgEDcGH" dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:12px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:15px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:1.6667;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></p><h2 id="gmail-h.p_GznWX8zhks2B" dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-JYVBee" tabindex="-1" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:20px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(0,104,91);font-size:25px;font-weight:400;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:1.4;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-TyBUR" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;max-width:100%">Submissions</div></h2><p id="gmail-h.p_c7Qi_KOZD_PS" dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:12px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:15px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:1.6667;white-space:pre-wrap">We invite submissions of full papers (8 pages), short papers (4 pages), and extended abstracts (2 pages). Page lengths are excluding references and metrics. </p><ul dir="ltr" class="gmail-n8H08c gmail-UVNKR" style="font-size:16px;list-style-type:square;box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:20px;margin:6px 0px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap"><li id="gmail-h.p_nGwwFvtyDfp8" class="gmail-TYR86d gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:15px;font-style:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:1.6667;padding-top:0px"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Full and short papers</strong> will present original research and appear in the workshop proceedings. Full and short papers will be presented as talks or at the poster and demo session, and the proceedings published on the LREC 2020 website.</li><li id="gmail-h.p_ymJvtg7sDfp9" class="gmail-TYR86d gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:6px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:15px;font-style:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:1.6667;padding-bottom:0px"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Extended abstracts </strong>will showcase demonstrations, works in progress, and position papers. These papers will be non-archival and will provide authors with the opportunity to showcase ongoing work and focused, relevant contributions. All authors will be sent feedback and final decision of acceptance. Extended abstracts will be presented as lightning talks and at the poster and demo session, where participants can play the games that have been discussed.</li></ul><h2 id="gmail-h.p_i8RpsaUfmFqO" dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-JYVBee" tabindex="-1" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:20px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(0,104,91);font-size:25px;font-weight:400;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:1.4;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-TyBUR" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;max-width:100%"><div class="gmail-SSAUuc gmail-MmBOub" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:9px"><div class="gmail-U26fgb gmail-mUbCce gmail-fKz7Od gmail-LRAOtb gmail-nvteUb" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;border-top-left-radius:50%;border-top-right-radius:50%;border-bottom-right-radius:50%;border-bottom-left-radius:50%;display:inline-block;height:28px;outline:none;overflow:hidden;text-align:center;width:28px;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.541176);font-size:0px;opacity:0;vertical-align:middle"><a class="gmail-FKF6mc gmail-TpQm9d" href="https://sites.google.com/view/gamnlp2020/call-for-papers?authuser=0#h.p_i8RpsaUfmFqO" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:block;outline:none;text-decoration:none;height:28px;width:28px"><div class="gmail-VTBa7b gmail-MbhUzd" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-size:cover;opacity:0;background-image:radial-gradient(circle farthest-side,rgba(0,0,0,0.117647),rgba(0,0,0,0.117647) 80%,rgba(0,0,0,0) 100%)"></div><span class="gmail-xjKiLb" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span class="gmail-Ce1Y1c" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block"></span></span></a></div></div>Review Process</div></h2><ul dir="ltr" class="gmail-n8H08c gmail-UVNKR" style="font-size:16px;list-style-type:square;box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:20px;margin:6px 0px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap"><li id="gmail-h.p_-oKcuLNjmFGn" class="gmail-TYR86d gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:15px;font-style:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:1.6667;padding-top:0px">Full and short papers will be reviewed double blind by at least two of the programme committee before a meta-review by the organisers (so, <strong style="box-sizing:border-box">please </strong>take care to <strong style="box-sizing:border-box">anonymise </strong>your <strong style="box-sizing:border-box">submissions</strong>). We encourage authors to take whatever space they need; papers will be judged on the merit of their ideas, not length.</li><li id="gmail-h.p_2T2siU1NmFGq" class="gmail-TYR86d gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:6px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:15px;font-style:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:1.6667;padding-bottom:0px">Extended abstracts will be reviewed by the organising committee. These submissions will be reviewed single blind by two of the programme committee before a meta-review by the organisers.</li></ul><p id="gmail-h.p_mz1yaugwmGC6" dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:12px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:15px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:1.6667;white-space:pre-wrap"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"></p><p id="gmail-h.p_6wuom0Lyn_w4" dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:12px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:15px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:1.6667;white-space:pre-wrap"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">We acknowledge the difficulty of attending these events in person</strong>. For those with personal, financial, or political inability for travel we are happy to organize remote presentations.</p><p id="gmail-h.p_X5XKhoSGD_PW" class="gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:12px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:15px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:1.6667;padding-bottom:0px;white-space:pre-wrap">Games and NLP is dedicated to a harassment-free workshop experience for everyone. Our anti-harassment policy can be found in our <a class="gmail-dhtgD gmail-aw5Odc" href="https://sites.google.com/view/gamnlp2020/code-of-conduct?authuser=0" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,102,56);font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit">Code of Conduct</a>.</p></div></div>