Please feel free to submit any papers to this event. --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ziyu Yao Date: Jan 30, 2023, 10:56 PM -0500 To: lifuh@vt.edu Subject: MASC-SLL 2023 Call for Paper

Hi Lifu,

Happy Lunar New Year!

This is Ziyu Yao from George Mason. It was nice meeting you at NAACL last year! I’m writing to advertise an upcoming NLP event in the Mid-Atlantic area called MASC-SLL (https://www.mascsll.org/). This is an annual event which has been hosted by UMD/JHU/Penn/GWU/Temple/etc. In 2023, it will be held in the Arlington campus of George Mason University, Virginia, on April 22nd.

The call for paper information is attached in the end or can be found here (https://www.mascsll.org/cfp/). We sincerely invite students and researchers from VT to join us! Would you please help us spread the news in your department?

I look forward to meeting you in the event!

Thanks, --Ziyu

******************************************** Ziyu Yao, Ph.D. (she; her; hers) Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science George Mason University Nguyen Engineering Building 4400 University Drive Fairfax, VA 22030 ziyuyao@gmu.edu https://ziyuyao.org/ | https://nlp.cs.gmu.edu/

---------------- Dear NLP folks,

The 10th annual Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language, and Learning (MASC-SLL) will be hosted at George Mason University (Arlington campus), Virginia on April 22nd, 2023. The student colloquium is intended to bring together students taking computational approaches to speech, language, and learning, so that they can introduce their research to the local student community, give and receive feedback, and engage each other in collaborative discussion.

Students are encouraged to submit a one-page summary describing ongoing, planned, or completed research projects, including previously published results and negative results. Student research in any field applying computational methods to any aspect of human language, including speech and learning, from all areas of computer science, linguistics, engineering, neuroscience, information science, and related fields, is welcome. Submissions and presentations must be made by students or postdocs. Accepted submissions will be presented as either posters or talks.

There will be no registration fee. Refreshments and lunch will be provided.

Confirmed invited speakers: Mona Diab (Meta & GWU), Graham Neubig (CMU), Nazli Goharian (Georgetown).

**Check out the event website https://www.mascsll.org/ and stay tuned!**

Submission Submit your one-page summary online via the site: https://openreview.net/group?id=MASC-SLL/2023/Colloquium

Summaries should be no more than one page, not including references. If an under-review or published paper has more than one page, the authors need to submit a one-page version of the paper and specify as a footnote the name of the conference at which the original work is published or under review. You should summarize the motivation, contributions, methods, and evaluation schemes of the research conducted by the authors.

Summaries should conform to ACL style guidelines. LaTeX style files, along with a style guide, are available at https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files. Authors may NOT need a separate "abstract" section in your submission. Please include all names and affiliations in the summary.

Summaries reviewing will NOT be blind. All accepted summaries will be non-archival; authors can submit them to subsequent conferences.

Cross-Submission Policy: MASC-SLL 2023 welcomes submissions that are under review or have been published at recent scientific conferences. Please double-check the policies of those conferences to make sure that submitting to non-archival venues is allowed. At the time of submission, we will ask the authors to indicate whether the submission is unpublished, or is a short version of an under-review or published paper.

Important Dates Submission opens: February 17 Submission deadline: March 17 Notification: March 31 Registration opens: March 17 Registration closes: April 7 Event: April 22

All deadlines are at 11:59 pm EST.

Organizing Committee Murong Yue (George Mason University) Saurabh Srivastava (George Mason University) Milind Agarwal (George Mason University)

Faculty Committee Hal Daumé III (UMD) Mark Dredze (JHU) Ziyu Yao (George Mason University) Antonios Anastasopoulos (George Mason University) Marcos Zampieri (George Mason University) Kevin Lybarger (George Mason University) Özlem Uzuner (George Mason University)

For any questions relevant to the event, please reach out to mascsll2023@gmail.com.

Best Regards, MASC-SLL 2023 Committee