Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NL

Rossana Cunha, Samira Shaikh, Erika Varis Doggett, Ryan Georgi, Alicia Y. Tsai, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Khyathi Chandu

Abstract:

In 2016, a select group of people met at ACL in Berlin to discuss the underrepresentation of women and other minorities in the Natural Language Processing community. The outcome of this was the first Workshop for Women and underrepresented minorities in NLP at ACL 2017: a workshop specifically dedicated to highlighting the work of groups whose work is often overlooked. We are proud to continue this work with the 2020 Widening NLP workshop.
Every year, we strive to make the workshop more inclusive. After the 2017 iteration of WiNLP, we set up two submission deadlines, one for early submissions to accommodate those who need more time for visa applications and a later deadline for those who do not have such concerns.