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For all tracks, please submit your contribution via EasyChair.

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The goal is to bring together experts from industry and academia. Authors are solicited to contribute to the Conference by submitting presentations with a strong focus on practical applicability.

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. Submissions may cover all areas of applied NLP solutions

Presentations can be:

• • • Applications
    • Applied research results
    • Showcases
    • System demonstrations

Submission Format:

• • • A PDF document that contains 
      • a short abstract (approx. 0.5-1 page of main content) describing your system;
      • a screenshot or system diagram (optional)
      • CV of the team (text format, no tables — max. 500 characters)
      • Description of the intended audience (e.g. developers, decision makers, project managers, max. 300 characters)
    • Language: English
    • Please submit online via EasyChair

Presentation Mode:

• • • During submission you can choose your prefered presentation mode: talk, poster, or demo
      • Talk: a classical presentation of approx. 15min + 5min discussion
      • Poster: you can hang up a poster during the poster session. In A1 format
      • Demo: you get a booth where you can show your solution as live-demo during the exhibition time (approx 2 hours)
    • The SwissText Program Committee will decide which format your submission best fits in

Authors are solicited to contribute to the conference by submitting original papers that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works that describe new concepts, innovative research, systems, standards in the areas of NLP. (If you have a live demonstration, please submit to the Applied Track instead)

Submission Format:

• • • Full paper (maximum of 8 pages, with the option to use additional pages for references and appendix) using the ACL style
    • 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) …”
    • All data is entered online via EasyChair

Presentation Mode:

• • • Talk during the dedicated session. We reserve the right to convert some of the presentations to poster format should we deem it adequate.

Master/PhD students who are doing research in NLP-related fields are solicited to contribute to the Conference by submitting ongoing or finished work relevant to the NLP field. (If you have a live demonstration, please submit to the Applied Track instead)

Several senior researchers in the NLP field in Switzerland have expressed their support for the initiative, and will be members of the programme committee. They will provide extensive reviews to the students to help them improve their paper writing skills.

Submission Format:

• • • Please use the ACL style
    • Language: English
    • Manuscripts for short papers (maximum of 4 pages, with the option to use additional pages for references and appendix) must describe ongoing or finished work, relevant to the NLP field. The first author must be a student registered at a Swiss academic institution. 
    • 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) …”
    • Submission will be made through EasyChair

Presentation Mode:

• • • Talk during the dedicated session. It is expected that the first author (or another student author of the same paper) will present the paper at SwissText 2024. We reserve the right to convert some of the presentations to poster format should we deem it adequate.

We plan to publish the proceedings in the ACL Anthology. To appear in the proceedings, each contribution has to be presented by at least one author at the conference.

• Submission deadline: March 4, 2024 (23:59 CEST)
• Extended deadline: March 18, 2024 (23:59 CEST)
• Author notification: May 01, 2024
• Camera-ready version due: May 15, 2024
• Conference: June 10-11, 2024

All data is entered online via EasyChair.

The conference will take place in Chur at the University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons.

• General Chair: Prof. Corsin Capol (FH Graubünden), Prof. Dr. Mark Cieliebak (ZHAW)
• Program Chair & Applied Track Chair: Prof. Dr. Albert Weichselbraun (FH Graubünden)
• Scientific Track Chair: Dr. Claudiu Musat (Google)
• Workshops Chair: Dr Elisabeth Maier (Karakun AG)

Please direct all questions regarding the submission process to our official inbox.