The 7th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) at ACL 2023 in Toronto, Canada.
Submission due: May 2, 2023
ARR reviewed submission due: May 22, 2023
Notification of acceptance: May 26, 2023
Camera-ready papers due: Jun 2, 2023
Workshop: July 13, 2023
Digital technologies have brought many benefits for society, transforming how people connect, communicate and interact with each other. However, they have also enabled abusive and harmful content such as hate speech and harassment to reach large audiences, and for their negative effects to be amplified. The sheer amount of content shared online means that abuse and harm can only be tackled at scale with the help of computational tools. However, detecting and moderating online abuse and harms is a difficult task, with many technical, social, legal and ethical challenges.
The Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) invites paper submissions from a wide range of fields, including natural language processing, machine learning, computational social sciences, law, politics, psychology, sociology and cultural studies. We explicitly encourage interdisciplinary submissions, technical as well as non-technical submissions, and submissions that focus on under-resourced languages. We also invite non-archival submissions and civil society reports.
The topics covered by WOAH include, but are not limited to:
Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system. Submission link: https://softconf.com/acl2023/WOAH The workshop will accept three types of papers.
The author list for submissions must include all (and only) individuals who made substantial contributions to the work presented. No changes to the order or composition of authorship may be made after the paper submission deadline. Submissions will be reviewed by the Programme Committee. We have included a conflict of interest section in the submission form. When submitting, you should mark all potential reviewers who have been authors on the paper, are from the same research group or institution, or who have seen versions of this paper or discussed it with you.
We are not enforcing any anonymity period.
The workshop allows for multiple submissions. Work that has been presented, or will be presented, at other venues may also be submitted as non-archival. This includes work that will be presented at the ACL 2023 main conference, or is accepted in Findings of ACL.
Please send any questions about the workshop to organizers@workshopononlineabuse.com