Working on the diversity section. Do you
believe it is best to use their suggested subsections? - in which case, we are weak on the third point, "diversifying participation" (which states: "providing mentoring, subsidies, coordinating with affinity groups, diversifying the selection of papers,
and so
on"). Or is it better to make it one long paragraph instead, like last time but extended?
I'm copying their instructions below:
6 Diversity and Inclusion
The proposals should describe potential ways in
which the workshop will support diversity in NLP.
We suggest organizers consider the following points,
while developing the proposal:
Contribution to academic diversity: The pro-
posals could explain how the subject matter of the
workshop will contribute to the diversity of the field,
e.g. use of multilingual data, indications of how the
described methods scale up to various languages
or domains, accessibility of resources, supporting
underrepresented communities of NLP and so on.
Diversifying representation: Following the
WiNLP initiative, we recognize the current prob-
lems of demographic imbalance in the field. There-
fore, we particularly encourage submissions includ-
ing members of under-represented groups in compu-
tational linguistics. The proposals should describe
how their selection of invited speakers, panelists, or-
ganizers, and program committee promotes diverse
representation (for example, considering underrep-
resented demographics based on gender, ethnicity,
nationality, and so on). We also suggest including
speakers and panelists, who have not appeared as a
keynote speaker or panelist in recent conferences.
Diversifying participation: The proposals could
describe how the call-for-papers and outreach will
encourage people from marginalized groups to at-
tend and submit to the workshop, e.g. providing
mentoring, subsidies, coordinating with affinity
groups, diversifying the selection of papers and so
on.