Call for Papers for the Special Track on AI for Social Impact
- Submission Site
- AAAI 2021 Author Kit
(Use of the files in the 2021 kit is required.)
- Data collection may be difficult and may require innovative methods and validations, for instance, to address large-scale data gathering in the field, eliminate bias and ensure fairness;
- Problem modeling is a time-intensive activity that requires significant collaborations with domain experts and needs to balance a variety of tradeoffs in decision making;
- Social impact may be realized through time-consuming field studies that typically compare a baseline with the application of novel algorithms in the real world, and the experimental design can be challenging and the evaluation may be multifaceted.
4. The social impact problem considered by this paper is significant and has not been adequately addressed by the AI community.
3. This paper represents a new take on a significant social impact problem that has been considered in the AI community before
2. The social impact problem considered by this paper has some significance and this paper represents a new take on the problem
1. This paper’s contribution was elsewhere: it follows up on an existing problem formulation or introduces a new problem with limited immediate potential for social impact
4. Shows an excellent understanding of other literature on the problem, including that outside computer science
3. Shows a strong understanding of other literature on the problem, perhaps focusing on various subtopics or on the CS literature
2. Shows a moderate understanding of other literature on the topic, but does not engage in depth
1. Does not engage sufficiently with other literature on the topic
4. Introduces a new model, data gathering technique, algorithm, and/or data analysis technique
3. Substantially improves upon an existing model, data gathering technique, algorithm, and/or data analysis technique
2. Makes a moderate improvement to an existing model, data gathering technique, algorithm, and/or data analysis technique
1. This paper’s contribution was elsewhere: it employs existing models, data gathering techniques, algorithms, and/or data analysis technique (e.g., the paper presents a new experimental design and evaluation procedure).
4. Thoroughly and convincingly justifies the approach taken, explaining strengths and weaknesses as compared to other alternatives
3. The justification of the approach is convincing overall, but could have been more thorough and/or alternatives could have been considered in more detail
2. The justification of the approach is relatively convincing, but has weaknesses
1. The justification of the approach is flawed and/or not convincing
4. Evaluation was exemplary: data described the real world and was analyzed thoroughly
3. Evaluation was convincing: datasets were realistic; analysis was solid
2. Evaluation was adequate, but had significant flaws: datasets were unrealistic and/or analysis was insufficient
1. Evaluation was unconvincing
4. Excellent facilitation of follow-up work: open-source code; public datasets; and a very clear description of how to use these elements in practice
3. Strong facilitation of follow-up work: some elements are shared publicly (data, code, or a running system) and little effort would be required to replicate the results or apply them to a new domain
2. Adequate facilitation of follow-up work: moderate effort would be required to replicate the results or apply them to a new domain
1. Weak facilitation of follow-up work: considerable effort would be required to replicate the results or apply them to a new domain
4. Likelihood of social impact is extremely high: the paper’s ideas are already being used in practice or could be immediately
3. Likelihood of social impact is high: relatively little effort would be required to put this paper’s ideas into practice, at least for a pilot study
2. Likelihood of social impact is moderate: this paper gets us closer to its goal, but considerably more work would be required before the paper’s ideas could be implemented in practice
1. Likelihood of social impact is low: the ideas proposed in this paper are unlikely to make a significant impact on the proposed problem
- Two-Phase Reviewing
- NeurIPS and EMNLP Fast Track Submissions into Phase 2
- Author Registration
- Call for Reviewers
- Abstract and Paper Submission
- Guidelines for Changes to Titles/Authors after Submissions
- Blind Review Instructions
- Policy Concerning Multiple Submissions to Conferences or Journals
- Citation and Comparison
- Supplementary Material
- Technical Appendix
- Multimedia Appendix
- Code & Data Appendix
- Appendix for Resubmissions of Substantially Improved, Previously Rejected Submissions
- Reproducibility Guidelines
- Ethics Policy
- Final Paper Publication
- Conference Registration and Attendance
Fei Fang (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Eric Sodomka (Facebook Research, USA)
AI for Social Impact Keywords
- AISI: Agriculture/Food
- AISI: Assistive Technology for Well-being
- AISI: Computational Social Science
- AISI: Education
- AISI: Economic/Financial
- AISI: Energy
- AISI: Environmental Sustainability
- AISI: Health
- AISI: Humanities
- AISI: Low and middle-income countries
- AISI: Mobility/Transportation
- AISI: Natural Sciences
- AISI: Networks and Social Networks
- AISI: Philosophical and Ethical Issues
- AISI: Security and Privacy
- AISI: Social development
- AISI: Social Welfare, Justice, Fairness and Equality
- AISI: Urban Planning
- AISI: Underserved communities
- AISI: Web
- AISI: Other Social Impact
Timetable for Authors
Note: all deadlines are “anywhere on earth” (UTC-12)
- August 15, 2020: AAAI web site open for author registration
- September 1, 2020: Abstracts due at 11:59 PM UTC-12
- September 9, 2020: Full papers due at 11:59 PM UTC-12
- September 16, 2020: Supplementary material and code due by 11:59 PM UTC-12
- September 29, 2020: Abstracts AND full papers for NeurIPS/EMNLP fasttrack submissions due by 11:59 PM UTC-12
- October 6, 2020: Supplementary material and code for NeurIPS/EMNLP fasttrack submissions due by 11:59 PM UTC-12
- October 13: Notification of Phase 1 rejections
- November 3-5, 2020: Author feedback window
- December 1, 2020: Notification of final acceptance or rejection
- December 15, 2020: Submission of paper preprints for inclusion in electronic conference materials
- February 2-9, 2021: AAAI 2021
- March 2, 2021: Submission of archival versions of papers for publication in the AAAI digital library
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