Vaishnavi Pamulapati, Dual Degree – Computational Linguistics, working under the supervision of Dr. Radhika Mamidi virtually presented a paper on A Novel Annotation Schema for Conversational Humor: Capturing the cultural nuances in Kanyasulkam at the Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW), co-located with 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING) – main conference. The workshop was on 12 December and the conference was from 8 –  13 December. The authors of this paper are Vaishnavi Pamulapati, Dr. Radhika Mamidi and Gayatri Purigilla, Dual Degree – Computational Linguistics, .

Linguistic annotation of natural language corpora is the backbone of supervised methods of statistical natural language processing. The Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW) is the annual workshop of the ACL Special Interest Group on Annotation (SIGANN), and it provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of innovative research on all aspects of linguistic annotation, including the creation and evaluation of annotation schemes, methods for automatic and manual annotation, use and evaluation of annotation software and frameworks, representation of linguistic data and annotations, semi-supervised “human in the loop” methods of annotation, crowd-sourcing approaches, and more. As in the past, the LAW  provided a forum for annotation researchers to work towards standardization, best practices, and interoperability of annotation information and software. This year’s special theme was Breaking the Mold, promoting novel or less studied types of annotations and data.