ACL-COLING'06 tutorial chair report Claire Gardent 1. Report In response to the CFP, I received 20 tutorial proposals covering the areas of statistical NLP (7 proposals), Arabic Processing (1 proposal), Grammars and parsing (3 proposals), Data Mining (1 proposals), Semantic Processing (5 proposals)and Multimodal Processing (3 proposals). The decision criteria used to select 5 among these 20 proposals were the following : -- at most one tutorial per thematic -- tutorials which have been/will be given recently in ACL related conferences were dispreferred -- experienced teachers and people for which I had some evidence that they were good speakers/teachers were preferred. The reviewing process resulted in the acceptance of 5 proposals namely: T1. Synchronous Grammars and Tree Automata David Chiang (USC/Information Sciences Institute) and Kevin Knight (USC/Information Sciences Institute) T2. Dependency Parsing Joakim Nivre (School of Mathematics and Systems Engineering) and Sandra K.AN|bler (University of TN|bingen) T3. Discourse Annotation: Discourse Connectives and Discourse Relations Aravind Joshi, Rashmi Prasad and Bonnie Webber T4. Multimodal Language Processing Michael Johnston and Srinivas Bangalore, (AT&T Labs--Research) T5. Mining Unstructured Data Ronen Feldman (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) T5 was cancelled by the tutorial giver in June so that in effect, the final tutorial program consisted of 4 tutorials. As of June 4th, registrations for tutorials were as follows: T1 32 T2 39 T3 13 T4 10 T5 27 (cancelled, not yet distributed) 2. Calendar November 4 - First CFP December 5 - Second CFP January 5 - Submission deadline for tutorial proposals January 20 - Notification of acceptance April 10 - Tutorial descriptions due June 18 - Tutorial course material due July 16 - Tutorial date