# of submissions					% of submissions
area	paper+ poster	%	Accepted as Paper	Rejected	Accepted as Poster	Accepted	Rejected	Poster	avg submission score
inference, pragmatics, semantics incl. textual entailment, semantic role labeling	41	6.66	9	23	9	0.22	0.56	0.22	2.73
machine translation; multilinguality	72	11.69	19	39	14	0.26	0.54	0.19	2.74
language resources, corpus annotation	29	4.71	6	14	9	0.21	0.48	0.31	2.87
lexical semantics (not incl. wsd)	24	3.90	7	9	8	0.29	0.38	0.33	3.11
grammars/formal syntax;psych models	19	3.08	7	9	3	0.37	0.47	0.16	2.98
coreference, discourse, dialog, prosody and multi-modality	40	6.49	11	20	9	0.28	0.50	0.23	3.04
speech and language modeling	41	6.66	9	22	10	0.22	0.54	0.24	2.77
text classification incl. sentiment analysis	35	5.68	7	24	4	0.20	0.69	0.11	2.59
phonology, word segmentation, morphology; POS tagging, chunking	30	4.87	5	17	8	0.17	0.57	0.27	2.53
question answering	20	3.25	6	13	1	0.30	0.65	0.05	2.75
parsing	46	7.47	15	18	13	0.33	0.39	0.28	2.94
word sense disambiguation	28	4.55	6	15	7	0.21	0.54	0.25	2.75
(other) NLP applications	23	3.73	8	11	4	0.35	0.48	0.17	2.94
machine learning methods	36	5.84	8	19	9	0.22	0.53	0.25	2.61
generation	11	1.79	4	5	2	0.36	0.45	0.18	2.97
summarization	21	3.41	4	12	5	0.19	0.57	0.24	2.69
Asian languages	25	4.06	4	16	5	0.16	0.64	0.20	2.39
IR	22	3.57	2	16	4	0.09	0.73	0.18	2.44
information extraction	53	8.60	11	27	15	0.21	0.51	0.28	2.55
	616	100.00	148	329	139	0.24	0.53	0.23	2.76