Report on the NAACL Conference Human Language Technologies, 2007
Submitted by Candy Sidner, General Chair for the conference 


NAACL's annual conference for 2007, Human Language Technologies 2007 was held in 
Rochester, N.Y. from April 22 through April 27, 2007 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel.  
Just under 500  people attended the conference.  


There were 298 papers submitted to the meeting and 72 accepted, with 150 late 
breaking (short) papers submitted and 55 accepted.  In addition, 16 demos were 
also given during the main conference.  The 21 member organizing committee was 
chosen with representatives of all three sub-areas for NLP, IR and Speech.  The 
program committee chairs were Tanja Shultz, ChengXiang Zhai, Matthew Stone.  The 
program chairs were supported by a senior program committee of 30 people and a 
program committee of 312 people to review the long and short papers.  The full 
organizing committee, senior program committee and program committee can be found 
in the conference proceedings, which have been online at 
http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/N/N07/N07-1000.pdf since shortly before the conference.  


On April 22, the Doctoral consortium took place with 10 student papers and panels 
accompanying the presentations of each pair of papers. Also on April 22, four 
tutorials were held, and on April 26/27, there were 5 workshops.


The conference had several sponsors: the Eastman Kodak company, Microsoft 
Research, Powerset, Thomson, the Association For Machine Translation in the 
Americas, IBM, and Language Weaver.


Our organizing committee had some signficant difficulties with the publication 
software.  A full report will be provided after Memorial Day.  The pc chairs also 
thought that having three chairs was somewhat unwieldy.  One option would be to 
have  a pc general chair and 2 associate chairs (representing whichever 2 areas 
were not the area of the pc general chair).