Apologies if you have received multiple copies of this announcement ========================================================= ========================================================= ACL 2010 NEWSLETTER NO. 2 (February 19, 2010) ========================================================= ========================================================= ========================================================= :: Important Dates ========================================================= System demonstration paper submission deadline: February 22, 2010 No extensions will be granted. Tutorials: July 11, 2010 Main conference: July 12-14, 2010 Workshops: July 15-16, 2010 ========================================================= :: Table of Contents ========================================================= 1. ACL 2010 in Uppsala, Sweden 2. Organising Committee 3. Main Conference Papers 4. Student Research Workshop 5. Tutorials 6. System Demonstations 7. Workshops 8. Mentoring Service 9. Recommended Accomodation 10. Sponsorship 11. Newsletter No. 3 ========================================================= :: 1. ACL 2010 in Uppsala, Sweden ========================================================= The 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics will be held in Uppsala, Sweden, July 11-16, 2010. The conference will be organized by the Department of Linguistics and Philology at Uppsala University. The conference will take place at Uppsala University Campus in a genuine university environment, dating back as far as 1477. The city also holds a rich history, having for long periods been the political, religious and academic center of Sweden. The proximity to the capital, Stockholm, provides additional benefits as a potential site for arranging both pre- and post-conference tours, as well as for excursions or tourism during the conference. The city of Uppsala is easy to reach by plane, train or car. ========================================================= :: 2. Organising Committee ========================================================= General Chair: Jan Hajič Program Chairs: Sandra Carberry and Stephen Clark Local Arrangements Chair: Joakim Nivre Workshop Chair: Pushpak Bhattacharyia and David Weir Tutorial Chair: Lluís Màrquez and Haifeng Wang (王海峰) System Demonstrations Chair: Sandra Kübler Student Research Workshop Chairs: Seniz Demir, Jan Raab, Nils Reiter, and Tomek Strzalkowski (faculty advisor) Publications: Jing-Shin Chang (張景新) and Philipp Koehn Mentoring Service: Björn Gambäck and Diana McCarthy Sponsorship Chairs: Stephen Pulman (Europe), Frédérique Segond (Europe), Srinivas Bangalore (Americas), Christy Doran (Americas), Hercules Dalianis (local), and Mats Wirén (local) Publicity Chairs: Koenraad de Smedt and Beáta Megyesi Exhibition Chair: Jörg Tiedemann Local Arrangement Committee: Joakim Nivre (chair), Beáta Megyesi (vice chair), Rolf Carlson, Mats Dahllöf, Marco Kuhlmann, Mattias Nilsson, Markus Saers, Anna Sågvall Hein, Per Starbäck, Jörg Tiedemann, Oscar Täckström Local Organizing Secretariat: Academic Conferences ========================================================= :: 3. Main Conference Papers ========================================================= Program Co-Chairs: Sandra Carberry (University of Delaware, USA) Stephen Clark (University of Cambridge, UK) Important Dates: Notification of acceptance: April 20, 2010 Camera ready papers due: May 16, 2010 http://acl2010.org/papers.html ========================================================= :: 4. Student Research Workshop ========================================================= Student Research Workshop Co-Chairs: Seniz Demir (University of Delaware, USA) Jan Raab (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic) Nils Reiter (Heidelberg University, Germany) Tomek Strzalkowski (Faculty Advisor) (State University of New York, Albany, USA) Important Dates: Notification of acceptance: April 12, 2010 Camera ready papers due: May 10, 2010 http://acl2010.org/srw.html Funding for Travel Funding is available to assist student participants with travel to Uppsala and conference expenses. Students whose papers are accepted for presentation at the workshop are eligible for travel assistance based on need. Further details will be provided along with the acceptance letters; however, in general a flat rate stipend will be awarded with the amount depending upon the student's location. Sponsors: Student Research Workshop is being generously supported by National Science Foundation, ACL Walker Student Fund, and The European Chapter of the ACL (EACL). ========================================================= :: 5. Tutorials ========================================================= Tutorial Co-Chairs: Lluís Màrquez (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain) Haifeng Wang (王海峰) (Baidu.com Inc., China) Tutorials will be held on Sunday, July 11, 2010 and the following tutorials will be offered: T1: Annotation Presenter: Eduard Hovy T2: From Structured Prediction to Inverse Reinforcement Learning Presenter: Hal Daumé III T3: Wide-Coverage NLP with Linguistically Expressive Grammars Presenters: Josef van Genabith, Julia Hockenmaier and Yusuke Miyao T4: Semantic Parsing: The Task, the State of the Art and the Future Presenter: Rohit J. Kate and Yuk Wah Wong T5: Tree-based and Forest-based Translation Presenters: Yang Liu and Liang Huang T6: Discourse Structure: Theory, Practice and Use Presenters: Bonnie Webber, Markus Egg and Valia Kordoni http://acl2010.org/tutorials.html ========================================================= :: 6. System Demonstrations: Final Call for Papers ========================================================= System Demonstrations Chair: Sandra Kübler (Indiana University, USA) ACL 2010: ***MODIFIED*** FINAL Call for System Demonstrations In order to make the reviewing procedure consistent with that for NAACL, the call needed to be changed. Reviewing will *not* be blind. Consequently, the submission must contain author information. The full modified call, with instructions on how to submit, can be read at: http://acl2010.org/demos.html The deadline for submissions is February 22, 2010 (11:59pm Pacific Standard Time). ========================================================= :: 7. Workshops ========================================================= Workshop Co-Chairs: Pushpak Bhattacharyia (Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India) David Weir (University of Sussex, United Kingdom) The following 13 workshops will be held at ACL 2010: WS1: SemEval-2010: 5th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations Chairs: Katrin Erk, Carlo Strapparava WS2: Fifth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and MetricsMATR Chairs: Chris Callison-Burch, Philipp Koehn, Christof Monz, Kay Peterson WS3: The 4th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (The LAW IV) Chairs: Nianwen Xue, Massimo Poesio WS4: BioNLP2010 Chairs: K. Bretonnel Cohen, Dina Demner-Fushman, Sophia Ananiadou, John Pestian, Jun'ichi Tsujii, Bonnie Webber WS5: Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics Chairs: John Hale WS6: NLP and Linguistics: Finding the Common Ground Chairs: Lori Levin, William Lewis, Fei Xia WS7: 11th Meeting of ACL-SIGMORPHON Chairs: Jeffrey Heinz, Lynne Cahill and Richard Wicentowski WS8: TextGraphs-5: Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing Chairs: Carmen Banea, Alessandro Moschitti, Swapna Somasundaran, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto WS9: Named Entities Workshop (NEWS 2010) Chairs: A Kumaran and Haizhou Li WS10: Applications of Tree Automata in Natural Language Processing Chairs: Frank Drewes, Marco Kuhlmann WS11: Domain Adaptation for Natural Language Processing (DANLP) Chairs: Hal Daume III, Tejaswini Deoskar, David McClosky, Barbara Plank, Jörg Tiedemann WS12: Companionable Dialogue Systems Chairs: Yorick Wilks, Morena Danieli, Björn Gambäck WS13: GEMS-2010 Geometric Models of Natural Language Semantics Chairs: Roberto Basili and Marco Pennacchiotti ========================================================= :: 8. Mentoring Service ========================================================= ACL is providing a mentoring (coaching) service for authors from regions of the world where English is less emphasized as a language of scientific exchange. Many authors from these regions, although able to read the scientific literature in English, have little or no experience in writing papers in English for conferences such as the ACL meetings. The service will be arranged as follows. A set of potential mentors will be identified by Mentoring Service Chairs Björn Gambäck (SICS, Sweden and NTNU, Norway) and Diana McCarthy (Lexical Computing Ltd., UK), who will organize this service for ACL 2010. If you would like to take advantage of the service for a submission to the main conference, to the Student Research Workshop, to the system demonstration session, or to one of the workshops, please upload your paper in PDF format using the paper submission software for the mentoring service available at: https://www.softconf.com/acl2010/acl2010mentor/ The deadline for the mentoring service is six weeks before the respective submission deadline. An appropriate mentor will be assigned to your paper and the mentor will get back to you no later than two weeks before the submission deadline. Please note that this service is for the benefit of the authors as described above. It is not a general mentoring service for authors to improve the technical content of their papers. Questions about the mentoring service should be referred to mentoring@acl2010.org. ========================================================= :: 9. Recommended Accommodation ========================================================= Reservation of accommodation is open. Book before May 20 to take advantage of the lower prices! http://acl2010.org/accommodation.html Registration will open early May. ========================================================= :: 10. Sponsorship ========================================================= ACL 2010 very gratedully acknowledges the following committments in sponsorship: GSLT - Swedish National Graduate School of Language Technology - Gold Sponsor CELI - Language & Information Technology - Silver Sponsor City of Uppsala - Silver Sponsor Esteam - Silver Sponsor Google - Silver Sponsor IBM Research - Sponsor of Best Paper Student Award Language Weaver - Conference Bag Sponsor Anyone interested in becoming a sponsor or finding out more about sponsorship opportunities is encouraged to contact the sponsorship chairs: sponsorship@acl2010.org Stephen Pulman (Europe) Frederique Segond (Europe) Srinivas Bangalore (Americas) Christy Doran (Americas) Hercules Dalianis (local) Mats Wirén (local) ========================================================= :: 11. Newsletter No. 3 ========================================================= ACL Newsletter No. 3 will be published in April.