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EMNLP 2015: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
September 17-21, 2015
Lisbon, Portugal
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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SIGDAT, the Association for Computational Linguistics' special
interest group on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP,
invites participation to EMNLP 2015, the 20th conference on Empirical
Methods in Natural Language Processing.
The conference will be held on September 17-21 2015 in Lisbon,
Portugal. The conference will consist of three days of full paper
presentations with two days of workshops and tutorials.
Conference URL: http://www.emnlp2015.org
The conference web site will include updated information on all EMNLP
2015 issues, especially regarding registration, traveling, program,
venue, etc. Check also our conference FAQ
http://www.emnlp2015.org/local.html
Please join us at EMNLP 2015!
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We are excited to announce the following news about EMNLP 2015:
MAIN CONFERENCE PROGRAM
The main conference will take place on September 19-21, 2015. The
selection was competitive this year. We accepted a little more than
300 papers from 1300+ submission (with an acceptance rate of 24%).
The program will be announced shortly. The list of accepted papers
is available at: http://www.emnlp2015.org/accepted-papers.html
We have a great line-up of invited speakers:
Deep Learning of Semantic Representations
Yoshua Bengio, Université de Montréal
Measuring How Elected Officials and Constituents Communicate
Justin Grimmer, Stanford University
More details at: http://www.emnlp2015.org/invited-speakers.html
STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS
EMNLP 2015 is offering 8-10 grants for students to support travel and
registration expenses. Application deadline is August 26.
Apply now at: www.emnlp2015.org/student-scholarship.html
TUTORIALS
For the second time, EMNLP will feature tutorials. The following eight
tutorials will take place on September 17-18, 2015:
Semantic Similarity Frontiers: From Concepts to Documents
David Jurgens and Mohammad Taher Pilehvar
Personality Research for NLP
Yair Neuman
Transparent Machine Learning for Information Extraction:
State-of-the-Art and the Future
Laura Chiticariu, Yunyao Li and Frederick Reiss
Knowledge Acquisition for Web Search
Marius Pasca
Learning Semantic Relations from Text
Preslav Nakov, Vivi Nastase, Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha and Stan Szpakowicz
Applications of Social Media Text Analysis
Atefeh Farzindar and Diana Inkpen
Robust Semantic Analysis of Multiword Expressions with FrameNet
Miriam R. L. Petruck and Valia Kordoni
Computational Analysis of Affect and Emotion in Language
Saif Mohammad and Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm
More info on the tutorials: http://www.emnlp2015.org/tutorials.html
WORKSHOPS
EMNLP 2015 will host the following one or two-day workshops during
September 17-18, 2015:
WMT15 — Tenth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Ondřej Bojar, Christian Federmann, Barry Haddow, Chris Hokamp,
Matthias Huck, Pavel Pecina, Philipp Koehn, Christof Monz, Matteo
Negri, Matt Post, Caroline Scarton, Lucia Specia, Marco Turchi
WASSA 2015 — 6th Workshop on Computational Approaches to
Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis
Alexandra Balahur, Erik van der Goot, Piek Vossen, Andres Montoyo
DiscoMT'15 — Discourse in Machine Translation
Bonnie Webber, Marine Carpuat, Andrei Popescu-Belis
Louhi 2015 — The Sixth International Workshop on Health Text Mining
and Information Analysis
Cyril Grouin, Thierry Hamon, Aurélie Névéol, Pierre Zweigenbaum
LSDSem — Computational Semantics: Linking Lexical, Sentential and
Discourse-level Models
Michael Roth, Annie Louis, Bonnie Webber, Tim Baldwin
CogACLL 2015 — Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Learning
Robert Berwick, Anna Korhonen, Alessandro Lenci, Thierry Poibeau,
Aline Villavicencio
VL'15 — Vision and Language 2015 (VL)
Anja Belz, Luisa Coheur, Vittorio Ferrari, Marie-Francine Moens,
Katerina Pastra, Ivan Vulić
More info including dates and links to workshops:
http://www.emnlp2015.org/workshops.html
REGISTRATION
The registration is now open. Information on registration fee and
early-bid fee is available at: http://www.emnlp2015.org/registration.html
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Chair
Lluís Màrquez, Qatar Computing Research Institute
Program co-Chairs
Chris Callison-Burch, University of Pennsylvania
Jian Su, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R)
Program committee:
http://www.emnlp2015.org/organization.html#pc
Workshops co-Chairs
Zornitsa Kozareva, Yahoo! Labs
Jörg Tiedemann, Uppsala University
Tutorial co-Chairs
Maggie Li, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Khalil Sima'an, University of Amsterdam
Publication co-Chairs
Daniele Pighin, Google Inc.
Yuval Marton, Microsoft Corp.
Publicity Chair
Barbara Plank, University of Copenhagen
Sponsorship Team
João Graça, Unbabel Inc. (Sponsorship Chair)
Hang Li, Huawei Technologies (ISC Representative for EMNLP)
SIGDAT Liaison
Noah Smith, Carnegie Mellon University
Local co-Chairs
André Martins, Priberam
João Graça, Unbabel Inc.
Local Organization Committee:
http://www.emnlp2015.org/organization.html#local
CONTACT
contact [at] emnlp2015.org
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