The 2012 Annual Meeting of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT 2012) will be held in Montreal, Canada, June 3-8, 2012 (http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/).
The Tutorial Program will be held on June 3, 2012 and will contain the following tutorials:
June 3 Morning
T1 Processing Modality and Negation (Roser Morante, CLiPS - University of Antwerp, Belgium)
T2 Structured Sparsity in Natural Language Processing: Models, Algorithms and Applications (André F. T. Martins, Mário A. T. Figueiredo, and Noah A. Smith)
T3 Arabic Dialect Processing Tutorial (Mona Diab and Nizar Habash)
T4 Natural Language Processing in Watson (Alfio M. Gliozzo, Aditya Kalyanpur, James Fan)
June 3, Afternoon
T5 Variational Inference for Structured NLP Models (David Burkett, Dan Klein)
T6 100 Things You Always Wanted to Know about Linguistics But Were Afraid to Ask (Emily M. Bender)
T7 On-Demand Distributional Semantic Distance and Paraphrasing (Yuval Marton)
T8 Predicting Structures in NLP: Constrained Conditional Models and Integer Linear Programming for NLP (Dan Goldwasser, Vivek Srikumar, Dan Roth)
For more information please check http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/conference/tutorials.php.
Tutorials Co-Chairs:
Jacob Eisenstein, Georgia Tech
Radu Florian, IBM Research