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2015Q1 Reports: ACL 2015

2015-02-17T13:35:20Z

GerthanNoord:

ACL-IJCNLP 2015 - report by Gertjan van Noord

[[coordinating committee]]

Dragomir Radev (ACL secr) radev@umich.edu

Graeme Hirst (ACL treas) gh@cs.toronto.edu

Gertjan van Noord (ACL past president in 2015) g.j.m.van.noord@rug.nl

Priscilla Rasmussen (ACL business officer) acl@aclweb.org

Jian Su (ACL board) sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg

Keh-Yih Su (AFNLP president) kysu@bdc.com.tw bdc.kysu@gmail.com

Haizhou Li (AFNLP secretary) hli@i2r.a-star.edu.sg

Gary Geunbae Lee (AFNLP treasurer) gblee@postech.ac.kr

Kam-Fai Wong (AFNLP) kfwong@se.cuhk.edu.hk (per July 2014)

[[relevant facts]]

email alias for this committee: acl15cc@aclweb.org

domain name: acl2015.org; website is up at [http://www.acl2015.org/index.html]

location: Beijing, China National Convention Center

Site visit: by Graeme, Yuji, Priscilla. Contracts have been signed.

dates: July 26-31, 2015

[[Organizing committee]]

'''General Chair'''

Yuji Matsumoto, Nara Institute of Science and Technology

'''PC Co-Chairs'''

Chengqing Zong, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Michael Strube, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies

'''Local Arrangement Chairs'''

Le Sun, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Yang Liu, Tsinghua University

'''Workshop Co-Chairs'''

Hang Li, Huawei

Sebastian Riedel, University College London

'''Tutorial Co-Chairs'''

Kevin Duh, Nara Institute of Science and Technology

Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country

'''Demo Co-Chairs'''

Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University

Katja Markert, University of Leeds

'''Publications Chairs'''

Wanxiang Che, Harbin Institute of Technology

Guodong Zhou, Suzhou University

'''Student Research Workshop Faculty Advisors'''

Stephan Oepen, University of Oslo

Chin-Yew Lin, Microsoft Research Asia

Emily Bender, University of Washington

'''Student Chairs (Student Research Workshop)'''

Kuan-Yu Chen, National Taiwan University

Angelina Ivanova, University of Oslo

Ellie Pavlick, University of Pennsylvania

'''Mentoring Chair'''

Francis Bond, Nanyang Technological University

'''Publicity Co-Chairs'''

Xianpei Han, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Kang Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences

'''Sponsorship Co-Chairs'''

Yiqun Liu, Tsinghua University

two more to be appointed

[[Program Committee]]

The following points show the current status of PC:

1) All area chairs have been fixed. Please see the attachement. And all area chairs recruited reviewers aready. We are ready to process submissions.

2) CFP has been made and uploaded on the conference web page ([http://acl2015.org/call_for_papers.html]).

3) The START system for papers has been set up and it works well now. We have received 32 submissions, but 3 submissions were withdrawn.

4) We are considering to invite keynote speakers now and over 10 candidates are listed.

Generally, everything on PC issue is well prepared.

[[Area chairs for ACL-IJCNLP 2015]]

''Discourse, Coreference and Pragmatics (2)''

Pascal Denis, pascal.denis@inria.fr

Marta Recasens, recasens@google.com

''Information Retrieval (1)''

Jian-Yun Nie, nie@iro.umontreal.ca

''Information Extraction and Text Mining (3)''

Razvan Bunescu, bunescu@ohio.edu

Mausam, mausam@cse.iitd.ac.in

Steven Bethard, bethard@cis.uab.edu

''Language and Vision (1)''

John Kelleher, john.d.kelleher@dit.ie

''Language Resources and Evaluation (2)''

Rashmi Prasad, prasadr@uwm.edu

Jin-Dong Kim jdkim@dbcls.rois.ac.jp

''Lexical Semantics and Ontology (2)''

Qin Lu, csluqin@comp.polyu.edu.hk, csluqin@yahoo.com

Zornitsa Kozareva, zornitsa@kozareva.com

''Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Aspects of CL (1)''

Suzanne Stevenson, suzanne@cs.toronto.edu

''Machine Learning and Topic Models for Language Processing (3)''

Daichi Mochihashi, daichi@ism.ac.jp,daichi.mochihashi@gmail.com

Eric Xing, epxing@cs.cmu.edu

Regina Barzilay, regina@csail.mit.edu

''Machine Translation and Multilinguality (4)''

Fei Huang, feirhuang@gmail.com

Taro Watanabe taro.watanabe@nict.go.jp

Min Zhang, minzhang@suda.edu.cn

Stephan Vogel, svogel@qf.org.qa

''NLP Applications and NLP-enabled Technology (2)''

Joel Tetreault, tetreaul@gmail.com

Srinivas Bangalore srini@research.att.com

''NLP for the Web and Social Media (2)''

Shou-De Lin, sdlin@csie.ntu.edu.tw

Alice Oh, alice.oh@kaist.edu

''Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation (2)''

Greg Kondrak, gkondrak@ualberta.ca

Jianfeng Gao jfgao@microsoft.com

''Question Answering (1)''

James Fan fanj@us.ibm.com

''Semantics (3)''

Chris Biemann, biemann@ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de

Raquel Fernandez, raquel.fernandez@uva.nl

Tom Kwiatkowski tom.kwiat@gmail.com

''Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining (2)''

Jing Jiang, jingjiang@smu.edu.sg

Lun-Wei Ku, lwku@iis.sinica.edu.tw

''Spoken Language Processing, Dialogue and Interactive Systems, and Multimodal NLP (2)''

David Schlangen, david.schlangen@uni-bielefeld.de

Julia Hirschberg julia@cs.columbia.edu

''Summarization and Generation (2)''

Xiaojun Wan, wanxiaojun@pku.edu.cn

Mirella Lapata, mlap@inf.ed.ac.uk

''Tagging, Chunking, Syntax and Parsing (3)''

Yusuke Miyao, yusuke@nii.ac.jp

Anders Soegaard, soegaard@hum.ku.dk

Mark Dras, mark.dras@mq.edu.au

[[Workshops]]

15 workshops are accepted: One two-day workshop (SIGHAN)
and 14 one-day workshops.

'''List of workshop'''s ([http://www.acl2015.org/workshops.html]):

SRW, ACL Student Research Workshop 2015

'''Two-day Workshops (July 30 and 31)'''

SIGHAN, Eighth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing

'''Single-day Workshops (July 30)'''

ArabicNLP, Arabic Natural Language Processing

GEAF, Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks (GEAF 2015)

BUCC, Eighth Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora

S2MT, Semantics-Driven Statistical Machine Translation: Theory and Practice

Keyphrase, Novel Computational Approaches to Keyphrase Extraction

SIGHUM LaTeCH, SIGHUM Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities

BioNLP, BioNLP 2015

'''Single-day Workshops (July 31)'''

NEWS, Named Entities Workshop (NEWS 2015)

CVSC, Third Workshop on Continuous Vector Space Models and their Compositionality

HyTra, Fourth Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation

LDL, Fourth Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics: Resources and Applications

WNUT, Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2015)

NLP-TEA, The 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications

NewsStory, The First Workshop on Computing News Storylines

[[Tutorials]]

Yuji informs us: "The notification of acceptance date has already passed,
and I am asking the chairs how many and what tutorials have
been accepted. I will update this information as soon as I receive it."

[[System Demonstration]]

The schedule is confirmed and placed in the acl-ijcnlp 2015 website.
Call: http://www.acl2015.org/call_for_system_demonstrations.html
33 members have agreed to join into committee for system demonstration.

[[Student Research Workshop]]

The schedule has been fixed and the information has been updated on the web page:
https://sites.google.com/site/acl2015srw/
http://www.acl2015.org/organize.html

[[Sponsorship]]

Yuji: "The local sponsorship chair has already started
call-for-sponsorship to major Chinese IT/Net companies. I am trying
to find another international sponsorship committee member."

[[Local Organization]]

1) We already set up the ACL2015 website. http://www.acl2015.org/index.html

Add new CFP, and so on. If you have any suggestions for future update, please
send to us.

2) We have sent out the CFP worldwide, and to all the members of CIPS.

3) The local organizer, that is CIPS, has paid the first phrase deposits (about
25,000USD) to CNCC (conference venue).

4) We have already discussed with a few local companies for donations to sponsor
our conference.

5) We held a local arrangement committee meeting in the end of January.

Four new LC members added. Now the LC members are Le Sun (Co-Chair),
Yan g Liu (Co-Chair), Erhong Yang (Volunteer Co-Ordinator), Zhiyuan
Liu (Webmaster), Shumin Shi (AV and space management), Wenbin Jiang
(AV and space management), Dong Yu (Entertainment), and Yufeng Chen
(Registration). We have proposed several plans for the social event
and exec++ dinner. The LC will evaluate the proposed locations in
March. Discussion with sponsorship and publicity chairs. Publicity
chairs will help us edit the conference handbook.

6) We have contacted with Priscilla and will pull together an overall budget of
estimates costs in March.

[[also see]]

[http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Conference_planning_schedule]

2015Q1 Reports: ACL 2015

2015-02-17T13:27:32Z

GerthanNoord:

ACL-IJCNLP 2015 - report by Gertjan van Noord

[[coordinating committee]]

Dragomir Radev (ACL secr) radev@umich.edu

Graeme Hirst (ACL treas) gh@cs.toronto.edu

Gertjan van Noord (ACL past president in 2015) g.j.m.van.noord@rug.nl

Priscilla Rasmussen (ACL business officer) acl@aclweb.org

Jian Su (ACL board) sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg

Keh-Yih Su (AFNLP president) kysu@bdc.com.tw bdc.kysu@gmail.com

Haizhou Li (AFNLP secretary) hli@i2r.a-star.edu.sg

Gary Geunbae Lee (AFNLP treasurer) gblee@postech.ac.kr

Kam-Fai Wong (AFNLP) kfwong@se.cuhk.edu.hk (per July 2014)

[[relevant facts]]

email alias for this committee: acl15cc@aclweb.org

domain name: acl2015.org; website is up at [http://www.acl2015.org/index.html]

location: Beijing, China National Convention Center

Site visit: by Graeme, Yuji, Priscilla. Contracts have been signed.

dates: July 26-31, 2015

[[Organizing committee]]

'''General Chair'''

Yuji Matsumoto, Nara Institute of Science and Technology

'''PC Co-Chairs'''

Chengqing Zong, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Michael Strube, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies

'''Local Arrangement Chairs'''

Le Sun, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Yang Liu, Tsinghua University

'''Workshop Co-Chairs'''

Hang Li, Huawei

Sebastian Riedel, University College London

'''Tutorial Co-Chairs'''

Kevin Duh, Nara Institute of Science and Technology

Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country

'''Demo Co-Chairs'''

Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University

Katja Markert, University of Leeds

'''Publications Chairs'''

Wanxiang Che, Harbin Institute of Technology

Guodong Zhou, Suzhou University

'''Student Research Workshop Faculty Advisors'''

Stephan Oepen, University of Oslo

Chin-Yew Lin, Microsoft Research Asia

Emily Bender, University of Washington

'''Student Chairs (Student Research Workshop)'''

Kuan-Yu Chen, National Taiwan University

Angelina Ivanova, University of Oslo

Ellie Pavlick, University of Pennsylvania

'''Mentoring Chair'''

Francis Bond, Nanyang Technological University

'''Publicity Co-Chairs'''

Xianpei Han, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Kang Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences

'''Sponsorship Co-Chairs'''

Yiqun Liu, Tsinghua University

two more to be appointed

*** Program Committee

The following points show the current status of PC:

1) All area chairs have been fixed. Please see the attachement. And all area chairs recruited reviewers aready. We are ready to process submissions.

2) CFP has been made and uploaded on the conference web page ([http://acl2015.org/call_for_papers.html]).

3) The START system for papers has been set up and it works well now. We have received 32 submissions, but 3 submissions were withdrawn.

4) We are considering to invite keynote speakers now and over 10 candidates are listed.

Generally, everything on PC issue is well prepared.

[[Area chairs for ACL-IJCNLP 2015]]

Discourse, Coreference and Pragmatics (2)

* Pascal Denis, pascal.denis@inria.fr

* Marta Recasens, recasens@google.com

Information Retrieval (1)

* Jian-Yun Nie, nie@iro.umontreal.ca

Information Extraction and Text Mining (3)

* Razvan Bunescu, bunescu@ohio.edu

* Mausam, mausam@cse.iitd.ac.in

* Steven Bethard, bethard@cis.uab.edu

Language and Vision (1)

* John Kelleher, john.d.kelleher@dit.ie

Language Resources and Evaluation (2)

* Rashmi Prasad, prasadr@uwm.edu

* Jin-Dong Kim jdkim@dbcls.rois.ac.jp

Lexical Semantics and Ontology (2)

* Qin Lu, csluqin@comp.polyu.edu.hk, csluqin@yahoo.com

* Zornitsa Kozareva, zornitsa@kozareva.com

Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Aspects of CL (1)

* Suzanne Stevenson, suzanne@cs.toronto.edu

Machine Learning and Topic Models for Language Processing (3)

* Daichi Mochihashi, daichi@ism.ac.jp,daichi.mochihashi@gmail.com

* Eric Xing, epxing@cs.cmu.edu

* Regina Barzilay, regina@csail.mit.edu

Machine Translation and Multilinguality (4)

* Fei Huang, feirhuang@gmail.com

* Taro Watanabe taro.watanabe@nict.go.jp

* Min Zhang, minzhang@suda.edu.cn

* Stephan Vogel, svogel@qf.org.qa

NLP Applications and NLP-enabled Technology (2)

* Joel Tetreault, tetreaul@gmail.com

* Srinivas Bangalore srini@research.att.com

NLP for the Web and Social Media (2)

* Shou-De Lin, sdlin@csie.ntu.edu.tw

* Alice Oh, alice.oh@kaist.edu

Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation (2)

* Greg Kondrak, gkondrak@ualberta.ca

* Jianfeng Gao jfgao@microsoft.com

Question Answering (1)

* James Fan fanj@us.ibm.com

Semantics (3)

* Chris Biemann, biemann@ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de

* Raquel Fernandez, raquel.fernandez@uva.nl

* Tom Kwiatkowski tom.kwiat@gmail.com

Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining (2)

* Jing Jiang, jingjiang@smu.edu.sg

* Lun-Wei Ku, lwku@iis.sinica.edu.tw

Spoken Language Processing, Dialogue and Interactive Systems, and Multimodal NLP (2)

* David Schlangen, david.schlangen@uni-bielefeld.de

* Julia Hirschberg julia@cs.columbia.edu

Summarization and Generation (2)

* Xiaojun Wan, wanxiaojun@pku.edu.cn

* Mirella Lapata, mlap@inf.ed.ac.uk

Tagging, Chunking, Syntax and Parsing (3)

* Yusuke Miyao, yusuke@nii.ac.jp

* Anders Soegaard, soegaard@hum.ku.dk

* Mark Dras, mark.dras@mq.edu.au

[[Workshops]]

15 workshops are accepted: One two-day workshop (SIGHAN)
and 14 one-day workshops.

'''List of workshop'''s ([http://www.acl2015.org/workshops.html]):

SRW, ACL Student Research Workshop 2015

'''Two-day Workshops (July 30 and 31)'''

SIGHAN, Eighth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing

'''Single-day Workshops (July 30)'''

ArabicNLP, Arabic Natural Language Processing

GEAF, Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks (GEAF 2015)

BUCC, Eighth Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora

S2MT, Semantics-Driven Statistical Machine Translation: Theory and Practice

Keyphrase, Novel Computational Approaches to Keyphrase Extraction

SIGHUM LaTeCH, SIGHUM Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities

BioNLP, BioNLP 2015

'''Single-day Workshops (July 31)'''

NEWS, Named Entities Workshop (NEWS 2015)

CVSC, Third Workshop on Continuous Vector Space Models and their Compositionality

HyTra, Fourth Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation

LDL, Fourth Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics: Resources and Applications

WNUT, Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2015)

NLP-TEA, The 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications

NewsStory, The First Workshop on Computing News Storylines

[[Tutorials]]

Yuji informs us: "The notification of acceptance date has already passed,
and I am asking the chairs how many and what tutorials have
been accepted. I will update this information as soon as I receive it."

[[System Demonstration]]

The schedule is confirmed and placed in the acl-ijcnlp 2015 website.
Call: http://www.acl2015.org/call_for_system_demonstrations.html
33 members have agreed to join into committee for system demonstration.

[[Student Research Workshop]]

The schedule has been fixed and the information has been updated on the web page:
https://sites.google.com/site/acl2015srw/
http://www.acl2015.org/organize.html

[[Sponsorship]]

Yuji: "The local sponsorship chair has already started
call-for-sponsorship to major Chinese IT/Net companies. I am trying
to find another international sponsorship committee member."

[[Local Organization]]

1) We already set up the ACL2015 website. http://www.acl2015.org/index.html

Add new CFP, and so on. If you have any suggestions for future update, please
send to us.

2) We have sent out the CFP worldwide, and to all the members of CIPS.

3) The local organizer, that is CIPS, has paid the first phrase deposits (about
25,000USD) to CNCC (conference venue).

4) We have already discussed with a few local companies for donations to sponsor
our conference.

5) We held a local arrangement committee meeting in the end of January.

Four new LC members added. Now the LC members are Le Sun (Co-Chair),
Yan g Liu (Co-Chair), Erhong Yang (Volunteer Co-Ordinator), Zhiyuan
Liu (Webmaster), Shumin Shi (AV and space management), Wenbin Jiang
(AV and space management), Dong Yu (Entertainment), and Yufeng Chen
(Registration). We have proposed several plans for the social event
and exec++ dinner. The LC will evaluate the proposed locations in
March. Discussion with sponsorship and publicity chairs. Publicity
chairs will help us edit the conference handbook.

6) We have contacted with Priscilla and will pull together an overall budget of
estimates costs in March.

[[also see]]

[http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Conference_planning_schedule]

2015Q1 Reports: ACL 2015

2015-02-17T13:18:45Z

GerthanNoord:

ACL-IJCNLP 2015 - report by Gertjan van Noord

[TO BE REFORMATTED]

*** coordinating committee:

Dragomir Radev (ACL secr) radev@umich.edu

Graeme Hirst (ACL treas) gh@cs.toronto.edu

Gertjan van Noord (ACL past president in 2015) g.j.m.van.noord@rug.nl

Priscilla Rasmussen (ACL business officer) acl@aclweb.org

Jian Su (ACL board) sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg

Keh-Yih Su (AFNLP president) kysu@bdc.com.tw bdc.kysu@gmail.com

Haizhou Li (AFNLP secretary) hli@i2r.a-star.edu.sg

Gary Geunbae Lee (AFNLP treasurer) gblee@postech.ac.kr

Kam-Fai Wong (AFNLP) kfwong@se.cuhk.edu.hk (per July 2014)

[[relevant facts]]

email alias for this committee: acl15cc@aclweb.org

domain name: acl2015.org
website is up at http://www.acl2015.org/index.html

location: Beijing, China National Convention Center

Site visit: by Graeme, Yuji, Priscilla. Contracts have been signed.

dates: July 26-31, 2015

[[Organizing committee]]

General Chair
»Yuji Matsumoto, Nara Institute of Science and Technology

PC Co-Chairs
»Chengqing Zong, Chinese Academy of Sciences
»Michael Strube, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies

Local Arrangement Chairs
»Le Sun, Chinese Academy of Sciences
»Yang Liu, Tsinghua University

Workshop Co-Chairs
»Hang Li, Huawei
»Sebastian Riedel, University College London

Tutorial Co-Chairs
»Kevin Duh, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
»Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country

Demo Co-Chairs
»Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University
»Katja Markert, University of Leeds

Publications Chairs
»Wanxiang Che, Harbin Institute of Technology
»Guodong Zhou, Suzhou University

Student Research Workshop Faculty Advisors
»Stephan Oepen, University of Oslo
»Chin-Yew Lin, Microsoft Research Asia
»Emily Bender, University of Washington

Student Chairs (Student Research Workshop)
»Kuan-Yu Chen, National Taiwan University
»Angelina Ivanova, University of Oslo
»Ellie Pavlick, University of Pennsylvania

Mentoring Chair
»Francis Bond, Nanyang Technological University

Publicity Co-Chairs
»Xianpei Han, Chinese Academy of Sciences
»Kang Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Sponsorship Co-Chairs
»Yiqun Liu, Tsinghua University
»two more to be appointed

*** Program Committee

The following points show the current status of PC:

1) All area chairs have been fixed. Please see the attachement. And all area
chairs recruited reviewers aready. We are ready to process submissions.

2) CFP has been made and uploaded on the conference web page
(http://acl2015.org/call_for_papers.html).

3) The START system for papers has been set up and it works well now. We have
received 32 submissions, but 3 submissions were withdrawn.

4) We are considering to invite keynote speakers now and over 10 candidates are
listed.

Generally, everything on PC issue is well prepared.
Area chairs for ACL-IJCNLP 2015

** Area Chairs

* [1]Discourse, Coreference and Pragmatics (2)
* Pascal Denis, pascal.denis@inria.fr
* Marta Recasens, recasens@google.com

* [2]Information Retrieval (1)
* Jian-Yun Nie, nie@iro.umontreal.ca

* [3]Information Extraction and Text Mining (3)
* Razvan Bunescu, bunescu@ohio.edu
* Mausam, mausam@cse.iitd.ac.in
* Steven Bethard, bethard@cis.uab.edu

* [4]Language and Vision (1)
* John Kelleher, john.d.kelleher@dit.ie

* [5]Language Resources and Evaluation (2)
* Rashmi Prasad, prasadr@uwm.edu
* Jin-Dong Kim jdkim@dbcls.rois.ac.jp

* [6]Lexical Semantics and Ontology (2)
* Qin Lu, csluqin@comp.polyu.edu.hk, csluqin@yahoo.com
* Zornitsa Kozareva, zornitsa@kozareva.com

* [7]Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Aspects of CL (1)
* Suzanne Stevenson, suzanne@cs.toronto.edu

* [8]Machine Learning and Topic Models for Language Processing (3)
* Daichi Mochihashi, daichi@ism.ac.jp,daichi.mochihashi@gmail.com
* Eric Xing, epxing@cs.cmu.edu
* Regina Barzilay, regina@csail.mit.edu

* [9]Machine Translation and Multilinguality (4)
* Fei Huang, feirhuang@gmail.com
* Taro Watanabe taro.watanabe@nict.go.jp
* Min Zhang, minzhang@suda.edu.cn
* Stephan Vogel, svogel@qf.org.qa

* [10]NLP Applications and NLP-enabled Technology (2)
* Joel Tetreault, tetreaul@gmail.com
* Srinivas Bangalore srini@research.att.com

* [11]NLP for the Web and Social Media (2)
* Shou-De Lin, sdlin@csie.ntu.edu.tw
* Alice Oh, alice.oh@kaist.edu

* [12]Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation (2)
* Greg Kondrak, gkondrak@ualberta.ca
* Jianfeng Gao jfgao@microsoft.com

* [13]Question Answering (1)
* James Fan fanj@us.ibm.com

* [14]Semantics (3)
* Chris Biemann, biemann@ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de
* Raquel Fernandez, raquel.fernandez@uva.nl
* Tom Kwiatkowski tom.kwiat@gmail.com

* [15]Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining (2)
* Jing Jiang, jingjiang@smu.edu.sg
* Lun-Wei Ku, lwku@iis.sinica.edu.tw

* [16]Spoken Language Processing, Dialogue and Interactive Systems, and Multimodal NLP (2)
* David Schlangen, david.schlangen@uni-bielefeld.de
* Julia Hirschberg julia@cs.columbia.edu

* [17]Summarization and Generation (2)
* Xiaojun Wan, wanxiaojun@pku.edu.cn
* Mirella Lapata, mlap@inf.ed.ac.uk

* [18]Tagging, Chunking, Syntax and Parsing (3)
* Yusuke Miyao, yusuke@nii.ac.jp
* Anders Soegaard, soegaard@hum.ku.dk
* Mark Dras, mark.dras@mq.edu.au

*** Workshops

15 workshops are accepted: One two-day workshop (SIGHAN)
and 14 one-day workshops.

List of workshops (http://www.acl2015.org/workshops.html):

» SRW, ACL Student Research Workshop 2015

Two-day Workshops (July 30 and 31)
» SIGHAN, Eighth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing

Single-day Workshops (July 30)
» ArabicNLP, Arabic Natural Language Processing
» GEAF, Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks (GEAF 2015)
» BUCC, Eighth Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora
» S2MT, Semantics-Driven Statistical Machine Translation: Theory and Practice
» Keyphrase, Novel Computational Approaches to Keyphrase Extraction
» SIGHUM LaTeCH, SIGHUM Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities
» BioNLP, BioNLP 2015

Single-day Workshops (July 31)
» NEWS, Named Entities Workshop (NEWS 2015)
» CVSC, Third Workshop on Continuous Vector Space Models and their Compositionality
» HyTra, Fourth Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation
» LDL, Fourth Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics: Resources and Applications
» WNUT, Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2015)
» NLP-TEA, The 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications
» NewsStory, The First Workshop on Computing News Storylines

*** Tutorials

Yuji informs us: "The notification of acceptance date has already passed,
and I am asking the chairs how many and what tutorials have
been accepted. I will update this information as soon as I receive it."

*** System Demonstration

The schedule is confirmed and placed in the acl-ijcnlp 2015 website.
Call: http://www.acl2015.org/call_for_system_demonstrations.html
33 members have agreed to join into committee for system demonstration.

*** Student Research Workshop

The schedule has been fixed and the information has been updated on the web page:
https://sites.google.com/site/acl2015srw/
http://www.acl2015.org/organize.html

*** Sponsorship

Yuji: "The local sponsorship chair has already started
call-for-sponsorship to major Chinese IT/Net companies. I am trying
to find another international sponsorship committee member."

*** Local Organization

1) We already set up the ACL2015 website. http://www.acl2015.org/index.html

Add new CFP, and so on. If you have any suggestions for future update, please
send to us.

2) We have sent out the CFP worldwide, and to all the members of CIPS.

3) The local organizer, that is CIPS, has paid the first phrase deposits (about
25,000USD) to CNCC (conference venue).

4) We have already discussed with a few local companies for donations to sponsor
our conference.

5) We held a local arrangement committee meeting in the end of January.

Four new LC members added. Now the LC members are Le Sun (Co-Chair),
Yan g Liu (Co-Chair), Erhong Yang (Volunteer Co-Ordinator), Zhiyuan
Liu (Webmaster), Shumin Shi (AV and space management), Wenbin Jiang
(AV and space management), Dong Yu (Entertainment), and Yufeng Chen
(Registration). We have proposed several plans for the social event
and exec++ dinner. The LC will evaluate the proposed locations in
March. Discussion with sponsorship and publicity chairs. Publicity
chairs will help us edit the conference handbook.

6) We have contacted with Priscilla and will pull together an overall budget of
estimates costs in March.

*** also see
http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Conference_planning_schedule

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Bid Guidelines

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This page provides guidelines for preparing a bid for hosting the ACL conference. The guidelines link to two additional spreadsheets, explained further below: a detailed site-specific expenses spreadsheet to be filled as part of the submission, synchronized with the bid document; a task-list spreadsheet, which details many of the tasks involved in hosting the conference and suggests several options for delegating a varying amount of the work to the ACL office and/or to a professional conference organizer.

== Preliminary and Final Bids ==

You are first requested to submit a preliminary bid. Promising bidders will be asked by the Conference Coordinating Committee to provide additional information and turn their bid into the final one, according to the schedule published in the Call for Bids. The purpose of a '''preliminary bid''' is to give the committee a detailed description of the organization, venue, and setting. The first round of review will help bidders to create a stronger bid, which is better tailored to the needs of the ACL. The purpose of the '''final bid''' is to convince the committee that the organizers are capable of running a large scientific conference with considerable professionalism and attention to detail.

== Covering Letter ==

Include a cover letter addressed to the ACL, naming venue and possible dates, identifying contact person(s) and contact details, signed.

== Organization ==

; Local Organizing Committee
: Please name the members of the local organizing committee, including titles and affiliations. For each person, provide a statement about their activities in the CL community and their experience in organizing scientific events (and the number of participants at those events).

; Local CL Community
: Describe the profile of the local CL community, including any research groups, graduate programs, professional bodies, companies.

; Professional Conference Organizer
: It is typically advisable to involve a Professional Conference Organizer (PCO) for the local organization, while the amount of work delegated to the PCO might vary. Where geographically appropriate, Priscilla Rasmussen, from the ACL office, might take responsibility for typical tasks of a PCO, as coordinated directly with her.
: Specify (roughly) the intended split of tasks between the local organizers, a PCO and/or the ACL office (see the Task List Spreadsheet section below for detail).
: Identify the organization that will be responsible for such tasks as local arrangements, including venues, catering, accommodation, the social program, and finances. What is the scale of their operation? List major scientific meetings organized recently by the PCO and their size.

; Dates
: Bidders should indicate one or more options for the conference dates. Sometimes, additional alternatives might be explored when negotiating with the committee. When planning the dates please check first with the conference committee chair for the latest known constraints for that year, such as dates of related conferences.

== Venue ==

; Conference
: Describe the main auditorium, theatres for four parallel sessions, spaces for tutorials and workshops, and an option for meeting rooms on-demand. Describe capacity, seating style, A/V facilities, sloping vs level floor, availability of (fold-out) tables in theatres, ceiling height (especially in the smaller workshop and tutorial rooms).
: Workshops - capacity for 2 two-day workshops, and 8 one-day workshops (6 per each day)
: Tutorials - six is typically the optimal number, but proposers should desirably be prepared for up to eight (4 rooms, for morning and afternoon tutorials).
: Dates for which the venues have been booked.

; Accommodation
: List categories of accommodation, considering students as well, and their approximate capacities and prices. State the proximity of the accommodation to the conference venue, and the means of access.
: Dates for which room blocks have been tentatively reserved, or are available.

; Food and Social Program
: Describe plans for breaks (2 per day, mid-morning and mid-afternoon), student lunch (can be off-site; for at least 100-150 students), welcome reception (for about 50-60% of expected attendance), and banquet (typically 40-50% of expected attendance). Provide a preliminary plan of the types/quantities of foods per participant to be provided at each of these events, matching their cost in the site-specific expenses spreadsheet. ACL encourages a tradition of some form of dancing for participants at the banquet.

; Estimated Costs Summary
: Provide a one-page summary of the site-specific expenses spreadsheet (see below), specifying approximate total cost for each component of the conference (main conference, tutorials, workshops, banquet, overheads) and the VAT situation (or similar taxes – see comment in expenses spreadsheet). Please give figures in both local currency and US dollars, and specify the exchange rate. Include any further relevant explanations for your expenses spreadsheet.

== Setting ==

; Map
: Provide a detailed map showing positions of venues and accommodation, and other relevant locations (if any – e.g. food courts, subway/bus stops).

; Food
: Describe the eating options within and near the conference venue.

; City
: Describe the city and region, and the principal attractions. What is the climate at this time of year? Any optional social program. List public cultural events scheduled for the conference period.

; Transportation
: Describe the air and ground transportation that provides access to the city. What is the commute time from regional airport(s) and railway stations to the venue?

== Extras ==

(Not needed for preliminary bid)

* Letters of support
* Photographs of venues and regional attractions
* Evidence of sponsorship
* Information about visa, driver licenses

== Site-Specific Expenses Spreadsheet ==

Site-specific expenses should be detailed in a separate [http://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/gh/ACL-conference-bid-template-Rev-2013-03-11.xls Expenses spreadsheet] with which the bid document should be consistent. The spreadsheet includes only items which vary from one venue to another. Costs which are largely fixed across venues (such as proceedings and invited speakers) are omitted, and so are all aspects of income except for local sponsorships. The final budget will be coordinated with the ACL Treasurer and business office.

Do not change the spreadsheet in any way, except to populate the yellow and blue cells with your local data. It is important that all bidders submit comparable spreadsheets (as live .xls files, not .pdf). If for some reason you feel that you need to modify the spreadsheet to fit your local conditions, please seek the advice of the Coordinating Committee Chair and the Treasurer before doing so.

Most items in the spreadsheet are self-explained or include explanatory comments. Here are some additional guidelines:

* Some expenses will have both a constant component and a per-person component, and each line of the spreadsheet includes both components. For example, the banquet might have a base cost for the venue rental plus a per-person cost as well. In most cases, however, only one component will be non-zero.
* Complete the spreadsheet in your local currency, and provide a multiplicative conversion factor for USD in the appropriate cell,along with the date on which the exchange rate was valid.
* The spreadsheet total costs are computed using both conservative (lower-bound) assumptions for the size of the conference and optimistic (upper-bound) assumptions, as specified in the first lines of the spreadsheet. However, when considering venue and accommodation capacities, only upper-bound assumptions should be made, as specified in the relevant spreadsheet lines (there might be some flexibility here according to actual conditions, e.g., possibly not all rooms for parallel sessions will reach the maximal session capacity).
* With respect to overall banquet cost, the banquet ticket price should typically not exceed USD 75. Beyond that attendance drops off, which pushes the per-person cost even higher because of constants such as venue rental, risking a serious loss.
* Equipment-related costs should include security arrangements, if relevant.

If you find any problems or bugs in the spreadsheet, please notify the ACL Treasurer, Graeme Hirst, gh =a= cs.toronto.edu.

== Task List Spreadsheet ==

As mentioned above, the organizers may choose to delegate a varying amount of the organization work to a Professional Conference Organizer (PCO) and/or to the ACL Office (Priscilla Rasmussen). As auxiliary information for your task planning, we supply a [http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~dagan/ACL-2011/tasklist.xls Task List spreadsheet]. The spreadsheet lists many of the organization tasks and specifies three prototypical models for sharing the organization load. Option A represents the maximum amount of work for the local organizers, while Option C is the least amount of work. B is in between. Please indicate, in the PCO section of the BID, which of these three models captures best your preferred model and include relevant explanation as needed. The precise details of who does what will be further discussed with promising bidders, you are not committing to specific tasks at this point.

The expenses items under the administration section, and particularly Conference Management Fees, should correspond to the cost of work planned for a PCO and/or Priscilla. Please discuss directly with Priscilla the plans and costs for her roles.

== Additional Information ==

Further relevant information may be found at the ACL [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Conference_Handbook Conference Handbook] and [http://www.aclweb.org/policies/index-policies.html Policies]. Successful sample bids for previous conferences may be found at the
[http://www.aclweb.org/archive/bids.html Bids Archive] (follow the current guidelines when preparing your bid). For any queries please contact the Coordinating Committee chair.

== Evaluation of Bids ==

Proposals will be evaluated according to the following criteria (unordered):

* Experience of local arrangements team
* Local CL community support
* Local government and industry support
* Accessibility and attractiveness of proposed site
* Suitability of proposed dates
* Adequacy of conference and exhibit facilities for the anticipated number of registrants
* Adequacy of residence accommodations and food services in a range of price categories and close to the conference facilities
* Adequacy of expense projections
* Geographical balance with regard to prior ACL and other CL meetings in the region.

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2013Q1 Reports: ACL 2015

2013-02-15T11:06:45Z

GerthanNoord:

ACL-IJCNLP 2015 - report by Gertjan van Noord

In 2015 there will be a joint ACL-IJCNLP conference in
Asia/Australasia/Oceania.

* coordinating committee:

Dragomir Radev (ACL secr) radev@umich.edu
Graeme Hirst (ACL treas) gh@cs.toronto.edu
Gertjan van Noord (ACL past president in 2015) g.j.m.van.noord@rug.nl
Priscilla Rasmussen (ACL business officer) acl@aclweb.org
Jian Su (ACL board) sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg
Keh-Yih Su (AFNLP president) kysu@bdc.com.tw bdc.kysu@gmail.com
Yuji Matsumoto (AFNLP vice president) matsu@is.naist.jp
Haizhou Li (AFNLP secretary) hli@i2r.a-star.edu.sg
Gary Geunbae Lee (AFNLP treasurer) gblee@postech.ac.kr

* email alias for this committee: acl15cc@aclweb.org

* domain name: acl2015.org

* call for bids has been sent out

* important dates

January 31, 2013 - Notify intention to submit proposal
March 15, 2013 - Draft proposals due
Through May 1, 2013 - Feedback to bidders
May 30, 2013 - Final bids due
July 1, 2013 - Bid selected

* also see
http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Conference_planning_schedule

* Intention notication

We have received precisely one notification intention to submit
a proposal for ACL-IJCNLP 2015, from the Chinese CIPS, for a conference
in Beijing. The email is included here.

----

From: Sun Le <lesunle@163.com>
To: g.j.m.van.noord@rug.nl, gertjanvannoord@gmail.com
Cc: Yang Liu <liuyang2011@tsinghua.edu.cn>
Subject: Intention to submit proposal for ACL-IJCNLP 2015

Dear Prof. Gertjan van Noord,

On behalf of the local CL society in China, we want to submit a
proposal to host the ACL-IJCNLP 2015. Most of the professors,
researchers, and PhD students in CL in mainland China are members of
Our society, namely, the Chinese Information Processing Society of
China (CIPS). If we could host ACL-IJCNLP 2015 in Beijing, China,
then it's the first time ACL be hold in Mainland China. A bid team
for ACL-IJCNLP 2015 has formed in Beijing, China as followings:

Local Computational Linguistics community : Chinese Information Processing Society of China (CIPS)

Local University: Tsinghua University, Peking University, and so on

Local arrangements team: co-chair
Le Sun, Prof. of Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences Vice-president & General Secretary of CIPS
Yang Liu, Associate Prof. of Tsinghua University

If you have any information or suggestions related to bid for ACL-IJCNLP 2015, please let us know.

Best Regards!

Le Sun
Prof. of Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Vice-president & General Secretary of CIPS
18th, Jan, 2013

2013Q1 Reports: ACL 2015

2013-02-15T11:02:49Z

ACL-IJCNLP 2015 - report by Gertjan van Noord

In 2015 there will be a joint ACL-IJCNLP conference in
Asia/Australasia/Oceania.

* coordinating committee:

Dragomir Radev (ACL secr) radev@umich.edu
Graeme Hirst (ACL treas) gh@cs.toronto.edu
Gertjan van Noord (ACL past president in 2015) g.j.m.van.noord@rug.nl
Priscilla Rasmussen (ACL business officer) acl@aclweb.org
Jian Su (ACL board) sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg
Keh-Yih Su (AFNLP president) kysu@bdc.com.tw bdc.kysu@gmail.com
Yuji Matsumoto (AFNLP vice president) matsu@is.naist.jp
Haizhou Li (AFNLP secretary) hli@i2r.a-star.edu.sg
Gary Geunbae Lee (AFNLP treasurer) gblee@postech.ac.kr

* email alias for this committee: acl15cc@aclweb.org

* domain name: acl2015.org

* call for bids has been sent out

* important dates

January 31, 2013 - Notify intention to submit proposal
March 15, 2013 - Draft proposals due
Through May 1, 2013 - Feedback to bidders
May 30, 2013 - Final bids due
July 1, 2013 - Bid selected

* also see
http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Conference_planning_schedule

* Intention notication

We have received precisely one notification intention to submit
a proposal for ACL-IJCNLP 2015, from the Chinese CIPS, for a conference
in Beijing. The email is included here.

From: Sun Le <lesunle@163.com>
To: g.j.m.van.noord@rug.nl, gertjanvannoord@gmail.com
Cc: Yang Liu <liuyang2011@tsinghua.edu.cn>
Subject: Intention to submit proposal for ACL-IJCNLP 2015

Dear Prof. Gertjan van Noord,

On behalf of the local CL society in China, we want to submit a
proposal to host the ACL-IJCNLP 2015. Most of the professors,
researchers, and PhD students in CL in mainland China are members of
Our society, namely, the Chinese Information Processing Society of
China (CIPS). If we could host ACL-IJCNLP 2015 in Beijing, China,
then it's the first time ACL be hold in Mainland China. A bid team
for ACL-IJCNLP 2015 has formed in Beijing, China as followings:

Local Computational Linguistics community : Chinese Information Processing Society of China (CIPS)

Local University: Tsinghua University, Peking University, and so on

Local arrangements team: co-chair
Le Sun, Prof. of Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Vice-president & General Secretary of CIPS

Yang Liu, Associate Prof. of Tsinghua University

If you have any information or suggestions related to bid for ACL-IJCNLP 2015, please let us know.

Best Regards!

Le Sun
Prof. of Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Vice-president & General Secretary of CIPS
18th, Jan, 2013