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2013Q3 Reports: Tutorial Chairs

2013-07-09T15:07:52Z

Keithhall:

== CL 2013 Tutorial Chairs Report ==
Prepared July 8, 2013 
Keith Hall (Google Research) 
Johan Bos (University of Groningen) 

=== General Schedule ===
Submission deadline for tutorial proposals: March 6, 2013 
Notification of acceptance: April 3, 2013 
Tutorial descriptions due: May 15, 2013 
Tutorial course material due: June 7, 2013 
Tutorial date: August 4, 2013 
We coordinated the deadlines with Publication Chairs and Local Organizers. 

=== Call and selection procedure ===
The call for proposals (CFP) was first posted at the ACL website in December
2012 and a final call was also sent to high-volume NLP/computational linguistics
mailing lists (e.g., CORPORA list, linguist list, SIGSEM members).
Additionally, the chairs have approached experts in the field and contacted researchers who expressed an
interest in giving a tutorial and provided the details of the submission and reviewing process.
We received 25 proposals and
accepted seven tutorials; six of these were accepted as half-day tutorials and
one as a full-day tutorial.
Submissions
were handled through the start system
(https://www.softconf.com/acl2013/tutorials).
iWe used the following criteria for evaluation:
appropriateness, technical fit, novelty, potential interest, presenters, and
experience. All proposals were evaluated by both chairs; the final selection
was based on the scores we assigned through start. The final selection was
uncontroversial (we agreed on the best of the submissions).

=== Selected tutorials ===
'''DECIPHERMENT''' 
Kevin Knight

'''EXPLOITING SOCIAL MEDIA FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN LANGUAGE-CENTRIC AND REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS''' 
Simone Paolo Ponzetto and Andrea Zielinski

'''ROBUST AUTOMATED NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING WITH MULTIWORD EXPRESSIONS AND COLLOCATIONS''' 
Valia Kordoni and Markus Egg

'''SEMANTIC PARSING WITH COMBINATORY CATEGORIAL GRAMMARS''' 
Yoav Artzi, Nicholas FitzGerald and Luke Zettlemoyer

'''THE MATHEMATICS OF LANGUAGE LEARNING''' 
Andras Kornai, Gerald Penn, James Rogers and Anssi Yli-Jyrä

'''VARIATIONAL INFERENCE FOR STRUCTURED NLP MODELS''' 
David Burkett and Dan Klein

'''VISUAL FEATURES FOR LINGUISTS: BASIC IMAGE ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES FOR MULTIMODALLY-CURIOUS NLPERS''' 
Elia Bruni and Marco Baroni

=== Proceedings ===
We have received the final abstracts for the tutorials (which include a
description as well as a schedule). These were submitted through the START
system and have been passed along to the publications chair. We are currently
in the process of collecting all of the course materials from each of the
presenters. There has been some confusion as to what will be done with this
material and what form it should take. Many presenters have hundreds of slides
for their courses and no other course information. In the future, if we wish to
have separate course-notes in addition to the slides, we recommend making this
clear to the authors from the start.

=== Acknowledgements ===
We are grateful to Michael Strube, the ACL 2012 General Chair, the Local/Publications Chairs, and
Priscilla Rasmussen for their help and advice in the organization of the
Tutorials program.

2013Q3 Reports: Tutorial Chairs

2013-07-08T16:42:23Z

Keithhall:

== CL 2013 Tutorial Chairs Report ==
Prepared July 8, 2013 
Keith Hall (Google Research) 
Johan Bos (University of Groningen) 

=== General Schedule ===
Submission deadline for tutorial proposals: March 6, 2013 
Notification of acceptance: April 3, 2013 
Tutorial descriptions due: May 15, 2013 
Tutorial course material due: June 7, 2013 
Tutorial date: August 4, 2013 
We coordinated the deadlines with Publication Chairs and Local Organizers. 

=== Call and selection procedure ===
The call for proposals (CFP) was first posted at the ACL website in December
2012 and a final call was also sent to high-volume NLP/computational linguistics
mailing lists (e.g., CORPORA list, linguist list, SIGSEM members). Submissions
were handled through the start system
(https://www.softconf.com/acl2013/tutorials). We received 25 proposals and
accepted seven tutorials; six of these were accepted as half-day tutorials and
one as a full-day tutorial. We used the following criteria for evaluation:
appropriateness, technical fit, novelty, potential interest, presenters, and
experience. All proposals were evaluated by both chairs; the final selection
was based on the scores we assigned through start. The final selection was
uncontroversial (we agreed on the best of the submissions).

=== Selected tutorials ===
'''DECIPHERMENT''' 
Kevin Knight

'''EXPLOITING SOCIAL MEDIA FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN LANGUAGE-CENTRIC AND REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS''' 
Simone Paolo Ponzetto and Andrea Zielinski

'''ROBUST AUTOMATED NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING WITH MULTIWORD EXPRESSIONS AND COLLOCATIONS''' 
Valia Kordoni and Markus Egg

'''SEMANTIC PARSING WITH COMBINATORY CATEGORIAL GRAMMARS''' 
Yoav Artzi, Nicholas FitzGerald and Luke Zettlemoyer

'''THE MATHEMATICS OF LANGUAGE LEARNING''' 
Andras Kornai, Gerald Penn, James Rogers and Anssi Yli-Jyrä

'''VARIATIONAL INFERENCE FOR STRUCTURED NLP MODELS''' 
David Burkett and Dan Klein

'''VISUAL FEATURES FOR LINGUISTS: BASIC IMAGE ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES FOR MULTIMODALLY-CURIOUS NLPERS''' 
Elia Bruni and Marco Baroni

=== Proceedings ===
We have received the final abstracts for the tutorials (which include a
description as well as a schedule). These were submitted through the START
system and have been passed along to the publications chair. We are currently
in the process of collecting all of the course materials from each of the
presenters. There has been some confusion as to what will be done with this
material and what form it should take. Many presenters have hundreds of slides
for their courses and no other course information. In the future, if we wish to
have separate course-notes in addition to the slides, we recommend making this
clear to the authors from the start.

=== Acknowledgements ===
We am grateful to the ACL 2012 General Chair, the Local/Publications Chairs, and
Priscilla Rasmussen for their help and advice in the organization of the
Tutorials program.

2013Q3 Reports: Tutorial Chairs

2013-07-08T16:38:26Z

Keithhall: First version of Q3 report for the ACL 2013 tutorial process.

CL 2013 Tutorial Chairs Report

Prepared July 8, 2013.
Keith Hall (Google Research)
Johan Bos (University of Groningen)

General Schedule:
Submission deadline for tutorial proposals: March 6, 2013
Notification of acceptance: April 3, 2013
Tutorial descriptions due: May 15, 2013
Tutorial course material due: June 7, 2013
Tutorial date: August 4, 2013.
We coordinated the deadlines with Publication Chairs and Local Organizers.

Call and selection procedure:
The call for proposals (CFP) was first posted at the ACL website in December
2012 and a final call was also sent to high-volume NLP/computational linguistics
mailing lists (e.g., CORPORA list, linguist list, SIGSEM members). Submissions
were handled through the start system
(https://www.softconf.com/acl2013/tutorials). We received 25 proposals and
accepted seven tutorials; six of these were accepted as half-day tutorials and
one as a full-day tutorial. We used the following criteria for evaluation:
appropriateness, technical fit, novelty, potential interest, presenters, and
experience. All proposals were evaluated by both chairs; the final selection
was based on the scores we assigned through start. The final selection was
uncontroversial (we agreed on the best of the submissions).

Selected tutorials:
DECIPHERMENT
Kevin Knight

EXPLOITING SOCIAL MEDIA FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING: BRIDGING THE
GAP BETWEEN LANGUAGE-CENTRIC AND REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS
Simone Paolo Ponzetto and Andrea Zielinski

ROBUST AUTOMATED NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING WITH MULTIWORD EXPRESSIONS AND COLLOCATIONS
Valia Kordoni and Markus Egg

SEMANTIC PARSING WITH COMBINATORY CATEGORIAL GRAMMARS
Yoav Artzi, Nicholas FitzGerald and Luke Zettlemoyer

THE MATHEMATICS OF LANGUAGE LEARNING
Andras Kornai, Gerald Penn, James Rogers and Anssi Yli-Jyrä

VARIATIONAL INFERENCE FOR STRUCTURED NLP MODELS
David Burkett and Dan Klein

VISUAL FEATURES FOR LINGUISTS: BASIC IMAGE ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES FOR MULTIMODALLY-CURIOUS NLPERS
Elia Bruni and Marco Baroni

Proceedings:
We have received the final abstracts for the tutorials (which include a
description as well as a schedule). These were submitted through the START
system and have been passed along to the publications chair. We are currently
in the process of collecting all of the course materials from each of the
presenters. There has been some confusion as to what will be done with this
material and what form it should take. Many presenters have hundreds of slides
for their courses and no other course information. In the future, if we wish to
have separate course-notes in addition to the slides, we recommend making this
clear to the authors from the start.

Acknowledgements
We am grateful to the ACL 2012 General Chair, the Local/Publications Chairs, and
Priscilla Rasmussen for their help and advice in the organization of the
Tutorials program.