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<p>New page: ACL 2012 General Chair Report by Haizhou Li The details of activities will be reported by the respective committee chairs. Next I give an overview. ACL 50th Anniversary In 2012, ACL...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>ACL 2012 General Chair Report <br /> <br /> by Haizhou Li <br /> <br /> The details of activities will be reported by the respective committee<br /> chairs. Next I give an overview. <br /> <br /> ACL 50th Anniversary<br /> <br /> In 2012, ACL turns 50. ACL 2012 marks an important milestone of our<br /> community. We have prepared special programs to commemorate the 50th<br /> anniversary, that include &#039;Rediscovering 50 Years of Discovery&#039;, a main<br /> conference workshop with a program on &#039;the People, the Contents, and the<br /> Anthology&#039; that recollects some great moments of ACL history, and &#039;ACL<br /> 50th Anniversary Lectures&#039; by Mark Johnson, Aravind K. Joshi and a<br /> Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient.<br /> <br /> Summary of Events<br /> <br /> I am very grateful for the effort by all the committee chairs. The<br /> organizing committee communicated through emails and internal<br /> newsletters. The progress was also reported to ACL conference<br /> coordination committee along the way. Next is a summary of the programs<br /> in ACL 2012.<br /> <br /> # 112 long papers and 77 short papers to appear in the main conference<br /> # 6 tutorials are accepted<br /> # 2 main conference workshops (12 accepted papers in Student Research Workshop, and 13 accepted papers in Rediscovering 50 Years of Discovery Workshop) <br /> # 11 post-conference workshops are accepted<br /> # 29 system demonstrations<br /> # 10+ exhibitors<br /> # 40 student travel grants are awarded<br /> # 1 satellite event (SIGDial 2012)<br /> # 5 newsletters have been released by 21 May 2012<br /> <br /> Coordination between events<br /> <br /> # ACL 2012 workshops were selected through a joint committee ACL-EACL-NAACL<br /> # ACL 2012 joined the ACL-EACL-NAACL sponsorship committee in call-for-sponsors<br /> # ACL and NAACL notification schedules can be coordinated in the future<br /> # ACL 2012 will be followed by 3 days workshops and EMNLP-CoNLL. It will be the first time ACL has 3 days post-conference events.<br /> <br /> Sponsorship<br /> <br /> The financial sponsors generously supported ACL 2012. We are honored to<br /> have Baidu as the Platinum Sponsor, Elsevier and Google as Gold<br /> Sponsors, Microsoft, KAIST and SK as Sliver Sponsors, 7 Bronze Sponsors,<br /> and 3 Supporters. IBM Research continues to sponsor the Student Paper<br /> Award. The Donald and Betty Walker Student Scholarship Fund and the<br /> Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing continue to sponsor the<br /> student travel grants.</div>

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