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	exclusively wanted NAACL. No proponent identified ACL as the only		exclusively wanted NAACL. No proponent identified ACL as the only
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	as the second. ~~[SATOSHI DO YOU HAVE THE SAME FIGURES?]~~ Each workshop		as the second. Each workshop
	received a score from all the workshop chairs of the venues that had		received a score from all the workshop chairs of the venues that had
	been indicated by that proposal. The selection process went very		been indicated by that proposal. The selection process went very

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ACL 2012 Final Report: The Workshops

Massimo Poesio & Satoshi Sekine

The ACL Workshop Chairs (Massimo Poesio and Satoshi Sekine) worked
together with the EACL and NAACL worskhop chairs to jointly select
workshops for ACL, EACL and NAACL. The first joint call went out on
the 19th of August 2011, and the last on the 18th of October. The
deadline was October 28th. Proponents were asked to indicate their
preferences regarding the venue (e.g., EACL, NAACL) and the duration
of the workshop.

We received 44 proposals in total. Of these, two expressed no
preference for a particular venue, 5 exclusively wanted EACL, and 8
exclusively wanted NAACL. No proponent identified ACL as the only
possible venue, but 14 had ACL as their first choice, and 10 had ACL
as the second. [SATOSHI DO YOU HAVE THE SAME FIGURES?] Each workshop
received a score from all the workshop chairs of the venues that had
been indicated by that proposal. The selection process went very
smoothly, resulting in 11 workshops being accepted for ACL (1 being
the merge of two proposed workshops), 12 for EACL (of which again the
merge of two proposed workshops), 17 for NAACL, and two proposals
being rejected. The only problem at this stage was that in the end
NAACL found itself with a lot of workshops so there was an attempt to
move some of the workshops to ACL which didn't work as the workshop
organizers had already announced the venues. The following workshops
were accepted for ACL: SP-SEM-MRL, SMIAE, The LAW VI, WASSA, ExProM,
MM, The People's Web Meets NLP, TextGraphs-7, SSST-6, DSSD, and
NEWS2012. Of these, LAW, People's Web Meets NLP, TextGraphs, SSST, and
NEWS are long-standing series,and the other workshops all focus on
topics of great interest.

Deciding the dates for the ACL workshops was straightforward. There
were a few glitched while setting the softconf pages for the workshops
(typically accounts set up with the wrong password) but nothing
major. The main problems were originated by the deadlines for the
authors to submit the papers to the organizers, and by the organizers
to send the camera ready copies to the publication
chairs. Unfortunately an early postponement of the deadline for
submitting the camera ready versions of the workshop proceedings
resulted in it being set to the day after the end of LREC, which many
workshop organizers found problematic. Some coordination with EMNLP
re: dates would also be desirable.

Finally, we would like to raise again the issue of co-presence between
EMNLP and the other workshops that we're sure has been raised before -
it creates serious conflicts, we appreciate that having EMNLP before
(say) would make for a very long event but it is definitely an issue.

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