2013Q1 Reports: ACL 2013 - Revision history

Min-YenKan: /* Svetla Koeva, local arrangements char */

2013-02-21T07:26:07Z

Svetla Koeva, local arrangements char

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	Completed Tasks:		Completed Tasks:

	#. Set up initial web site: http://www.acl2013.org/		# Set up initial web site: http://www.acl2013.org/
	#. Collection of preliminary local info (travel info, hotels, potential local sponsors, etc.)		# Collection of preliminary local info (travel info, hotels, potential local sponsors, etc.)
	#. More fleshed out website, with all preliminary information available: general conference announcement; calls for papers, etc.		# More fleshed out website, with all preliminary information available: general conference announcement; calls for papers, etc.
	#. Site visit by Priscilla Rasmussen and Graeme Hirst - January 2013.		# Site visit by Priscilla Rasmussen and Graeme Hirst - January 2013.
	#. Negotiations and contract signed with a local PCO.		# Negotiations and contract signed with a local PCO.
	#. 650 rooms booked in 3, 4 and 5 star hotels. (Some of the 3 star hotels are appropriate for students.)		# 650 rooms booked in 3, 4 and 5 star hotels. (Some of the 3 star hotels are appropriate for students.)
	#. List with potential local sponsors is developed. Initial contacts with some of them are accomplished.		# List with potential local sponsors is developed. Initial contacts with some of them are accomplished.
	#. Set up the official email of ACL 2013 acl2013.conference@dcl.bas.bg		# Set up the official email of ACL 2013 acl2013.conference@dcl.bas.bg

	== Johan Bos & Keith Hall, tutorial chairs ==		== Johan Bos & Keith Hall, tutorial chairs ==

Min-YenKan at 07:25, 21 February 2013

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 # Mentorship Service Arrangement: Nine students have requested pre-submission mentor services. We are currently recruiting mentors for these students, and three people have agreed to be pre-submission mentors so far.  Up to now, no action has been taken to recruit on-site conference mentors. This will be done later in the spring/summer when potential mentors know if they'll be attending the conference or not.
 # Miscellaneous: We have set up an email alias acl-srw-2013@googlegroups.com to facilitate internal communications, and official website https://sites.google.com/site/aclsrw2013/ to serve as the information portal. All call for submissions are publicized at the official conference website, the SRW website, WikiCFP, and through various mailing lists. No newsletter service is offered.
 == Johan Bos & Keith Hall, tutorial chairs ==

Min-YenKan: /* Aoife Cahill & Qun Liu, workshop chairs */

2013-02-15T14:05:30Z

Aoife Cahill & Qun Liu, workshop chairs

Min-YenKan: /* ACL Student Research Workshop */

2013-02-15T14:04:35Z

ACL Student Research Workshop

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 == ACL Student Research Workshop ==
-* Student Co-chairs: Ivelina Nikolova, Eva Maria Vecchi, Anik Dey,
+* Student Co-chairs: Ivelina Nikolova, Eva Maria Vecchi, Anik Dey, Sebastian Krause
 * Faculty Advisors: Preslav Nakov, Steven Bethard, Feiyu Xu
 # Student travel grants:
+#* US students, possibly also students from developing countries: Faculty advisor Steven Bethard (steven.bethard@colorado.edu) has submitted a proposal to NSF requesting $21K for student travel support. The proposal is pending now, we expect to get the award soon, though the approved funding will be $19K instead of $21K.
-** US students, possibly also students from developing countries:
+#* Mainly EU students, possibly also other students: Two EU-funded research projects donated $1.5K each. Project names: Network of Excellence META-NET, and Multilingual Web - Language Technology Contact: sarah.weichert@dfki.de
-Faculty advisor Steven Bethard (steven.bethard@colorado.edu) has
+#* The Qatar Computing Research Institute is in the process of deciding whether they will be a Silver Sponsor ($3875) for the main conference. This funding is however not finally approved by QCRI management. (Provisional) contact: Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa).
-submitted a proposal to NSF requesting $21K for student travel
+# Program committee: We have recruited 52 reviewers for the program committee, of which 12 are students. Among all the reviewers, 27 from Europe, 19 are from North America, 5 from Asia, and 1 from Australia. They represent a wide range of research areas.
-support. The proposal is pending now, we expect to get the award
+# Mentorship Service Arrangement: Nine students have requested pre-submission mentor services. We are currently recruiting mentors for these students, and three people have agreed to be pre-submission mentors so far.  Up to now, no action has been taken to recruit on-site conference mentors. This will be done later in the spring/summer when potential mentors know if they'll be attending the conference or not.
-soon, though the approved funding will be $19K instead of $21K.
+# Miscellaneous: We have set up an email alias acl-srw-2013@googlegroups.com to facilitate internal communications, and official website https://sites.google.com/site/aclsrw2013/ to serve as the information portal. All call for submissions are publicized at the official conference website, the SRW website, WikiCFP, and through various mailing lists. No newsletter service is offered.
 == Johan Bos & Keith Hall, tutorial chairs ==

Min-YenKan: /* ACL Student Research Workshop */

2013-02-15T14:00:37Z

ACL Student Research Workshop

Min-YenKan at 13:59, 15 February 2013

2013-02-15T13:59:01Z

Min-YenKan at 13:58, 15 February 2013

2013-02-15T13:58:33Z

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	Invited speakers: Two great invited speakers have committed to speaking at the conference:		Invited speakers: Two great invited speakers have committed to speaking at the conference:
	- Harald Baayen, who works on morphological productivity and processing, among others		* Harald Baayen, who works on morphological productivity and processing, among others
	- Chantel Prat, who works on the neural correlates of language processing and the effect on bilingual speakers		* Chantel Prat, who works on the neural correlates of language processing and the effect on bilingual speakers

	In addition, this year we are initiating and formalizing an industrial		In addition, this year we are initiating and formalizing an industrial
	speaker session that we hope ACL will continue in the future		speaker session that we hope ACL will continue in the future
			* Lars Rasmussen from Facebook who will talk about their new graph search techniques
	- Lars Rasmussen from Facebook who will talk about their new graph search techniques

	== ACL Student Research Workshop ==		== ACL Student Research Workshop ==

Min-YenKan at 13:58, 15 February 2013

2013-02-15T13:58:13Z

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	webpage. Here are the details:		webpage. Here are the details:

	August 8-9		=== August 8-9 ===
	~~------------~~
	CONLL Seventeenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning		CONLL Seventeenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning
	BioNLP 2013 BioNLP 2013		BioNLP 2013 BioNLP 2013
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	with Discourse		with Discourse

	August 8		=== August 8 ===
	~~---------~~
	BSNLP 2013 The 4th Biennial Workshop on Balto-Slavonic Natural Language Processing		BSNLP 2013 The 4th Biennial Workshop on Balto-Slavonic Natural Language Processing
	BUCC SIXTH WORKSHOP ON BUILDING AND USING COMPARABLE CORPORA		BUCC SIXTH WORKSHOP ON BUILDING AND USING COMPARABLE CORPORA
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	HyTra Second Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation		HyTra Second Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation

	August 9		=== August 9 ===
	~~----------~~
	MoL 13 The 13th Meeting on the Mathematics of Language		MoL 13 The 13th Meeting on the Mathematics of Language
	MultiLing 2013 Multilingual Multi-document Summarization		MultiLing 2013 Multilingual Multi-document Summarization
	CVSC Continuous Vector Space Models and their Compositionality		CVSC Continuous Vector Space Models and their Compositionality
	DiscoMT Discourse and Machine Translation		DiscoMT Discourse and Machine Translation
	Teaching NLP/CL With a Focus on Olympiads in (Computational) Linguistics		Teaching NLP/CL With a Focus on Olympiads in (Computational) Linguistics

	== Pascale Fung & Massimo Poesio, program chairs ==		== Pascale Fung & Massimo Poesio, program chairs ==
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	Invited speakers: Two great invited speakers have committed to speaking at the conference:		Invited speakers: Two great invited speakers have committed to speaking at the conference:
			- Harald Baayen, who works on morphological productivity and processing, among others
	- Harald Baayen, who works on morphological productivity and processing, among others		- Chantel Prat, who works on the neural correlates of language processing and the effect on bilingual speakers

	- Chantel Prat, who works on the neural correlates of language processing and the effect on bilingual speakers

	In addition, this year we are initiating and formalizing an industrial		In addition, this year we are initiating and formalizing an industrial
	speaker session that we hope ACL will continue in the future		speaker session that we hope ACL will continue in the future

	- Lars Rasmussen from Facebook who will talk about their new graph search techniques		- Lars Rasmussen from Facebook who will talk about their new graph search techniques

	== ACL Student Research Workshop ==		== ACL Student Research Workshop ==

Min-YenKan: New page: == Roberto Navigli, publications chair == The Publication Chairs adapted and provided the ACL 2013 LaTeX and Word style files. Publication Chairs and Local Arrangement Chairs communicated...

2013-02-15T13:56:54Z

New page: == Roberto Navigli, publications chair == The Publication Chairs adapted and provided the ACL 2013 LaTeX and Word style files. Publication Chairs and Local Arrangement Chairs communicated...

New page

== Roberto Navigli, publications chair ==

The Publication Chairs adapted and provided the ACL 2013 LaTeX and
Word style files. Publication Chairs and Local Arrangement Chairs
communicated with PC chairs and ACL regarding proceedings and
conference handbooks.

== Aoife Cahill & Qun Liu, workshop chairs ==

In total, there were 38 workshop proposals submitted for consideration
at ACL, NAACL or EMNLP. Together with the workshop chairs of those
conferences we reviewed the proposals and decided on the final
selection. There will be 4 two-day workshops at ACL (plus the CoNLL
conference), 11 one-day workshops and the Student Research
Workshop. Dates for the one-day workshops have been circulated, six
will take place on August 8th, and 5 on August 9th. 13 Start pages
have been created and the details sent to the workshop organizers. We
are compiling a list of workshop URLs to be linked to the main ACL
webpage. Here are the details:

August 8-9
------------
CONLL Seventeenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning
BioNLP 2013 BioNLP 2013
ENLG 2013 14th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation
WMT13 Eighth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
LAW VII & ID The 7th Linguistic Annotation Workshop & Interoperability
with Discourse

August 8
---------
BSNLP 2013 The 4th Biennial Workshop on Balto-Slavonic Natural Language Processing
BUCC SIXTH WORKSHOP ON BUILDING AND USING COMPARABLE CORPORA
CMCL Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics
LaTeCH-2013 Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities
PITR Predicting and improving text readability for target reader populations
HyTra Second Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation

August 9
----------
MoL 13 The 13th Meeting on the Mathematics of Language
MultiLing 2013 Multilingual Multi-document Summarization
CVSC Continuous Vector Space Models and their Compositionality
DiscoMT Discourse and Machine Translation
Teaching NLP/CL With a Focus on Olympiads in (Computational) Linguistics

== Pascale Fung & Massimo Poesio, program chairs ==

Area chairs: this year, due to the delay in the development of the new
softconf platform, we had to repeat the process twice - first appoint
all area chairs through normal email, then repeat the process through
softconf - and this second process took quite a lot more than expected
as many area chairs didn't understand the new process (first
register, then accept the invitation, then program chair assigns
person to track) but we're essentially done.

Invited speakers: Two great invited speakers have committed to speaking at the conference:

- Harald Baayen, who works on morphological productivity and processing, among others

- Chantel Prat, who works on the neural correlates of language processing and the effect on bilingual speakers

In addition, this year we are initiating and formalizing an industrial
speaker session that we hope ACL will continue in the future

- Lars Rasmussen from Facebook who will talk about their new graph search techniques

== ACL Student Research Workshop ==

* Student Co-chairs: Ivelina Nikolova, Eva Maria Vecchi, Anik Dey,
Sebastian Krause

* Faculty Advisors: Preslav Nakov, Steven Bethard, Feiyu Xu

1. Student travel grants:

* US students, possibly also students from developing countries:
Faculty advisor Steven Bethard (steven.bethard@colorado.edu) has
submitted a proposal to NSF requesting $21K for student travel
support. The proposal is pending now, we expect to get the award
soon, though the approved funding will be $19K instead of $21K.
* Mainly EU students, possibly also other students: Two EU-funded
research projects donated $1.5K each. Project names: Network of
Excellence META-NET, and Multilingual Web - Language Technology
Contact: sarah.weichert@dfki.de

* The Qatar Computing Research Institute is in the process of
deciding whether they will be a Silver Sponsor ($3875) for the
main conference. This funding is however not finally approved by
QCRI management. (Provisional) contact: Preslav Nakov
(pnakov@qf.org.qa).

2. Program committee:

We have recruited 52 reviewers for the program committee, of which 12
are students. Among all the reviewers, 27 from Europe, 19 are from
North America, 5 from Asia, and 1 from Australia. They represent a
wide range of research areas.

3. Mentorship Service Arrangement:

Nine students have requested pre-submission mentor services. We are
currently recruiting mentors for these students, and three people have
agreed to be pre-submission mentors so far. Up to now, no action has
been taken to recruit on-site conference mentors. This will be done
later in the spring/summer when potential mentors know if they'll be
attending the conference or not.

4. Miscellaneous:

We have set up an email alias acl-srw-2013@googlegroups.com to
facilitate internal communications, and official website
https://sites.google.com/site/aclsrw2013/ to serve as the information
portal. All call for submissions are publicized at the official
conference website, the SRW website, WikiCFP, and through various
mailing lists. No newsletter service is offered.

== Johan Bos & Keith Hall, tutorial chairs ==

The ACL 2013 Tutorials program is proceeding along the planned
schedule. The tutorial chairs have prepared and sent out the
call-for-tutorials to multiple high-distribution mailing lists
including the main ACL distribution lists. This initial call for
proposals was sent out at the beginning of December 2012.
Additionally, the chairs have contacted researchers who expressed an
interest in giving a tutorial and provided the details of the
submission and reviewing process. The chairs have verified that the
on-line START system has been setup to receive submissions. At the
end of February a second call-for-tutorials will be sent out with the
specifics regarding on-line submission. At the current time, there
has been contact with four strong CL groups, with one submission
already received.

== Miriam Butt & Sarmad Hussain, demo chairs ==

The program committee members have now been finalized. The first call
for submissions went out in November 2012 via the publicity chairs. A
second is to follow shortly. We had announced that we would be using
the START conference system, but the EasyChair system is free and
appears to be easier to use, so we will be using that. We have had
some requests for information including a worry about how realistic it
is to really be able to keep System Demos anonymous and to what
lengths one should have to go in order to ensure anonymity. We have
agreed that renting out a foreign server and porting a system demo
onto that server goes beyond what is reasonable to expect.

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	=== August 8-9 ===		=== August 8-9 ===
	CONLL Seventeenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning		CONLL Seventeenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning
	BioNLP 2013 BioNLP 2013		BioNLP 2013 BioNLP 2013
	ENLG 2013 14th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation		ENLG 2013 14th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation
	WMT13 Eighth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation		WMT13 Eighth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
	LAW VII & ID The 7th Linguistic Annotation Workshop & Interoperability		LAW VII & ID The 7th Linguistic Annotation Workshop & Interoperability with Discourse
	with Discourse

	=== August 8 ===		=== August 8 ===
	BSNLP 2013 The 4th Biennial Workshop on Balto-Slavonic Natural Language Processing		BSNLP 2013 The 4th Biennial Workshop on Balto-Slavonic Natural Language Processing
	BUCC SIXTH WORKSHOP ON BUILDING AND USING COMPARABLE CORPORA		BUCC SIXTH WORKSHOP ON BUILDING AND USING COMPARABLE CORPORA
	CMCL Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics		CMCL Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics
	LaTeCH-2013 Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities		LaTeCH-2013 Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities
	PITR Predicting and improving text readability for target reader populations		PITR Predicting and improving text readability for target reader populations
	HyTra Second Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation		HyTra Second Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation

	=== August 9 ===		=== August 9 ===
	MoL 13 The 13th Meeting on the Mathematics of Language		MoL 13 The 13th Meeting on the Mathematics of Language
	MultiLing 2013 Multilingual Multi-document Summarization		MultiLing 2013 Multilingual Multi-document Summarization
	CVSC Continuous Vector Space Models and their Compositionality		CVSC Continuous Vector Space Models and their Compositionality
	DiscoMT Discourse and Machine Translation		DiscoMT Discourse and Machine Translation
	Teaching NLP/CL With a Focus on Olympiads in (Computational) Linguistics		Teaching NLP/CL With a Focus on Olympiads in (Computational) Linguistics

	== Pascale Fung & Massimo Poesio, program chairs ==		== Pascale Fung & Massimo Poesio, program chairs ==

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	* Faculty Advisors: Preslav Nakov, Steven Bethard, Feiyu Xu		* Faculty Advisors: Preslav Nakov, Steven Bethard, Feiyu Xu

	1. Student travel grants:		# Student travel grants:

	* US students, possibly also students from developing countries:		** US students, possibly also students from developing countries:
	Faculty advisor Steven Bethard (steven.bethard@colorado.edu) has		Faculty advisor Steven Bethard (steven.bethard@colorado.edu) has
	submitted a proposal to NSF requesting $21K for student travel		submitted a proposal to NSF requesting $21K for student travel
	support. The proposal is pending now, we expect to get the award		support. The proposal is pending now, we expect to get the award
	soon, though the approved funding will be $19K instead of $21K.		soon, though the approved funding will be $19K instead of $21K.
	* Mainly EU students, possibly also other students: Two EU-funded		** Mainly EU students, possibly also other students: Two EU-funded
	research projects donated $1.5K each. Project names: Network of		research projects donated $1.5K each. Project names: Network of
	Excellence META-NET, and Multilingual Web - Language Technology		Excellence META-NET, and Multilingual Web - Language Technology
	Contact: sarah.weichert@dfki.de		Contact: sarah.weichert@dfki.de

	* The Qatar Computing Research Institute is in the process of		** The Qatar Computing Research Institute is in the process of
	deciding whether they will be a Silver Sponsor ($3875) for the		deciding whether they will be a Silver Sponsor ($3875) for the
	main conference. This funding is however not finally approved by		main conference. This funding is however not finally approved by
	QCRI management. (Provisional) contact: Preslav Nakov		QCRI management. (Provisional) contact: Preslav Nakov
	(pnakov@qf.org.qa).		(pnakov@qf.org.qa).

	2. Program committee:		# Program committee:

	We have recruited 52 reviewers for the program committee, of which 12		We have recruited 52 reviewers for the program committee, of which 12
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	wide range of research areas.		wide range of research areas.

	3. Mentorship Service Arrangement:		# Mentorship Service Arrangement:

	Nine students have requested pre-submission mentor services. We are		Nine students have requested pre-submission mentor services. We are
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	attending the conference or not.		attending the conference or not.

	4. Miscellaneous:		# Miscellaneous:

	We have set up an email alias acl-srw-2013@googlegroups.com to		We have set up an email alias acl-srw-2013@googlegroups.com to

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	== ACL Student Research Workshop ==		== ACL Student Research Workshop ==

	* Student Co-chairs: Ivelina Nikolova, Eva Maria Vecchi, Anik Dey,		* Student Co-chairs: Ivelina Nikolova, Eva Maria Vecchi, Anik Dey,
	Sebastian Krause		Sebastian Krause

	* Faculty Advisors: Preslav Nakov, Steven Bethard, Feiyu Xu		* Faculty Advisors: Preslav Nakov, Steven Bethard, Feiyu Xu

	1. Student travel grants:		1. Student travel grants:

	* US students, possibly also students from developing countries:		* US students, possibly also students from developing countries:
	Faculty advisor Steven Bethard (steven.bethard@colorado.edu) has		Faculty advisor Steven Bethard (steven.bethard@colorado.edu) has
	submitted a proposal to NSF requesting $21K for student travel		submitted a proposal to NSF requesting $21K for student travel
	support. The proposal is pending now, we expect to get the award		support. The proposal is pending now, we expect to get the award
	soon, though the approved funding will be $19K instead of $21K.		soon, though the approved funding will be $19K instead of $21K.
	* Mainly EU students, possibly also other students: Two EU-funded		* Mainly EU students, possibly also other students: Two EU-funded
	research projects donated $1.5K each. Project names: Network of		research projects donated $1.5K each. Project names: Network of
	Excellence META-NET, and Multilingual Web - Language Technology		Excellence META-NET, and Multilingual Web - Language Technology
	Contact: sarah.weichert@dfki.de		Contact: sarah.weichert@dfki.de

	* The Qatar Computing Research Institute is in the process of		* The Qatar Computing Research Institute is in the process of
	deciding whether they will be a Silver Sponsor ($3875) for the		deciding whether they will be a Silver Sponsor ($3875) for the
	main conference. This funding is however not finally approved by		main conference. This funding is however not finally approved by