2015Q3 Reports: NAACL 2015 - Revision history

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			Report by Rada Mihalcea, General Chair

	NAACL 2015 took place on May 31st - June 5th, 2015 in Denver, Colorado.		NAACL 2015 took place on May 31st - June 5th, 2015 in Denver, Colorado.
	Some of the highlights of this year's program include:		Some of the highlights of this year's program include:
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	co-chairs), Peter Ljunglof (website chair), Aurelia Bunescu (handbook cover		co-chairs), Peter Ljunglof (website chair), Aurelia Bunescu (handbook cover
	designer).		designer).



	The event was sponsored by several generous contributors: A9, Baobab,		The event was sponsored by several generous contributors: A9, Baobab,

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NAACL 2015 took place on May 31st - June 5th, 2015 in Denver, Colorado.
Some of the highlights of this year's program include:

- The main program, which received a total of 714 submissions, including
long (402) and short (312) papers, resulting in a program with 117 long
papers and 69 short papers. Three best paper awards were presented in a
plenary session during the last day of the conference.

- Two invited speakers - Lillian Lee from Cornell University and Fei-fei Li
from Stanford - who talked about the exciting research going on at the
intersection of our field with social sciences and computer vision
respectively

- Six tutorials held on May 31st

- Several student-authored papers, including regular research papers,
dissertation proposals, and an undergraduate track, presented as part of
the student research workshop

- Several demos presented during the poster/demo session

- Thirteen one-day workshops on diverse topics ranging from multiword
expressions and metaphors to clinical psychology and educational
applications, and Semeval as a two-day workshop

- A collocated conference: the fourth joint conference on lexical and
computational semantics *Sem

NAACL 2015 was made possible by the hard work of a wonderful group of
people: Joyce Chai and Anoop Sarkar (program chairs); Priscilla Rasmussen
(local organizer), Cornelia Caragea and Bing Liu (workshop co-chairs); Yang
Liu and Thamar Solorio (tutorial co-chairs); Shibamouli Lahiri, Karen
Mazidi and Alisa Zhila (student co-chairs) and Diana Inkpen and Smaranda
Muresan (faculty advisors) for the student research workshop; Matt Gerber,
Catherine Havasi, and Finley Lacatusu (demo co-chairs), Annie Louis
(student volunteer coordinator), Kevin Cohen (local sponsorship chair),
Saif Mohammad (publicity chair), Matt Post and Adam Lopez (publication
co-chairs), Peter Ljunglof (website chair), Aurelia Bunescu (handbook cover
designer).

The event was sponsored by several generous contributors: A9, Baobab,
Bloomberg, Digital Roots, Goldman Sachs, Google, IBM, Information Sciences
Institute, National Science Foundation, Nuance, SDL, University of
Washington Computational Linguistics, Yahoo Labs.

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	NAACL 2015 took place on May 31st - June 5th, 2015 in Denver, Colorado.		NAACL 2015 took place on May 31st - June 5th, 2015 in Denver, Colorado.
	Some of the highlights of this year's program include:		Some of the highlights of this year's program include:



	- The main program, which received a total of 714 submissions, including		- The main program, which received a total of 714 submissions, including
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	papers and 69 short papers. Three best paper awards were presented in a		papers and 69 short papers. Three best paper awards were presented in a
	plenary session during the last day of the conference.		plenary session during the last day of the conference.



	- Two invited speakers - Lillian Lee from Cornell University and Fei-fei Li		- Two invited speakers - Lillian Lee from Cornell University and Fei-fei Li
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	intersection of our field with social sciences and computer vision		intersection of our field with social sciences and computer vision
	respectively		respectively



	- Six tutorials held on May 31st		- Six tutorials held on May 31st
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	dissertation proposals, and an undergraduate track, presented as part of		dissertation proposals, and an undergraduate track, presented as part of
	the student research workshop		the student research workshop



	- Several demos presented during the poster/demo session		- Several demos presented during the poster/demo session



	- Thirteen one-day workshops on diverse topics ranging from multiword		- Thirteen one-day workshops on diverse topics ranging from multiword
	expressions and metaphors to clinical psychology and educational		expressions and metaphors to clinical psychology and educational
	applications, and Semeval as a two-day workshop		applications, and Semeval as a two-day workshop



	- A collocated conference: the fourth joint conference on lexical and		- A collocated conference: the fourth joint conference on lexical and
	computational semantics *Sem		computational semantics *Sem



	NAACL 2015 was made possible by the hard work of a wonderful group of		NAACL 2015 was made possible by the hard work of a wonderful group of