2016Q3 Reports: Tutorial Chairs - Revision history

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	for inclusion in the conference handbook.		for inclusion in the conference handbook.

	There was some confusion among both co-chairs and presenters about the submission procedures for the final tutorial descriptions (for website and conference handbook), which led to presenters submitting by email in many different formats and extra (error prone) manual work in converting formats and correcting errors in the texts. The 'tutorial materials due' deadline, included in the acceptance email, seems obsolete in hindsight, as no materials at printed anymore		There was some confusion among both co-chairs and presenters about the submission procedures for the final tutorial descriptions (for website and conference handbook), which led to presenters submitting by email in many different formats and extra (error prone) manual work in converting formats and correcting errors in the texts. The 'tutorial materials due' deadline, included in the acceptance email, seems obsolete in hindsight, as no materials at printed anymore.

			== Acknowledgements ==

			We are grateful to Alexander Rush and Bishan Yang (NAACL tutorial chairs), Rebecca Hwa and Mohit Bansal (EMNLP tutorial chairs), Valia Kordoni and Kostadin Cholakov (local organizing committee), Florian Kunnerman and Yannick Versley (publication chair), and Priscilla Rasmussen (ACL), for various kinds of help, advice and assistance offered during the process of putting the tutorial programme and materials together. Most importantly, we would like to thank the tutorial presenters for the time and effort in preparing and presenting the tutorials.

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	Miriam R L Petruck and Ellen K Dodge		Miriam R L Petruck and Ellen K Dodge

			== Tutorial descriptions ==

			The original tutorial proposals were submitted through the START system. Tutorial presenters submitted final versions of their tutorial descriptions by email to the tutorial chairs. These were converted by hand by the chairs and Kostadin Cholakov (local organizing committee) to a format appropriate for the ACL'16 website. We are currently in the process of collecting course materials from the presenters, but there is no plan to print them. We have collected abstracts of the tutorials
			for inclusion in the conference handbook.

			There was some confusion among both co-chairs and presenters about the submission procedures for the final tutorial descriptions (for website and conference handbook), which led to presenters submitting by email in many different formats and extra (error prone) manual work in converting formats and correcting errors in the texts. The 'tutorial materials due' deadline, included in the acceptance email, seems obsolete in hindsight, as no materials at printed anymore

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	The 6 tutorial co-chairs reached consensus and agreed on selecting 8 half-day proposals for ACL. Acceptance letters were personalized by venue, then sent via softconf. We did not send feedback to proposers.		The 6 tutorial co-chairs reached consensus and agreed on selecting 8 half-day proposals for ACL. Acceptance letters were personalized by venue, then sent via softconf. We did not send feedback to proposers.

			== Selected tutorials ==

			Tutorials were assigned by the tutorials chairs to morning or afternoon slots, in a way that tried to minimize overlap in potential audience between tutorials.

			=== Morning Tutorials ===

			''Multimodal Learning and Reasoning''

			Desmond Elliott, Douwe Kiela and Angeliki Lazaridou

			''NLP Approaches to Computational Argumentation''

			Noam Slonim, Iryna Gurevych, Chris Reed and Benno Stein

			''Computer Aided Translation''

			Philipp Koehn

			''Semantic Representations of Word Senses and Concepts''

			José Camacho-Collados, Ignacio Iacobacci, Roberto Navigli and Mohammad Taher Pilehvar

			=== Afternoon Tutorials ===

			''Neural Machine Translation''

			Thang Luong, Kyunghyun Cho and Christopher D. Manning

			''Game Theory and Natural Language: Origin, Evolution and Processing''

			Rocco Tripodi and Marcello Pelillo

			''Understanding Short Texts''

			Zhongyuan Wang and Haixun Wang

			''MetaNet: Repository, Identification System, and Applications''

			Miriam R L Petruck and Ellen K Dodge

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	* ACL Tutorial course material due: July 7, 2016		* ACL Tutorial course material due: July 7, 2016
	* ACL Tutorial date: August 7, 2016		* ACL Tutorial date: August 7, 2016

			== Call and selection procedure ==

			The call for proposals (CFP) was posted the 10th of September, both at the ACL website and sent to high-volume NLP/CL mailing lists. Tutorial co-chairs discussed interesting topics, and approached some experts to suggest they could submit proposals.

			Softconf was used for proposal submission. We received 32 proposals which were reviewed by the 6 co-chairs according to the following criteria:

			* relevance to ACL community (1=irrelevant, 5=great fit) (15)
			* quality of instructor (1=poor, 5=great) (15)
			* quality of proposal i.e. outline and whether depth/breadth is adequate (15)
			* our estimate of potential attendance (not from proposal)
			* newly emerging area not previously covered in an ACL related tutorial (yes or no)
			* tutorials which provide introductions into related fields (yes or no)
			* overall score (1=bad, 5=great) (15)
			* 1st preference for venue as indicated in proposal
			* comments

			Each proposal was reviewed twice and given a total score. The procedure for selecting and
			assigning the tutorials to the three venues was the following:

			* we ordered proposals by the venue preference expressed by proposers
			* each subcommittee made a tentative decision for the venue they're assigned to
			* we discussed the remaining/conflicting/redundant proposals, and tried to balance topics across venues

			The 6 tutorial co-chairs reached consensus and agreed on selecting 8 half-day proposals for ACL. Acceptance letters were personalized by venue, then sent via softconf. We did not send feedback to proposers.

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Prepared July 8, 2016

Alexandra Birch (University of Edinburgh)

Willem Zuidema (University of Amsterdam)

== General Schedule ==

This year we had a joint call-for-tutorials, coordinated with the NAACL and EMNLP co-chairs (6 co-chairs in total).

In addition we coordinated the deadlines with Publication Chairs and Local Organizers.

Shared dates:

* Submission deadline for tutorial proposals: January 15, 2016
* Notification of acceptance: February 12, 2016
* Tutorial descriptions due: March 11, 2016

ACL:

* ACL Tutorial course material due: July 7, 2016
* ACL Tutorial date: August 7, 2016