2017Q1 Reports: ACL 2017 - Revision history

ChrisCallisonBurch: /* Program Co-Chairs */

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Program Co-Chairs

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	The deadline for long and short paper submissions recently passed (it was Monday, Feb 6th). We received 829 long paper submissions, and 590 short paper submissions (1,359 total). After removing duplicates and erroneous submissions, 751 long papers and 567 short papers remained (1,318 total). Here are the historical submission rates: https://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=Conference_acceptance_rates Last year there were 825 long paper submissions (a record) and 463 short paper submissions (1,288 total).		The deadline for long and short paper submissions recently passed (it was Monday, Feb 6th). We received 829 long paper submissions, and 590 short paper submissions (1,359 total). After removing duplicates and erroneous submissions, 751 long papers and 567 short papers remained (1,318 total). Here are the historical submission rates: https://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=Conference_acceptance_rates Last year there were 825 long paper submissions (a record) and 463 short paper submissions (1,288 total).

			Here is the program co-chairs blog post about the paper submission process and assigning the papers to areas: https://chairs-blog.acl2017.org/2017/02/15/statistics-on-submissions-and-status-update/

	Upcoming items on the reviewing are:		Upcoming items on the reviewing are:

ChrisCallisonBurch: /* Program Co-Chairs */

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Program Co-Chairs

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	In addition to recruiting the 60 area chairs, the program co-chairs invited 1,532 reviewers, explaining their new procedure including a shortened reviewer time and the integration with the Toronto paper matching system (http://torontopapermatching.org/webapp/profileBrowser/about_us/). This blog post explains the changes to the reviewing process this year: https://chairs-blog.acl2017.org/2016/12/26/changes-to-the-reviewing-process/ 1,228 invitees accepted the invitation and 169 that had to decline. Of the 1,228 that accepted to be reviewers, 893 (72%) have finished the requested survey and we have their area preferences and keywords. Min and Regina and the area chairs manually assigned the reviewers to corresponding areas for the stragglers. The program co-chairs also invited PhD students who had previous publications in NLP venues to participate in the reviewing process.		In addition to recruiting the 60 area chairs, the program co-chairs invited 1,532 reviewers, explaining their new procedure including a shortened reviewer time and the integration with the Toronto paper matching system (http://torontopapermatching.org/webapp/profileBrowser/about_us/). This blog post explains the changes to the reviewing process this year: https://chairs-blog.acl2017.org/2016/12/26/changes-to-the-reviewing-process/ 1,228 invitees accepted the invitation and 169 that had to decline. Of the 1,228 that accepted to be reviewers, 893 (72%) have finished the requested survey and we have their area preferences and keywords. Min and Regina and the area chairs manually assigned the reviewers to corresponding areas for the stragglers. The program co-chairs also invited PhD students who had previous publications in NLP venues to participate in the reviewing process.

	The deadline for long and short paper submissions recently passed (it was Monday, Feb 6th). We received 829 long paper submissions, and 590 short paper submissions (~~these counts are upper bounds~~, ~~since we have not yet removed~~ duplicates and erroneous submissions). Here are the historical submission rates: https://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=Conference_acceptance_rates Last year there were 825 long paper submissions (a ~~new~~ record) and 463 short paper submissions. ~~It looks like we are likely to exceed the past record number of submissions.~~		The deadline for long and short paper submissions recently passed (it was Monday, Feb 6th). We received 829 long paper submissions, and 590 short paper submissions (1,359 total). After removing duplicates and erroneous submissions, 751 long papers and 567 short papers remained (1,318 total). Here are the historical submission rates: https://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=Conference_acceptance_rates Last year there were 825 long paper submissions (a record) and 463 short paper submissions (1,288 total).

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	* Decide on which papers will be presented as talks and which as posters (including for TACL papers)		* Decide on which papers will be presented as talks and which as posters (including for TACL papers)
	* Set the program (include the SRW and Demo papers during the evening poster sessions)		* Set the program (include the SRW and Demo papers during the evening poster sessions)


	== '''Local Organizing Committee''' ==		== '''Local Organizing Committee''' ==

ChrisCallisonBurch: /* Local Organizing Committee */

2017-02-13T16:37:29Z

Local Organizing Committee

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	Additionally we have a spillover block of rooms at the Sheraton for regular conference goers at slightly higher than the Westin pricing.		Additionally we have a spillover block of rooms at the Sheraton for regular conference goers at slightly higher than the Westin pricing.

	Priscilla has been working with the Workshop Chairs and verified that we have ample space for all workshops and appropriately sized rooms at the Westin to accommodate higher attendance~~. She has not been asked about tutorials but do have good sized rooms and more than enough of them~~. The poster sessions will be tricky to get set up since we have to reuse some of the parallel session rooms rather than having a separate space (as in NAACL and ACL 2016) but it is more our burden than anything the attendees will see (hopefully!). We do have to get started in advertising the Recruitment Lunch and begin getting this plan in place soon.		Priscilla has been working with the Workshop Chairs and verified that we have ample space for all workshops and appropriately sized rooms at the Westin to accommodate higher attendance. The poster sessions will be tricky to get set up since we have to reuse some of the parallel session rooms rather than having a separate space (as in NAACL and ACL 2016) but it is more our burden than anything the attendees will see (hopefully!). We do have to get started in advertising the Recruitment Lunch and begin getting this plan in place soon.

	Kostadin Cholakov, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, has agreed to be the student volunteer coordinator after being an excellent helper to Priscilla at ACL in Berlin.		Kostadin Cholakov, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, has agreed to be the student volunteer coordinator after being an excellent helper to Priscilla at ACL in Berlin.


	== '''Tutorial Chairs''' ==		== '''Tutorial Chairs''' ==

ChrisCallisonBurch: /* General Chair */

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General Chair

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	The 55th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) will take place in Vancouver, Canada. ACL 2017 will be held at the Westin Bayshore Hotel in downtown Vancouver from July 30th through August 4th, 2017. I have organized an excellent team to put together the conference. I have structured this report around their activities. In addition to what is reported below, I am hoping to add some options to make our conference friendlier to participants bringing their children along. We are going to investigate childcare options and possibly allowing conference goers to purchase breakfasts and dinners for their family members.		The 55th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) will take place in Vancouver, Canada. ACL 2017 will be held at the Westin Bayshore Hotel in downtown Vancouver from July 30th through August 4th, 2017. I have organized an excellent team to put together the conference. I have structured this report around their activities. In addition to what is reported below, I am hoping to add some options to make our conference friendlier to participants bringing their children along. We are going to investigate childcare options and possibly allowing conference goers to purchase breakfasts and dinners for their family members.

			A note on gender balance in the organizing committee: I attempted to recruit an even number of women and men to organize ACL 2017. There are 13 male organizers (including myself) and 11 female organizers.

	== '''Program Co-Chairs''' ==		== '''Program Co-Chairs''' ==

ChrisCallisonBurch: /* Workshop Chairs */

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Workshop Chairs

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	We successfully encouraged LaTech and CLfL for a merge and allocated both to ACL to help this subfield to gain more tractions. After much discussion, we also accepted the NMT workshop’s request to change their location from EACL to ACL. We did not receive any complaints from rejected workshop organizers this year.		We successfully encouraged LaTech and CLfL for a merge and allocated both to ACL to help this subfield to gain more tractions. After much discussion, we also accepted the NMT workshop’s request to change their location from EACL to ACL. We did not receive any complaints from rejected workshop organizers this year.

	Here are the 14 selected workshops:		Here are the 14 selected workshops / colocated conferences:

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	! Abbreviation		! Abbreviation
	! ~~Workshop title~~		! Title
	! ~~Workshop organizers~~		! Organizers
	! Website		! Website
	\|-		\|-

ChrisCallisonBurch: /* Workshop Chairs */

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Workshop Chairs

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	\| *Sem		\| *Sem
	\|		\| The Sixth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics
	\| Aurelie Herbel and Lluis Marquez		\| Aurelie Herbel and Lluis Marquez
	\| https://sites.google.com/site/starsem2017/		\| https://sites.google.com/site/starsem2017/

ChrisCallisonBurch: /* Workshop Chairs */

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Workshop Chairs

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	~~1 day workshops on August 3:~~

	TextGraphs-11		{\|
	TextGraphs-11: Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing		\|+ 1 day workshops on August 3:
	Martin Riedl, Swapna Somasundaran, Goran GlavaÅ¡ and Eduard Hovy		\|-
	http://textgraphs.org/ws17		! Abbreviation
			! Workshop title
			! Workshop organizers
			! Website
			\|-
			\| TextGraphs-11
			\| TextGraphs-11: Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing
			\| Martin Riedl, Swapna Somasundaran, Goran GlavaÅ¡ and Eduard Hovy
			\| http://textgraphs.org/ws17
			\|-
			\| BUCC
			\| 10th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora
			\| Serge Sharoff, Pierre Zweigenbaum and Reinhard Rapp
			\| https://comparable.limsi.fr/
			\|-
			\| RepL4NLP
			\| 2nd Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP
			\| Phil Blunsom, Antoine Bordes, Shay B. Cohen, Kyunghyun Cho, Chris Dyer, Edward Grefenstette, Karl Moritz Hermann, Laura Rimell, Jason Weston and Wen-tau Yih
			\| https://sites.google.com/site/repl4nlp2017
			\|-
			\| RoboNLP
			\| 1st Workshop on Language Grounding for Robotics
			\| Mohit Bansal, Cynthia Matuszek, Jacob Andreas, Yoav Artzi and Yonatan Bisk
			\| https://robonlp2017.github.io/
			\|-
			\| NLP+CSS
			\| 2nd workshop on NLP and Computational Social Science
			\| Dirk Hovy, A. Seza DoÄŸruÃ¶z, Oren Tsur, David Bamman, David Jurgens and Brendan O'Connor
			\| https://sites.google.com/site/nlpandcss/nlp-css-at-acl-2017
			\|-
			\| CLPsych
			\| 4th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology - From Linguistic Signal to Clinical Reality
			\| Kristy Hollingshead, Molly Ireland and Kate Loveys
			\| http://clpsych.org/
			\|}

	~~BUCC~~		{\|
	~~10th Workshop~~ on ~~Building and Using Comparable Corpora~~		\|+ 1 day workshops on August 4
	~~Serge Sharoff, Pierre Zweigenbaum and Reinhard Rapp~~		\|-
	~~https://comparable.limsi.fr/~~		! Abbreviation
			! Workshop title
	~~RepL4NLP~~		! Workshop organizers
	~~2nd~~ Workshop ~~on Representation Learning for NLP~~		! Website
	~~Phil Blunsom, Antoine Bordes, Shay B. Cohen, Kyunghyun Cho, Chris Dyer, Edward Grefenstette, Karl Moritz Hermann, Laura Rimell, Jason Weston and Wen-tau Yih~~		\|-
	~~https://sites.google.com/site/repl4nlp2017~~		\| LaTeCH-CLfL
			\| Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature
	~~RoboNLP~~		\| Beatrice Alex, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Anna Feldman, Anna Kazantseva, Nils Reiter and Stan Szpakowicz
	~~1st~~ Workshop ~~on Language Grounding for Robotics~~		\| https://sighum.wordpress.com/events/latech-clfl-2017/
	~~Mohit Bansal, Cynthia Matuszek, Jacob Andreas, Yoav Artzi and Yonatan Bisk~~		\|-
	~~https://robonlp2017.github.io/~~		\| BioNLP17
			\| BioNLP 2017
	~~NLP+CSS~~		\| Dina Demner-Fushman, Kevin Cohen, Sophia Ananiadou and Jun'ichi Tsujii
	~~2nd workshop on NLP and Computational Social Science~~		\| https://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=BioNLP_Workshop
	~~Dirk Hovy, A. Seza DoÄŸruÃ¶z, Oren Tsur, David Bamman, David Jurgens and Brendan O'Connor~~		\|-
	~~https://sites.google.com/site/nlpandcss/nlp-css-at-acl~~-~~2017~~		\| EventStory
			\| Events and Stories in the News
	~~CLPsych~~		\| Tommaso Caselli, Ben Miller, Marieke van Erp, Piek Vossen, Martha Palmer, Eduard Hovy, Teruko Mitamura and David Caswell
	~~4th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology - From Linguistic Signal to Clinical Reality~~		\| https://sites.google.com/site/eventsandstoriesinthenews/
	~~Kristy Hollingshead, Molly Ireland and Kate Loveys~~		\|-
	~~http://clpsych.org/~~		\| Abusive
			\| 1st Workshop on Abusive Language Online
			\| Zeerak Waseem, Dirk Hovy, Joel Tetreault and Wendy Chun
	~~1 day workshops on August 4:~~		\| https://sites.google.com/site/abusivelanguageworkshop2017/
			\|-
	LaTeCH-CLfL		\| NMT
	Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature		\| 1st Workshop on Neural Machine Translation
	Beatrice Alex, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Anna Feldman, Anna Kazantseva, Nils Reiter and Stan Szpakowicz		\| Minh-Thang Luong, Graham Neubig, Alexandra Birch and Andrew Finch
	https://sighum.wordpress.com/events/latech-clfl-2017/		\| https://sites.google.com/site/acl17nmt
			\|}
	BioNLP17
	BioNLP 2017
	Dina Demner-Fushman, Kevin Cohen, Sophia Ananiadou and Jun'ichi Tsujii
	https://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=BioNLP_Workshop

	EventStory
	Events and Stories in the News
	Tommaso Caselli, Ben Miller, Marieke van Erp, Piek Vossen, Martha Palmer, Eduard Hovy, Teruko Mitamura and David Caswell
	https://sites.google.com/site/eventsandstoriesinthenews/

	Abusive
	1st Workshop on Abusive Language Online
	Zeerak Waseem, Dirk Hovy, Joel Tetreault and Wendy Chun
	https://sites.google.com/site/abusivelanguageworkshop2017/

	NMT
	1st Workshop on Neural Machine Translation
	Minh-Thang Luong, Graham Neubig, Alexandra Birch and Andrew Finch
	https://sites.google.com/site/acl17nmt

	== '''Student Research Workshop, ACL 2017''' ==		== '''Student Research Workshop, ACL 2017''' ==

ChrisCallisonBurch: /* Workshop Chairs */

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Workshop Chairs

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	{\|		{\|
	!+ 2 Day Workshops (Aug 3-4)		\|+ 2 Day Workshops (Aug 3-4)
	\|-		\|-
	! Abbreviation		! Abbreviation

ChrisCallisonBurch: /* Workshop Chairs */

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Workshop Chairs

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	Here are the 14 selected workshops:		Here are the 14 selected workshops:

	2 Day Workshops (Aug 3-4)~~<br />~~		{\|
			!+ 2 Day Workshops (Aug 3-4)
	~~StarSem~~		\|-
	Workshop organizers: Aurelie Herbel and Lluis Marquez		! Abbreviation
	https://sites.google.com/site/starsem2017/		! Workshop title
			! Workshop organizers
	CoNLL		! Website
	The SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning		\|-
	~~Workshop organizers:~~ Lucia Specia and Roger Levy		\| *Sem
	http://www.conll.org/		\|
			\| Aurelie Herbel and Lluis Marquez
	SemEval		\| https://sites.google.com/site/starsem2017/
	11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations		\|-
	~~Workshop organizers:~~ Steven Bethard, Marine Carpuat, Marianna Apidianaki and Saif Mohammad		\| CoNLL
	http://alt.qcri.org/semeval2017/		\| The SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning
			\| Lucia Specia and Roger Levy
			\| http://www.conll.org/
			\|-
			\| SemEval
			\| 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations
			\| Steven Bethard, Marine Carpuat, Marianna Apidianaki and Saif Mohammad
			\| http://alt.qcri.org/semeval2017/
			\|}

	1 day workshops on August 3:		1 day workshops on August 3:
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	Minh-Thang Luong, Graham Neubig, Alexandra Birch and Andrew Finch		Minh-Thang Luong, Graham Neubig, Alexandra Birch and Andrew Finch
	https://sites.google.com/site/acl17nmt		https://sites.google.com/site/acl17nmt



	== '''Student Research Workshop, ACL 2017''' ==		== '''Student Research Workshop, ACL 2017''' ==

ChrisCallisonBurch: /* Business Office */

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Business Office

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			Apple is joining us as a sponsor for the first time this year.
	We expect to go well over $100K in total main conference sponsorships.		We expect to go well over $100K in total main conference sponsorships.