2017Q1 Reports: Conference Officer - Revision history

YejinChoi: /* Scaling up ACL Conferences */

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Scaling up ACL Conferences

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	The past year has been a memorable year for ACL to have more distinct voices and actions in support of diversity on several fronts. First, an ad hoc committee has been formed about a year ago to investigate current practices and policies for nominating and selecting various roles and awards in ACL, including ACL Fellows, life time achievements awards, and ACL chairs. A report was presented at ACL 2016 and was well received with broad interests from the community. The revised policy will be effective starting from 2017. The committee continues to work on preparing detailed recommendations and a new system to better support the execution of the new policy. Second, there have been great interests to initiate "Women in NLP" workshops in the coming NLP conferences in support of women and other minorities in NLP. Third, with leading efforts from Meg Mitchell, Emily Bender, and Hal Daume and others, ACL has made a statement in support of students and researchers from certain geographic locations whose participation may be affected in future ACL conferences.		The past year has been a memorable year for ACL to have more distinct voices and actions in support of diversity on several fronts. First, an ad hoc committee has been formed about a year ago to investigate current practices and policies for nominating and selecting various roles and awards in ACL, including ACL Fellows, life time achievements awards, and ACL chairs. A report was presented at ACL 2016 and was well received with broad interests from the community. The revised policy will be effective starting from 2017. The committee continues to work on preparing detailed recommendations and a new system to better support the execution of the new policy. Second, there have been great interests to initiate "Women in NLP" workshops in the coming NLP conferences in support of women and other minorities in NLP. Third, with leading efforts from Meg Mitchell, Emily Bender, and Hal Daume and others, ACL has made a statement in support of students and researchers from certain geographic locations whose participation may be affected in future ACL conferences.

	==Scaling up ~~ACL Conferences~~==		==Scaling up Conference Management==

	As there has been a considerable growth in the number of submissions made to ACL conferences in recent years, we has been increasing need to better automate core functions of the conference management system. In response to the enthusiastic request from ACL 2017 organizers and others, SoftConf has agreed to integrate Toronto Matching system to automate topic-based reviewer-to-paper assignments. The expectation is that Toronto matching system, which has been successfully used for several other conferences with considerably larger submissions, will have repeated uses for future ACL conferences. This feature complements the already existing reviewer-to-area assignments newly introduced for NAACL 2016. While the reviewer-to-area assignments work based on a manually specified set of keywords to match expertise, new Toronto matching system will match reviewers to papers based on automatically parsed information from publication records, which in turn can be automatically downloaded from people's homepages, Google Scholar, and other pages that have links to pdf papers.		As there has been a considerable growth in the number of submissions made to ACL conferences in recent years, we has been increasing need to better automate core functions of the conference management system. In response to the enthusiastic request from ACL 2017 organizers and others, SoftConf has agreed to integrate Toronto Matching system to automate topic-based reviewer-to-paper assignments. The expectation is that Toronto matching system, which has been successfully used for several other conferences with considerably larger submissions, will have repeated uses for future ACL conferences. This feature complements the already existing reviewer-to-area assignments newly introduced for NAACL 2016. While the reviewer-to-area assignments work based on a manually specified set of keywords to match expertise, new Toronto matching system will match reviewers to papers based on automatically parsed information from publication records, which in turn can be automatically downloaded from people's homepages, Google Scholar, and other pages that have links to pdf papers.

YejinChoi: /* Scaling up Conference Management */

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Scaling up Conference Management

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	The past year has been a memorable year for ACL to have more distinct voices and actions in support of diversity on several fronts. First, an ad hoc committee has been formed about a year ago to investigate current practices and policies for nominating and selecting various roles and awards in ACL, including ACL Fellows, life time achievements awards, and ACL chairs. A report was presented at ACL 2016 and was well received with broad interests from the community. The revised policy will be effective starting from 2017. The committee continues to work on preparing detailed recommendations and a new system to better support the execution of the new policy. Second, there have been great interests to initiate "Women in NLP" workshops in the coming NLP conferences in support of women and other minorities in NLP. Third, with leading efforts from Meg Mitchell, Emily Bender, and Hal Daume and others, ACL has made a statement in support of students and researchers from certain geographic locations whose participation may be affected in future ACL conferences.		The past year has been a memorable year for ACL to have more distinct voices and actions in support of diversity on several fronts. First, an ad hoc committee has been formed about a year ago to investigate current practices and policies for nominating and selecting various roles and awards in ACL, including ACL Fellows, life time achievements awards, and ACL chairs. A report was presented at ACL 2016 and was well received with broad interests from the community. The revised policy will be effective starting from 2017. The committee continues to work on preparing detailed recommendations and a new system to better support the execution of the new policy. Second, there have been great interests to initiate "Women in NLP" workshops in the coming NLP conferences in support of women and other minorities in NLP. Third, with leading efforts from Meg Mitchell, Emily Bender, and Hal Daume and others, ACL has made a statement in support of students and researchers from certain geographic locations whose participation may be affected in future ACL conferences.

	==Scaling up ~~Conference Management~~==		==Scaling up ACL Conferences==

	As there has been a considerable growth in the number of submissions made to ACL conferences in recent years, we has been increasing need to better automate core functions of the conference management system. In response to the enthusiastic request from ACL 2017 organizers and others, SoftConf has agreed to integrate Toronto Matching system to automate topic-based reviewer-to-paper assignments. The expectation is that Toronto matching system, which has been successfully used for several other conferences with considerably larger submissions, will have repeated uses for future ACL conferences. This feature complements the already existing reviewer-to-area assignments newly introduced for NAACL 2016. While the reviewer-to-area assignments work based on a manually specified set of keywords to match expertise, new Toronto matching system will match reviewers to papers based on automatically parsed information from publication records, which in turn can be automatically downloaded from people's homepages, Google Scholar, and other pages that have links to pdf papers.		As there has been a considerable growth in the number of submissions made to ACL conferences in recent years, we has been increasing need to better automate core functions of the conference management system. In response to the enthusiastic request from ACL 2017 organizers and others, SoftConf has agreed to integrate Toronto Matching system to automate topic-based reviewer-to-paper assignments. The expectation is that Toronto matching system, which has been successfully used for several other conferences with considerably larger submissions, will have repeated uses for future ACL conferences. This feature complements the already existing reviewer-to-area assignments newly introduced for NAACL 2016. While the reviewer-to-area assignments work based on a manually specified set of keywords to match expertise, new Toronto matching system will match reviewers to papers based on automatically parsed information from publication records, which in turn can be automatically downloaded from people's homepages, Google Scholar, and other pages that have links to pdf papers.

YejinChoi: /* Scaling up Conference Management in Response to Recent Growth in ACL */

2017-02-14T09:25:07Z

Scaling up Conference Management in Response to Recent Growth in ACL

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	The past year has been a memorable year for ACL to have more distinct voices and actions in support of diversity on several fronts. First, an ad hoc committee has been formed about a year ago to investigate current practices and policies for nominating and selecting various roles and awards in ACL, including ACL Fellows, life time achievements awards, and ACL chairs. A report was presented at ACL 2016 and was well received with broad interests from the community. The revised policy will be effective starting from 2017. The committee continues to work on preparing detailed recommendations and a new system to better support the execution of the new policy. Second, there have been great interests to initiate "Women in NLP" workshops in the coming NLP conferences in support of women and other minorities in NLP. Third, with leading efforts from Meg Mitchell, Emily Bender, and Hal Daume and others, ACL has made a statement in support of students and researchers from certain geographic locations whose participation may be affected in future ACL conferences.		The past year has been a memorable year for ACL to have more distinct voices and actions in support of diversity on several fronts. First, an ad hoc committee has been formed about a year ago to investigate current practices and policies for nominating and selecting various roles and awards in ACL, including ACL Fellows, life time achievements awards, and ACL chairs. A report was presented at ACL 2016 and was well received with broad interests from the community. The revised policy will be effective starting from 2017. The committee continues to work on preparing detailed recommendations and a new system to better support the execution of the new policy. Second, there have been great interests to initiate "Women in NLP" workshops in the coming NLP conferences in support of women and other minorities in NLP. Third, with leading efforts from Meg Mitchell, Emily Bender, and Hal Daume and others, ACL has made a statement in support of students and researchers from certain geographic locations whose participation may be affected in future ACL conferences.

	==Scaling up Conference Management ~~in Response to Recent Growth in ACL~~==		==Scaling up Conference Management==

	As there has been a considerable growth in the number of submissions made to ACL conferences in recent years, we has been increasing need to better automate core functions of the conference management system. In response to the enthusiastic request from ACL 2017 organizers and others, SoftConf has agreed to integrate Toronto Matching system to automate topic-based reviewer-to-paper assignments. The expectation is that Toronto matching system, which has been successfully used for several other conferences with considerably larger submissions, will have repeated uses for future ACL conferences. This feature complements the already existing reviewer-to-area assignments newly introduced for NAACL 2016. While the reviewer-to-area assignments work based on a manually specified set of keywords to match expertise, new Toronto matching system will match reviewers to papers based on automatically parsed information from publication records, which in turn can be automatically downloaded from people's homepages, Google Scholar, and other pages that have links to pdf papers.		As there has been a considerable growth in the number of submissions made to ACL conferences in recent years, we has been increasing need to better automate core functions of the conference management system. In response to the enthusiastic request from ACL 2017 organizers and others, SoftConf has agreed to integrate Toronto Matching system to automate topic-based reviewer-to-paper assignments. The expectation is that Toronto matching system, which has been successfully used for several other conferences with considerably larger submissions, will have repeated uses for future ACL conferences. This feature complements the already existing reviewer-to-area assignments newly introduced for NAACL 2016. While the reviewer-to-area assignments work based on a manually specified set of keywords to match expertise, new Toronto matching system will match reviewers to papers based on automatically parsed information from publication records, which in turn can be automatically downloaded from people's homepages, Google Scholar, and other pages that have links to pdf papers.

YejinChoi: /* Scaling up Conference Management */

2017-02-14T09:24:24Z

Scaling up Conference Management

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	The past year has been a memorable year for ACL to have more distinct voices and actions in support of diversity on several fronts. First, an ad hoc committee has been formed about a year ago to investigate current practices and policies for nominating and selecting various roles and awards in ACL, including ACL Fellows, life time achievements awards, and ACL chairs. A report was presented at ACL 2016 and was well received with broad interests from the community. The revised policy will be effective starting from 2017. The committee continues to work on preparing detailed recommendations and a new system to better support the execution of the new policy. Second, there have been great interests to initiate "Women in NLP" workshops in the coming NLP conferences in support of women and other minorities in NLP. Third, with leading efforts from Meg Mitchell, Emily Bender, and Hal Daume and others, ACL has made a statement in support of students and researchers from certain geographic locations whose participation may be affected in future ACL conferences.		The past year has been a memorable year for ACL to have more distinct voices and actions in support of diversity on several fronts. First, an ad hoc committee has been formed about a year ago to investigate current practices and policies for nominating and selecting various roles and awards in ACL, including ACL Fellows, life time achievements awards, and ACL chairs. A report was presented at ACL 2016 and was well received with broad interests from the community. The revised policy will be effective starting from 2017. The committee continues to work on preparing detailed recommendations and a new system to better support the execution of the new policy. Second, there have been great interests to initiate "Women in NLP" workshops in the coming NLP conferences in support of women and other minorities in NLP. Third, with leading efforts from Meg Mitchell, Emily Bender, and Hal Daume and others, ACL has made a statement in support of students and researchers from certain geographic locations whose participation may be affected in future ACL conferences.

	==Scaling up Conference Management==		==Scaling up Conference Management in Response to Recent Growth in ACL==

	As there has been a considerable growth in the number of submissions made to ACL conferences in recent years, we has been increasing need to better automate core functions of the conference management system. In response to the enthusiastic request from ACL 2017 organizers and others, SoftConf has agreed to integrate Toronto Matching system to automate topic-based reviewer-to-paper assignments. The expectation is that Toronto matching system, which has been successfully used for several other conferences with considerably larger submissions, will have repeated uses for future ACL conferences. This feature complements the already existing reviewer-to-area assignments newly introduced for NAACL 2016. While the reviewer-to-area assignments work based on a manually specified set of keywords to match expertise, new Toronto matching system will match reviewers to papers based on automatically parsed information from publication records, which in turn can be automatically downloaded from people's homepages, Google Scholar, and other pages that have links to pdf papers.		As there has been a considerable growth in the number of submissions made to ACL conferences in recent years, we has been increasing need to better automate core functions of the conference management system. In response to the enthusiastic request from ACL 2017 organizers and others, SoftConf has agreed to integrate Toronto Matching system to automate topic-based reviewer-to-paper assignments. The expectation is that Toronto matching system, which has been successfully used for several other conferences with considerably larger submissions, will have repeated uses for future ACL conferences. This feature complements the already existing reviewer-to-area assignments newly introduced for NAACL 2016. While the reviewer-to-area assignments work based on a manually specified set of keywords to match expertise, new Toronto matching system will match reviewers to papers based on automatically parsed information from publication records, which in turn can be automatically downloaded from people's homepages, Google Scholar, and other pages that have links to pdf papers.

YejinChoi: /* Updates on SoftConf Conference Management System */

2017-02-14T09:24:04Z

Updates on SoftConf Conference Management System

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	The past year has been a memorable year for ACL to have more distinct voices and actions in support of diversity on several fronts. First, an ad hoc committee has been formed about a year ago to investigate current practices and policies for nominating and selecting various roles and awards in ACL, including ACL Fellows, life time achievements awards, and ACL chairs. A report was presented at ACL 2016 and was well received with broad interests from the community. The revised policy will be effective starting from 2017. The committee continues to work on preparing detailed recommendations and a new system to better support the execution of the new policy. Second, there have been great interests to initiate "Women in NLP" workshops in the coming NLP conferences in support of women and other minorities in NLP. Third, with leading efforts from Meg Mitchell, Emily Bender, and Hal Daume and others, ACL has made a statement in support of students and researchers from certain geographic locations whose participation may be affected in future ACL conferences.		The past year has been a memorable year for ACL to have more distinct voices and actions in support of diversity on several fronts. First, an ad hoc committee has been formed about a year ago to investigate current practices and policies for nominating and selecting various roles and awards in ACL, including ACL Fellows, life time achievements awards, and ACL chairs. A report was presented at ACL 2016 and was well received with broad interests from the community. The revised policy will be effective starting from 2017. The committee continues to work on preparing detailed recommendations and a new system to better support the execution of the new policy. Second, there have been great interests to initiate "Women in NLP" workshops in the coming NLP conferences in support of women and other minorities in NLP. Third, with leading efforts from Meg Mitchell, Emily Bender, and Hal Daume and others, ACL has made a statement in support of students and researchers from certain geographic locations whose participation may be affected in future ACL conferences.

	==~~Updates on SoftConf~~ Conference Management ~~System~~==		==Scaling up Conference Management==

	As there has been a considerable growth in the number of submissions made to ACL conferences in recent years, we has been increasing need to better automate core functions of the conference management system. In response to the enthusiastic request from ACL 2017 organizers and others, SoftConf has agreed to integrate Toronto Matching system to automate topic-based reviewer-to-paper assignments. The expectation is that Toronto matching system, which has been successfully used for several other conferences with considerably larger submissions, will have repeated uses for future ACL conferences. This feature complements the already existing reviewer-to-area assignments newly introduced for NAACL 2016. While the reviewer-to-area assignments work based on a manually specified set of keywords to match expertise, new Toronto matching system will match reviewers to papers based on automatically parsed information from publication records, which in turn can be automatically downloaded from people's homepages, Google Scholar, and other pages that have links to pdf papers.		As there has been a considerable growth in the number of submissions made to ACL conferences in recent years, we has been increasing need to better automate core functions of the conference management system. In response to the enthusiastic request from ACL 2017 organizers and others, SoftConf has agreed to integrate Toronto Matching system to automate topic-based reviewer-to-paper assignments. The expectation is that Toronto matching system, which has been successfully used for several other conferences with considerably larger submissions, will have repeated uses for future ACL conferences. This feature complements the already existing reviewer-to-area assignments newly introduced for NAACL 2016. While the reviewer-to-area assignments work based on a manually specified set of keywords to match expertise, new Toronto matching system will match reviewers to papers based on automatically parsed information from publication records, which in turn can be automatically downloaded from people's homepages, Google Scholar, and other pages that have links to pdf papers.

YejinChoi: /* START Support for Toronto Matching System */

2017-02-14T09:21:30Z

START Support for Toronto Matching System

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	The past year has been a memorable year for ACL to have more distinct voices and actions in support of diversity on several fronts. First, an ad hoc committee has been formed about a year ago to investigate current practices and policies for nominating and selecting various roles and awards in ACL, including ACL Fellows, life time achievements awards, and ACL chairs. A report was presented at ACL 2016 and was well received with broad interests from the community. The revised policy will be effective starting from 2017. The committee continues to work on preparing detailed recommendations and a new system to better support the execution of the new policy. Second, there have been great interests to initiate "Women in NLP" workshops in the coming NLP conferences in support of women and other minorities in NLP. Third, with leading efforts from Meg Mitchell, Emily Bender, and Hal Daume and others, ACL has made a statement in support of students and researchers from certain geographic locations whose participation may be affected in future ACL conferences.		The past year has been a memorable year for ACL to have more distinct voices and actions in support of diversity on several fronts. First, an ad hoc committee has been formed about a year ago to investigate current practices and policies for nominating and selecting various roles and awards in ACL, including ACL Fellows, life time achievements awards, and ACL chairs. A report was presented at ACL 2016 and was well received with broad interests from the community. The revised policy will be effective starting from 2017. The committee continues to work on preparing detailed recommendations and a new system to better support the execution of the new policy. Second, there have been great interests to initiate "Women in NLP" workshops in the coming NLP conferences in support of women and other minorities in NLP. Third, with leading efforts from Meg Mitchell, Emily Bender, and Hal Daume and others, ACL has made a statement in support of students and researchers from certain geographic locations whose participation may be affected in future ACL conferences.

	==~~START Support for Toronto Matching~~ System==		==Updates on SoftConf Conference Management System==

	As there has been a considerable growth in the number of submissions made to ACL conferences in recent years, we has been increasing need to better automate core functions of the conference management system. In response to the enthusiastic request from ACL 2017 organizers and others, SoftConf has agreed to integrate Toronto Matching system to automate topic-based reviewer-to-paper assignments. The expectation is that Toronto matching system, which has been successfully used for several other conferences with considerably larger submissions, will have repeated uses for future ACL conferences. This feature complements the already existing reviewer-to-area assignments newly introduced for NAACL 2016. While the reviewer-to-area assignments work based on a manually specified set of keywords to match expertise, new Toronto matching system will match reviewers to papers based on automatically parsed information from publication records, which in turn can be automatically downloaded from people's homepages, Google Scholar, and other pages that have links to pdf papers.		As there has been a considerable growth in the number of submissions made to ACL conferences in recent years, we has been increasing need to better automate core functions of the conference management system. In response to the enthusiastic request from ACL 2017 organizers and others, SoftConf has agreed to integrate Toronto Matching system to automate topic-based reviewer-to-paper assignments. The expectation is that Toronto matching system, which has been successfully used for several other conferences with considerably larger submissions, will have repeated uses for future ACL conferences. This feature complements the already existing reviewer-to-area assignments newly introduced for NAACL 2016. While the reviewer-to-area assignments work based on a manually specified set of keywords to match expertise, new Toronto matching system will match reviewers to papers based on automatically parsed information from publication records, which in turn can be automatically downloaded from people's homepages, Google Scholar, and other pages that have links to pdf papers.

YejinChoi at 09:19, 14 February 2017

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	==Actions and Voices in Support of Diversity==		==Actions and Voices in Support of Diversity==

	The past year has been a memorable year for ACL to have more distinct voices and actions in support of diversity on several fronts. First, an ad hoc committee has been formed about a year ago to investigate current practices and policies for nominating and selecting various roles and awards in ACL, including ACL Fellows, life time achievements awards, and ACL chairs. A report was presented at ACL 2016 and well received. The revised policy will be effective starting from 2017. The committee continues to work on preparing detailed recommendations and a new system to better support the execution of the new policy. Second, there have been great interests to initiate "Women in NLP" workshops in the coming NLP conferences in support of women and other minorities in NLP. Third, with leading efforts from Meg Mitchell, Emily Bender, and Hal Daume and others, ACL has made a statement in support of students and researchers from certain geographic locations whose participation may be affected in future ACL conferences.		The past year has been a memorable year for ACL to have more distinct voices and actions in support of diversity on several fronts. First, an ad hoc committee has been formed about a year ago to investigate current practices and policies for nominating and selecting various roles and awards in ACL, including ACL Fellows, life time achievements awards, and ACL chairs. A report was presented at ACL 2016 and was well received with broad interests from the community. The revised policy will be effective starting from 2017. The committee continues to work on preparing detailed recommendations and a new system to better support the execution of the new policy. Second, there have been great interests to initiate "Women in NLP" workshops in the coming NLP conferences in support of women and other minorities in NLP. Third, with leading efforts from Meg Mitchell, Emily Bender, and Hal Daume and others, ACL has made a statement in support of students and researchers from certain geographic locations whose participation may be affected in future ACL conferences.

	==START Support for Toronto Matching System==		==START Support for Toronto Matching System==

	As there has been a considerable growth in the number of submissions made to ACL conferences in recent years, we has been increasing need to better automate core functions of the conference management system. In response to the enthusiastic request from ACL 2017 organizers and others, SoftConf has agreed to integrate Toronto Matching system to automate topic-based reviewer-to-paper assignments. The expectation is that Toronto matching system, which has been successfully used for several other conferences with considerably larger submissions, will have repeated uses for future ACL conferences. This feature complements the already existing reviewer-to-area assignments newly introduced for NAACL 2016. While the reviewer-to-area assignments work based on a manually specified set of keywords to match expertise, new Toronto matching system will match reviewers to papers based on automatically parsed information from publication records, which in turn can be automatically downloaded from people's homepages, Google Scholar, and other pages that have links to pdf papers.		As there has been a considerable growth in the number of submissions made to ACL conferences in recent years, we has been increasing need to better automate core functions of the conference management system. In response to the enthusiastic request from ACL 2017 organizers and others, SoftConf has agreed to integrate Toronto Matching system to automate topic-based reviewer-to-paper assignments. The expectation is that Toronto matching system, which has been successfully used for several other conferences with considerably larger submissions, will have repeated uses for future ACL conferences. This feature complements the already existing reviewer-to-area assignments newly introduced for NAACL 2016. While the reviewer-to-area assignments work based on a manually specified set of keywords to match expertise, new Toronto matching system will match reviewers to papers based on automatically parsed information from publication records, which in turn can be automatically downloaded from people's homepages, Google Scholar, and other pages that have links to pdf papers.

YejinChoi: /* Actions and Voices in Support of Diversity */

2017-02-14T09:18:58Z

Actions and Voices in Support of Diversity

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	==Actions and Voices in Support of Diversity==		==Actions and Voices in Support of Diversity==

	The past year has been a memorable year for ACL to have more voices and actions in support of diversity on several fronts. First, an ad hoc committee has been formed about a year ago to investigate current practices and policies for nominating and selecting various roles and awards in ACL, including ACL Fellows, life time achievements awards, and ACL chairs. A report was presented at ACL 2016 and well received. The revised policy will be effective starting from 2017. The committee continues to work on preparing detailed recommendations and a new system to better support the execution of the new policy. Second, there have been great interests to initiate "Women in NLP" workshops in the coming NLP conferences in support of women and other minorities in NLP. Third, with leading efforts from Meg Mitchell, Emily Bender, and Hal Daume and others, ACL has made a statement in support of students and researchers from certain geographic locations whose participation may be affected in future ACL conferences.		The past year has been a memorable year for ACL to have more distinct voices and actions in support of diversity on several fronts. First, an ad hoc committee has been formed about a year ago to investigate current practices and policies for nominating and selecting various roles and awards in ACL, including ACL Fellows, life time achievements awards, and ACL chairs. A report was presented at ACL 2016 and well received. The revised policy will be effective starting from 2017. The committee continues to work on preparing detailed recommendations and a new system to better support the execution of the new policy. Second, there have been great interests to initiate "Women in NLP" workshops in the coming NLP conferences in support of women and other minorities in NLP. Third, with leading efforts from Meg Mitchell, Emily Bender, and Hal Daume and others, ACL has made a statement in support of students and researchers from certain geographic locations whose participation may be affected in future ACL conferences.

	==START Support for Toronto Matching System==		==START Support for Toronto Matching System==

	As there has been a considerable growth in the number of submissions made to ACL conferences in recent years, we has been increasing need to better automate core functions of the conference management system. In response to the enthusiastic request from ACL 2017 organizers and others, SoftConf has agreed to integrate Toronto Matching system to automate topic-based reviewer-to-paper assignments. The expectation is that Toronto matching system, which has been successfully used for several other conferences with considerably larger submissions, will have repeated uses for future ACL conferences. This feature complements the already existing reviewer-to-area assignments newly introduced for NAACL 2016. While the reviewer-to-area assignments work based on a manually specified set of keywords to match expertise, new Toronto matching system will match reviewers to papers based on automatically parsed information from publication records, which in turn can be automatically downloaded from people's homepages, Google Scholar, and other pages that have links to pdf papers.		As there has been a considerable growth in the number of submissions made to ACL conferences in recent years, we has been increasing need to better automate core functions of the conference management system. In response to the enthusiastic request from ACL 2017 organizers and others, SoftConf has agreed to integrate Toronto Matching system to automate topic-based reviewer-to-paper assignments. The expectation is that Toronto matching system, which has been successfully used for several other conferences with considerably larger submissions, will have repeated uses for future ACL conferences. This feature complements the already existing reviewer-to-area assignments newly introduced for NAACL 2016. While the reviewer-to-area assignments work based on a manually specified set of keywords to match expertise, new Toronto matching system will match reviewers to papers based on automatically parsed information from publication records, which in turn can be automatically downloaded from people's homepages, Google Scholar, and other pages that have links to pdf papers.

YejinChoi: /* Actions and Voices in Support of Diversity */

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Actions and Voices in Support of Diversity

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	==Actions and Voices in Support of Diversity==		==Actions and Voices in Support of Diversity==

	The past year has been a memorable year for ACL to have more voices and actions in support of diversity on several fronts. First, an ad hoc committee has been formed about a year ago to investigate current practices and policies for nominating and selecting various roles and awards in ACL, including ACL Fellows, life time achievements awards, and ACL chairs. A report was presented at ACL 2016 and well received. The revised policy will be effective starting from 2017. The committee continues to work on preparing detailed recommendations and a new system to better support the execution of the new policy. Second, there have been great interests to initiate "Women in NLP" workshops in the coming NLP conferences in support of women and other minorities in NLP. Third, with leading efforts from Meg Mitchell, Emily Bender, and Hal Daume and ~~several~~ others, ~~the~~ ACL has made a statement in support of students and researchers from certain geographic locations whose participation may be affected in future ACL conferences.		The past year has been a memorable year for ACL to have more voices and actions in support of diversity on several fronts. First, an ad hoc committee has been formed about a year ago to investigate current practices and policies for nominating and selecting various roles and awards in ACL, including ACL Fellows, life time achievements awards, and ACL chairs. A report was presented at ACL 2016 and well received. The revised policy will be effective starting from 2017. The committee continues to work on preparing detailed recommendations and a new system to better support the execution of the new policy. Second, there have been great interests to initiate "Women in NLP" workshops in the coming NLP conferences in support of women and other minorities in NLP. Third, with leading efforts from Meg Mitchell, Emily Bender, and Hal Daume and others, ACL has made a statement in support of students and researchers from certain geographic locations whose participation may be affected in future ACL conferences.

	==START Support for Toronto Matching System==		==START Support for Toronto Matching System==

	As there has been a considerable growth in the number of submissions made to ACL conferences in recent years, we has been increasing need to better automate core functions of the conference management system. In response to the enthusiastic request from ACL 2017 organizers and others, SoftConf has agreed to integrate Toronto Matching system to automate topic-based reviewer-to-paper assignments. The expectation is that Toronto matching system, which has been successfully used for several other conferences with considerably larger submissions, will have repeated uses for future ACL conferences. This feature complements the already existing reviewer-to-area assignments newly introduced for NAACL 2016. While the reviewer-to-area assignments work based on a manually specified set of keywords to match expertise, new Toronto matching system will match reviewers to papers based on automatically parsed information from publication records, which in turn can be automatically downloaded from people's homepages, Google Scholar, and other pages that have links to pdf papers.		As there has been a considerable growth in the number of submissions made to ACL conferences in recent years, we has been increasing need to better automate core functions of the conference management system. In response to the enthusiastic request from ACL 2017 organizers and others, SoftConf has agreed to integrate Toronto Matching system to automate topic-based reviewer-to-paper assignments. The expectation is that Toronto matching system, which has been successfully used for several other conferences with considerably larger submissions, will have repeated uses for future ACL conferences. This feature complements the already existing reviewer-to-area assignments newly introduced for NAACL 2016. While the reviewer-to-area assignments work based on a manually specified set of keywords to match expertise, new Toronto matching system will match reviewers to papers based on automatically parsed information from publication records, which in turn can be automatically downloaded from people's homepages, Google Scholar, and other pages that have links to pdf papers.

YejinChoi: /* Actions and Voices in Support of Diversity */

2017-02-14T09:17:01Z

Actions and Voices in Support of Diversity

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	==Actions and Voices in Support of Diversity==		==Actions and Voices in Support of Diversity==

	The past year has been a memorable year for ACL to have more voices and actions in support of diversity on several fronts. First, an ad hoc committee has been formed about a year ago to investigate current practices and policies for nominating and selecting various roles and awards in ACL, including ACL Fellows, life time achievements awards, and ACL chairs. A report was presented at ACL 2016 and well received. The revised policy will be effective starting from 2017. The committee continues to work on preparing detailed recommendations and a new system to better support the execution of the new policy. Second, there have been great interests to initiate "Women in NLP" workshops in the coming NLP conferences. Third, with leading efforts from Meg Mitchell, Emily Bender, and Hal Daume and several others, the ACL has made a statement in support of students and researchers from certain geographic locations whose participation may be affected in future ACL conferences.		The past year has been a memorable year for ACL to have more voices and actions in support of diversity on several fronts. First, an ad hoc committee has been formed about a year ago to investigate current practices and policies for nominating and selecting various roles and awards in ACL, including ACL Fellows, life time achievements awards, and ACL chairs. A report was presented at ACL 2016 and well received. The revised policy will be effective starting from 2017. The committee continues to work on preparing detailed recommendations and a new system to better support the execution of the new policy. Second, there have been great interests to initiate "Women in NLP" workshops in the coming NLP conferences in support of women and other minorities in NLP. Third, with leading efforts from Meg Mitchell, Emily Bender, and Hal Daume and several others, the ACL has made a statement in support of students and researchers from certain geographic locations whose participation may be affected in future ACL conferences.

	==START Support for Toronto Matching System==		==START Support for Toronto Matching System==

	As there has been a considerable growth in the number of submissions made to ACL conferences in recent years, we has been increasing need to better automate core functions of the conference management system. In response to the enthusiastic request from ACL 2017 organizers and others, SoftConf has agreed to integrate Toronto Matching system to automate topic-based reviewer-to-paper assignments. The expectation is that Toronto matching system, which has been successfully used for several other conferences with considerably larger submissions, will have repeated uses for future ACL conferences. This feature complements the already existing reviewer-to-area assignments newly introduced for NAACL 2016. While the reviewer-to-area assignments work based on a manually specified set of keywords to match expertise, new Toronto matching system will match reviewers to papers based on automatically parsed information from publication records, which in turn can be automatically downloaded from people's homepages, Google Scholar, and other pages that have links to pdf papers.		As there has been a considerable growth in the number of submissions made to ACL conferences in recent years, we has been increasing need to better automate core functions of the conference management system. In response to the enthusiastic request from ACL 2017 organizers and others, SoftConf has agreed to integrate Toronto Matching system to automate topic-based reviewer-to-paper assignments. The expectation is that Toronto matching system, which has been successfully used for several other conferences with considerably larger submissions, will have repeated uses for future ACL conferences. This feature complements the already existing reviewer-to-area assignments newly introduced for NAACL 2016. While the reviewer-to-area assignments work based on a manually specified set of keywords to match expertise, new Toronto matching system will match reviewers to papers based on automatically parsed information from publication records, which in turn can be automatically downloaded from people's homepages, Google Scholar, and other pages that have links to pdf papers.