2019Q1 Reports: ACL 2019 - Revision history

ShiqiZhao at 05:44, 15 March 2019

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	The ACL Office will manage the registrations as usual, including developing the registration statistics we always have and assure that the anti-harassment policy is included on the registration form itself. I will act as an advisor to the PCO on finances (including interim deposits for local operating costs), exhibits, issuing visa invitation letters and overall space, catering and audio visual setup along with the Local Arrangements team who are really quite good and dedicated. The sponsorships have been slowly coming in. Commitments are only now being made by some of the large and continuing sponsor companies. And the Local Sponsorship team of Roberto Basili (University of Rome Tor Vergata) and Giovanni Semeraro (University of Bari) are actively reaching out to firms throughout Italy. To date, these are our commitments:		The ACL Office will manage the registrations as usual, including developing the registration statistics we always have and assure that the anti-harassment policy is included on the registration form itself. I will act as an advisor to the PCO on finances (including interim deposits for local operating costs), exhibits, issuing visa invitation letters and overall space, catering and audio visual setup along with the Local Arrangements team who are really quite good and dedicated. The sponsorships have been slowly coming in. Commitments are only now being made by some of the large and continuing sponsor companies. And the Local Sponsorship team of Roberto Basili (University of Rome Tor Vergata) and Giovanni Semeraro (University of Bari) are actively reaching out to firms throughout Italy. To date, these are our commitments:

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ShiqiZhao at 05:43, 15 March 2019

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	The ACL Office will manage the registrations as usual, including developing the registration statistics we always have and assure that the anti-harassment policy is included on the registration form itself. I will act as an advisor to the PCO on finances (including interim deposits for local operating costs), exhibits, issuing visa invitation letters and overall space, catering and audio visual setup along with the Local Arrangements team who are really quite good and dedicated. The sponsorships have been slowly coming in. Commitments are only now being made by some of the large and continuing sponsor companies. And the Local Sponsorship team of Roberto Basili (University of Rome Tor Vergata) and Giovanni Semeraro (University of Bari) are actively reaching out to firms throughout Italy. To date, these are our commitments:		The ACL Office will manage the registrations as usual, including developing the registration statistics we always have and assure that the anti-harassment policy is included on the registration form itself. I will act as an advisor to the PCO on finances (including interim deposits for local operating costs), exhibits, issuing visa invitation letters and overall space, catering and audio visual setup along with the Local Arrangements team who are really quite good and dedicated. The sponsorships have been slowly coming in. Commitments are only now being made by some of the large and continuing sponsor companies. And the Local Sponsorship team of Roberto Basili (University of Rome Tor Vergata) and Giovanni Semeraro (University of Bari) are actively reaching out to firms throughout Italy. To date, these are our commitments:

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ShiqiZhao at 05:43, 15 March 2019

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	The ACL Office will manage the registrations as usual, including developing the registration statistics we always have and assure that the anti-harassment policy is included on the registration form itself. I will act as an advisor to the PCO on finances (including interim deposits for local operating costs), exhibits, issuing visa invitation letters and overall space, catering and audio visual setup along with the Local Arrangements team who are really quite good and dedicated. The sponsorships have been slowly coming in. Commitments are only now being made by some of the large and continuing sponsor companies. And the Local Sponsorship team of Roberto Basili (University of Rome Tor Vergata) and Giovanni Semeraro (University of Bari) are actively reaching out to firms throughout Italy. To date, these are our commitments:		The ACL Office will manage the registrations as usual, including developing the registration statistics we always have and assure that the anti-harassment policy is included on the registration form itself. I will act as an advisor to the PCO on finances (including interim deposits for local operating costs), exhibits, issuing visa invitation letters and overall space, catering and audio visual setup along with the Local Arrangements team who are really quite good and dedicated. The sponsorships have been slowly coming in. Commitments are only now being made by some of the large and continuing sponsor companies. And the Local Sponsorship team of Roberto Basili (University of Rome Tor Vergata) and Giovanni Semeraro (University of Bari) are actively reaching out to firms throughout Italy. To date, these are our commitments:

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ShiqiZhao at 05:43, 15 March 2019

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	The ACL Office will manage the registrations as usual, including developing the registration statistics we always have and assure that the anti-harassment policy is included on the registration form itself. I will act as an advisor to the PCO on finances (including interim deposits for local operating costs), exhibits, issuing visa invitation letters and overall space, catering and audio visual setup along with the Local Arrangements team who are really quite good and dedicated. The sponsorships have been slowly coming in. Commitments are only now being made by some of the large and continuing sponsor companies. And the Local Sponsorship team of Roberto Basili (University of Rome Tor Vergata) and Giovanni Semeraro (University of Bari) are actively reaching out to firms throughout Italy. To date, these are our commitments:		The ACL Office will manage the registrations as usual, including developing the registration statistics we always have and assure that the anti-harassment policy is included on the registration form itself. I will act as an advisor to the PCO on finances (including interim deposits for local operating costs), exhibits, issuing visa invitation letters and overall space, catering and audio visual setup along with the Local Arrangements team who are really quite good and dedicated. The sponsorships have been slowly coming in. Commitments are only now being made by some of the large and continuing sponsor companies. And the Local Sponsorship team of Roberto Basili (University of Rome Tor Vergata) and Giovanni Semeraro (University of Bari) are actively reaching out to firms throughout Italy. To date, these are our commitments:

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ShiqiZhao at 05:37, 15 March 2019

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ShiqiZhao at 05:33, 15 March 2019

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	The ACL Office will manage the registrations as usual, including developing the registration statistics we always have and assure that the anti-harassment policy is included on the registration form itself. I will act as an advisor to the PCO on finances (including interim deposits for local operating costs), exhibits, issuing visa invitation letters and overall space, catering and audio visual setup along with the Local Arrangements team who are really quite good and dedicated. The sponsorships have been slowly coming in. Commitments are only now being made by some of the large and continuing sponsor companies. And the Local Sponsorship team of Roberto Basili (University of Rome Tor Vergata) and Giovanni Semeraro (University of Bari) are actively reaching out to firms throughout Italy. To date, these are our commitments:		The ACL Office will manage the registrations as usual, including developing the registration statistics we always have and assure that the anti-harassment policy is included on the registration form itself. I will act as an advisor to the PCO on finances (including interim deposits for local operating costs), exhibits, issuing visa invitation letters and overall space, catering and audio visual setup along with the Local Arrangements team who are really quite good and dedicated. The sponsorships have been slowly coming in. Commitments are only now being made by some of the large and continuing sponsor companies. And the Local Sponsorship team of Roberto Basili (University of Rome Tor Vergata) and Giovanni Semeraro (University of Bari) are actively reaching out to firms throughout Italy. To date, these are our commitments:

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ShiqiZhao at 05:32, 15 March 2019

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 The ACL Office will manage the registrations as usual, including developing the registration statistics we always have and assure that the anti-harassment policy is included on the registration form itself. I will act as an advisor to the PCO on finances (including interim deposits for local operating costs), exhibits, issuing visa invitation letters and overall space, catering and audio visual setup along with the Local Arrangements team who are really quite good and dedicated. The sponsorships have been slowly coming in. Commitments are only now being made by some of the large and continuing sponsor companies. And the Local Sponsorship team of Roberto Basili (University of Rome Tor Vergata) and Giovanni Semeraro (University of Bari) are actively reaching out to firms throughout Italy. To date, these are our commitments:
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ShiqiZhao at 05:16, 15 March 2019

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	In this case, it could be appropriate to have a valid SSL (i.e. signed by a recognized C.A.).		In this case, it could be appropriate to have a valid SSL (i.e. signed by a recognized C.A.).

			== Conference Handbook Chair ==
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	Conference Handbook Chair
	Elena Cabrio, University Côte d'Azur		Elena Cabrio, University Côte d'Azur

	Local Sponsorship Co-Chairs		== Local Sponsorship Co-Chairs ==
	Roberto Basili, University of Rome Tor Vergata		Roberto Basili, University of Rome Tor Vergata

	Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari		Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari
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			== Business Office ==

	~~10. Business Office~~
	Priscilla Rasmussen, ACL		Priscilla Rasmussen, ACL

	The ACL Office will manage the registrations as usual, including developing the registration statistics we always have and assure that the anti-harassment policy is included on the registration form itself. I will act as an advisor to the PCO on finances (including interim deposits for local operating costs), exhibits, issuing visa invitation letters and overall space, catering and audio visual setup along with the Local Arrangements team who are really quite good and dedicated. The sponsorships have been slowly coming in. Commitments are only now being made by some of the large and continuing sponsor companies. And the Local Sponsorship team of Roberto Basili (University of Rome Tor Vergata) and Giovanni Semeraro (University of Bari) are actively reaching out to firms throughout Italy. To date, these are our commitments:		The ACL Office will manage the registrations as usual, including developing the registration statistics we always have and assure that the anti-harassment policy is included on the registration form itself. I will act as an advisor to the PCO on finances (including interim deposits for local operating costs), exhibits, issuing visa invitation letters and overall space, catering and audio visual setup along with the Local Arrangements team who are really quite good and dedicated. The sponsorships have been slowly coming in. Commitments are only now being made by some of the large and continuing sponsor companies. And the Local Sponsorship team of Roberto Basili (University of Rome Tor Vergata) and Giovanni Semeraro (University of Bari) are actively reaching out to firms throughout Italy. To date, these are our commitments:

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	== Tutorial Co-Chairs ==		== Tutorial Co-Chairs ==
	Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU
	Alexis Palmer, University of North Texas		Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU

			Alexis Palmer, University of North Texas

	In total, we received 45 proposals for the joint ACL/NAACL/EMNLP-IJCNLP call, and we accepted 22 of them. 34 tutorials had ACL as the preferred conference: 8 were selected, 19 were rejected, 7 were selected for their alternative choice. A total of 9 tutorials were selected for ACL. See the titles, instructors and abstracts below.		In total, we received 45 proposals for the joint ACL/NAACL/EMNLP-IJCNLP call, and we accepted 22 of them. 34 tutorials had ACL as the preferred conference: 8 were selected, 19 were rejected, 7 were selected for their alternative choice. A total of 9 tutorials were selected for ACL. See the titles, instructors and abstracts below.
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	'''Morning Tutorials'''		'''Morning Tutorials'''

	T1: Latent Structure Models for Natural Language Processing		'''T1: Latent Structure Models for Natural Language Processing'''

	André F. T. Martins, Tsvetomila Mihaylova, Nikita Nangia and Vlad Niculae		André F. T. Martins, Tsvetomila Mihaylova, Nikita Nangia and Vlad Niculae
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	This tutorial will cover recent advances in discrete latent structure models. We discuss their motivation, potential, and limitations, then explore in detail three strategies for designing such models: gradient approximation, reinforcement learning, and end-to-end differentiable methods. We highlight connections among all these methods, enumerating their strengths and weaknesses. The models we present and analyze have been applied to a wide variety of NLP tasks, including sentiment analysis, natural language inference, language modeling, machine translation, and semantic parsing. Examples and evaluation will be covered throughout. After attending the tutorial, a practitioner will be better informed about which method is best suited for their problem.		This tutorial will cover recent advances in discrete latent structure models. We discuss their motivation, potential, and limitations, then explore in detail three strategies for designing such models: gradient approximation, reinforcement learning, and end-to-end differentiable methods. We highlight connections among all these methods, enumerating their strengths and weaknesses. The models we present and analyze have been applied to a wide variety of NLP tasks, including sentiment analysis, natural language inference, language modeling, machine translation, and semantic parsing. Examples and evaluation will be covered throughout. After attending the tutorial, a practitioner will be better informed about which method is best suited for their problem.

	T2: Graph-Based Meaning Representations: Design and Processing		'''T2: Graph-Based Meaning Representations: Design and Processing'''

	Alexander Koller, Stephan Oepen and Weiwei Sun		Alexander Koller, Stephan Oepen and Weiwei Sun
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	This tutorial will (a) briefly review relevant background in formal and linguistic semantics; (b) semi-formally define a unified abstract view on different flavors of semantic graphs and associated terminology; (c) survey common frameworks for graph-based meaning representation and available graph banks; and (d) offer a technical overview of a representative selection of different parsing approaches. The ultimate goal is to provide a unified view on different semantic graph banks and associated parsing work and, thus, to reduce the barrier to entry for NLP developers and users to benefit from recent successes and best practices in this exciting field.		This tutorial will (a) briefly review relevant background in formal and linguistic semantics; (b) semi-formally define a unified abstract view on different flavors of semantic graphs and associated terminology; (c) survey common frameworks for graph-based meaning representation and available graph banks; and (d) offer a technical overview of a representative selection of different parsing approaches. The ultimate goal is to provide a unified view on different semantic graph banks and associated parsing work and, thus, to reduce the barrier to entry for NLP developers and users to benefit from recent successes and best practices in this exciting field.

	T3: Discourse Analysis and Its Applications		'''T3: Discourse Analysis and Its Applications'''

	Shafiq Joty, Giuseppe Carenini, Raymond Ng and Gabriel Murray		Shafiq Joty, Giuseppe Carenini, Raymond Ng and Gabriel Murray
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	The tutorial starts with an overview of basic concepts in discourse analysis -- monologue vs. conversation, synchronous vs. asynchronous conversation, and key linguistic structures in discourse analysis. It then covers traditional machine learning methods along with the most recent works using deep learning, and compares their performances on benchmark datasets. For each discourse structure we describe, we show its applications in downstream text mining tasks. Methods and metrics for evaluation are discussed in detail. We conclude the tutorial with an interactive discussion of future challenges and opportunities.		The tutorial starts with an overview of basic concepts in discourse analysis -- monologue vs. conversation, synchronous vs. asynchronous conversation, and key linguistic structures in discourse analysis. It then covers traditional machine learning methods along with the most recent works using deep learning, and compares their performances on benchmark datasets. For each discourse structure we describe, we show its applications in downstream text mining tasks. Methods and metrics for evaluation are discussed in detail. We conclude the tutorial with an interactive discussion of future challenges and opportunities.

	T4: Computational Analysis of Political Texts: Bridging Research Efforts Across Communities		'''T4: Computational Analysis of Political Texts: Bridging Research Efforts Across Communities'''

	Goran Glavaš, Federico Nanni and Simone Paolo Ponzetto		Goran Glavaš, Federico Nanni and Simone Paolo Ponzetto
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	This tutorial will provide a comprehensive overview of the body of work on computational analysis of political texts. We first look at the role that textual data play in political analyses and then proceed to examine the concrete resources and tasks addressed by the text-as-data political science community. Next, we present the research efforts carried out so far by the NLP community with a focus on methods for the topical analysis of political texts, covering both unsupervised topic induction and supervised topic classification studies. Finally, we conclude the tutorial by focusing on political text scaling, a challenging task on ideology detection from textual data, which is at the center of quantitative political science and has recently also attracted attention from NLP scholars.		This tutorial will provide a comprehensive overview of the body of work on computational analysis of political texts. We first look at the role that textual data play in political analyses and then proceed to examine the concrete resources and tasks addressed by the text-as-data political science community. Next, we present the research efforts carried out so far by the NLP community with a focus on methods for the topical analysis of political texts, covering both unsupervised topic induction and supervised topic classification studies. Finally, we conclude the tutorial by focusing on political text scaling, a challenging task on ideology detection from textual data, which is at the center of quantitative political science and has recently also attracted attention from NLP scholars.

	T5: Wikipedia as a Resource for Text Analysis and Retrieval		'''T5: Wikipedia as a Resource for Text Analysis and Retrieval'''

	Marius Pasca		Marius Pasca
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	'''Afternoon Tutorials'''		'''Afternoon Tutorials'''

	T6: Deep Bayesian Natural Language Processing		'''T6: Deep Bayesian Natural Language Processing'''

	Jen-Tzung Chien		Jen-Tzung Chien
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	This tutorial addresses the fundamentals of statistical models and neural networks, and focus on a series of advanced Bayesian models and deep models including hierarchical Dirichlet process, Chinese restaurant process, hierarchical Pitman-Yor process, Indian buffet process, recurrent neural network, long short-term memory, sequence-to-sequence model, variational auto-encoder, generative adversarial network, attention mechanism, memory-augmented neural network, skip neural network, stochastic neural network, policy neural network, and Markov recurrent neural network. We present how these models are connected and why they work for a variety of applications on symbolic and complex patterns in natural language. The variational inference and sampling method are formulated to tackle the optimization for complicated models. The word and sentence embeddings, clustering and co-clustering are merged with linguistic and semantic constraints. A series of case studies are presented to tackle different issues in deep Bayesian learning and understanding. At last, we will point out a number of directions and outlooks for future studies.		This tutorial addresses the fundamentals of statistical models and neural networks, and focus on a series of advanced Bayesian models and deep models including hierarchical Dirichlet process, Chinese restaurant process, hierarchical Pitman-Yor process, Indian buffet process, recurrent neural network, long short-term memory, sequence-to-sequence model, variational auto-encoder, generative adversarial network, attention mechanism, memory-augmented neural network, skip neural network, stochastic neural network, policy neural network, and Markov recurrent neural network. We present how these models are connected and why they work for a variety of applications on symbolic and complex patterns in natural language. The variational inference and sampling method are formulated to tackle the optimization for complicated models. The word and sentence embeddings, clustering and co-clustering are merged with linguistic and semantic constraints. A series of case studies are presented to tackle different issues in deep Bayesian learning and understanding. At last, we will point out a number of directions and outlooks for future studies.

	T7: Unsupervised Cross-Lingual Representation Learning		'''T7: Unsupervised Cross-Lingual Representation Learning'''

	Sebastian Ruder, Anders Søgaard and Ivan Vulić		Sebastian Ruder, Anders Søgaard and Ivan Vulić
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	In this tutorial, we provide a comprehensive survey of the exciting recent work on cutting-edge weakly-supervised and unsupervised cross-lingual word representations. After providing a brief history of supervised cross-lingual word representations, we focus on: 1) how to induce weakly-supervised and unsupervised cross-lingual word representations in truly resource-poor settings where bilingual supervision cannot be guaranteed; 2) critical examinations of different training conditions and requirements under which unsupervised algorithms can and cannot work effectively; 3) more robust methods for distant language pairs that can mitigate instability issues and low performance for distant language pairs; 4) how to comprehensively evaluate such representations; and 5) diverse applications that benefit from cross-lingual word representations (e.g., MT, dialogue, cross-lingual sequence labeling and structured prediction applications, cross-lingual IR).		In this tutorial, we provide a comprehensive survey of the exciting recent work on cutting-edge weakly-supervised and unsupervised cross-lingual word representations. After providing a brief history of supervised cross-lingual word representations, we focus on: 1) how to induce weakly-supervised and unsupervised cross-lingual word representations in truly resource-poor settings where bilingual supervision cannot be guaranteed; 2) critical examinations of different training conditions and requirements under which unsupervised algorithms can and cannot work effectively; 3) more robust methods for distant language pairs that can mitigate instability issues and low performance for distant language pairs; 4) how to comprehensively evaluate such representations; and 5) diverse applications that benefit from cross-lingual word representations (e.g., MT, dialogue, cross-lingual sequence labeling and structured prediction applications, cross-lingual IR).

	T8: Advances in Argument Mining		'''T8: Advances in Argument Mining'''

	Katarzyna Budzynska and Chris Reed		Katarzyna Budzynska and Chris Reed
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	This course aims to introduce students to an exciting and dynamic area that has witnessed remarkable growth over the past 36 months. Argument mining builds on opinion mining, sentiment analysis and related to tasks to automatically extract not just what people think, but why they hold the opinions they do. From being largely beyond the state of the art barely five years ago, there are now many hundreds of papers on the topic and millions of dollars of commercial and research investment. This tutorial provides a synthesis of the major advances in the area over the past three years.		This course aims to introduce students to an exciting and dynamic area that has witnessed remarkable growth over the past 36 months. Argument mining builds on opinion mining, sentiment analysis and related to tasks to automatically extract not just what people think, but why they hold the opinions they do. From being largely beyond the state of the art barely five years ago, there are now many hundreds of papers on the topic and millions of dollars of commercial and research investment. This tutorial provides a synthesis of the major advances in the area over the past three years.

	T9: Storytelling from Structured Data and Knowledge Graphs : An NLG Perspective		'''T9: Storytelling from Structured Data and Knowledge Graphs : An NLG Perspective'''

	Abhijit Mishra, Anirban Laha, Karthik Sankaranarayanan, Parag Jain and Saravanan Krishnan		Abhijit Mishra, Anirban Laha, Karthik Sankaranarayanan, Parag Jain and Saravanan Krishnan