2020Q1 Reports: ACL 2020 - Revision history

Jurafsky at 02:32, 11 March 2020

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	*''NLP for Conversational AI''		*''NLP for Conversational AI''
	**Tsung-Hsien Wen, Asli Celikyilmaz, IÃ±igo Casanueva, Mihail Eric, Anuj Kumar, Alexandros Papangelis, Rushin Shah and Zhou Yu		**Tsung-Hsien Wen, Asli Celikyilmaz, IÃ±igo Casanueva, Mihail Eric, Anuj Kumar, Alexandros Papangelis, Rushin Shah and Zhou Yu

	*T''he Fourth Widening NLP Workshop (WiNLP 2020)''
	**Samira Shaikh, Rossana da Cunha Silva, Ann Clifton, Erika Doggett and Ryan Georgi

	*''BioNLP 2020''		*''BioNLP 2020''

Lianhuiq: /* Audio-Video Chairs */

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	We talked with 5 AV companies (Bashfiilm, Underline, Slideslive, Globalcast, Freeman), mainly optimizing for quality, past experience in previous conferences with similar or larger size than ACL, open access (not charging users for watching videos of talks), and price. We ended up with quotes from all these companies with one of them passing all criteria except being 20% more expensive than all other options. After requesting them to adjust the price due to different options we had and mentioning the fact that we are non-profit org, they gave us a 25% discount and we decided to proceed with them. They provide the following services~~: contains~~:		We talked with 5 AV companies (Bashfiilm, Underline, Slideslive, Globalcast, Freeman), mainly optimizing for quality, past experience in previous conferences with similar or larger size than ACL, open access (not charging users for watching videos of talks), and price. We ended up with quotes from all these companies with one of them passing all criteria except being 20% more expensive than all other options. After requesting them to adjust the price due to different options we had and mentioning the fact that we are non-profit org, they gave us a 25% discount and we decided to proceed with them. They provide the following services:
	* Providing all the staff/equipment to perform the recording. This includes main conference & tutorials only, workshops should purchase the recording service by themselves.		* Providing all the staff/equipment to perform the recording. This includes main conference & tutorials only, workshops should purchase the recording service by themselves.
	* Post-processing the video content.		* Post-processing the video content.

Lianhuiq: /* Audio-Video Chairs */

2020-03-03T01:25:13Z

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	We talked with 5 AV companies (Bashfiilm, Underline, Slideslive, Globalcast, Freeman), mainly optimizing for quality, past experience in previous conferences with similar or larger size than ACL, open access (not charging users for watching videos of talks), and price. We ended up with quotes from all these companies with one of them passing all criteria except being 20% more expensive than all other options. After requesting them to adjust the price due to different options we had and mentioning the fact that we are non-profit org, they gave us a 25% discount and we decided to proceed with them. They provide the following services:		We talked with 5 AV companies (Bashfiilm, Underline, Slideslive, Globalcast, Freeman), mainly optimizing for quality, past experience in previous conferences with similar or larger size than ACL, open access (not charging users for watching videos of talks), and price. We ended up with quotes from all these companies with one of them passing all criteria except being 20% more expensive than all other options. After requesting them to adjust the price due to different options we had and mentioning the fact that we are non-profit org, they gave us a 25% discount and we decided to proceed with them. They provide the following services: contains:
	1. Providing all the staff/equipment to perform the recording. This includes main conference & tutorials only, workshops should purchase the recording service by themselves.		* Providing all the staff/equipment to perform the recording. This includes main conference & tutorials only, workshops should purchase the recording service by themselves.
	2. Post-processing the video content.		* Post-processing the video content.
	3. Putting videos and slides side by side on the platform.		* Putting videos and slides side by side on the platform.
	4. Making the videos available open-source.		* Making the videos available open-source.

	We are also looking for live-streaming for the plenary talks.		We are also looking for live-streaming for the plenary talks.

Lianhuiq: /* Audio-Video Chairs */

2020-03-03T01:23:55Z

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	We talked with 5 AV companies (Bashfiilm, Underline, Slideslive, Globalcast, Freeman), mainly optimizing for quality, past experience in previous conferences with similar or larger size than ACL, open access (not charging users for watching videos of talks), and price. We ended up with quotes from all these companies with one of them passing all criteria except being 20% more expensive than all other options. After requesting them to adjust the price due to different options we had and mentioning the fact that we are non-profit org, they gave us a 25% discount and we decided to proceed with them. They provide the following services:		We talked with 5 AV companies (Bashfiilm, Underline, Slideslive, Globalcast, Freeman), mainly optimizing for quality, past experience in previous conferences with similar or larger size than ACL, open access (not charging users for watching videos of talks), and price. We ended up with quotes from all these companies with one of them passing all criteria except being 20% more expensive than all other options. After requesting them to adjust the price due to different options we had and mentioning the fact that we are non-profit org, they gave us a 25% discount and we decided to proceed with them. They provide the following services:
			1. Providing all the staff/equipment to perform the recording. This includes main conference & tutorials only, workshops should purchase the recording service by themselves.
	1. Providing all the staff/equipment to perform the recording. This includes main conference & tutorials only, workshops should purchase the recording service by themselves.		2. Post-processing the video content.
	2. Post-processing the video content.
	3. Putting videos and slides side by side on the platform.		3. Putting videos and slides side by side on the platform.
	4. Making the videos available open-source.		4. Making the videos available open-source.

Lianhuiq: /* Audio-Video Chairs */

2020-03-02T20:30:21Z

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	We talked with 5 AV companies (Bashfiilm, Underline, Slideslive, Globalcast, Freeman), mainly optimizing for quality, past experience in previous conferences with similar or larger size than ACL, open access (not charging users for watching videos of talks), and price. We ended up with quotes from all these companies with one of them passing all criteria except being 20% more expensive than all other options. After requesting them to adjust the price due to different options we had and mentioning the fact that we are non-profit org, they gave us a 25% discount and we decided to proceed with them. They provide the following services:		We talked with 5 AV companies (Bashfiilm, Underline, Slideslive, Globalcast, Freeman), mainly optimizing for quality, past experience in previous conferences with similar or larger size than ACL, open access (not charging users for watching videos of talks), and price. We ended up with quotes from all these companies with one of them passing all criteria except being 20% more expensive than all other options. After requesting them to adjust the price due to different options we had and mentioning the fact that we are non-profit org, they gave us a 25% discount and we decided to proceed with them. They provide the following services:
	1. Providing all the staff/equipment to perform the recording. This includes main conference & tutorials only, workshops should purchase the recording service by themselves.
	2. Post-processing the video content.		1. Providing all the staff/equipment to perform the recording. This includes main conference & tutorials only, workshops should purchase the recording service by themselves.
	3. Putting videos and slides side by side on the platform.		2. Post-processing the video content.
	4. Making the videos available open-source.		3. Putting videos and slides side by side on the platform.
			4. Making the videos available open-source.

	We are also looking for live-streaming for the plenary talks.		We are also looking for live-streaming for the plenary talks.

Lianhuiq: /* Audio-Video Chairs */

2020-03-02T20:29:57Z

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	We talked with 5 AV companies (Bashfiilm, Underline, Slideslive, Globalcast, Freeman), mainly optimizing for quality, past experience in previous conferences with similar or larger size than ACL, open access (not charging users for watching videos of talks), and price. We ended up with quotes from all these companies with one of them passing all criteria except being 20% more expensive than all other options. After requesting them to adjust the price due to different options we had and mentioning the fact that we are non-profit org, they gave us a 25% discount and we decided to proceed with them. They provide the following services:		We talked with 5 AV companies (Bashfiilm, Underline, Slideslive, Globalcast, Freeman), mainly optimizing for quality, past experience in previous conferences with similar or larger size than ACL, open access (not charging users for watching videos of talks), and price. We ended up with quotes from all these companies with one of them passing all criteria except being 20% more expensive than all other options. After requesting them to adjust the price due to different options we had and mentioning the fact that we are non-profit org, they gave us a 25% discount and we decided to proceed with them. They provide the following services:
	1. Providing all the staff/equipment to perform the recording. This includes main conference & tutorials only, workshops should purchase the recording service by themselves.		1. Providing all the staff/equipment to perform the recording. This includes main conference & tutorials only, workshops should purchase the recording service by themselves.
	2. Post-processing the video content.		2. Post-processing the video content.
	3. Putting videos and slides side by side on the platform.		3. Putting videos and slides side by side on the platform.
	4. Making the videos available open-source.		4. Making the videos available open-source.

	We are also looking for live-streaming for the plenary talks.		We are also looking for live-streaming for the plenary talks.

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	Lianhui Qin, University of Washington		Lianhui Qin, University of Washington


			We talked with 5 AV companies (Bashfiilm, Underline, Slideslive, Globalcast, Freeman), mainly optimizing for quality, past experience in previous conferences with similar or larger size than ACL, open access (not charging users for watching videos of talks), and price. We ended up with quotes from all these companies with one of them passing all criteria except being 20% more expensive than all other options. After requesting them to adjust the price due to different options we had and mentioning the fact that we are non-profit org, they gave us a 25% discount and we decided to proceed with them. They provide the following services:
			1. Providing all the staff/equipment to perform the recording. This includes main conference & tutorials only, workshops should purchase the recording service by themselves.
			2. Post-processing the video content.
			3. Putting videos and slides side by side on the platform.
			4. Making the videos available open-source.

			We are also looking for live-streaming for the plenary talks.

	== Conference Handbook Chair ==		== Conference Handbook Chair ==

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	Luke Zettlemoyer, University of Washington		Luke Zettlemoyer, University of Washington

			ACL 2020 in Seattle is shaping up nicely, with a very dedicated group of organizers working tirelessly and the Office is offering advice as well as acting as Local Arrangements Chair. Dan and others from some of the committees will be joining me in mid-March to make a site visit to Seattle so the GC, PCs, D&I chair, etc can envision the conference and flow and make adjustments as needed. This will also be valuable for planning the av and streaming into a second room for all plenary sessions and for making remote presentations. Here are some of the main items of progress being made:

			• Besides having the Hyatt Regency Hotel (the venue) contract signed quite a while ago, I am now negotiating with PSAV for a quotation to provide all audio/visual, sound systems and other AV needs

			• I have already negotiated a very reduced internet quote, with PSAV charging a 1-day rate for all 6 days of the conference

			• I am working with the hotel to develop the food/beverage menu for the conference but need to wait for their spring/summer menu to be available in a few weeks. The menu will be developed with vegan, vegetarian, halal, kosher, gluten-free, and allergies in mind and well identified.

			• I have successfully negotiated a limited number of rooms for $139 at a second hotel to serve as the Student Hotel (the conference hotel is $249). Both are excellent prices for the Seattle area.

			• I am working with the company who builds the registration form to get that started

			• I have created and shared a tentative space/internet/av spreadsheet, complete with all space assignments, and have been working closely with the D&I and other chairs to be sure their needs are met either within the meeting space floorplans or budgetarily.

			• Currently, I am amassing information to update the conference website with lots of Participant information as well as continually updating the webmaster with sponsorship commitments and other things.

			• In March, I will begin merging all quotes and estimates into a working budget which will be used to set registration fees.

			• The Museum of Pop Culture (MoPop), the social event venue, contract was signed long ago and recently, I have negotiated the catering contract with Wolfgang Puck, MoPop’s only accepted catering firm. The menu will mostly be vegetarian/vegan with salmon and a meat for those who want it.

			• Luke has found some suggested places for our Recognition Dinner; we are working on making a final decision

			• Luke and/or his students are beginning to pull together a Restaurant Guide for the app, website and handbook.

			My estimate is for up to 2800 attendees and we are preparing for about 3000, just in case. While some in our community are concerned that we may consider either cutting off or capping registrations, I do not think this will be necessary. Comparisons with other conference that are capping attendance are not well founded since we are not growing to the 5,000-10,000 attendance.
			I expect the next month or two will be extremely busy in setting all plans in place and opening registration.

	== Tutorial Chairs ==		== Tutorial Chairs ==

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 Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Amazon Alexa AI
-Saif M. Mohammad, National Research Council Canada
+Ves Stoyanov, Facebook AI
-Ves Stoyanov, Facebook AI
+*IWPT 2020: The 16th International Conference on Parsing Technologies
 == Student Research Workshop Chairs and Faculty Advisors==

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	Ves Stoyanov, Facebook AI		Ves Stoyanov, Facebook AI


	This year the joint call for workshop proposals for ACL/EMNLP/COLING/AACL-IJCNLP received 95 proposals (compared to 84 in 2019 and 58 in 2018). Out of the 95, 71 were accepted between the four venues. ACL 2020 will feature 19 workshops.		This year the joint call for workshop proposals for ACL/EMNLP/COLING/AACL-IJCNLP received 95 proposals (compared to 84 in 2019 and 58 in 2018). Out of the 95, 71 were accepted between the four venues. ACL 2020 will feature 19 workshops.
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	Details on venue preference out of 95 submissions:		Details on venue preference out of 95 submissions:

	First choice:		First choice:

	54% (51 w) ACL 2020		54% (51 w) ACL 2020
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	Here are the 19 selected workshops / colocated conferences for ACL 2019. All links to the workshops webpages can be found in https://acl2020.org/program/workshops/		Here are the 19 selected workshops / colocated conferences for ACL 2019. All links to the workshops webpages can be found in https://acl2020.org/program/workshops/

	Two day workshop (9th and 10th July):
			'''Two day workshop (9th and 10th July):'''

	*International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT).		*International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT).
	**Marcello Federico, Alexander Waibel, Jiatao Gu, Kevin Knight, Will Lewis, Satoshi Nakamura, Hermann Ney, Jan Niehues, Sebastian Stüker and Marco Turchi		**Marcello Federico, Alexander Waibel, Jiatao Gu, Kevin Knight, Will Lewis, Satoshi Nakamura, Hermann Ney, Jan Niehues, Sebastian Stüker and Marco Turchi

	~~Workshop to be held on 5th July:~~

	*The Fourth Widening NLP Workshop focuses on efforts to promote and support ideas and voices of underrepresented groups in Natural Language Processing.		'''Workshop to be held on 5th July:'''

			*''The Fourth Widening NLP Workshop focuses on efforts to promote and support ideas and voices of underrepresented groups in Natural Language Processing.''
	**Samira Shaikh, Rossana da Cunha Silva, Ann Clifton, Erika Doggett and Ryan Georgi		**Samira Shaikh, Rossana da Cunha Silva, Ann Clifton, Erika Doggett and Ryan Georgi

	~~Workshops to be held on 9th July:~~

	*NLP for Conversational AI		'''Workshops to be held on 9th July:'''

			*''NLP for Conversational AI''
	**Tsung-Hsien Wen, Asli Celikyilmaz, IÃ±igo Casanueva, Mihail Eric, Anuj Kumar, Alexandros Papangelis, Rushin Shah and Zhou Yu		**Tsung-Hsien Wen, Asli Celikyilmaz, IÃ±igo Casanueva, Mihail Eric, Anuj Kumar, Alexandros Papangelis, Rushin Shah and Zhou Yu

	*~~The~~ Fourth Widening NLP Workshop (WiNLP 2020)		*T''he Fourth Widening NLP Workshop (WiNLP 2020)''
	**Samira Shaikh, Rossana da Cunha Silva, Ann Clifton, Erika Doggett and Ryan Georgi		**Samira Shaikh, Rossana da Cunha Silva, Ann Clifton, Erika Doggett and Ryan Georgi

	*BioNLP 2020		*''BioNLP 2020''
	**Dina Demner-Fushman, Kevin Cohen, Sophia Ananiadou and Jun'ichi Tsujii		**Dina Demner-Fushman, Kevin Cohen, Sophia Ananiadou and Jun'ichi Tsujii

			*''The third workshop on Fact Extraction and VERification''

	*The third workshop on Fact Extraction and VERification
	**Christos Christodoulopoulos, James Thorne, Andreas Vlachos, Oana Cocarascu and Arpit Mittal		**Christos Christodoulopoulos, James Thorne, Andreas Vlachos, Oana Cocarascu and Arpit Mittal

	*IWPT 2020: The 16th International Conference on Parsing Technologies		*''IWPT 2020: The 16th International Conference on Parsing Technologies''
	**Yuji Matsumoto, Stephan Oepen, Kenji Sagae, Anders SÃ¸gaard, Weiwei Sun and Reut Tsarfaty		**Yuji Matsumoto, Stephan Oepen, Kenji Sagae, Anders SÃ¸gaard, Weiwei Sun and Reut Tsarfaty

	*2nd Workshop on Figurative Language Processing		*''2nd Workshop on Figurative Language Processing''
	**Beata Beigman Klebanov, Ekaterina Shutova, Patricia Lichtenstein, Smaranda Muresan, Anna Feldman, Chee Wee (Ben) Leong and Debanjan Ghosh		**Beata Beigman Klebanov, Ekaterina Shutova, Patricia Lichtenstein, Smaranda Muresan, Anna Feldman, Chee Wee (Ben) Leong and Debanjan Ghosh

	*The 1st Joint Workshop on Narrative Understanding, Storylines, and Events (NUSE)		*''The 1st Joint Workshop on Narrative Understanding, Storylines, and Events (NUSE)''
	**Claire Bonial, Tommaso Caselli, Snigdha Chaturvedi, Elizabeth Clark, Ruihong Huang, Ben Miller, Mohit Iyyer, Alejandro Jaimes, Heng Ji, Lara Martin, Teruko Mitamura, Nanyun Peng and Joel Tetreault		**Claire Bonial, Tommaso Caselli, Snigdha Chaturvedi, Elizabeth Clark, Ruihong Huang, Ben Miller, Mohit Iyyer, Alejandro Jaimes, Heng Ji, Lara Martin, Teruko Mitamura, Nanyun Peng and Joel Tetreault

	*Workshop on Advances in Language and Vision Research		*''Workshop on Advances in Language and Vision Research''
	**Xin Wang, Jesse Thomason, Ronghang Hu, Xinlei Chen, Peter Anderson, Qi Wu, Asli Celikyilmaz, Jason Baldridge and William Yang Wang		**Xin Wang, Jesse Thomason, Ronghang Hu, Xinlei Chen, Peter Anderson, Qi Wu, Asli Celikyilmaz, Jason Baldridge and William Yang Wang

	*5th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP-2020)		*''5th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP-2020)''
	**Emma Strubell, Spandana Gella, Marek Rei, Johannes Welbl, Fabio Petroni, Patrick Lewis, NOTUSED NOTUSED, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Kyunghyun Cho, Edward Grefenstette, Karl Moritz Hermann, Laura Rimell, Chris Dyer and Isabelle Augenstein		**Emma Strubell, Spandana Gella, Marek Rei, Johannes Welbl, Fabio Petroni, Patrick Lewis, NOTUSED NOTUSED, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Kyunghyun Cho, Edward Grefenstette, Karl Moritz Hermann, Laura Rimell, Chris Dyer and Isabelle Augenstein


	Workshops to be held on 10th July:		'''Workshops to be held on 10th July:
			'''

	*Natural Language Interfaces: Challenges and Promises		*''Natural Language Interfaces: Challenges and Promises''
	**Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Yu Su, Huan Sun and Scott Wen-tau Yih		**Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Yu Su, Huan Sun and Scott Wen-tau Yih

			*''The 4th Workshop on Neural Generation and Translation (WNGT)''
	*The 4th Workshop on Neural Generation and Translation (WNGT)
	**Alexandra Birch, Graham Neubig, Andrew Finch, Hiroaki Hayashi, Kenneth Heafield, Ioannis Konstas, Yusuke Oda and Xian Li		**Alexandra Birch, Graham Neubig, Andrew Finch, Hiroaki Hayashi, Kenneth Heafield, Ioannis Konstas, Yusuke Oda and Xian Li

	*The 15th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA15)		*''The 15th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA15)''
	**Ekaterina Kochmar, Jill Burstein, Claudia Leacock, Nitin Madnani, Ildiko Pilan, Helen Yannakoudakis and Torsten Zesch		**Ekaterina Kochmar, Jill Burstein, Claudia Leacock, Nitin Madnani, Ildiko Pilan, Helen Yannakoudakis and Torsten Zesch

	*SIGMORPHON 2020		*''SIGMORPHON 2020''
	**Garrett Nicolai and Kyle Gorman		**Garrett Nicolai and Kyle Gorman

	*NLP for Medical Conversations		*''NLP for Medical Conversations''
	**Parminder Bhatia, Chaitanya Shivade, Mona Diab, byron wallace, Rashmi Gangadharaiah, nan du, Izhak Shafran and Steven Lin		**Parminder Bhatia, Chaitanya Shivade, Mona Diab, byron wallace, Rashmi Gangadharaiah, nan du, Izhak Shafran and Steven Lin

	*The Second Workshop on e-Commerce and NLP (ECNLP 2)		*''The Second Workshop on e-Commerce and NLP (ECNLP 2)''
	**Shervin Malmasi, Eugene Agichtein, Oleg Rokhlenko, Nicola Ueffing and Ido Guy		**Shervin Malmasi, Eugene Agichtein, Oleg Rokhlenko, Nicola Ueffing and Ido Guy

	*Eighth International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Social Media (SocialNLP 2020)		*''Eighth International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Social Media (SocialNLP 2020)''
	**Lun-Wei Ku and Cheng-Te Li		**Lun-Wei Ku and Cheng-Te Li

	*The First Workshop on Simultaneous Translation (AutoSimTrans)		*''The First Workshop on Simultaneous Translation (AutoSimTrans)''
	**Hua Wu, Colin Cherry, Jiatao Gu, Liang Huang, Zhongjun He, Mark Liberman and Yang Liu		**Hua Wu, Colin Cherry, Jiatao Gu, Liang Huang, Zhongjun He, Mark Liberman and Yang Liu

	*Second Grand-Challenge and Workshop on Human Multimodal Language (Challenge-HML)		*''Second Grand-Challenge and Workshop on Human Multimodal Language (Challenge-HML)''
	**AmirAli Bagher Zadeh, Louis-Philippe Morency, Paul Pu Liang, Soujanya Poria and Ying Shen		**AmirAli Bagher Zadeh, Louis-Philippe Morency, Paul Pu Liang, Soujanya Poria and Ying Shen