ACL 2016: Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Participation
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Location: 
Sunday, 7 August 2016 to Friday, 12 August 2016
State: 
Country: 
Germany
City: 
Berlin
Contact: 
For general questions: Valia Kordoni

ACL 2016: Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

August 7-12, 2016
Berlin, Germany
http://www.acl2016.org

FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Please join us at ACL 2016, the premier conference of the field of
computational linguistics, covering a broad spectrum of diverse
research areas that are concerned with computational approaches to
natural language.

For the first time, the annual meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (ACL) takes place in Germany and will be
held at the Humboldt University, in the heart of Berlin.

This is the last official newsletter regarding ACL 2016.

For recent updates follow us on social media:

https://twitter.com/acl2016
https://www.facebook.com/Acl2016

NEWS

* Important: The Social Event has now exceeded maximum boat capacities
so we regret that it is closed.

* the conference program is available! (see below)

* the sessions of the main conference will be video recorded

* early-bird registration is closed. Late registration
deadline is soon: July 31

MAIN CONFERENCE PROGRAM

The main conference program is available at:

http://acl2016.org/index.php?article_id=12

The program includes oral presentations, poster sessions,
demonstrations, tutorials and workshops. There are 11 ACL 2016
outstanding papers. The conference program is based on a competitive
selection this year: we received an impressive 1290 submissions. We
accepted 328 papers (an acceptance rate of 25.4%). In addition, 25
TACL papers will be presented at ACL 2016.

We have a great line-up of invited speakers:

Amber Boydstun, Associate Professor of Political Science,
University of California, Davis
Mark Steedman, Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh

Be sure to come to the last session of the conference where, as is
ACL's tradition, the Lifetime Achievement Award winner will be
announced and give a talk. It will be a surprise to all!

ACL-2016 has been made possible thanks to our generous sponsors:
Google, Baidu, Amazon (Platinum Sponsors); Bloomberg, Facebook, eBay,
Elsevier, Microsoft Research, IVM T.J. Watson Research Center, and
Maluuba (Gold Sponsors); Huawei Technologies, Zalando SE (Silver
Sponsors); Nuance, Grammarly, Voicebox, Yandex, and Textkernel (Bronze
Sponsors).

The recruitment lunch has been made possible by Amazon, Google,
Nuance, Sony, Textkernel, Zalando SE, Ocado Technology, Siemens, Almax
Analytics, Dublin City University, and the University of Copenhagen.
You can meet these sponsors at the recruitment lunch (capped at 400
people).

CONFERENCE DATES

7 August: Tutorials
8-10 August: Main Conference
11-12 August: Workshops and co-located events

REGISTRATION

Late Registration: July 16, 2016 to 11:59PM EDT July 31, 2016
Onsite Registration: Begins August 7, 2016

To register visit http://www.acl2016.org

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

For details on public transportation including connections to the
airports (Tegel or Schönefeld), weather, safety, and bicycles consult
the website:

http://acl2016.org/index.php?article_id=42

For information on Berlin, including main attractions, see:
http://acl2016.org/index.php?article_id=20

TUTORIALS

On August 7, the day before the main conference, there are 8
tutorials, covering a wide range of hot topics in our community:

Morning Tutorials, 9:00-12:30

Multimodal Learning and Reasoning
Desmond Elliott, Douwe Kiela and Angeliki Lazaridou

NLP Approaches to Computational Argumentation
Noam Slonim, Iryna Gurevych, Chris Reed and Benno Stein

Computer Aided Translation
Philipp Koehn

Semantic Representations of Word Senses and Concepts
José Camacho-Collados, Ignacio Iacobacci, Roberto Navigli and
Mohammad Taher Pilehvar

Afternoon Tutorials, 14:00-17:30

Neural Machine Translation
Thang Luong, Kyunghyun Cho and Christopher D. Manning

Game Theory and Natural Language: Origin, Evolution and Processing
Rocco Tripodi and Marcello Pelillo

Understanding Short Texts
Zhongyuan Wang and Haixun Wang

MetaNet: Repository, Identification System, and Applications
Miriam R L Petruck and Ellen K Dodge

The exact location will be announced soon on the tutorial website.

STUDENT RESEARCH WORKSHOP

The accepted papers at the Student Research workshop are available:
https://sites.google.com/site/aclsrw2016/accepted-papers

WORKSHOPS AT ACL 2016

August 11

1st Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP
Phil Blunsom, Kyunghyun Cho, Shay Cohen, Edward Grefenstette, Karl
Moritz Hermann, Laura Rimell, Jason Weston, and Scott Wen- tau Yih

SIGANN's Linguistic Annotation Workshop
Nancy Ide, Adam Meyers, Katrin Tomanek, Annemarie Friedrich

12th Workshop on Multiword Expressions
Valia Kordoni, Markus Egg, Kostadin Cholakov, Preslav Nakov, Stella
Markantonatou

7th Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Learning
Anna Korhonen, Alessandro Lenci, Thierry Poibeau, Aline Villavicencio

14th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics,
Phonology, and Morphology
Micha Elsner, Sandra Kuebler

10th SIGHUM Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage,
Social Sciences, and Humanities
Nils Reiter, Beatrice Alex, Kalliopi A. Zervanou

First Conference on Machine Translation (WMT)
Barry Haddow, Philipp Koehn, Ondrej Bojar, Matthias Huck, Christian
Federmann, Christof Monz, Matt Post, Lucia Specia

August 12

5th Workshop on Vision and Language
Anya Belz, Katerina Pastra, Erkut Erdem, Krystian Mikolajczyk

15th Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing
Kevin B. Cohen, Dina Demner Fushman, Sophia Ananiadou, Jun-ichi Tsujii

SIGFSM Workshop on Statistical NLP and Weighted Automata
Bryan Jurish, Andreas Maletti, Uwe Springmann, and Kay-Michael Würzner

1st Workshop on Evaluating Vector-Space Representations for NLP
Omer Levy, Felix Hill, Roi Reichart, Kyunghyun Cho, Anna Korhonen,
Yoav Goldberg, and Antoine Bordes

10th Web as Corpus Workshop
Paul C. Cook, Stefan Evert, Roland Schäfer, Egon Stemle

6th NEWS Named Entities Workshop
Rafael E. Banchs, Min Zhang, Haizhou Li, A Kumaran

3rd Workshop on Argument Mining
Chris Reed, Kevin Ashley, Claire Cardie, Nancy Green, Iryna Gurevych,
Diane Litman, Georgios Petasis, Noam Slonim, Vern Walker

First Conference on Machine Translation (WMT)
Barry Haddow, Philipp Koehn, Ondrej Bojar, Matthias Huck, Christian
Federmann, Christof Monz, Matt Post, Lucia Specia

Co-located Events

August 11-12

*SEM 2016: The 5th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics

Keynote speakers:
Yoav Artzi, Cornell University
Alexander Koller, University of Potsdam
Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh
Program: https://sites.google.com/site/starsem2016/program

CoNLL 2016: The SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning

Keynote speakers:
Jürgen Schmidhuber, Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA),
Lugano, Switzerland
Fernanda Ferreira, Department of Psychology, UC Davis, CA, USA
Program: http://www.clips.uantwerpen.be/drupal7/sites/conll.org/files/program2016/

Organizing Committee

General Chair
Antal van den Bosch, Radboud University Nijmegen

Program Co-Chairs
Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin
Noah Smith, University of Washington

Local Organizing Committee
Valia Kordoni (local chair), Humboldt University
Markus Egg (local co-chair), Humboldt University
Kostadin Cholakov, Humboldt University
Maja Popović, Humboldt University
Manfred Stede, University of Potsdam
Anke Lüdeling, Humboldt University
Manfred Krifka, Humboldt University
Ulf Leser, Humboldt University
Yulia Grishina (Student Volunteer Coordinator), University of Potsdam

Workshop Chairs
Jun Zhao, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Sabine Schulte im Walde, IMS Stuttgart

Tutorial Chairs
Alexandra Birch, University of Edinburgh
Willem Zuidema, University of Amsterdam

Publication Chairs
Yannick Versley, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Hai Zhao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Yusuke Miyao, National Institute of Informatics, Japan

Demonstration Chairs
Sameer Pradhan, Boulder Learning
Marianna Apidianaki, LIMSI-CNRS

Student Research Workshop Chairs
Will Roberts, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Tao Lei, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
He He, University of Maryland

Faculty Advisors to the Student Research Workshop
Yang Liu, Tsinghua University
Chris Biemann, Technische Universität Darmstadt
Gosse Bouma, University of Groningen

Student Volunteer Coordinator
Yulia Grishina, University of Potsdam

Publicity Chair
Barbara Plank, University of Groningen

Conference Handbook
Florian Kunneman, Radboud University

Business Manager
Priscilla Rasmussen, ACL

Professional Conference Organiser
Con gressa GmbH, Berlin

CONTACT

For general questions regarding ACL 2016, please contact:
Valia Kordoni
Tel: +49 30 2093 2421
Fax: +49 30 2093 2244
E-mail: evangelia.kordoni [at] anglistik.hu-berlin.de