EMNLP 2017: Call for System Demonstrations

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Demonstrations
Thursday, 7 September 2017 to Monday, 11 September 2017
Country: 
Denmark
City: 
Copenhagen
Contact: 
Lucia Specia, University of Sheffield, UK
Matt Post, Johns Hopkins University
Michael Paul, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Submission Deadline: 
Sunday, 14 May 2017

EMNLP 2017 Call for System Demonstrations

Important dates:
Submission deadline: May 14, 2017 (11:59pm PST)
Acceptance notification: June 30, 2017
Submission of camera ready copies: July 21, 2017

Invitation for Submission:

This year for the first time EMNLP invites proposals for the 2017 System Demonstration Program. Submissions may range from early research prototypes to mature production-ready systems. Of particular interest are publicly available open-source or open-access systems. We would like to strongly encourage demonstrations of industrial systems as long as they prove technologically innovative given the current state of the art of theory and applied research in computational linguistics. PLEASE NOTE: Commercial sales and marketing activities are not appropriate in the Demonstrations Program and should be arranged as part of the Exhibit Program.

Areas of interest include all topics related to theoretical and applied computational linguistics, such as (but not limited to) the topics listed on the main conference website: http://emnlp2017.net/

Accepted submissions will be published in a companion volume of the EMNLP 2017 conference proceedings, and will be presented during a demo session with an accompanying poster.

The systems may be of the following kinds:
Natural Language Processing systems or system components
Application systems using language technology components
Software tools for computational linguistics research
Software for demonstration or evaluation
Software supporting learning or education
Tools for data visualization and annotation
Development tools

Developers should outline the design of their system and provide sufficient details to allow the evaluation of its validity, quality, and relevance to computational linguistics. Pointers to web sites running a demo preview will also be helpful. For non web-based demos, it is possible to submit a short (~2 minute) screencast video demonstrating the system. This screencast will be used to evaluate the paper, but will not be included in the ACL Anthology, unless requested by the authors. We encourage the authors to include visual aids (e.g., screenshots, snapshots, or diagrams) in the paper. There will be place on the START website to upload additional material, if needed. If you choose to submit a screencast, please upload the video to some hosting site (YouTube, Vimeo, etc.) and include the link in your submission.

Submission Information:

Submissions may consist of 6 pages (including references). Papers must conform to the official EMNLP guidelines which are specified in the style files.

http://emnlp2017.net/call-for-papers.html

Submission will be electronic in PDF format through the START conference management system at

https://www.softconf.com/emnlp2017/demos

Reviewing Policy:

Reviewing will be single-blind, so authors do not need to conceal their identity. The paper should include the authors' names and affiliations. Self-references are also allowed.

System Demonstration Co-chairs:

Lucia Specia, University of Sheffield, UK (l.specia [at] sheffield.ac.uk)
Matt Post, Johns Hopkins University (post [at] cs.jhu.edu)
Michael Paul, University of Colorado Boulder, USA (mpaul39 [at] gmail.com)