NAACL HLT 2016 - Call for Demonstrations

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Demonstrations
Abbreviated Title: 
NAACL 2016
Location: 
Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina
Sunday, 12 June 2016 to Friday, 17 June 2016
State: 
California
Country: 
United States
City: 
San Diego
Contact: 
John DeNero
Mark Finlayson
Sravana Reddy
Submission Deadline: 
Monday, 1 February 2016

== The 15th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT 2016) ==

We invite papers describing system demonstrations to be displayed at NAACL HLT 2016. Submissions may range from early prototypes to mature production-ready systems. Of particular interest are publicly available open-source or open-access systems. All accepted demos are published in a companion volume of the conference proceedings, and will be presented during a demo session at NAACL with an accompanying poster.

= Areas of Interest =

Areas of interest may include, but are not limited to:

* End-to-end systems *
- Information extraction and question answering
- Information access or dialogue
- Machine translation for consumer or industry applications
- Mobile applications
- NLP and speech technologies to support accessibility and assistive devices
- Technologies for the digital humanities
- Programs to automate linguistic analyses

* Systems aiding research and development in NLP *
- Interfaces and resources to support linguistic annotation
- Software architectures and reusable components
- Software tools for evaluation or error analysis
- Research toolkits implementing new or existing techniques
- Tools for data visualization

* Systems supporting learning or education *
- Visual interactive aids for students
- Tutorial agents to support real-time feedback for learning
- Instructional aids for topics in computational linguistics
- Systems to score or critique textual student responses
- Systems to mine textual or behavioral data for educational purposes

Papers will be evaluated on the basis of their relevance to computational linguistics, innovation, and scientific contribution. Accepted submissions will be published in the Companion Volume to the Proceedings of the Conference. As such, papers will also be evaluated on writing style and clarity of presentation.

Further details on the date, time, and format of the demonstration session(s) will be determined soon.

= Format for Submission =

Please use the main NAACL paper style (http://naacl.org/naacl-pubs) and submission guidelines. Submissions should include the following:

The paper describing the motivation and technical details of the system, as well as a "script outline" of the demo presentation, consisting of an accompanying narrative and visual aids (e.g., screenshots, snapshots, or diagrams). See examples of recent accepted demo papers in ACL 2015, NAACL 2015, ACL 2014, ACL 2013, and NAACL 2013.
A short (~2 minute) screencast video demonstrating the system. This screencast will be used to evaluate the paper, but won't be published unless requested.
As the reviewing will be blind, papers and screencasts must not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ..." should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Do not include a URL to your system if it reveals authorship, and remove all identifying information from the screencast and any screenshots in the paper. In addition, please do not post your papers online until after the review process is complete.

The entire paper must not be more than four pages, with one optional extra page for references. We will reject without review any papers that do not follow the official style guidelines, anonymity conditions and page limits.

Papers must be submitted electronically by February 12, 2016.

= Important Dates =

All times are 11:59pm PST on the deadline day.

* Submission deadline: February 12, 2016
* Notification of acceptance: March 18, 2016
* Submission of camera ready copies: April 1, 2016

= Contact =

Please send any inquiries to the demonstration co-chairs at naacl2016-demos [at] cs.fiu.edu.

Demonstration Co-chairs

* John DeNero, University of California Berkeley
* Mark Finlayson, Florida International University
* Sravana Reddy, Wellesley College