ACL 2016: Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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Sunday, 7 August 2016 to Friday, 12 August 2016
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ACL 2016: Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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

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SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

For the first time, the annual meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (ACL) takes place in Germany. ACL 2016 will
be held at the Humboldt University, in the heart of Berlin, August
7-12, 2016. As in previous years, the program of the conference
includes poster sessions, tutorials, workshops, and demonstrations in
addition to the main conference. ACL is 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.

Please join us at ACL 2016!

We are excited to announce the following news about ACL 2016:

NEWS

* the sessions of the main conference will be video recorded
* update on accommodation (see below)
* early-bird registration closes soon!!

REGISTRATION

Early-bird registration closes very soon: July 15, 2016.
To register visit http://www.acl2016.org

First 400 participants can register for the new Recruitment Lunch. Sign up now!

ACCOMMODATION

We are delighted to inform you that we have managed to extend the
deadlines at special rates for several hotels, in particular:

- NH Hotel: we were able to secure additional rooms and extend the
deadline for booking until July 25;

- Westin Grand: we were able to extend the deadline until July 16.

All rooms are subject to availability.

For detailed information, please consult the accommodation website:
http://acl2016.org/index.php?article_id=40

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.

MAIN CONFERENCE PROGRAM

The main conference will take place August 8-10. The selection was
competitive this year: we received an impressive 1290 submissions. We
accepted 328 papers (an acceptance rate of 25.4%).

The program will be announced shortly. The list of accepted papers is
available at: http://www.acl2016.org/index.php?article_id=13

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

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

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

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 Team
Florian Kunneman, Radboud University
Matt Post, Johns Hopkins 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