2009Q3 Reports: Program Chairs
This year, we received a record number of 925 valid paper submissions -- a 24% submission increase over ACL-08: HLT -- with 569 full papers and 356 short papers. The significant submission increase shows how vigorous our field is.
20 Area Chairs worked with 489 Program Committee members and 85 additional reviewers to come up with 2,551 reviews, in total, for the final paper selection. 21% of the full paper submissions are accepted; all of these will be presented orally. 26% of the short paper submissions are accepted; some of these will be presented orally and some will be given as poster presentations. While short papers are distinguished from full papers in the proceedings, there is no distinction in the proceedings between short papers presented orally and those presented as poster presentations. Furthermore, the short-paper posters are clustered together by topic and assigned poster numbers, to provide better information access for the audience and easier logistics for the Local Arrangements Committee.
Submissions and acceptances by areas are as following:
| Full papers | #sub | #accepted |
|---|---|---|
| Phonology/morphology, POS tagging and chunking, Word Segmentation | 31 | 8 (26%) |
| Syntax and Parsing | 49 | 14(29%) |
| Semantics | 67 | 14(21%) |
| Discourse, Dialogue and Pragmatics | 43 | 9 (21%) |
| Summarization and Generation | 44 | 8 (18%) |
| Statistical and Machine Learning Methods | 40 | 6 (15%) |
| Machine Translation | 82 | 23(28%) |
| Information Retrieval | 28 | 4 (14%) |
| Information Extraction | 49 | 10(20%) |
| Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining and Text Classification | 45 | 7 (16%) |
| Spoken Language Processing | 19 | 6 (32%) |
| Question Answering | 25 | 3 (12%) |
| Text Mining and NLP Applications | 21 | 4 (19%) |
| Language Resource | 26 | 4 (15%) |
| Total | 569 | 120(21%) |
| Short papers | #sub | #accepted |
|---|---|---|
| Phonology/morphology, POS tagging and chunking, Word Segmentation | 16 | 4 (25%) |
| Syntax and Parsing | 28 | 8 (29%) |
| Semantics | 33 | 9 (27%) |
| Discourse, Dialogue and Pragmatics | 21 | 7 (33%) |
| Summarization and Generation | 24 | 8 (33%) |
| Statistical and Machine Learning Methods | 21 | 7 (33%) |
| Machine Translation | 57 | 13(23%) |
| Information Retrieval | 26 | 4 (15%) |
| Information Extraction | 26 | 5 (19%) |
| Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining and Text Classification | 44 | 13(30%) |
| Spoken Language Processing | 16 | 5 (31%) |
| Question Answering | 25 | 3 (25%) |
| Text Mining and NLP Applications | 16 | 3 (19%) |
| Language Resource | 16 | 4 (25%) |
| Total | 356 | 93(26%) |
The geographical distribution of the first authors of all
submissions is shown below. We received submissions from 41
countries: about 51% from 20 countries in Asia
Pacific, 27% from Canada, Cuba and the United States, 22% from 15
countries in Europe, less than 1% from Argentina and one anonymous submission.
Distribution for Full Papers
| # submission | # accepted | |
|---|---|---|
| Asia & Pacific | 288 | 46 |
| 19 Countries, 288/569= 50.62% of submissions, 46/120 = 38.33% of accepted papers | ||
| Australia | 12 | 2 |
| China | 98 | 15 |
| Hong Kong S.A.R. | 11 | 3 |
| India | 20 | 1 |
| Indonesia | 2 | 0 |
| Iran | 4 | 0 |
| Israel | 16 | 3 |
| Japan | 73 | 12 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 0 |
| Oman | 1 | 0 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 0 |
| Philippines | 2 | 0 |
| Republic of Korea | 15 | 2 |
| Singapore | 15 | 7 |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | 0 |
| Taiwan | 12 | 1 |
| Thailand | 1 | 0 |
| Turkey | 1 | 0 |
| Vietnam | 2 | 0 |
| Europe | 115 | 18 |
| 16 countries, 115/569 = 20.21% of submissions, 18/120 = 15.00% of accepted
papers | ||
| Belgium | 3 | 0 |
| Czech Republic | 4 | 0 |
| Denmark | 4 | 1 |
| Finland | 1 | 0 |
| France | 12 | 1 |
| Germany | 24 | 6 |
| Isle of Man | 3 | 0 |
| Italy | 10 | 1 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 1 |
| Portugal | 1 | 0 |
| Romania | 2 | 0 |
| Russian Federation | 2 | 0 |
| Spain | 12 | 2 |
| Sweden | 8 | 1 |
| Switzerland | 3 | 1 |
| United Kindom | 24 | 4 |
| North America | 163 | 56 |
| 2 countries, 163/569=28.65% of submissions, 56/120=46.67% of accepted papers | ||
| Canada | 10 | 6 |
| United States | 153 | 50 |
| South America | 2 | 0 |
| 0.35% | 0.00% | |
| Argentina | 2 | 0 |
| Anonymous | 1 | 0 |
| 0.18% | 0.00% | |
| Overall Total | 569 | 120 |
Distribution for Short Papers
| # submitted | # accepted | |
|---|---|---|
| Asia & Pacific | 183 | 48 |
| 15 countries, 183/356= 51.40% of submissions, 48/93=51.61% of accepted papers | ||
| Australia | 6 | 2 |
| China | 51 | 9 |
| Hong Kong S.A.R. | 12 | 4 |
| India | 16 | 5 |
| Japan | 42 | 11 |
| Malaysia | 2 | 0 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 0 |
| Republic of Korea | 16 | 8 |
| Singapore | 7 | 2 |
| Taiwan | 15 | 3 |
| Thailand | 2 | 0 |
| Vietnam | 4 | 1 |
| Iran | 2 | 0 |
| Israel | 3 | 1 |
| Turkey | 4 | 2 |
| Europe | 85 | 21 |
| 14 countries, 85/356=23.88% of submissions, 21/93=22.58% of accepted papers | ||
| Belgium | 1 | 1 |
| Czech Republic | 4 | 2 |
| Denmark | 4 | 0 |
| France | 8 | 1 |
| Germany | 21 | 7 |
| Isle of Man | 4 | 0 |
| Italy | 8 | 1 |
| Netherlands | 3 | 0 |
| Poland | 1 | 0 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1 |
| Spain | 14 | 3 |
| Sweden | 2 | 0 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 0 |
| United Kingdom | 12 | 5 |
| North America | 88 | 24 |
| 3 countries, 88/356=24.72% of submissions, 24/93=25.81% of accepted papers | ||
| Canada | 5 | 2 |
| Cuba | 1 | 0 |
| United States | 82 | 22 |
| Overall Total | 356 | 93 |
The best (student) papers will be announced at the end of
the conference. This will allow time for the decision
process, which involves soliciting suggestions from the area
chairs, and forming a committee to read and judge the camera ready
papers.
Jian Su, Jan Wiebe ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Program Committee Chairs July 6, 2009