2015Q1 Reports: ACL 2015
ACL-IJCNLP 2015 - report by Gertjan van Noord
Dragomir Radev (ACL secr) radev@umich.edu
Graeme Hirst (ACL treas) gh@cs.toronto.edu
Gertjan van Noord (ACL past president in 2015) g.j.m.van.noord@rug.nl
Priscilla Rasmussen (ACL business officer) acl@aclweb.org
Jian Su (ACL board) sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg
Keh-Yih Su (AFNLP president) kysu@bdc.com.tw bdc.kysu@gmail.com
Haizhou Li (AFNLP secretary) hli@i2r.a-star.edu.sg
Gary Geunbae Lee (AFNLP treasurer) gblee@postech.ac.kr
Kam-Fai Wong (AFNLP) kfwong@se.cuhk.edu.hk (per July 2014)
email alias for this committee: acl15cc@aclweb.org
domain name: acl2015.org; website is up at [1]
location: Beijing, China National Convention Center
Site visit: by Graeme, Yuji, Priscilla. Contracts have been signed.
dates: July 26-31, 2015
General Chair
Yuji Matsumoto, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
PC Co-Chairs
Chengqing Zong, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Michael Strube, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies
Local Arrangement Chairs
Le Sun, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yang Liu, Tsinghua University
Workshop Co-Chairs
Hang Li, Huawei
Sebastian Riedel, University College London
Tutorial Co-Chairs
Kevin Duh, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country
Demo Co-Chairs
Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University
Katja Markert, University of Leeds
Publications Chairs
Wanxiang Che, Harbin Institute of Technology
Guodong Zhou, Suzhou University
Student Research Workshop Faculty Advisors
Stephan Oepen, University of Oslo
Chin-Yew Lin, Microsoft Research Asia
Emily Bender, University of Washington
Student Chairs (Student Research Workshop)
Kuan-Yu Chen, National Taiwan University
Angelina Ivanova, University of Oslo
Ellie Pavlick, University of Pennsylvania
Mentoring Chair
Francis Bond, Nanyang Technological University
Publicity Co-Chairs
Xianpei Han, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Kang Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Sponsorship Co-Chairs
Yiqun Liu, Tsinghua University
two more to be appointed
The following points show the current status of PC:
1) All area chairs have been fixed. Please see the attachement. And all area chairs recruited reviewers aready. We are ready to process submissions.
2) CFP has been made and uploaded on the conference web page ([2]).
3) The START system for papers has been set up and it works well now. We have received 32 submissions, but 3 submissions were withdrawn.
4) We are considering to invite keynote speakers now and over 10 candidates are listed.
Generally, everything on PC issue is well prepared.
Area chairs for ACL-IJCNLP 2015
Discourse, Coreference and Pragmatics (2)
Pascal Denis, pascal.denis@inria.fr
Marta Recasens, recasens@google.com
Information Retrieval (1)
Jian-Yun Nie, nie@iro.umontreal.ca
Information Extraction and Text Mining (3)
Razvan Bunescu, bunescu@ohio.edu
Mausam, mausam@cse.iitd.ac.in
Steven Bethard, bethard@cis.uab.edu
Language and Vision (1)
John Kelleher, john.d.kelleher@dit.ie
Language Resources and Evaluation (2)
Rashmi Prasad, prasadr@uwm.edu
Jin-Dong Kim jdkim@dbcls.rois.ac.jp
Lexical Semantics and Ontology (2)
Qin Lu, csluqin@comp.polyu.edu.hk, csluqin@yahoo.com
Zornitsa Kozareva, zornitsa@kozareva.com
Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Aspects of CL (1)
Suzanne Stevenson, suzanne@cs.toronto.edu
Machine Learning and Topic Models for Language Processing (3)
Daichi Mochihashi, daichi@ism.ac.jp,daichi.mochihashi@gmail.com
Eric Xing, epxing@cs.cmu.edu
Regina Barzilay, regina@csail.mit.edu
Machine Translation and Multilinguality (4)
Fei Huang, feirhuang@gmail.com
Taro Watanabe taro.watanabe@nict.go.jp
Min Zhang, minzhang@suda.edu.cn
Stephan Vogel, svogel@qf.org.qa
NLP Applications and NLP-enabled Technology (2)
Joel Tetreault, tetreaul@gmail.com
Srinivas Bangalore srini@research.att.com
NLP for the Web and Social Media (2)
Shou-De Lin, sdlin@csie.ntu.edu.tw
Alice Oh, alice.oh@kaist.edu
Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation (2)
Greg Kondrak, gkondrak@ualberta.ca
Jianfeng Gao jfgao@microsoft.com
Question Answering (1)
James Fan fanj@us.ibm.com
Semantics (3)
Chris Biemann, biemann@ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de
Raquel Fernandez, raquel.fernandez@uva.nl
Tom Kwiatkowski tom.kwiat@gmail.com
Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining (2)
Jing Jiang, jingjiang@smu.edu.sg
Lun-Wei Ku, lwku@iis.sinica.edu.tw
Spoken Language Processing, Dialogue and Interactive Systems, and Multimodal NLP (2)
David Schlangen, david.schlangen@uni-bielefeld.de
Julia Hirschberg julia@cs.columbia.edu
Summarization and Generation (2)
Xiaojun Wan, wanxiaojun@pku.edu.cn
Mirella Lapata, mlap@inf.ed.ac.uk
Tagging, Chunking, Syntax and Parsing (3)
Yusuke Miyao, yusuke@nii.ac.jp
Anders Soegaard, soegaard@hum.ku.dk
Mark Dras, mark.dras@mq.edu.au
15 workshops are accepted: One two-day workshop (SIGHAN) and 14 one-day workshops.
List of workshops ([3]):
SRW, ACL Student Research Workshop 2015
Two-day Workshops (July 30 and 31)
SIGHAN, Eighth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing
Single-day Workshops (July 30)
ArabicNLP, Arabic Natural Language Processing
GEAF, Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks (GEAF 2015)
BUCC, Eighth Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora
S2MT, Semantics-Driven Statistical Machine Translation: Theory and Practice
Keyphrase, Novel Computational Approaches to Keyphrase Extraction
SIGHUM LaTeCH, SIGHUM Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities
BioNLP, BioNLP 2015
Single-day Workshops (July 31)
NEWS, Named Entities Workshop (NEWS 2015)
CVSC, Third Workshop on Continuous Vector Space Models and their Compositionality
HyTra, Fourth Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation
LDL, Fourth Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics: Resources and Applications
WNUT, Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2015)
NLP-TEA, The 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications
NewsStory, The First Workshop on Computing News Storylines
Yuji informs us: "The notification of acceptance date has already passed, and I am asking the chairs how many and what tutorials have been accepted. I will update this information as soon as I receive it."
The schedule is confirmed and placed in the acl-ijcnlp 2015 website. Call: http://www.acl2015.org/call_for_system_demonstrations.html 33 members have agreed to join into committee for system demonstration.
The schedule has been fixed and the information has been updated on the web page: https://sites.google.com/site/acl2015srw/ http://www.acl2015.org/organize.html
Yuji: "The local sponsorship chair has already started call-for-sponsorship to major Chinese IT/Net companies. I am trying to find another international sponsorship committee member."
1) We already set up the ACL2015 website. http://www.acl2015.org/index.html
Add new CFP, and so on. If you have any suggestions for future update, please send to us.
2) We have sent out the CFP worldwide, and to all the members of CIPS.
3) The local organizer, that is CIPS, has paid the first phrase deposits (about 25,000USD) to CNCC (conference venue).
4) We have already discussed with a few local companies for donations to sponsor our conference.
5) We held a local arrangement committee meeting in the end of January.
Four new LC members added. Now the LC members are Le Sun (Co-Chair), Yan g Liu (Co-Chair), Erhong Yang (Volunteer Co-Ordinator), Zhiyuan Liu (Webmaster), Shumin Shi (AV and space management), Wenbin Jiang (AV and space management), Dong Yu (Entertainment), and Yufeng Chen (Registration). We have proposed several plans for the social event and exec++ dinner. The LC will evaluate the proposed locations in March. Discussion with sponsorship and publicity chairs. Publicity chairs will help us edit the conference handbook.
6) We have contacted with Priscilla and will pull together an overall budget of estimates costs in March.