2017Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2017

EMNLP-2017 will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark on Sep 7-11, 2017.

• Conference chair: Martha Palmer
• Program chairs: Rebecca Hwa and Sebastian Riedel
• Workshops chairs: Victoria Fossum and Karl Moritz Hermann
• Tutorial chairs: Alexandra Birch and Nathan Schneider

The conference includes three days of paper presentations and 3 invited talks, plus two days consisting of fifteen workshops and seven tutorials. There were 1,500 paper submissions (1466 reviewed) to the main conference. 323 accept letters have gone out. There will also be 9 TACL presentations and around 20 demos. The reviewing process was extended to include a "meta-review" for each paper. The bulk of the conference will consist of 6 units (2 each day) of 5 parallel sessions (3 oral, 2 poster). The rest will be primarily plenary sessions for invited talks, best papers, business meeting, etc.

Red Flag Issue: The conference hotel rates expired July 7 before the registration page was up.

More information about the conference can be found at http://emnlp2017.net/index.html .