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The submission process in general worked reasonably well,  except for the delay caused by Softconf moving to a new platform in October 2012. The new platform aims at reducing the number of distinct Softconf accounts each of us has to keep track of, which is a very good idea, but the fact it only came live in October meant that both us and the area chairs had to invite people twice, first via email and then through Softconf, which was quite painful. (But apart from this difficulty we wish to stress that we were very impressed with the level and speed of support provided by Softconf, which went way beyond the terms of the contract.)  The timetable for submissions, developed in close collaboration with both the chairs of NAACL and with ACL exec, worked quite well and we recommend future chairs to follow it quite closely as it will not be easy to find a different solution satisfying all the constraints.
 
The submission process in general worked reasonably well,  except for the delay caused by Softconf moving to a new platform in October 2012. The new platform aims at reducing the number of distinct Softconf accounts each of us has to keep track of, which is a very good idea, but the fact it only came live in October meant that both us and the area chairs had to invite people twice, first via email and then through Softconf, which was quite painful. (But apart from this difficulty we wish to stress that we were very impressed with the level and speed of support provided by Softconf, which went way beyond the terms of the contract.)  The timetable for submissions, developed in close collaboration with both the chairs of NAACL and with ACL exec, worked quite well and we recommend future chairs to follow it quite closely as it will not be easy to find a different solution satisfying all the constraints.
  
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The following table shows the number of submissions in each area for long and short papers, as well as the number of papers accepted in each area.
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The list of areas was substantially revised with respect to previous years. Separate areas for Dialogue and Discourse were introduced as there is very little interaction between these communities nowadays, The following table shows the number of submissions in each area for long and short papers, as well as the number of papers accepted in each area.
  
 
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|Cognitive Modelling and Psycholinguistics||13                  ||3                    ||12                  ||5
 
|Cognitive Modelling and Psycholinguistics||13                  ||3                    ||12                  ||5
 
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|Dialogue and Interactive Systems
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|15
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|4
 +
|
 +
|
 +
|-    
 
|Discourse, Coreference, and Pragmatics
 
|Discourse, Coreference, and Pragmatics
 
|28
 
|28
 
|9
 
|9
−
|
+
|19
−
|
+
|4
 
|-
 
|-
−
|Information Retrieval
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|Evaluation Methods
 
|26
 
|26
 
|5
 
|5
 
|14
 
|14
 
|1
 
|1
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|-
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|Information Retrieval
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|
 +
|
 +
|
 +
|
 
|-
 
|-
 
|Language Resources
 
|Language Resources
−
|32
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|
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|9
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−
|26
+
|
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|7
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|-
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|Lexical Semantics and Ontologies
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|
 +
|
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 +
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|-
 
|-
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|Linguistic Creativity
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|Low Resource Language Processing
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|20
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|
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|4
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|18
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|
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|6
+
|
 
|-
 
|-
 
|Machine Translation: Methods, Applications and Evaluations
 
|Machine Translation: Methods, Applications and Evaluations
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|33
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|11
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|40
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|
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|12
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|-
 
|-
 
|Machine Translation: Statistical Models
 
|Machine Translation: Statistical Models
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|56
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|15
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|
−
|43
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|
−
|11
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|
 
|-
 
|-
 
|Multilinguality
 
|Multilinguality
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|24
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|6
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|20
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|5
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|NLP Applications
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|NLP and  Creativity
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|
 +
|
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|
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|
 
|-
 
|-
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|Natural Language Processing Applications
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|NLP for the Languages of Central and Eastern Europe and The Balkans
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|30
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|
−
|7
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−
|32
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|
−
|10
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|
 
|-
 
|-
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|NLP for Web 2.0
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|NLP for the Web and Social Media
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|31
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|
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|8
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−
|18
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|
−
|2
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|
 
|-
 
|-
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|Phonology/Morphology, Tagging and Chunking, Word Segmentation
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|Phonology and Morphology
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|34
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|10
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|26
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|
−
|8
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|
 
|-
 
|-
 
|Question Answering
 
|Question Answering
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|19
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|
−
|3
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|
−
|11
+
|
−
|1
+
|
 
|-
 
|-
 
|Semantics
 
|Semantics
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|48
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|
−
|13
+
|
−
|40
+
|
−
|6
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|
 
|-
 
|-
 
|Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining and Text Classification
 
|Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining and Text Classification
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|-
 
|Spoken Language Processing
 
|Spoken Language Processing
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|20
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|5
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|
−
|17
+
|
−
|5
+
|
 
|-
 
|-
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|Statistical and Machine Learning Methods
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|Statistical and Machine Learning Methods in NLP
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|42
+
|
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|11
+
|
−
|31
+
|
−
|7
+
|
 
|-
 
|-
 
|Summarization and Generation
 
|Summarization and Generation
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|36
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|
−
|7
+
|
−
|37
+
|
−
|9
+
|
 
|-
 
|-
 
|Syntax and Parsing
 
|Syntax and Parsing
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|56
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|
−
|15
+
|
−
|47
+
|
−
|15
+
|
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|-
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|Tagging and Chunking
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|
 +
|
 +
|
 +
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|-
 
|-
 
|Text Mining and Information Extraction
 
|Text Mining and Information Extraction
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|51
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|
−
|14
+
|
−
|34
+
|
−
|8
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|-
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|Word Segmentation
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|
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 +
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|TOTAL
 
|TOTAL
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|634
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|
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|164
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|
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|512
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|
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|128
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|
 
|}
 
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Revision as of 17:00, 9 July 2013

Program Chairs (Pascale Fung and Massimo Poesio)

This year's ACL introduces a number of innovations, main among which are that this will be the first year in which TACL papers are going to be presented; that mentoring was trialled again; and that a stricter policy regarding registrations was introduced. Handling such innovations as well as the greatly increased number of submissions proved challenging, but in the end not really problematic.

ACL 2013 received a total of 1286 submissions, of which 662 long papers and 624 short papers. (This number of long paper submissions is in line with previous years and in fact slightly lower than in 2011, but the number of short paper submissions is the highest ever - almost twice the 369 of last year, and 20% higher than in 2011.) These submissions were managed by a program committee of 45 area chairs, much larger than in the past (cfr. the 30 area chairs of 2012 and the 27 of 2011), assisted by XXX reviewers. 174 (26%) long papers and 154 (24%) short papers were selected for presentation in the conference. Among the accepted papers, 111 of the long papers will have an oral presentation (in 37 sessions of 3 papers each) as well as 56 of the short papers (in 14 sessions of 4 papers each). In addition, the authors of 16 TACL papers chose presentation at ACL; 9 of these were given an oral presentation and 7 a poster presentation. In total, then, 344 papers will be presented at ACL 2013: 176 orally and 168 as posters. The number of poster presentations is much higher than the 75 of the 2012 edition and the 128 of 2011. We believe the increase in the number of posters is a positive development that may eventually lead to ACL playing a greater community building role; but it will have to be managed in a number of ways, e.g., by ensuring that suitable space is allocated to the posters. (How to handle the number of posters, much exceeding expectations, was one of the main issues we had to face as program chairs. More in general, we recommend keeping program chairs more in the loop regarding venue characteristics - we only learned about the specifics of this year's venue after coming up with a first version of the program, which then had to be substantially revised.)

The submission process in general worked reasonably well, except for the delay caused by Softconf moving to a new platform in October 2012. The new platform aims at reducing the number of distinct Softconf accounts each of us has to keep track of, which is a very good idea, but the fact it only came live in October meant that both us and the area chairs had to invite people twice, first via email and then through Softconf, which was quite painful. (But apart from this difficulty we wish to stress that we were very impressed with the level and speed of support provided by Softconf, which went way beyond the terms of the contract.) The timetable for submissions, developed in close collaboration with both the chairs of NAACL and with ACL exec, worked quite well and we recommend future chairs to follow it quite closely as it will not be easy to find a different solution satisfying all the constraints.

The list of areas was substantially revised with respect to previous years. Separate areas for Dialogue and Discourse were introduced as there is very little interaction between these communities nowadays, The following table shows the number of submissions in each area for long and short papers, as well as the number of papers accepted in each area.

Areas Long Received Long Accepted Short Received Short accepted
Cognitive Modelling and Psycholinguistics 13 3 12 5
Dialogue and Interactive Systems 15 4
Discourse, Coreference, and Pragmatics 28 9 19 4
Evaluation Methods 26 5 14 1
Information Retrieval
Language Resources
Lexical Semantics and Ontologies
Low Resource Language Processing
Machine Translation: Methods, Applications and Evaluations
Machine Translation: Statistical Models
Multilinguality
NLP Applications
NLP and Creativity
NLP for the Languages of Central and Eastern Europe and The Balkans
NLP for the Web and Social Media
Phonology and Morphology
Question Answering
Semantics
Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining and Text Classification 45 12 36 10
Spoken Language Processing
Statistical and Machine Learning Methods in NLP
Summarization and Generation
Syntax and Parsing
Tagging and Chunking
Text Mining and Information Extraction
Word Segmentation
TOTAL
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