2015Q1 Reports: ACL 2015

ACL-IJCNLP 2015 - report by Gertjan van Noord

[TO BE REFORMATTED]

• • • coordinating committee:

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)

• • • relevant facts

email alias for this committee: acl15cc@aclweb.org

domain name: acl2015.org website is up at http://www.acl2015.org/index.html

location: Beijing, China National Convention Center

Site visit: by Graeme, Yuji, Priscilla. Contracts have been signed.

dates: July 26-31, 2015

• • • Organizing committee

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

• • • Program Committee

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 (http://acl2015.org/call_for_papers.html).

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

• • Area Chairs

• [1]Discourse, Coreference and Pragmatics (2)

  * Pascal Denis,              pascal.denis@inria.fr
  * Marta Recasens,            recasens@google.com

• [2]Information Retrieval (1)

  * Jian-Yun Nie,              nie@iro.umontreal.ca

• [3]Information Extraction and Text Mining (3)

  * Razvan Bunescu,            bunescu@ohio.edu 
  * Mausam,                    mausam@cse.iitd.ac.in
  * Steven Bethard,            bethard@cis.uab.edu 

• [4]Language and Vision (1)

  * John Kelleher,             john.d.kelleher@dit.ie 

• [5]Language Resources and Evaluation (2)

  * Rashmi Prasad,             prasadr@uwm.edu
  * Jin-Dong Kim               jdkim@dbcls.rois.ac.jp

• [6]Lexical Semantics and Ontology (2)

  * Qin Lu,                    csluqin@comp.polyu.edu.hk, csluqin@yahoo.com
  * Zornitsa Kozareva,         zornitsa@kozareva.com

• [7]Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Aspects of CL (1)

  * Suzanne Stevenson,         suzanne@cs.toronto.edu
 

• [8]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

• [9]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 

• [10]NLP Applications and NLP-enabled Technology (2)

  * Joel Tetreault,            tetreaul@gmail.com
  * Srinivas Bangalore         srini@research.att.com

• [11]NLP for the Web and Social Media (2)

  * Shou-De Lin,               sdlin@csie.ntu.edu.tw
  * Alice Oh,                  alice.oh@kaist.edu

• [12]Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation (2)

  * Greg Kondrak,              gkondrak@ualberta.ca
  * Jianfeng Gao               jfgao@microsoft.com

• [13]Question Answering (1)

  * James Fan                  fanj@us.ibm.com 

• [14]Semantics (3)

  * Chris Biemann,             biemann@ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de
  * Raquel Fernandez,          raquel.fernandez@uva.nl
  * Tom Kwiatkowski            tom.kwiat@gmail.com

• [15]Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining (2)

  * Jing Jiang,                jingjiang@smu.edu.sg 
  * Lun-Wei Ku,                lwku@iis.sinica.edu.tw

• [16]Spoken Language Processing, Dialogue and Interactive Systems, and Multimodal NLP (2)

  * David Schlangen,           david.schlangen@uni-bielefeld.de 
  * Julia Hirschberg           julia@cs.columbia.edu

• [17]Summarization and Generation (2)

  * Xiaojun Wan,               wanxiaojun@pku.edu.cn
  * Mirella Lapata,            mlap@inf.ed.ac.uk

• [18]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 

• • • Workshops

15 workshops are accepted: One two-day workshop (SIGHAN) and 14 one-day workshops.

List of workshops (http://www.acl2015.org/workshops.html):

» 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

• • • Tutorials

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."

• • • System Demonstration

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.

• • • Student Research Workshop

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

• • • Sponsorship

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."

• • • Local Organization

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.

• • • also see

http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Conference_planning_schedule