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NAACL 2015 took place on May 31st - June 5th, 2015 in Denver, Colorado. | NAACL 2015 took place on May 31st - June 5th, 2015 in Denver, Colorado. | ||
Some of the highlights of this year's program include: | Some of the highlights of this year's program include: | ||
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- The main program, which received a total of 714 submissions, including | - The main program, which received a total of 714 submissions, including | ||
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papers and 69 short papers. Three best paper awards were presented in a | papers and 69 short papers. Three best paper awards were presented in a | ||
plenary session during the last day of the conference. | plenary session during the last day of the conference. | ||
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- Two invited speakers - Lillian Lee from Cornell University and Fei-fei Li | - Two invited speakers - Lillian Lee from Cornell University and Fei-fei Li | ||
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intersection of our field with social sciences and computer vision | intersection of our field with social sciences and computer vision | ||
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- Six tutorials held on May 31st | - Six tutorials held on May 31st | ||
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dissertation proposals, and an undergraduate track, presented as part of | dissertation proposals, and an undergraduate track, presented as part of | ||
the student research workshop | the student research workshop | ||
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- Several demos presented during the poster/demo session | - Several demos presented during the poster/demo session | ||
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- Thirteen one-day workshops on diverse topics ranging from multiword | - Thirteen one-day workshops on diverse topics ranging from multiword | ||
expressions and metaphors to clinical psychology and educational | expressions and metaphors to clinical psychology and educational | ||
applications, and Semeval as a two-day workshop | applications, and Semeval as a two-day workshop | ||
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- A collocated conference: the fourth joint conference on lexical and | - A collocated conference: the fourth joint conference on lexical and | ||
computational semantics *Sem | computational semantics *Sem | ||
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NAACL 2015 was made possible by the hard work of a wonderful group of | NAACL 2015 was made possible by the hard work of a wonderful group of | ||
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co-chairs), Peter Ljunglof (website chair), Aurelia Bunescu (handbook cover | co-chairs), Peter Ljunglof (website chair), Aurelia Bunescu (handbook cover | ||
designer). | designer). | ||
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The event was sponsored by several generous contributors: A9, Baobab, | The event was sponsored by several generous contributors: A9, Baobab, | ||
Latest revision as of 06:45, 2 July 2015
Report by Rada Mihalcea, General Chair
NAACL 2015 took place on May 31st - June 5th, 2015 in Denver, Colorado. Some of the highlights of this year's program include:
- The main program, which received a total of 714 submissions, including long (402) and short (312) papers, resulting in a program with 117 long papers and 69 short papers. Three best paper awards were presented in a plenary session during the last day of the conference.
- Two invited speakers - Lillian Lee from Cornell University and Fei-fei Li from Stanford - who talked about the exciting research going on at the intersection of our field with social sciences and computer vision respectively
- Six tutorials held on May 31st
- Several student-authored papers, including regular research papers, dissertation proposals, and an undergraduate track, presented as part of the student research workshop
- Several demos presented during the poster/demo session
- Thirteen one-day workshops on diverse topics ranging from multiword expressions and metaphors to clinical psychology and educational applications, and Semeval as a two-day workshop
- A collocated conference: the fourth joint conference on lexical and computational semantics *Sem
NAACL 2015 was made possible by the hard work of a wonderful group of people: Joyce Chai and Anoop Sarkar (program chairs); Priscilla Rasmussen (local organizer), Cornelia Caragea and Bing Liu (workshop co-chairs); Yang Liu and Thamar Solorio (tutorial co-chairs); Shibamouli Lahiri, Karen Mazidi and Alisa Zhila (student co-chairs) and Diana Inkpen and Smaranda Muresan (faculty advisors) for the student research workshop; Matt Gerber, Catherine Havasi, and Finley Lacatusu (demo co-chairs), Annie Louis (student volunteer coordinator), Kevin Cohen (local sponsorship chair), Saif Mohammad (publicity chair), Matt Post and Adam Lopez (publication co-chairs), Peter Ljunglof (website chair), Aurelia Bunescu (handbook cover designer).
The event was sponsored by several generous contributors: A9, Baobab, Bloomberg, Digital Roots, Goldman Sachs, Google, IBM, Information Sciences Institute, National Science Foundation, Nuance, SDL, University of Washington Computational Linguistics, Yahoo Labs.