2015Q3 Reports: NAACL 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.