Tutorial chair handbook

Duties

Tutorial chairs are nominated by the General Chair of the main conference. Their duties are described in here.

Timeline

The timeline for the organisation of tutorials should follow the general conference planning schedule. Below, we complete this schedule with more detailed tasks, as followed for ACL 2020 tutorials. TODO

Past tutorials

The list of recent tutorials contains tutorial authors' names, titles, and to their summaries in conference websites and/or in the ACL Anthology.

Organization of past tutorials

For the last years, the call and selection of tutorials has been coordinated among several major CL conferences. The table below summarizes some data collected from existing reports and from direct contacts with past tutorial chairs.

Year	Coordinated conferences	Tutorial chairs	Submission platform	# Submissions	Reviewers	# Reviews per proposal	# Selected tutorials	Selection criteria	Useful links
2019	NAACL ACL EMNLP	ACL: Preslav Nakov (Qatar), Alexis Palmer (USA) NAACL: Anoop Sarkar (Canda), Michael Strube (Germany) EMNLP-IJCNLP: Marine Carpuat (USA), Tim Baldwin (Australia)	SoftConf	46-60	6 tutorial chairs	2-3	ACL: 9 NAACL: 6 EMNLP: ?	Presenters (1-5); Description (1-5); Interest Level (1-5); Preparedness (1-5)	Call ACL tutorials NAACL tutorials

|- |2018 |ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, COLING |ACL: Yoav Artzi (USA), Jacob Eisenstein (Georgia) yes SoftConf 49 Tutorial chairs

ACL: 8 NAACL: 6 EMNLP: 6 COLING: 6 quality, diversity, and likely audience interest Call 2018Q3 Report ACL tutorials NAACL tutorials EMNLP tutorials COLING tutorials 2017 ACL, EACL, EMNLP ACL: Maja Popović (Germany), Jordan Boyd-Graber (USA) EACL: Alex Klementiev (Germany), Lucia Specia (UK) EMNLP: ? No

SoftConf 26 Tutorial chairs 3 ACL: 6 EACL: 6 EMNLP: 7 clarity of the proposal (description and outline), the topic itself 2017Q3 Report ACL tutorials EACL tutorials EMNLP tutorials Facebook post about EMNLP tutorials (no trace of the website) 2016 ACL, NAACL, EMNLP ACL: Alexandra Birch (UK), Willem Zuidema (Netherlands) NAACL: Alexander Rush and Bishan Yang EMNLP: Rebecca Hwa and Mohit Bansal yes SoftConf 32 Tutorial chairs 2 ACL: 8 NAACL: 6 EMNLP: 6 relevance to ACL community (1=irrelevant, 5=great fit) (15) quality of instructor (1=poor, 5=great) (15) quality of proposal i.e. outline and whether depth/breadth is adequate (15) our estimate of potential attendance (not from proposal) newly emerging area not previously covered in an ACL related tutorial (yes or no) tutorials which provide introductions into related fields (yes or no) overall score (1=bad, 5=great) (15) 1st preference for venue as indicated in proposal comments 2017Q3 Report ACL tutorials (no trace of the website) NAACL tutorials EMNLP tutorials

Reports from past tutorial chairs

• ACL 2016 report (by Yoav Artzi and Jacob Eisenstein)
• ACL 2016 report (by Maja Popović and Jordan Boyd-Graber)
• ACL 2016 report (by Alexandra Birch and Willem Zuidema)

Author: Agata Savary, July 2019

Updates are welcome