Difference between revisions of "2013Q3 Reports: Tutorial Chairs"
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The call for proposals (CFP) was first posted at the ACL website in December | The call for proposals (CFP) was first posted at the ACL website in December | ||
2012 and a final call was also sent to high-volume NLP/computational linguistics | 2012 and a final call was also sent to high-volume NLP/computational linguistics | ||
| − | mailing lists (e.g., CORPORA list, linguist list, SIGSEM members). Submissions | + | mailing lists (e.g., CORPORA list, linguist list, SIGSEM members). |
| + | Additionally, the chairs have approached experts in the field and contacted researchers who expressed an | ||
| + | interest in giving a tutorial and provided the details of the submission and reviewing process. | ||
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| + | We received 25 proposals and | ||
| + | accepted seven tutorials; six of these were accepted as half-day tutorials and | ||
| + | one as a full-day tutorial. | ||
| + | Submissions | ||
were handled through the start system | were handled through the start system | ||
| − | (https://www.softconf.com/acl2013/tutorials). | + | (https://www.softconf.com/acl2013/tutorials). |
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| − | + | We used the following criteria for evaluation: | |
appropriateness, technical fit, novelty, potential interest, presenters, and | appropriateness, technical fit, novelty, potential interest, presenters, and | ||
experience. All proposals were evaluated by both chairs; the final selection | experience. All proposals were evaluated by both chairs; the final selection | ||
was based on the scores we assigned through start. The final selection was | was based on the scores we assigned through start. The final selection was | ||
| − | uncontroversial (we agreed on the best of the submissions). | + | uncontroversial (we agreed on the best of the submissions). |
=== Selected tutorials === | === Selected tutorials === | ||
Revision as of 01:05, 9 July 2013
CL 2013 Tutorial Chairs Report
Prepared July 8, 2013
Keith Hall (Google Research)
Johan Bos (University of Groningen)
General Schedule
Submission deadline for tutorial proposals: March 6, 2013
Notification of acceptance: April 3, 2013
Tutorial descriptions due: May 15, 2013
Tutorial course material due: June 7, 2013
Tutorial date: August 4, 2013
We coordinated the deadlines with Publication Chairs and Local Organizers.
Call and selection procedure
The call for proposals (CFP) was first posted at the ACL website in December 2012 and a final call was also sent to high-volume NLP/computational linguistics mailing lists (e.g., CORPORA list, linguist list, SIGSEM members). Additionally, the chairs have approached experts in the field and contacted researchers who expressed an interest in giving a tutorial and provided the details of the submission and reviewing process.
We received 25 proposals and accepted seven tutorials; six of these were accepted as half-day tutorials and one as a full-day tutorial. Submissions were handled through the start system (https://www.softconf.com/acl2013/tutorials).
We used the following criteria for evaluation: appropriateness, technical fit, novelty, potential interest, presenters, and experience. All proposals were evaluated by both chairs; the final selection was based on the scores we assigned through start. The final selection was uncontroversial (we agreed on the best of the submissions).
Selected tutorials
DECIPHERMENT
Kevin Knight
EXPLOITING SOCIAL MEDIA FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN LANGUAGE-CENTRIC AND REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS
Simone Paolo Ponzetto and Andrea Zielinski
ROBUST AUTOMATED NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING WITH MULTIWORD EXPRESSIONS AND COLLOCATIONS
Valia Kordoni and Markus Egg
SEMANTIC PARSING WITH COMBINATORY CATEGORIAL GRAMMARS
Yoav Artzi, Nicholas FitzGerald and Luke Zettlemoyer
THE MATHEMATICS OF LANGUAGE LEARNING
Andras Kornai, Gerald Penn, James Rogers and Anssi Yli-Jyrä
VARIATIONAL INFERENCE FOR STRUCTURED NLP MODELS
David Burkett and Dan Klein
VISUAL FEATURES FOR LINGUISTS: BASIC IMAGE ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES FOR MULTIMODALLY-CURIOUS NLPERS
Elia Bruni and Marco Baroni
Proceedings
We have received the final abstracts for the tutorials (which include a description as well as a schedule). These were submitted through the START system and have been passed along to the publications chair. We are currently in the process of collecting all of the course materials from each of the presenters. There has been some confusion as to what will be done with this material and what form it should take. Many presenters have hundreds of slides for their courses and no other course information. In the future, if we wish to have separate course-notes in addition to the slides, we recommend making this clear to the authors from the start.
Acknowledgements
We am grateful to Michael Strube, the ACL 2012 General Chair, the Local/Publications Chairs, and Priscilla Rasmussen for their help and advice in the organization of the Tutorials program.