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-= Program Committee =
-== Organising Committee ==
-=== General Chair ===
-Jill Burstein, Educational Testing Service, USA
-=== Program Co-Chairs ===
-Christy Doran, Interactions LLC, USA <br />
-Thamar Solorio, University of Houston, USA
-=== Industry Track Co-chairs ===
-Rohit Kumar<br />
-Anastassia Loukina, Educational Testing Service, USA<br />
-Michelle Morales, IBM, USA
-=== Workshop Co-Chairs ===
-Smaranda Muresan, Columbia University, USA<br />
-Swapna Somasundaran, Educational Testing Service, USA<br />
-Elena Volodina, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
-=== Tutorial Co-Chairs ===
-Anoop Sarkar, Simon Fraser University, Canada<br />
-Michael Strube, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Germany
-=== System Demonstration Co-Chairs ===
-Waleed Ammar, Allen Institute for AI, USA<br />
-Annie Louis, University of Edinburgh, Scotland<br />
-Nasrin Mostafazadeh, Elemental Cognition, USA
-=== Publication Co-Chairs ===
-Stephanie Lukin, U.S. Army Research Laboratory<br />
-Alla Roskovskaya, City University of New York, USA
-=== Handbook Chair ===
-Steve DeNeefe, SDL, USA
-=== Student Research Workshop Co-Chairs & Faculty Advisors ===
-Sudipta Kar, University of Houston, USA<br />
-Farah Nadeem, University of Washington, USA<br />
-Laura Wendlandt, University of Michigan, USA<br />
-Greg Durrett, University of Texas at Austin, USA<br />
-Na-Rae Han, University of Pittsburgh, USA
-=== Diversity & Inclusion Co-Chairs ===
-Jason Eisner, Johns Hopkins University, USA<br />
-Natalie Schluter, IT University, Copenhagen, Denmark
-=== Publicity & Social Media Co-Chairs ===
-Yuval Pinter, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA <br />
-Rachael Tatman, Kaggle, USA
-=== Website & Conference App Chair ===
-Nitin Madnani, Educational Testing Service, USA
-=== Student Volunteer Coordinator ===
-Lu Wang, Northeastern University, USA
-=== Video Chair ===
-Spencer Whitehead, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
-=== Remote Presentation Co-Chairs ===
-Meg Mitchell, Google, USA<br />
-Abhinav Misra, Educational Testing Service, USA
-=== Local Sponsorship Co-Chairs ===
-Chris Callison-Burch, University of Pennsylvania, USA<br />
-Tonya Custis, Thomson Reuters, USA
-=== Local Organization ===
-Priscilla Rasmussen, ACL
-== Area Chairs ==
-=== Biomedical NLP & Clinical Text Processing ===
-Bridget McInnes, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA<br />
-Byron C. Wallace, Northeastern University, USA
-=== Cognitive Modeling – Psycholinguistics ===
-Serguei Pakhomov, University of Minnesota, USA<br />
-Emily Prud’hommeaux, Boston College, USA
-=== Dialog and Interactive systems ===
-Nobuhiro Kaji, Yahoo Japan Corporation, Japan<br />
-Zornitsa Kozareva, Google, USA<br />
-Sujith Ravi, Google, USA<br />
-Michael White, Ohio State University, USA<br />
-=== Discourse and Pragmatics ===
-Ruihong Huang, Texas A&M University, USA<br />
-Vincent Ng, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
-=== Ethics, Bias and Fairness ===
-Saif Mohammad, National Research Council Canada, Canada<br />
-Mark Yatskar, University of Washington, USA
-=== Generation ===
-He He, Amazon Web Services, USA<br />
-	Wei Xu, Ohio State University, USA<br />
-	Yue Zhang, Westlake University, China
-=== Information Extraction ===
-Heng Ji, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA<br />
-	David McClosky, Google, USA<br />
-	Gerard de Melo, Rutgers University, USA<br />
-	Timothy Miller, Boston Children’s Hospital, USA<br />
-	Mo Yu, IBM Research, USA
-=== Information Retrieval ===
-Sumit Bhatia, IBM’s India Research Laboratory, India<br />
-	Dina Demner-Fushman, US National Library of Medicine, USA
-=== Machine Learning for NLP ===
-Ryan Cotterell, Johns Hopkins University, USA<br />
-	Daichi Mochihashi, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan<br />
-	Marie-Francine Moens, KU Leuven, Belgium<br />
-	Vikram Ramanarayanan, Educational Testing Service, USA<br />
-	Anna Rumshisky, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA<br />
-	Natalie Schluter, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
-=== Machine Translation ===
-Rafael E. Banchs, HLT Institute for Infocomm Research A*Star, Singapore<br />
-	Daniel Cer, Google Research, USA<br />
-	Haitao Mi, Ant Financial US, USA<br />
-	Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar<br />
-	Zhaopeng Tu, Tencent, China
-=== Mixed Topics ===
-Ion Androutsopoulos, Athens Univ. of Economics and Business, Greece<br />
-	Steven Bethard, University of Arizona, USA
-=== Multilingualism, Cross lingual resources ===
-Željko Agić, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark<br />
-	Ekaterina Shutova, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands<br />
-	Yulia Tsvetkov, Carnegie Mellon University, USA<br />
-	Ivan Vulic, Cambridge University, UK
-=== NLP Applications ===
-T. J. Hazen, Microsoft, USA<br />
-	Alessandro Moschitti, Amazon, USA<br />
-	Shimei Pan, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA<br />
-	Wenpeng Yin, University of Pennsylvania, USA<br />
-	Su-Youn Yoon, Educational Testing Service, USA
-=== Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation ===
-Ramy Eskander, Columbia University, USA<br />
-Grzegorz Kondrak, University of Alberta, Canada
-=== Question Answering ===
-Eduardo Blanco, University of North Texas, USA<br />
-Christos Christodoulopoulos, Amazon, USA<br />
-Asif Ekbal, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India<br />
-Yansong Feng, Peking University, China<br />
-Tim Rocktäschel, Facebook, USA<br />
-Avi Sil, IBM Research, USA
-=== Resources and Evaluation ===
-Torsten Zesch, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany<br />
-Tristan Miller, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
-=== Semantics ===
-Ebrahim Bagheri, Ryerson University, Canada<br />
-Samuel Bowman, New York University, USA<br />
-Matt Gardner, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, USA<br />
-Kevin Gimpel, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, USA<br />
-Daisuke Kawahara, Kyoto University, Japan<br />
-Carlos Ramisch, Aix Marseille University, France
-=== Sentiment Analysis ===
-Isabelle Augenstein, University of Copenhagen, Denmark<br />
-Wai Lam, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong<br />
-Soujanya Poria, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore<br />
-Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz, UNAM, Mexico
-=== Social Media ===
-Dan Goldwasser, Purdue University, USA<br />
-Michael J. Paul, University of Colorado Boulder, USA<br />
-Sara Rosenthal, IBM Research, USA<br />
-Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain<br />
-Chenhao Tan, University of Colorado Boulder, USA<br />
-Xiaodan Zhu, Queen’s University, Canada
-=== Speech ===
-Keelan Evanini, Educational Testing Service, USA<br />
-Yang Liu, LAIX Inc, USA
-=== Style ===
-Beata Beigman Klebanov, Educational Testing Service, USA<br />
-Manuel Montes, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, Mexico<br />
-Joel Tetreault, Grammarly, USA
-=== Summarization ===
-Mohit Bansal, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, USA<br />
-Fei Liu, University of Central Florida, USA<br />
-Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania, USA
-=== Tagging, Chunking, Syntax and Parsing ===
-Adam Lopez, University of Edinburgh, Scotland<br />
-Roi Reichart, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel<br />
-Agata Savary, University of Tours, France<br />
-Guillaume Wisniewski, Université Paris Sud, France
-=== Text Mining ===
-Kai-Wei Chang, University of California Los Angeles, USA<br />
-Anna Feldman, Montclair State University, USA<br />
-Shervin Malmasi, Harvard Medical School, USA<br />
-Verónica Pérez-Rosas, University of Michigan, USA<br />
-Kevin Small, Amazon, USA<br />
-Diyi Yang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
-=== Theory and Formalisms ===
-Valia Kordoni, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany<br />
-Andreas Maletti, University of Stuttgart, Germany
-=== Vision, Robotics and other grounding ===
-Francis Ferraro, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA<br />
-Vicente Ordóñez, University of Virginia, USA<br />
-William Yang Wang, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
-= 	Main Innovations =
-*  Conference theme
-:The CFP made a special request for papers addressing the tension between data privacy and model bias in NLP, including: using NLP for surveillance and profiling, balancing the need for broadly representative data sets with protections for individuals, understanding and addressing model bias, and where bias correction becomes censorship. The three invited speakers were all selected to tie into the theme, and a Best Thematic Paper was selected.
-*  Land Acknowledgement
-:Similar to what has been done in recent *CL conferences, the opening session included a land acknowledgement to recognize and honor Indigeneous Peoples.
-* Video Poster Highlights
-: This year included one minute slides with pre recorded audio that showcase the posters to be presented that day. The goal was to provide more visibility to posters. These were shown during the welcome reception, breakfast and breaks.
-* Remote Presentations
-: Remote presentations were supported for both talks and posters, via an application form to the committee.
-* The new Diversity & Inclusion team piloted a number of new initiatives including:
-** additional questions on the registration form to identify any accommodations
-** preferred pronouns (optionally) added to badges
-** I’m hiring/I’m looking for a job/I’m new badge stickers
-** INSERT LINK TO THEIR REPORT
-*	Two-stage Submissions
-:This year we followed a two-stage submission process, in which abstracts were due one week before full papers. Our goal was to get a head start on assigning papers to areas, and recruiting additional area chairs where submissions exceeded our predicted volume.
-:: Pro: early response to areas with larger than predicted number of papers
-::  Con: too much overhead for PCs, as authors repeatedly contacted chairs to request that papers be moved between long and short, or asked about changes to authorship, titles and abstracts.
-* Full papers available for bidding: reviewers loved it, authors did not
-= Submissions rates and distributions =
-Authors were permitted to switch format (long/short) when they submitted the full papers, so the total in the chart below uses 2271 as the total number of submissions, discounting the 103 that never submitted a full paper in the second phase. Seventy nine papers were desk-rejected due to anonymity, formatting, or dual-submission violations;  456 papers withdrawn prior to acceptance decisions being sent, although some were withdrawn part way through the review process; and an additional 11 papers were withdrawn after acceptance notifications had been sent.  Keeping the acceptance rate consistent with past years meant 5 parallel tracks were needed to fit more papers into 3 days--as the conference grows, decisions will have to be made about continuing to add more tracks, adding more days to the main conference, or lowering the acceptance rate. The overall technical program consisted of 423 main conference  papers, plus 9 TACL papers, 23 SRW papers, 28 Industry papers, and 24 demos. The TACL and SRW papers were integrated into the program, and marked SRW or TACL accordingly.
-NEED TO CONVERT LATEX
-Acceptance break-down:
-\begin{table}[h]
-\centering
-\begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|l|l|}
-\hline
- &\textbf{Long}& \textbf{Short} &\textbf{Total} & \textbf{TACL}\\ \hline
-Reviewed & 1067 & 666 & 1733 & \\
-Accepted as talk & 140  & 72  &  212 & 4\\
-Accepted as poster &  141 & 70  &  211 & 5\\
-Total Accepted & 281 (26.3\%)  & 142 (21.3\%) & 423 (24.4\%) & 9\\
-\hline
-\end{tabular}
-\end{table}
-== Detailed statistics by area ==
-NEED TO FORMAT TABLE
-Area
-Long (%)
-Short (%)
-Area
-Long (%)
-Short (%)
-Bio and clinical NLP
-(57)
-(17)
-Question Answering
-(36)
-(17)
-Cognitive modeling
-(29)
-(14)
-Resources and Evaluation
-(27)
-(20)
-Dialog and Interactive systems
-(20)
-(27)
-Semantics
-(13)
-(11)
-Discourse and Pragmatics
-(21)
-(36)
-Sentiment Analysis
-(28)
-(20)
-Ethics, Bias and Fairness
-(25)
-(50)
-Social Media
-(18)
-(36)
-Generation
-(14)
-(23)
-Speech
-(31)
-(33)
-Information Extraction
-(28)
-(12)
-Style
-( (25)
-(25)
-Information Retrieval
-(22)
-(30)
-Summarization
-(27)
-(28)
-Machine Learning for NLP
-(29)
-(22)
-Syntax
-(52)
-(13)
-Machine Translation
-(30)
-(18)
-Text Mining
-(18)
-(24)
-Multilingual NLP
-(25)
-(10)
-Theory and Formalisms
-(58)
-(16)
-NLP Applications
-(30)
-(17)
-Vision & Robotics
-(12)
-(36)
-Phonology
-(33)
-(25)
-==       Conference tracks ==
-The Industry Track, in its second year, had  28 accepted papers (10 oral and 18 posters, acceptance rate: ~28%), and ran a lunchtime Careers in Industry panel which was very well attended. Panelists were Judith Klavans, Yunyao Li, Owen Rambow, and Joel Tetreault and the moderator was Phil Resnik.
-The Student Research Workshop had 23 accepted papers, distributed throughout the conference, and 19 submissions received pre-submission mentoring. For the first time, both archival and non-archival submissions were offered, meaning that authors who opted for the non-archival version will not have a paper available in the archive and are free to publish elsewhere.
-There were 25 accepted Demos, which were spread across several of the poster sessions.
-=	Reviewing =
-==	Recruiting ACs and Reviewers  ==
-Similar to what other PCs have done in the past, we distributed a wide call for volunteers to recruit the Area Chairs and Reviewers. All volunteers were scanned by PCs and assigned ACs/reviewer roles, and each area was seeded with a set of volunteer reviewers. Area Chairs then filled out the remainder of their respective committees. There were 25 specific areas + one for “Mixed Topics” and at least 2 ACs per topic area. After the abstract deadline, we added more ACs to teams with larger than predicted submissions . Our goal was to ensure greater diversity by including in each area some participants who may not have been previously involved, and therefore would not have been invited if the committees were built from lists of previous reviewers.  390 of 1321 reviewers were reviewing for NAACL for the first time.
-=== Breakdown by gender for ACs and reviewers ===
-{| class="wikitable"
-! style="text-align:left;"| Response
-! Area Chair
-! Reviewer
-|-
-| Female
-| 24.4
-| 25.2
-|-
-| Male
-| 73
-| 71.7
-|-
-| Prefer not to answer
-| 2.6
-| 3.1
-|}
-=== Breakdown by employment category and country for ACs and reviewers ===
-THERE IS ANOTHER GRAPHIC TO INSERT HERE
-==	Abstract Submissions ==
-This year we followed a two-stage submission process, in which abstracts were due one week before full papers. Our goal was to get a head start on assigning papers to areas, and recruiting additional area chairs where submissions exceeded our predicted volume. Relative to the projected numbers from NAACL-HLT 2018, several areas received a higher-than-predicted number of submissions: Biomedical/Clinical, Dialogue and Vision. Text Mining ended up with the overall largest number of submissions.
-== 	Handling desk rejects ==
-Our process for identifying desk rejects has been very similar to what other PCs have done in the past. First, the area chairs check their batch of assigned papers and report any issues to us. As the reviewing begins, reviewers may also identify issues that were not caught by ACs, which they flag up to ACs or directly to PCs. We then review each of these issues and make a final decision, to ensure that papers are handled consistently. This means each paper is reviewed for non-content issues by at least three people.
-The major categories for desk rejects are:
-* Violations to the dual submission policy specified in the call for papers
-* Violations to the anonymity policy as specified in the call for papers
-* “Format cheating” submissions not following the clearly stated format and style guidelines either in LaTeX or Word (thanks to Emily and Leon for introducing the concept).
-As of February 7th, out of 2378 submissions, there were 44 rejections for format issues, 24 for anonymity violations, and 11 for dual submissions. This means that a total of 3% of the submissions were desk-rejected.
-== Review process ==
-Assignment to areas used the initial START assignments, followed by load-rebalancing and conflict resolution using keywords and manual inspection of the paper.  Authors were blind to Area Chairs
-Review assignment
-* Criteria: Fairness, Expertise, Interest
-* Method: area chair expertise + Toronto Paper Matching System (TPMS) + reviewer bids + manual tweaking
-* Many reviewers did not have TPMS profiles
-Goal was no more than 5 papers per reviewer, some reviewers agreed to handle more.
-First-round accept/reject suggestions were made by area chairs.
-Final decisions were made by the program chairs.
-We used a hybrid reviewing form, combining elements of the EMNLP 2018, NAACL-HLT 2018 and ACL 2018, with a 6-point overall rating scale so there was no “easy out” mid-point, distinct sections of summary, strengths and weaknesses to make easy to scan and compare relevant sections, and the minimum length feature of START enabled to elicit more consistently substantive content for the authors. This received excellent feedback from authors but which some reviewers complained about and others outright circumvented via html tags or repeated filler content.
-'''To be added :''' X reviews were received by the end of the review period, Y others within the next week.; Importance of double blind reviewing
-No author response: due to time constraints and finding from NAACL 2018 that it had little impact. Authors were unhappy about this, they really want to be able to respond to reviews.
-Video Poster highlights: instead of 1-minute madness, A/V failures have made it hard to assess effectiveness.
-SRW papers integrated into sessions: positive feedback from participants, better experience for students
-Did not repeat Test of Time awards from 2018--should this happen every N years to allow for sliding window?
-MORE GRAPHICS TO BE ADDED HERE
-=	Best paper awards =
-*  Best Thematic Paper:
-: ''What’s in a Name? Reducing Bias in Bios Without Access to Protected Attributes'' <br />
-: Alexey Romanov, Maria De-Arteaga, Hanna Wallach, Jennifer Chayes, Christian Borgs, Alexandra Chouldechova, Sahin Geyik, Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Anna Rumshisky and Adam Kalai
-*  Best Explainable NLP Paper:
-: ''CNM: An Interpretable Complex-valued Network for Matching'' <br />
-: Qiuchi Li, Benyou Wang and Massimo Melucci
-* Best Long Paper
-: BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding <br />
-: Jacob Devlin, Ming-Wei Chang, Kenton Lee and Kristina Toutanova
-*  Best Short Paper
-: Probing the Need for Visual Context in Multimodal Machine Translation <br />
-: Ozan Caglayan, Pranava Madhyastha, Lucia Specia and Loïc Barrault
-* Best Resource Paper
-: CommonsenseQA: A Question Answering Challenge Targeting Commonsense Knowledge <br />
-: Alon Talmor, Jonathan Herzig, Nicholas Lourie and Jonathan Berant
-=	Presentations=
-* Long-paper presentations: 22 sessions in total (4 sessions in parallel), duration: 15 minutes for talk + 3 minutes for questions + 2 dedicated Industry Track sessions
-* Short-paper presentations: 12 sessions in total (4 sessions in parallel), duration: 12 minutes for talk + 3 minutes for questions
-* Best-paper presentation: 1 session at the end of the last day
-* Posters: 8 sessions in total (1 session in parallel with every non-plenary talk session) + 1 dedicated Industry Poster session
-= 	Timeline =
-TBD
-=	Issues and recommendations =
-Needs editing
-Maintaining anonymity is becoming increasingly difficult
-Open review from overlapping conferences
-Expectation for transparency at odds with confidential review process
-Higher volume of papers is straining our infrastructure
-START tools struggle to support this volume of papers
-Reviewer overload/burnout
-Look into sharing reviews for rejected papers with next conferences
-Revist using Open Review for *ACL
-Additional lessons learned

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