2020Q3 Reports: AACL-IJCNLP 2020

(1) Due to COVID19 and the social distancing restrictions by the local government AACL-IJCNLP2020 will go virtual.

(2) To facilitate the virtual conference, we have successfully invited the following researchers to serve as the Remote Presentation Co-Chairs:

• Zhongqing Wang, Soochow University, China
• Muyun Yang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
• Nanyun Peng, Information Sciences Institute, USA

(3) We follow the schedule below:

• Anonymity period begins Tuesday May 26, 2020
• Submission due (long & short) Friday June 26, 2020
• Notification of acceptance Friday Sept 11, 2020
• Camera ready papers due Monday Oct 5, 2020

And at this point paper submission deadline has passed and we have received around 400 paper.

(4) The following workshops have been accepted:

[W1] The 7th Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT2020) The Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT) is an open machine translation evaluation campaign focusing on Asian languages.

Organizers: Toshiaki Nakazawa, Isao Goto, Hideya Mino, Chenchen Ding, Raj Dabre, Anoop Kunchukuttan, Win Pa Pa, Yusuke Oda, Ondřej Bojar, Shantipriya Parida, Katsuhito Sudoh, Sadao Kurohashi and Pushpak Bhattacharyya

[W3] The Third Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT) LoResMT hosts work on MT methods for low-resource and under-represented languages, as well as supplementary language-specific NLP tools.

Organizers: Chao-Hong Liu, Alina Karakanta, Jonathan Washington, Valentin Malykh, Atul Kr. Ojha, Varvara Logacheva, Nathaniel Oco, zhao xiaobing, Tommi Pirinen, Surafel Melaku Lakew and Jade Abbott

[W4] Workshop on Life-long Learning for Spoken Language Systems In this workshop, we cover challenges in a lifelong process where new functionalities are added, and existing functionalities are modified. The workshop will bring together experts in spoken language systems whose research focuses on solving problems related to continual improvement of speech processing systems such as conversational AI.

Organizers: William M. Campbell, Alex Waibel, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, T. J. Hazen, Kevin Kilgour, Eunah Cho, Varun Kumar and Hadrien Glaude

[W5] Knowledgeable NLP: the First Workshop on Integrating Structured Knowledge and Neural Networks for NLP Workshop on the integration of structured knowledge from external sources, e.g., knowledge graphs and databases, into neural models for NLP.

Organizers: Oren Sar Shalom, Alexander Panchenko, Varvara Logacheva, Cicero Nogueira dos Santos, Alessandro Moschitti and Ido Dagan

[W6] Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Application (NLP-TEA) NLP-TEA workshop provides a forum of experience sharing on NLP techniques and language resources for language education.

Organizers: Gaoqi Rao, Erhong Yang, Endong XUN and Baolin Zhang

[W7] The Second International Workshop of Discourse Processing (IWDP 2020) IWDP workshop aims for discourse processing research and its integration in theoretic linguistic studies and multilingual NLP research. IWDP2020 is specifically aimed at raising awareness of discourse level machine translation.

Organizers: Xiaojun Zhang, Qun Liu, Deyi Xiong and Shili Ge

(5) The following tutorials have been accepted:

T1] Natural Language Processing in Financial Technology Applications Hsin-Hsi Chen, Hen-Hsen Huang and Chung-Chi Chen

[T2] NLP for Healthcare in the Absence of a Healthcare Dataset Sarvnaz Karimi and Aditya Joshi

[T3] Self-Supervised Deep Learning for NLP William Yang Wang and Xin Wang

[T4] Explainability for Natural Language Processing Shipi Dhanorkar, Christine Wolf, Kun Qian, Anbang Xu, Lucian Popa and Yunyao Li

[T5] A Hitchhikers guide to using Transformers for multiple scenarios and languages Said Bleik, Miguel Fierro, Hong Lu, Daisy Deng, Yijing Chen, Heather Spetalnick, Tao Wu and Sharat Chikkerur

[T6] Advances in Debating Technologies: Building AI That Can Debate Humans Roy Bar-Haim, Yonatan Bilu, Liat Ein-Dor and Noam Slonim