2016Q3 Reports: Workshop Chairs
ACL 2016 Report: Workshop Organization
Sabine Schulte and Jun Zhao; Contact info: schulte@ims.uni-stuttgart.de and jzhao@nlpr.ia.ac.cn.
Organization and Schedule
The ACL Workshop Chairs (Sabine Schulte and Jun Zhao) worked together with the NAACL and EMNLP Workshop Chairs (Adrià de Gispert and Radu Soricut for NAACL, and Greg Kondrak and Annie Louis for EMNLP) to jointly organize the selection of workshops for ACL, NAACL and EMNLP.
We roughly followed the schedule of the previous year:
Shared ACL , NAACL, and EMNLP dates:
- First Joint Call for Workshops Proposals: 31 August 2015
- Final JOINT CALL for Workshops Proposals: 09 October 2015
- Deadline for Proposals: 1 November 2015
- Notification of Acceptance: 15 November 2015
ACL-specific dates (followed by workshop organizers)
- First Call for Workshop Papers: 10 January 2016
- Workshop Paper Due Date: 8 May 2016
- Notification of Acceptance: 5 June 2016
- Camera-ready papers due: 22 June 2016
- Workshop Dates: 11-12 August 2016
We reused materials from the previous editions to produce the Joint Call for workshops. Proposers were asked to indicate their preferences regarding the venue (e.g., ACL, NAACL, EMNLP), the duration of the workshop and expected attendance, among others. Calls for workshop proposals were sent out through the standard listservs, e.g., corpora, ACL portal, etc. Calls were also posted on the NAACL and ACL websites. Postings were coordinated with NAACL and EMNLP co-chairs to avoid multiple postings. A workshop gmail account was also established for communication and submissions.
Acceptance process and workshops for ACL 2016
There were a total of 60 workshop proposals submitted to the Joint Call, 18 more than in the previous year. 44 workshops expressed first preference for ACL, 12 for NAACL, and 9 for EMNLP(there are multiple selections for first preference). Since the number of proposals is high, we limited the number of reviews to three per proposal; that is, one from each of the NAACL/ACL/EMNLP co-chair pairs. We filled in a fixed review form in a Google shared document. After discussions via email we had a Skype session to finalize the decisions.