2012Q3 Reports: Program Chairs

Program Chairs (Chin-Yew Lin and Miles Osborne)

ACL 2012 received a total of 940 papers. Excluding non-qualifying submissions, 571 were submitted as long papers and 369 were submitted as short papers. A program committee of 30 area chairs assisted by 690 reviewers selected 111 (19.6%) long papers and 76 (20.9%) short papers for presentation in the conference. Among the accepted papers, 82 of the long papers and 40 of the short papers will have an oral presentation, and 29 of the long papers and 36 of the short papers will be presented as posters.

The long paper submission deadlines of ACL 2012 and NAACL-HLT 2012 was just one week apart. To reduce duplicated review efforts, we decided (with NAACL-HLT 2012 program chairs) that no double submission was allowed between ACL 2012 and NAACL-HLT 2012. However, we had almost the same number of long paper and short paper submissions as ACL-IJCNLP 2009 which was held in Singapore.

The following table shows the number of submissions in each area for long and short papers, as well as the number of papers accepted in each area.