Tutorial chair handbook
Duties
Tutorial chairs are nominated by the General Chair of the main conference. Their duties are described in here.
Timeline
The timeline for the organisation of tutorials should follow the general conference planning schedule. Below, we complete this schedule with more detailed tasks, as followed for ACL 2020 tutorials. TODO
Past tutorials
The list of recent tutorials contains tutorial authors' names, titles, and to their summaries in conference websites and/or in the ACL Anthology.
Organization of past tutorials
For the last years, the call and selection of tutorials has been coordinated among several major CL conferences. The table below summarizes some data collected from existing reports and from direct contacts with past tutorial chairs.
| Year | Coordinated conferences | Tutorial chairs | Submission platform | # Submissions | Reviewers | # Reviews per proposal | # Selected tutorials | Selection criteria | Useful links |
| 2019 | NAACL ACL EMNLP |
ACL: Preslav Nakov (Qatar), Alexis Palmer (USA) NAACL: Anoop Sarkar (Canda), Michael Strube (Germany) EMNLP-IJCNLP: Marine Carpuat (USA), Tim Baldwin (Australia) |
SoftConf | 46-60 | 6 tutorial chairs | 2-3 | ACL: 9 NAACL: 6 EMNLP: ? |
Presenters (1-5); Description (1-5); Interest Level (1-5); Preparedness (1-5) | Call ACL tutorials NAACL tutorials |
|- |2018 |ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, COLING |ACL: Yoav Artzi (USA), Jacob Eisenstein (Georgia) yes SoftConf 49 Tutorial chairs
ACL: 8
NAACL: 6
EMNLP: 6 COLING: 6
quality, diversity, and likely audience interest
Call
2018Q3 Report
ACL tutorials
NAACL tutorials
EMNLP tutorials
COLING tutorials
2017
ACL,
EACL,
EMNLP
ACL: Maja Popović (Germany), Jordan Boyd-Graber (USA)
EACL: Alex Klementiev (Germany), Lucia Specia (UK)
EMNLP: ?
No
SoftConf
26
Tutorial chairs
3
ACL: 6
EACL: 6
EMNLP: 7
clarity of the proposal (description and outline), the topic itself
2017Q3 Report
ACL tutorials
EACL tutorials
EMNLP tutorials
Facebook post about EMNLP tutorials (no trace of the website)
2016
ACL,
NAACL,
EMNLP
ACL: Alexandra Birch (UK), Willem Zuidema (Netherlands)
NAACL: Alexander Rush and Bishan Yang
EMNLP: Rebecca Hwa and Mohit Bansal
yes
SoftConf
32
Tutorial chairs
2
ACL: 8
NAACL: 6
EMNLP: 6
relevance to ACL community (1=irrelevant, 5=great fit) (15)
quality of instructor (1=poor, 5=great) (15)
quality of proposal i.e. outline and whether depth/breadth is adequate (15)
our estimate of potential attendance (not from proposal)
newly emerging area not previously covered in an ACL related tutorial (yes or no)
tutorials which provide introductions into related fields (yes or no)
overall score (1=bad, 5=great) (15)
1st preference for venue as indicated in proposal
comments
2017Q3 Report
ACL tutorials (no trace of the website)
NAACL tutorials
EMNLP tutorials
Reports from past tutorial chairs
- ACL 2016 report (by Yoav Artzi and Jacob Eisenstein)
- ACL 2016 report (by Maja Popović and Jordan Boyd-Graber)
- ACL 2016 report (by Alexandra Birch and Willem Zuidema)
Author: Agata Savary, July 2019
Updates are welcome