2019Q3 Reports: Demonstration Chairs

Marta R. Costa-jussà [1], Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Enrique Alfonseca [2], Google AI

The ACL 2019 demonstrations track invites submissions ranging from early research prototypes to mature production-ready systems. We received 100 submissions this year, of which 34 were selected for inclusion in the program (acceptance rate of 34%) after review by three members of the program committee.

We would like to thank the members of the program committee for their timely help in reviewing the submissions. The best demo paper was selected by the demo chairs based on the feedback received by reviewers. These are the papers nominated for the best demo paper:

• GLTR: Statistical Detection and Visualization of Generated Text by Sebastian Gehrmann, Hendrik Strobelt and Alexander Rush
• OpenKiwi: An Open Source Framework for Quality Estimation by Fabio Kepler, Jonay Trenous, Marcos Treviso, Miguel Vera and André F. T. Martins
• ConvLab: Multi-Domain End-to-End Dialog System Platform by Sungjin Lee, Qi Zhu, Ryuichi Takanobu, Zheng Zhang, Yaoqin Zhang, Xiang Li, Jinchao Li, Baolin Peng, Xiujun Li, Minlie Huang and Jianfeng Gao
• Texar: A Modularized, Versatile, and Extensible Toolkit for Text Generation by Zhiting Hu, Haoran Shi, Bowen Tan, Wentao Wang, Zichao Yang, Tiancheng Zhao, Junxian He, Lianhui Qin, Di Wang, Xuezhe Ma, Zhengzhong Liu, Xiaodan Liang, Wanrong Zhu, Devendra Sachan and Eric Xing

The winner of the best demo paper will be announced at ACL 2019. Lastly, we thank the many authors that submitted their work to the demonstrations track. Demonstrations papers will be presented during the three day conference along side the poster sessions.