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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 (USA)	SoftConf	49	Tutorial chairs		ACL: 8 NAACL: 6 EMNLP: 6 COLING: 6	quality diversity likely audience interest	Call 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: ?	SoftConf	26	Tutorial chairs	3	ACL: 6 EACL: 6 EMNLP: 7	Clarity (description and outline) Topic	Report ACL tutorials EACL tutorials EMNLP tutorials
2016	ACL NAACL EMNLP	ACL: Alexandra Birch (UK), Willem Zuidema (Netherlands) NAACL: Alexander Rush and Bishan Yang EMNLP: Rebecca Hwa and Mohit Bansal	SoftConf	32	Tutorial chairs	2	ACL: 8 NAACL: 6 EMNLP: 6	Relevance to ACL community (15) Quality of instructor (15) Outline and depth/breadth of teh proposal (15) Potential attendance Newly emerging area not previously covered in an ACL-related tutorial (yes or no) Introductions into related fields (yes or no) Overall score (15) 1st preference for venue as indicated in proposal comments	[Report 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

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 |[https://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2017Q3_Reports:_Tutorial_Chairs Report] <br /> [http://acl2017.org/tutorials/ ACL tutorials] <br /> [http://eacl2017.org/index.php/tutorials EACL tutorials] <br /> [http://eacl2017.org/index.php/tutorials EMNLP tutorials]
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-|relevance to ACL community (1=irrelevant, 5=great fit) (15) <br /> quality of instructor (1=poor, 5=great) (15) <br /> quality of proposal i.e. outline and whether depth/breadth is adequate (15) <br />
+|Relevance to ACL community (15) <br /> Quality of instructor (15) <br /> Outline and depth/breadth of teh proposal (15) <br />
-estimate of potential attendance (not from proposal) <br /> newly emerging area not previously covered in an ACL related tutorial (yes or no) <br /> tutorials which provide introductions into related fields (yes or no) <br />
+Potential attendance <br /> Newly emerging area not previously covered in an ACL-related tutorial (yes or no) <br /> Introductions into related fields (yes or no) <br />
-overall score (1=bad, 5=great) (15) <br /> 1st preference for venue as indicated in proposal <br /> comments
+Overall score (15) <br /> 1st preference for venue as indicated in proposal <br /> comments
 |[[https://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2016Q3_Reports:_Tutorial_Chairs Report] <br /> [http://naacl.org/naacl-hlt-2016/tutorials.html NAACL tutorials] <br /> [https://www.aclweb.org/mirror/emnlp2016/tutorials.html EMNLP tutorials]
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