Once reviewing was completed, Area Chairs were asked to nominate
any papers from the papers they were assigned, as their best paper
candidate. For ACL-05, five papers were nominated.
Once the final copies of these papers were submitted to the START
system, each area chair was asked to read the nominated papers and rank
them along with any arguments for/against any of the papers.
The PC co-chairs also read and ranked all of the nominated papers.
The PC co-chairs collated the resulting rankings.
During the opening session
of the
conference, the PC Co-chairs held a short meeting with the Area Chairs
to choose among the top-rated papers.