Archiving your presentations and posters

August 6, 2017.Reading time 3 minutes.

Dear readers: I’m writing to you as the ACL Anthology current editor in this post. Every conference, we as authors put so much effort in doing their research and work hard towards communicating their findings through well-written, peer reviewed papers. Our community has further increased its impact, by making much of its corpora, datasets and software available to […]

Outstanding and best papers and the decision process

August 3, 2017.Reading time 11 minutes.

Dear readers: As PC Chairs, this will be our final post with regards to the transparency of the conference organization of ACL 2017. Today (Wed, 2 Aug), our membership had the privilege of listening to a selection of 22 papers that had been selected as outstanding papers from our community, representing approximately 1.5% of the […]

A final look at the decision process

July 31, 2017.Reading time 3 minutes.

Dear Readers: ACL 2017 is now underway and in keeping with our wish to make the organization process transparent, we owe you this post on how the decision making for the final acceptances were made. We did not use score cutoffs to determine acceptances but instead used scores as a guide towards arguing for paper […]

Invited Talks: On Squashing Computational Linguistics and Translating from Multiple Modalities to Text and Back

June 28, 2017.Reading time 5 minutes.

We’re pleased to have two fabulous orators from our community headlining ACL 2017. Noah Smith will be speaking about the current challenges of representation learning and Mirella Lapata on multi-modal translation (with text, of course). – Regina and Min Squashing Computational Linguistics Noah Smith (University of Washington) Tuesday morning plenary session, 9:00-10:10 The computational […]

Tutorial Descriptions (Sunday, 30 July)

June 23, 2017.Reading time 11 minutes.

Tutorials are a key part of the ACL tradition, in helping new members of the community learn about core techniques in computational linguistics and natural language processing, as well as keeping current practitioners updated with the rapid, new developments in the field. The tutorial chairs, Jordan and Maja, are pleased that we have the following […]