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<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><a href="http://goo.gl/u0JBQq" target="_blank">ACL 2014 NEWSLETTER NO. 2</a></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Quick Links: </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Newsletter Link: </span><a href="http://goo.gl/u0JBQq" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://goo.gl/u0JBQq</span></a></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Online Registration: </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><a href="https://aclweb.org/conference/acl-2014-conference-registration/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none">https://aclweb.org/conference/acl-2014-conference-registration/</a></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Follow </span><a href="https://twitter.com/acl14_baltimore" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">@acl14_baltimore</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> on Twitter for the latest announcements!</span></p>
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Download and share the ACL 2014 Conference Poster: </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://app.box.com/acl2014poster" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">https://app.box.com/acl2014poster</span></a></p>
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://www.cs.jhu.edu/ACL2014/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">http://www.cs.jhu.edu/ACL2014/</span></a></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">June 22–27, 2014 at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront, Baltimore, MD, USA.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">=======================================================</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">:: Table of Contents</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">=======================================================</span></p>
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">1. Important Upcoming Dates</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">2. ACL 2014 Program</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">3. Workshops at ACL 2014 and CoNLL</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">4. Tutorials at ACL 2014</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">5. Social Events at ACL 2014</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">6. Venue Information</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">7. Visa Information</span></p>
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">=======================================================</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">:: 1. Important Upcoming Dates</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">=======================================================</span></p>
<ul style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(152,0,0);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Online</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> Registration: Now until June 14, 2014</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Onsite</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> Registration: After June 22, 2014 </span><span style="font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">(Prices increase onsite.)</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Tutorials: June 22, 2014</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Welcome Reception: June 22, 2014; 6pm.</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Main Conference: June 23–25, 2014</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Closing Session: June 25, 2014; 6:30pm.</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Workshops: June 26–27, 2014</span></p></li></ul><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">=======================================================</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">:: 2. </span><a href="http://acl2014.org/Program.htm" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">ACL 2014 Program</span></a></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">=======================================================</span></p>
<ul style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The Full ACL 2014 Program is now online!</span></p>
</li><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:circle;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Overview: </span><a href="http://acl2014.org/prog24.htm" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">http://acl2014.org/prog24.htm</span></a></p>
</li></ul><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Invited Talks by:</span></p></li><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:circle;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Mon, June 23, 5pm: </span><a href="http://research.google.com/pubs/author121.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Corinna Cortes</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">, Head of Google Research New York.</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:circle;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-right:58.5pt">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Tue, June 24, 9am: </span><a href="http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~zoran" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Zoran Popović</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">, Professor and Director of the Center for</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br>

</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Game Science at the University of Washington</span></p></li></ul></ul><ul style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">We have </span><span style="font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">two Poster and Dinner sessions</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> this year in the Grand Ballroom:</span></p>
</li><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:circle;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Monday, June 23:   6:50-9:30pm</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:circle;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Tuesday, June 24:  6:50-9:30pm  (with Demonstrations)</span></p></li>
</ul></ul><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">=======================================================</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">:: 3. Workshops at ACL and CoNLL</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">=======================================================</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">This year, the following 18 workshops will be held at ACL 2014.</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br>

</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Workshop Chairs</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">: Jill Burstein and Lluis Marquez</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/aclsrw2014/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Student Research Workshop</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">, June 23.</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br>

</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Student Research Workshop Chairs: Ekaterina Kochmar, Annie Louis and Svitlana Volkova</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Two-day Workshops, June 26-27:</span></p>
<ul style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">[W1] </span><a href="http://www.statmt.org/wmt14/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Ninth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT14)</span></a></p>
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<span style="font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">[W2]</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><a href="http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=BioNLP_Workshop" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">BioNLP 2014</span></a></p>
</li></ul><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Single-day Workshops, June 26:</span></p>
<ul style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">[W3] </span><a href="http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~tetreaul/acl-bea9.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">9th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA)</span></a></p>
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<span style="font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">[W4]</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><a href="http://www.slpat.org/slpat2014" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT 2014)</span></a></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">[W5]</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><a href="http://cmcl.mit.edu/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL)</span></a></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">[W6]</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><a href="http://www.uncg.edu/cmp/ArgMining2014/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Argumentation Mining</span></a></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">[W7]</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><a href="http://buffalo.edu/~jcgood/ComputEL.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">ComputEL: The use of computational methods in the study of endangered languages</span></a></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">[W8]</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/workshoponmetaphorinnlp/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The Second Workshop on Metaphor in NLP</span></a></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">[W9]</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><a href="http://sp14.ws/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Workshop on Semantic Parsing (SP14)</span></a></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">[W10]</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><a href="http://www.mpi-sws.org/~cristian/LACSS_2014.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Language Technologies and Computational Social Science</span></a></p>
</li></ul><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Single-day Workshops, June 27:</span></p>
<ul style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">[W11] </span><a href="http://optima.jrc.it/wassa2014/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2014)</span></a></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">[W12]</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><a href="http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~svitlana/workshop.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Joint Workshop on Social Dynamics and Personal Attributes in Social Media</span></a></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">[W13] </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/morphfsm2014/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Joint 1-day workshop between SIGMORPHON and SIGFSM</span></a></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">[W14]</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/wsevents2014/home" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">2nd Workshop on EVENTS: Definition, Detection, Coreference, and Representation</span></a></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">[W15]</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><a href="https://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/~miriamp/fillmore-tribute/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Frame Semantics in NLP: A Workshop in Honor of Chuck Fillmore (1929-2014)</span></a></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">[W16]</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><a href="http://nlp.stanford.edu/events/illvi2014/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Workshop on Interactive Language Learning, Visualizations, and Interfaces</span></a></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">[W17] </span><a href="http://clpsych.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: From Linguistic Signal to Clinical Reality</span></a></p>
</li></ul><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://www.conll.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">CoNLL-2014</span></a></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Also note that the 18th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> (</span><a href="http://www.conll.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,102,187);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">CoNLL-2014</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">will be held in Baltimore on June 26th and June 27th.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">See the CoNLL website for more details: </span><a href="http://www.conll.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">http://www.conll.org</span></a></p>
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">=======================================================</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">:: 4. </span><a href="http://acl2014.org/Tutorials.htm" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Tutorials at ACL 2014</span></a></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">=======================================================</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Morning Tutorials, June 22</span></p>
<ul style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[T1] </span><a href="http://acl2014.org/Cohn.htm" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Gaussian Processes for Natural Language Processing</span></a></p>
</li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent:36pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Chairs: </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Trevor Cohn, Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro, and Neil Lawrence</span></p>
<ul style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[T2] </span><a href="http://acl2014.org/Huang.htm" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Scalable Large-Margin Structured Learning: Theory and Algorithms</span></a></p>
</li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent:36pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Chairs: </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Liang Huang, Kai Zhao, and Lemao Liu</span></p>
<ul style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[T3] </span><a href="http://acl2014.org/Metze.htm" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Semantics for Large-Scale Multimedia: New Challenges for NLP</span></a></p>
</li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent:36pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Chairs: </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Florian Metze and Koichi Shinoda</span></p>
<ul style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[T4] </span><a href="http://acl2014.org/Roth.htm" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Wikification and Beyond: The Challenges of Entity and Concept Grounding</span></a></p>
</li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent:36pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Chairs: </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dan Roth, Heng Ji, Ming-Wei Chang, Taylor Cassidy</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Afternoon Tutorials, June 22</span></p>
<ul style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[T5] </span><a href="http://acl2014.org/Blunsom.htm" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">New Directions in Vector Space Models of Meaning</span></a></p>
</li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent:36pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Chairs: </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">P. Blunsom, G. Dinu, E. Grefenstette, and K. M. Hermann</span></p>
<ul style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[T6] </span><a href="http://acl2014.org/Eisner.htm" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Structured Belief Propagation for NLP</span></a></p>
</li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent:36pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Chairs: </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Matthew R. Gormley and Jason Eisner</span></p>
<ul style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[T7] </span><a href="http://acl2014.org/Xiong.htm" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Semantics, Discourse and Statistical Machine Translation</span></a></p>
</li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent:36pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Chairs: </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Deyi Xiong and Min Zhang</span></p>
<ul style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[T8] </span><a href="http://acl2014.org/Zhang.htm" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Syntactic Processing Using Global Discriminative Learning and Beam-Search Decoding</span></a></p>
</li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent:36pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Chairs: </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Yue Zhang, Meishan Zhang, and Ting Liu</span></p>
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">=======================================================</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">:: 5. </span><a href="http://acl2014.org/SocialEvents.htm" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Social Events at ACL 2014</span></a></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">=======================================================</span></p>
<ul style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Welcome Reception.</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> Catch up with your colleagues at the Welcome Reception on Sunday</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br>

</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">evening, June 22 at 6pm, in the Grand Ballroom Foyer of the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br>

</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">mmediately following the Tutorials. Refreshments, a light dinner, and a cash bar will be provided.</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br>

</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Student Lunch.</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Join us Monday, June 23 at 12:30pm, at the famous Phillips Seafood Restaurant.</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br>

</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Get to know others who share similar interests and goals and who may become your lifelong</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br>

</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">colleagues. Meat, chicken and vegetarian dishes also available. Students only. Generously</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br>

</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">sponsored by Nuance.</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br>

</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">ACL 2014 Social and Networking Event. </span><span style="font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Beginning at 7:30pm on Tuesday, June 24, casually </span><span style="font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br>

</span><span style="font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">walk over to the </span><a href="http://www.aqua.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">National Aquarium</span></a><span style="font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> for desserts, coffee, tea, and cash bar. Wander through the </span><span style="font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br>

</span><span style="font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">exhibits, network with colleagues, dance to the sounds of a local DJ, and enjoy a relaxing evening</span><span style="font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br>

</span><span style="font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">with the jellyfish and sharks.</span></p></li></ul><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">=======</span><a href="http://www.phillipsseafood.com/locations-and-menus/baltimore%22" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">===========================</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">=====================</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">:: 6. </span><a href="http://acl2014.org/Venue.htm" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Venue Information</span></a></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">=======================================================</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">ACL 2014 will be held on Baltimore's Inner Harbor at the </span><a href="http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/bwiwf-baltimore-marriott-waterfront" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Baltimore Marriott Waterfront</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The Baltimore Marriott Waterfront is a AAA 4-diamond hotel and is a TripAdvisor 2013 </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Certificate of</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Excellence Award</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> winner. Guestrooms offer sweeping views of Baltimore’s beautiful waterfront and skyline,</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">and in addition to guestroom views, ballroom foyers directly overlook the waterfront marina.</span></p>
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">More than 40 restaurants, cafes and pubs are within 1-3 blocks, including Harborplace, historic Little Italy</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">and Fell’s Point. Most are directly overlooking the Inner Harbor and have outdoor seating on the waterfront.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Baltimore is lucky to have a very lively food scene, with various types of cuisine for all price ranges.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Foodies can geek out here: </span><a href="http://goo.gl/m7pQxK" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">http://goo.gl/m7pQxK</span></a></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Baltimore's cultural districts (including the world-class-gem Walters Art Museum and Visionary Art Museum)</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br>

</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">are close by, easily accessible by the free and frequent Circulator bus system and water taxis leaving</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br>

</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">directly in front of the hotel.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-align:justify">
<span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Baltimore is served by Baltimore-Washington International Airport (BWI). Other nearby regional airports are</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br>

</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Reagan National Airport (DCA), and Dulles International Airport (IAD). </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">=======================================================</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">:: 7. Visa Information</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">=======================================================</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Since visa applications can take 1-4 months to be approved, we advise that you apply well in advance.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">If you require an invitation letter for your visa application, please email the ACL Business Manager, Priscilla</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br>

</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Rasmussen, at </span><a href="mailto:acl@aclweb.org" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">acl@aclweb.org</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">, </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">with the following information:</span></p>
<ol style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Your full name</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Your address</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">If you are presenting, the title of the paper your are presenting</span></p>
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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">If you are presenting, the venue of the presentation:</span></p></li><ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Main Conference, or</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">a Workshop (give name of workshop), or</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">a Tutorial (give name of tutorial)</span></p></li></ol></ol><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.484999942779541;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Do you have questions, comments?</span></p>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Send mail to Jason Riesa, </span><a href="mailto:riesa@google.com" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">riesa@google.com</span></a><br>
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