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EMNLP 2014: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing<br>
October 25–29, 2014 — Doha, Qatar<br>
Final Call for PARTICIPATION<br>
=============================================================================<br>
<br>
SIGDAT, the Association for Computational Linguistics' special interest group on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP, invites participation to EMNLP 2014, the 19th conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.<br>
<br>
The conference will be held on October 25–29, 2014, in Doha, Qatar. The conference will consist of three days of full paper presentations with two days of workshops and tutorials.<br>
<br>
</span>Conference URL: <a href="http://www.emnlp2014.org" target="_blank">http://www.emnlp2014.org</a><<a href="http://www.emnlp2014.org/" target="_blank">http://www.emnlp2014.org/</a>>. For information about Doha and Qatar, and an up-to-date FAQ go to <a href="http://emnlp2014.org/local.html" target="_blank">http://emnlp2014.org/local.html</a>.<br>
<span><br>
Please join us for an exciting conference in Doha, Qatar!<br>
=============================================================================<br>
<br>
* NEW INFORMATION FOR PARTICIPANTS AND PRESENTERS<br>
<br>
</span> Conference Handbook<br>
<a href="http://emnlp2014.org/files/handbook.pdf" target="_blank">http://emnlp2014.org/files/handbook.pdf</a><br>
<span><br>
Conference Program<br>
<a href="http://emnlp2014.org/files/program.pdf" target="_blank">http://emnlp2014.org/files/program.pdf</a><br>
<br>
Instructions for Presenters<br>
<a href="http://emnlp2014.org/presentations.html" target="_blank">http://emnlp2014.org/presentations.html</a><br>
<br>
Trip Preparation Information<br>
<a href="http://emnlp2014.org/beforecoming.html" target="_blank">http://emnlp2014.org/beforecoming.html</a><br>
<br>
<br>
</span>* LATEST FEATURES<br>
<span><br>
# Flat rate to attend any workshops and tutorials<br>
# Lunch, breakfast and coffee breaks are included every day<br>
</span> # Social dinner included in the conference fee<br>
<br>
<br>
* INVITED SPEAKERS<br>
<br>
EMNLP 2014 will host two world-class invited speakers for the keynote talks:<br>
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IBM Cognitive Computing - An NLP Renaissance!<br>
Salim Roukos, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center<br>
<br>
Learning from Rational Behavior<br>
Thorsten Joachims, Cornell University<br>
<br>
More details at: <a href="http://emnlp2014.org/invited-talks.html" target="_blank">http://emnlp2014.org/invited-talks.html</a><br>
<br>
<br>
* TUTORIALS<br>
<br>
For the first time, EMNLP 2014 will have tutorials. The following eight tutorials have been accepted and will be presented during October 25 and 29, 2014:<br>
<br>
Sentiment Analysis of Social Media Texts --- Saif M. Mohammad and Xiaodan Zhu<br>
<br>
Spectral Learning Techniques for Weighted Automata, Transducers, and Grammars --- Borja Balle, Ariadna Quattoni and Xavier Carreras<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Semantic Parsing with Combinatory Categorial Grammars --- Yoav Artzi, Nicholas FitzGerald and Luke Zettlemoyer<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Linear Programming Decoders in Natural Language Processing: From Integer Programming to Message Passing and Dual Decomposition --- André F. T. Martins<br>
<br>
Syntax-Based Statistical Machine Translation --- Philip Williams and Philipp Koehn<br>
<br>
Embedding Methods for Natural Language Processing --- Antoine Bordes and Jason Weston<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Natural Language Processing of Arabic and its Dialects --- Mona Diab and Nizar Habash<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Text Quantification --- Fabrizio Sebastiani<br>
<br>
See <a href="http://emnlp2014.org/tutorials.html" target="_blank">http://emnlp2014.org/tutorials.html</a> for more details.<br>
<br>
<br>
* WORKSHOPS<br>
<br>
EMNLP 2014 will host the following 6 one-day workshops, which will take place during October 25 and 29, 2014:<br>
<br>
Arabic NLP — Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop --- Nizar Habash, Stephan Vogel, Kareem Darwish, Behrang Mohit, Nadi Tomeh, Wajdi Zaghouani<br>
<br>
TextGraphs-9 — Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing --- V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran, Amarnag Subramanya, Gabor Melli, Irina Matveeva<br>
<br>
CodeSwitch — Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code Switching --- Mona Diab, Pascale Fung, Julia Hirschberg, Thamar Solorio<br>
<br>
SSST-8 — Eighth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation --- Dekai Wu, Marine Carpuat, Xavier Carreras, Eva Maria Vecchi<br>
<br>
MOOC — Modeling Large Scale Social Interaction in Massively Open Online Courses --- Carolyn Penstein Rosé, George Siemens<br>
<br>
LT4CloseLang — Language Technology for Closely-Related Languages and Language Variants --- Preslav Nakov, Petya Osenova, Cristina Vertan<br>
<br>
See <a href="http://emnlp2014.org/workshops.html" target="_blank">http://emnlp2014.org/workshops.html</a> for more details.<br>
<br>
IMPORTANT NOTE: if registered for 5 days, participants will be free to attend any tutorials and workshops during the two days (October 25 and 29), allowing as many changes as desired.<br>
<br>
<br>
* REGISTRATION<br>
<br>
</div></div>Registration is available on-line:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://emnlp2014.org/register.html" target="_blank">http://emnlp2014.org/register.html</a><br>
<br>
<br>
To check on the requirements and procedures for visas, conference hotels at special rates, and general and touristic information about the venue and Qatar, please visit the conference website: <a href="http://emnlp2014.org" target="_blank">http://emnlp2014.org</a><<a href="http://emnlp2014.org/" target="_blank">http://emnlp2014.org/</a>><br>
<div><div class="h5"><br>
<br>
* Organizing EMNLP 2014<br>
<br>
General Chair<br>
<br>
Alessandro Moschitti, Qatar Computing Research Institute<br>
<br>
Program Co-Chairs<br>
<br>
Bo Pang, Google<br>
Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp<br>
<br>
Workshops Co-Chairs<br>
<br>
Enrique Alfonseca, Google Research at Zurich<br>
Eric Gaussier, Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble I)<br>
<br>
Tutorial Co-Chairs<br>
<br>
Lucia, Specia University of Sheffield<br>
Xavier, Carreras Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya<br>
<br>
Publication Chair<br>
<br>
Yuval Marton, Microsoft Corporation<br>
<br>
Sponsorship Co-Chairs<br>
<br>
Jochen Leidner, Thomson Reuters<br>
Veselin Stoyanov, Facebook<br>
Min Zhang, Soochow University, China<br>
<br>
Publicity Co-Chairs<br>
<br>
Mona Diab, George Washington University<br>
Irina Matveeva, NexLP - Chicago<br>
<br>
Student Scholarship Co-Chairs<br>
<br>
Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin<br>
Sebastian Padó, University of Stuttgart<br>
<br>
Local Co-Chairs:<br>
<br>
Kareem Darwish, Qatar Computing Research Institute<br>
Kemal Oflazer, Carnegie Mellon University – Qatar<br>
<br>
</div></div>Local Sponsorship Chair:<br>
Francisco Guzman, Qatar Computing Research Institute<br>
<br>
<br>
Contact <a href="mailto:contact@emnlp2014.org">contact@emnlp2014.org</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:contact@emnlp2014.org">contact@emnlp2014.org</a>><br>
<span><br>
On Oct 17, 2014, at 1:08 AM, Irina Matveeva <<a href="mailto:irina.matveeva@gmail.com">irina.matveeva@gmail.com</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:irina.matveeva@gmail.com">irina.matveeva@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
<br>
Hello Ale,<br>
<br>
Please, have a look at the draft for the final call for participation. The only change is that I added the new links you gave me at the beginning, in the section<br>
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* NEW INFORMATION FOR PARTICIPANTS AND PRESENTERS<br>
<br>
Irina<br>
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=============================================================================<br>
EMNLP 2014: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing<br>
October 25–29, 2014 — Doha, Qatar<br>
Final Call for PARTICIPATION<br>
=============================================================================<br>
<br>
SIGDAT, the Association for Computational Linguistics' special interest group on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP, invites participation to EMNLP 2014, the 19th conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.<br>
<br>
The conference will be held on October 25–29, 2014, in Doha, Qatar. The conference will consist of three days of full paper presentations with two days of workshops and tutorials.<br>
<br>
</span>Conference URL: <a href="http://www.emnlp2014.org" target="_blank">http://www.emnlp2014.org</a><<a href="http://www.emnlp2014.org/" target="_blank">http://www.emnlp2014.org/</a>>. For information on Doha and Qatar, and an up-to-date FAQ go to <a href="http://emnlp2014.org/local.html" target="_blank">http://emnlp2014.org/local.html</a>.<br>
<div><div class="h5"><br>
Please join us for an exciting conference in Doha, Qatar!<br>
=============================================================================<br>
<br>
* NEW INFORMATION FOR PARTICIPANTS AND PRESENTERS<br>
<br>
We are excited to share with you the latest updates and information for the participants and presenters:<br>
<br>
Conference Program<br>
<a href="http://emnlp2014.org/files/program.pdf" target="_blank">http://emnlp2014.org/files/program.pdf</a><br>
<br>
Instructions for Presenters<br>
<a href="http://emnlp2014.org/presentations.html" target="_blank">http://emnlp2014.org/presentations.html</a><br>
<br>
Trip Preparation Information<br>
<a href="http://emnlp2014.org/beforecoming.html" target="_blank">http://emnlp2014.org/beforecoming.html</a><br>
<br>
* IMPORTANT REGISTRATION INFORMATION<br>
<br>
The early registration deadline has been extended to October 5, 2014<br>
Online registration is up and running<br>
<br>
We are excited to announce the following news and features of the EMNLP conference, which you should consider when registering and organizing your trip to Doha:<br>
<br>
* MAIN CONFERENCE PROGRAM<br>
<br>
The main conference will take place on October 26-28, 2014.<br>
Check the list of accepted papers at <a href="http://emnlp2014.org/papers.html" target="_blank">http://emnlp2014.org/papers.html</a><br>
<br>
Additionally, EMNLP 2014 will count on two world-class invited speakers for the keynote talks:<br>
<br>
IBM Cognitive Computing - An NLP Renaissance!<br>
Salim Roukos, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center<br>
<br>
Learning from Rational Behavior<br>
Thorsten Joachims, Cornell University<br>
<br>
More details at: <a href="http://emnlp2014.org/invited-talks.html" target="_blank">http://emnlp2014.org/invited-talks.html</a><br>
<br>
<br>
* TUTORIALS<br>
<br>
For the first time, EMNLP 2014 will have tutorials. The following eight tutorials have been accepted and will be presented during October 25 and 29, 2014:<br>
<br>
Sentiment Analysis of Social Media Texts --- Saif M. Mohammad and Xiaodan Zhu<br>
<br>
Spectral Learning Techniques for Weighted Automata, Transducers, and Grammars --- Borja Balle, Ariadna Quattoni and Xavier Carreras<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Semantic Parsing with Combinatory Categorial Grammars --- Yoav Artzi, Nicholas FitzGerald and Luke Zettlemoyer<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Linear Programming Decoders in Natural Language Processing: From Integer Programming to Message Passing and Dual Decomposition --- André F. T. Martins<br>
<br>
Syntax-Based Statistical Machine Translation --- Philip Williams and Philipp Koehn<br>
<br>
Embedding Methods for Natural Language Processing --- Antoine Bordes and Jason Weston<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Natural Language Processing of Arabic and its Dialects --- Mona Diab and Nizar Habash<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Text Quantification --- Fabrizio Sebastiani<br>
<br>
See <a href="http://emnlp2014.org/tutorials.html" target="_blank">http://emnlp2014.org/tutorials.html</a> for more details.<br>
<br>
<br>
* WORKSHOPS<br>
<br>
EMNLP 2014 will host the following 6 one-day workshops, which will take place during October 25 and 29, 2014:<br>
<br>
Arabic NLP — Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop --- Nizar Habash, Stephan Vogel, Kareem Darwish, Behrang Mohit, Nadi Tomeh, Wajdi Zaghouani<br>
<br>
TextGraphs-9 — Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing --- V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran, Amarnag Subramanya, Gabor Melli, Irina Matveeva<br>
<br>
CodeSwitch — Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code Switching --- Mona Diab, Pascale Fung, Julia Hirschberg, Thamar Solorio<br>
<br>
SSST-8 — Eighth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation --- Dekai Wu, Marine Carpuat, Xavier Carreras, Eva Maria Vecchi<br>
<br>
MOOC — Modeling Large Scale Social Interaction in Massively Open Online Courses --- Carolyn Penstein Rosé, George Siemens<br>
<br>
LT4CloseLang — Language Technology for Closely-Related Languages and Language Variants --- Preslav Nakov, Petya Osenova, Cristina Vertan<br>
<br>
See <a href="http://emnlp2014.org/workshops.html" target="_blank">http://emnlp2014.org/workshops.html</a> for more details.<br>
<br>
IMPORTANT NOTE: if registered for 5 days, participants will be free to attend any tutorials and workshops during the two days (October 25 and 29), allowing as many changes as desired.<br>
<br>
<br>
* REGISTRATION<br>
<br>
Registration is already available on-line:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://emnlp2014.org/register.html" target="_blank">http://emnlp2014.org/register.html</a><br>
<br>
Please, note that early registration fees will apply until October 5, 2014.<br>
<br>
Important features:<br>
<br>
# EMNLP 2014 offers a flat rate to attend any workshops and tutorials<br>
# Lunch, breakfast and coffee breaks are included every day<br>
<br>
</div></div>To check on the requirements and procedures for visas, conference hotels at special rates, and general and touristic information about the venue and Qatar, please visit the conference website: <a href="http://emnlp2014.org" target="_blank">http://emnlp2014.org</a><<a href="http://emnlp2014.org/" target="_blank">http://emnlp2014.org/</a>><br>
<div><div class="h5"><br>
<br>
* Organizing EMNLP 2014<br>
<br>
General Chair<br>
<br>
Alessandro Moschitti, Qatar Computing Research Institute<br>
<br>
Program Co-Chairs<br>
<br>
Bo Pang, Google<br>
Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp<br>
<br>
Workshops Co-Chairs<br>
<br>
Enrique Alfonseca, Google Research at Zurich<br>
Eric Gaussier, Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble I)<br>
<br>
Tutorial Co-Chairs<br>
<br>
Lucia, Specia University of Sheffield<br>
Xavier, Carreras Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya<br>
<br>
Publication Chair<br>
<br>
Yuval Marton, Microsoft Corporation<br>
<br>
Sponsorship Co-Chairs<br>
<br>
Jochen Leidner, Thomson Reuters<br>
Veselin Stoyanov, Facebook<br>
Min Zhang, Soochow University, China<br>
<br>
Publicity Co-Chairs<br>
<br>
Mona Diab, George Washington University<br>
Irina Matveeva, NexLP - Chicago<br>
<br>
Student Scholarship Co-Chairs<br>
<br>
Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin<br>
Sebastian Padó, University of Stuttgart<br>
<br>
Local Co-Chairs:<br>
<br>
Kareem Darwish, Qatar Computing Research Institute<br>
Kemal Oflazer, Carnegie Mellon University – Qatar<br>
<br>
Contact<br>
<br>
</div></div> <a href="mailto:contact@emnlp2014.org">contact@emnlp2014.org</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:contact@emnlp2014.org">contact@emnlp2014.org</a>><br>
<br>
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