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<div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px"><b>Call for ACL 2017 System Demonstrations</b></span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px"> </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px"><b>Important Deadlines:</b></span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">Submission deadline: </span><span class="gmail-m_1814062443604020891gmail-aBn" style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px"><span class="gmail-m_1814062443604020891gmail-aQJ">March
1, 2017</span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px"> (</span><span class="gmail-m_1814062443604020891gmail-aBn" style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px"><span class="gmail-m_1814062443604020891gmail-aQJ">11:59pm
PST</span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">)</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">Notification of acceptance: April 5, 2016</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">Submission of camera ready copies: </span><span class="gmail-m_1814062443604020891gmail-aBn" style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px"><span class="gmail-m_1814062443604020891gmail-aQJ">April
22, 2017</span></span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">ACL 2017: </span><span class="gmail-m_1814062443604020891gmail-aBn" style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px"><span class="gmail-m_1814062443604020891gmail-aQJ">July
30-August 4, 2017</span></span></div>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px"><b>Invitation for Submission:</b></span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">The ACL 2017 System Demonstration Program Committee invites proposals for the Demonstrations Program. Submissions may range from early research prototypes to mature production-ready systems.
Of particular interest are publicly available open-source or open-access systems. We would like to strongly encourage demonstrations of industrial systems as long as they prove technologically innovative given the current state of the art of theory and applied
research in computational linguistics. PLEASE NOTE: Commercial sales and marketing activities are not appropriate in the Demonstrations Program and should be arranged as part of the Exhibit Program.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">Areas of interest include all topics related to theoretical and applied computational linguistics, such as (but not limited to) the topics listed on the main conference website: </span><a href="http://acl2017.org/" style="font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px" target="_blank">http://acl2017.org</a><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">Accepted submissions will be published in a companion volume of the ACL 2017 conference proceedings, and will be presented during two demo sessions with an accompanying poster. </span></div>
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<div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">**Note: This year we will also select the
<b>Best Demo Paper Award</b>! </span><font color="#000000" face="tahoma"><span style="font-size:13.3333px">This will encourage</span></font><span style="font-size:13.3333px; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma"> researchers to make their code available and
runnable as a system. </span></div>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">The systems may be of the following kinds:</span></div>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px"> Natural Language Processing systems or system components</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px"> Application systems using language technology components</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px"> Software tools for computational linguistics research</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px"> Software for demonstration or evaluation</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px"> Software supporting learning or education</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px"> Tools for data visualization and annotation</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px"> Development tools</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">Developers should outline the design of their system and provide sufficient details to allow the evaluation of its validity, quality, and relevance to computational linguistics. Pointers
to web sites running a demo preview will also be helpful. For non web-based demos, it is possible to submit a short (~2 minute) screencast video demonstrating the system. This screencast will be used to evaluate the paper, but won't be published unless requested.
We encourage the authors to include visual aids (e.g., screenshots, snapshots, or diagrams) in the paper. However, there will be place on the START website to upload additional material, if needed. If you choose to submit a screencast, please upload the video
to some hosting site (YouTube, Vimeo, etc.) and include the link in your submission.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">Demo submissions should also clearly indicate if any computer equipment is expected to be provided by the local organizer. If so, please specify desired hardware platform, hard disk and
memory capacity, operating system and other software needed in order to run the demo.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">Submission Information</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">Submissions may consist of 6 pages (including references. Papers must conform to the official ACL guidelines which are contained in the style files.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">
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<a href="http://acl2017.org/files/acl2017.zip" style="font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px" target="_blank">http://acl2017.org/files/acl20<wbr>17.zip</a><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">Submission will be electronic in PDF format through the START conference management system at:</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">
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<a href="https://www.softconf.com/acl2017/demos" style="font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px" target="_blank">https://www.softconf.com/acl20<wbr>17/demos</a><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">Reviewing Policy</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">Reviewing will be single-blind, so authors do not need to conceal their identity. The paper should include the authors' names and affiliations. Self-references are also allowed.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">ACL 2017 System Demonstration Co-chairs</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">Mohit Bansal, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, USA ý(</span><a href="mailto:mbansal@cs.unc.edu" style="font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px" target="_blank">mbansal@cs.unc.edu</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">)</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">Heng Ji, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA (</span><a href="mailto:jih@rpi.edu" style="font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px" target="_blank">jih@rpi.edu</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:tahoma; font-size:13.3333px">)</span><br>
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