27.4974, Confs: Computational Linguistics/Canada

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LINGUIST List: Vol-27-4974. Tue Dec 06 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 27.4974, Confs: Computational Linguistics/Canada

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Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2016 13:32:38
From: Charley Chan [tchan193 at bloomberg.net]
Subject: 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 
Short Title: ACL 2017 

Date: 30-Jul-2017 - 04-Aug-2017 
Location: Vancouver, Canada 
Contact: Chris Callison-Burch 
Contact Email: ccb at cis.upenn.edu 
Meeting URL: http://acl2017.org/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The 55th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
will take place in Vancouver, Canada. ACL 2017 will be held at the Westin
Bayshore Hotel in downtown Vancouver from July 30 through August 4, 2017.

As in previous years, the program of the conference includes poster sessions,
tutorials, workshops, and demonstrations in addition to the main conference.
ACL is the premier conference of the field of computational linguistics,
covering a broad spectrum of diverse research areas that are concerned with
computational approaches to natural language.

Contact Informationː

General chair: Chris Callison-Burch (University of Pennsylvania)
Program co-chairs: Regina Barzilay (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and
Min-Yen Kan (National University of Singapore)
Email: acl17pcchairs at gmail.com

2nd Call for Participation

Call For System Demonstrations:

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.

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: http://acl2017.org

Accepted submissions will be published in a companion volume of the ACL 2017
conference proceedings, and will be presented during two demo sessions along
with accompanying posters.

Please note: Commercial sales and marketing activities are not appropriate in
the Demonstrations Program and should be arranged as part of the Exhibit
Program.

Best Demo Award:

This year we will also award a Best Demo Award! This will encourage
researchers to make their code publicly available and in the form of an
end-to-end runnable system.

Important Dates:

Submission Deadline: Wednesday March 1, 2017
Notification of Acceptance: Wednesday April 5, 2017
Camera Ready Due: Saturday April 22, 2017
Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM Pacific Time.

Submission Information:

Submitted systems may be of the following types:

- Natural Language Processing systems or system components
- Application systems using language technology components
- Software tools for computational linguistics research
- Software for demonstration or evaluation
- Software supporting learning or education
- Tools for data visualization and annotation
- Development tools

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 a 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.

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.

Submissions may consist of 6 pages (including references. We strongly
recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files tailored for this year’s
conference. Submissions must conform to the official style guidelines, which
are contained in the style files, and they must be in PDF format.
Demonstration proposals can be submitted at
https://www.softconf.com/acl2017/demos.

Style files and other information about paper formatting requirements will be
made available on the conference website (http://acl2017.org/).

Reviewing Policy:

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.

Contact Information:

Demo co-chairs: Mohit Bansal (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) and
Heng Ji (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Email: acl2017-demochairs at googlegroups.com
ACLWeb link:
https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/call-acl-2017-system-demonstrations-and-
new-best-demo-paper-award

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