29.1126, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Australia

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Subject: 29.1126, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Australia

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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 17:39:36
From: Sarvnaz Karimi [sarvnaz.karimi at csiro.au]
Subject: The ACL 2018 System Demonstration

 
Full Title: The ACL 2018 System Demonstration 

Date: 16-Jul-2018 - 20-Jul-2018
Location: Melbourne, Australia 
Contact Person: Fei Liu
Meeting Email: feiliu at cs.ucf.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 23-Mar-2018 

Meeting Description:

56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
15-20 July 2018, Melbourne, Australia

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. We hope to feature systems 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


Call for Participation:

The ACL 2018 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. 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
Accepted submissions will be published in a companion volume of the ACL 2017
conference proceedings.

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 follow the convention to provide a Best Demo Award. We hope
to encourage researchers to make their code publicly available and in the form
of an easy-to-use, runnable system.

Important Dates:

Paper submission deadline: March 23, 2018
Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2018
Camera-ready submission: May 25, 2018
All deadlines are: 11:59pm UTC-12

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.

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.

Demo Submission:

Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management
system at https://www.softconf.com/acl2018/demos .

Submissions may consist of 6 pages (including references). Submissions must
conform to the ACL 2018 official style guidelines and they must be in PDF
format.

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.

Demo co-chairs:

Fei Liu (University of Central Florida)
Thamar Solorio (University of Houston)




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