30.3048, FYI: Joint Call for Tutorial Proposals: ACL/AACL-IJCNLP
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Subject: 30.3048, FYI: Joint Call for Tutorial Proposals: ACL/AACL-IJCNLP
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Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 00:52:15
From: Emily M. Bender [ebender at uw.edu]
Subject: Joint Call for Tutorial Proposals: ACL/AACL-IJCNLP
Joint Call for Tutorial Proposals: ACL/AACL-IJCNLP/EMNLP/COLING 2020
The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), the Asia-Pacific Chapter
of the ACL, the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
(EMNLP) and the International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL)
invite proposals for tutorials to be held in conjunction with ACL 2020,
AACL-IJCNLP 2020, EMNLP 2020 or COLING 2020. We seek proposals in all areas of
computational linguistics, broadly conceived to include related disciplines
such as linguistics, speech, information retrieval and multimodal processing.
Similar to the call for 2019, we invite proposals for two types of tutorials:
1. Cutting-edge: tutorials that cover advances in newly emerging areas not
previously covered in any ACL/EMNLP/NAACL/EACL/COLING related tutorial (see
the list of tutorials in the past 4 years).
2. Introductory: tutorials that provide introductions to related fields that
are potentially relevant for the computational linguistics community (e.g.,
linguistics, bioinformatics, social media, machine learning techniques).
Tutorials will be held at one of the following conference venues:
- ACL 2020 is the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics. It will be held in Seattle, Washington, USA on July 5-10, 2020.
The tutorials will be held on July 5, 2020.
- AACL 2020 is the 1st Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the
Association for Computational Linguistics (AACL). It will be held in Suzhou,
China on December 4-7, 2020, jointly with the 9th International Joint
Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP).
- EMNLP 2020 is the SIGDAT conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language
Processing (EMNLP). It will be held in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic on
November 8-12, 2020.
- COLING 2020 is the 28th International Conference on Computational
Linguistics. It will be held in Barcelona, Spain on September 13-18, 2020.
FEE WAIVING:
In a change from previous years, tutorial instructors will receive no payment.
However, up to 3 instructors per tutorial can have their registration fees
waived for the main conference and any subset of co-located tutorials and
workshops.
DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION:
Following the WiNLP initiative, we recognize the current problems of
demographic imbalance in the field. Therefore, we particularly encourage
submissions from members of under-represented groups in computational
linguistics, i.e. from researchers self-identifying within any
underrepresented demographic (gender, ethnicity, nationality, etc.).
SUBMISSION DETAILS:
Proposals should follow the ACL 2019 paper submission format (for final
submissions), should be submitted as PDF documents and should contain the
following:
1. A title, authors and a brief description of the tutorial content and its
relevance to the computational linguistics community (no more than 2 pages).
2. Type of the tutorial: introductory vs. cutting-edge
3. A brief outline of the tutorial structure. It should notably show that the
core content can be covered in a three-hour slot. In exceptional cases
six-hour tutorial slots are available as well. These time limits do not
include coffee breaks, e.g., a three-hour tutorial in fact occupies a 3.5-hour
slot, and a six-hour tutorial occupies a 7-hour slot.
4. Breadth: include an estimate of what % of the tutorial covers work by the
tutorial presenters vs. work by other researchers. We ask for a coverage of
at least 50% corresponding to other people’s work, in order to avoid having
tutorials that are ''self-invited talks''.
5. Diversity considerations (if any), e.g. use of multilingual data,
indications of how the described methods scale up to various languages or
domains, participation of both senior and junior instructors, possibly
affiliated in different countries, gender balance of the instructors, etc.
6. Specification of any prerequisites for the attendees. Here are some
examples:
- Math: e.g., ''Understand derivatives and integrals as found in introductory
Calculus''
- Linguistics: e.g., ''Be able to parse and generate text with Context Free
Grammars''
- Machine Learning: e.g., ''Understand ‘classical’ supervised methods such as
decision trees and Naive Bayes''
- Other areas: e.g., ''Familiarity with WordNet''
- Programming or other tools: e.g., ''Knowledge of Python and Unix command
line tools''
7. Small reading list. Preferably, at least 50% of the recommended papers
should not be co-authored by the tutorial presenters.
8. The names, affiliations, email addresses and websites of the tutorial
presenters, including a one-paragraph statement of their research interests,
areas of expertise and experience in teaching for an international audience.
9. An estimate of the audience size for the tutorial. If the same or a similar
tutorial has been given before, include a note specifying where previous
versions of the tutorial were given, how many attendees were at the main
venue, and how many attendees the tutorial attracted.
10. A description of special requirements for technical equipment (e.g.,
Internet access).
11. A note specifying which venue(s) (ACL/AACL-IJCNLP/EMNLP/COLING) would be
acceptable and/or preferable. Include a description of any constraints that
might make the tutorial compatible with only one of these events,
logistically, thematically, or otherwise.
12. Open access. Do you agree to allow the publication of your slides and
video recording of your tutorial in the ACL Anthology? Will other teaching
material (data, software, etc., if any) be openly available?
Tutorial proposals for ACL/AACL-IJCNLP/EMNLP/COLING should be submitted online
using the START system: https://www.softconf.com/j/acl-tutorials2020
Proposals will be reviewed jointly by the Tutorial Co-Chairs of the four
conferences and by a group of external experts.
EVALUATION CRITERIA:
Each tutorial proposal will be evaluated according to its clarity and
preparedness, novelty or timely character of the topic, instructors'
experience, likely audience interest, open access of the teaching material,
and diversity aspects (see point 5 above). Additionally, while selecting the
final list of tutorials for the 3 conferences, the tutorial chairs will
consider compatibility with the required/preferred venues.
TUTORIAL INSTRUCTOR RESPONSIBILITIES:
Accepted tutorial presenters will be notified by October 20th, 2019. They must
then provide abstracts of their tutorials for inclusion in the conference
registration material by the specific conference deadlines. The description
should be in two formats: (a) an ASCII version that can be included in email
announcements and published on the conference website, and (b) a PDF version
for inclusion in the electronic proceedings (detailed instructions will be
provided). Tutorial speakers must provide tutorial materials by the deadlines
specified for the three conferences (TBD), with course slides submitted at
least one month prior to the date of the tutorial. The final submitted
tutorial materials must minimally include copies of the course slides and a
bibliography for the material covered in the tutorial. After the conference,
the presenters will be invited to update their slides in the ACL Anthology (if
needed).
IMPORTANT DATES:
ACL/AACL-IJCNLP/EMNLP/COLING shared dates for tutorial proposals:
- Submission deadline for tutorial proposals: September 23th, 2019
- Notification of acceptance: October 20th, 2019
- Tutorial slides + abstract + bibliography: one month prior to the date of
the tutorial
TUTORIAL CHAIRS:
ACL:
Agata Savary, University of Tours, France
Yue Zhang, Westlake University, China
AACL-IJCNLP:
To be determined
EMNLP
To be determined
COLING:
Daniel Beck, University of Melbourne, Australia
Lucia Specia, Imperial College London and University of Sheffield, UK
Please send enquiries concerning ACL/AACL-IJCNLP/EMNLP/COLING 2020 tutorials
to the workshop organizers at
acl-aacl-emnlp-coling-2020-tutorials at googlegroups.com.
Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
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