30.334, FYI: Final Joint Call for Tutorial Proposals: NAACL/ACL

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Subject: 30.334, FYI: Final Joint Call for Tutorial Proposals: NAACL/ACL

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Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2019 23:25:04
From: Preslav Nakov [preslav.nakov at gmail.com]
Subject: Final Joint Call for Tutorial Proposals: NAACL/ACL

Final Joint Call for Tutorial Proposals: NAACL/ACL/EMNLP

(See also: http://www.acl2019.org/EN/tutorials.xhtml)

The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), the Conference on
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing & International Joint
Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), and the North
American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)
invite proposals for tutorials to be held in conjunction with ACL 2019, NAACL
2019, or EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019. We seek proposals in all areas of computational
linguistics, broadly conceived to include related disciplines such as
linguistics, speech, information retrieval, and multimodal processing.

This year, we invite proposals for two types of tutorials: (a) cutting-edge
and (b) introductory:

- Cutting-edge: tutorials that cover advances in newly emerging areas not
previously covered in any ACL/EMNLP-IJCNLP/NAACL related tutorial.

- Introductory: tutorials that provide introductions to related fields that
are potentially relevant to the computational linguistics community (e.g.,
bioinformatics, social media, human language processing, machine learning
techniques).
Tutorials will be held at one of the following conference venues:

- ACL 2019 is the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics. It will be held in Florence, Italy from July 28 till August 2,
2019. The ACL tutorials will be held on July 28, 2019.

- NAACL 2019 is the 17th Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the
Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL). It will be held in
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA from June 2 to June 7, 2019. The NAACL tutorials
will be held on June 2, 2019.

- EMNLP-IJSCNLP 2019 is the SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural
Language Processing (EMNLP). It will be held jointly with the International
Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP). Exact details on
dates will be announced soon.

Remuneration:

Information on the payment for tutorial instructors can be found in the
Tutorial Teacher Payment Policy

Please note: remuneration for tutorial presenters is fixed according to the
above policy and does not cover registration fees for the main conference.

Diversity and Inclusion:

As we recognize current problems of demographic imbalance in the field, we
particularly encourage submissions from members of under-represented groups in
computational linguistics.

Submission Details:

Proposals should be submitted as PDF documents and should contain the
following:

1. A title 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 showing 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 at least 50%
other people’s work, in order to avoid having tutorials that are “self-invited
talks”.

5. 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”

- Small reading list: e.g., a list of three papers not by the tutorial
presenters

6. The names, affiliations, email addresses and websites of the tutorial
instructors, including a one-paragraph statement of their research interests
and areas of expertise.

7. 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.

8. A description of special requirements for technical equipment (e.g.,
Internet access).

9. A note specifying which venue(s) (ACL/NAACL/EMNLP-IJCNLP) would be
acceptable and/or preferable. Please include a description of any constraints
that might make the tutorial compatible with only one of these events,
logistically, thematically, or otherwise.

Tutorial proposals for ACL/NAACL/EMNLP-IJCNLP should be submitted online using
the START system: https://www.softconf.com/i/acl-tutorials2019/

Proposals will be reviewed jointly by the Tutorial Co-Chairs of the three
conferences.

Tutorial Instructor Responsibilities:

Accepted tutorial presenters will be notified by February 1, 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.

Important Dates:

Shared dates:

- Submission deadline for tutorial proposals: January 20, 2019

- Notification of acceptance: February 1, 2019

- Tutorial slides + abstract + bibliography: one month prior to the date of
the tutorial
TUTORIAL CHAIRS

ACL:

- Preslav Nakov - Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar

- Alexis Palmer - University of North Texas, USA

NAACL:

- Anoop Sarkar, Simon Fraser University, Canada

- Michael Strube, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Germany

EMNLP-IJCNLP

- Marine Carpuat, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

- Tim Baldwin, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Please send inquiries concerning ACL/NAACL/EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 tutorials to the
workshop organizers at staracl-2019-tutorials at googlegroups.com

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

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