[Corpora-List] EMNLP 2013 Newsletter No. 1

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             EMNLP 2013 NEWSLETTER NO. 1
                (September 5, 2013)

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:: Important Dates
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Camera-ready submission deadline is September 16, 2013 (11:59pm UTC/GMT -11
hours)

Registration will open in early September.

Workshops: October 18, 2013

Main conference: October 19–21, 2013

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:: Table of Contents
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1. EMNLP 2013 in Seattle, USA
2. Organising Committee
3. Main Conference: List of Accepted Papers
4. Invited Speakers
5. Student Volunteers and Travel Grants
6. Workshops
7. Registration
8. Accommodation
9. Invitation Letter for US Visa Application
10. Sponsorship
11. Newsletter No. 2

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:: 1. EMNLP 2013 in Seattle, USA
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Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) is
one of the largest and most competitive conferences in computational
linguistics. Organized by SIGDAT (the Association for Computational
Linguistics special interest group for linguistic data and corpus-based
approaches to natural language processing) it presents papers on all areas
of interest to the SIGDAT community and aligned fields.

EMNLP will be held in Seattle, USA, October 18-21, 2013. The  conference
will take place at the Grand Hyatt Seattle, in the heart of downtown
Seattle, just blocks from the famous Pike's Market.

EMNLP 2013 website is available at
http://hum.csse.unimelb.edu.au/emnlp2013/<http://hum.csse.unimelb.edu.au/emnlp2013/papers.html>

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:: 2. Organising Committee
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General Chair:
David Yarowsky, Johns Hopkins University

Program Chairs:
Tim Baldwin, The University of Melbourne
Anna Korhonen, University of Cambridge

Workshops Chair:
Karen Livescu, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago

Publication Chair:
Steven Bethard, University of Alabama at Birmingham

 Local Organization Chair:
Priscilla Rasmussen, ACL

Area Chairs:

Phonology, Morphology, Tagging, Chunking and Segmentation
Kemal Oflazer, Anna Feldman

Syntax and Parsing
Jennifer Foster, Yoav Goldberg

Semantics
Mark Stevenson, Luke Zettlemoyer

Discourse, Dialogue, and Pragmatics
Carolyn Rose, Matt Purver

Language resources
Emily Bender, Aline Villavicencio

Summarization and Generation
Dragomir Radev, Yang Liu

NLP-related Machine Learning: theory, methods and algorithms
Amir Globerson, Antal van den Bosch

Machine Translation
Taro Watanabe, Kevin Knight

Information Retrieval and Question Answering
Bernardo Magnini, Soumen Chakrabarti

Information Extraction
Mausam, Heng Ji

Spoken Language Processing
Haizhou Li, Amanda Stent

Text Mining and Natural Language Processing Applications
Hang Li, Kevin Cohen

Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
Janyce Weibe, Bing Liu

NLP for the Web and Social Media
Miles Osborne, Chin-Yew Lin

Computational Models of Human Language Acquisition and Processing
Alessandro Lenci, Afra Alishahi

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:: 3. Main Conference - List of Accepted Papers
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EMNLP 2013 has a broad technical program. We received nearly 800
submissions, out of which we were able to accept 151 long papers and 56
short papers (with the overall acceptance rate of 27%). The list of
accepted papers is now available at the conference website:

http://hum.csse.unimelb.edu.au/emnlp2013/papers.html

Important Dates:

Camera ready papers due:     September 16, 2013

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:: 4. Invited Speakers
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We are delighted to announce our invited speakers for EMNLP 2013:

Dr Fernando Pereira, Research Director at Google

Dr Andrew Ng, Co-CEO and Co-founder of Coursera

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:: 5. Student Volunteers and Travel Grants
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1. Student Volunteer Program

We seek a limited number of student volunteers for EMNLP 2013. In exchange
for one full day's work equivalent, student volunteers receive free
registration to the main conference (although not to the associated
workshops). The work will be divided, probably into two half-day shifts,
and the shifts will be scheduled to maximize volunteer access to the
conference events. Tasks will include assisting at the registration desk,
stuffing delegate packs, and providing technical assistance for conference
events including the main conference and workshops.

2. Student Travel Awards

A small amount of funding is also available to assist up to four student
participants both with travel to Seattle, WA for EMNLP 2013, as well as
with conference expenses (such as housing, local transportation to/from
airport, etc.).

All students are welcome to apply. The applicants must agree to participate
in the EMNLP 2013 Student Volunteer Program to further defray costs. Please
note that Student Travel Awards are to subsidize student authors'
participation in EMNLP, and are not intended to cover all travel expenses.

This funding is possible thanks to a grant from Google.

3. Submission procedure

To apply for either or both of the Student Volunteer Program and/or a
Student Travel Grant, please send an email application to Priscilla
Rasmussen (acl at aclweb.org) stating the following:

Application for:    [  ]  Travel Award      [  ]  Student Volunteer      [
 ]  Both

Full Name:

Email:

Mailing Address:

Title of your accepted paper:

Paper to be presented in the Main Conference or specify which Workshop:

Other Sources of Funding:

Application deadline: September  15, 2013, 24:59 EDT

Notification of awards: September 19, 2013

All Student Travel Award recipients who are not selected for the Student
Volunteer Program must register for the conference and pay at the student
rates. All Student Volunteer Award recipients must also register for the
conference, selecting "I am a Student Volunteer" in the main conference
section. Students will be reimbursed by the ACL Business Manager, Priscilla
Rasmussen, after the conference and upon providing original or scanned
receipts and an accounting of the requested funding (i.e., a business
expense report).

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:: 6. Workshops
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Workshop Chair:
Karen Livescu, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago

The following 3 workshops will be held at EMNLP 2013:

TextGraphs-8 — Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing
Zornitsa Kozareva, Irina Matveeva, Gabor Melli, Vivi Nastase
Website: http://www.textgraphs.org/ws13

SPMRL-2013 — 4th Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically Rich
Languages
Yoav Goldberg, Ines Rehbein, Yannick Versley
Website: http://www.spmrl.org/spmrl2013.html

Twenty Years of Bitext
Chris Dyer, Noah A. Smith, Phil Blunsom
Website: http://sites.google.com/site/20yearsofbitext/

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:: 7. Registration
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The registration site will open very soon. It will be linked from the
main conference website
http://hum.csse.unimelb.edu.au/emnlp2013/<http://hum.csse.unimelb.edu.au/emnlp2013/papers.html>

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:: 8. Accommodation
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The conference hotel is the Grand Hyatt Seattle where conference rates have
been negotiated to be:

$185 for single/double king bed
$200 for single/double two beds
$210 for triple
$235 for quadruple

All rooms include complimentary internet. The Group rate will be available
up to three days pre/post conference based upon the availability of the
Hotel. Attendees can access the site to learn more about the event and to
book, modify, or cancel a reservation from August 23, 2013 to September 27,
2013.

To make your hotel reservations and take advantage of the Conference Group
Rate, please follow this link or use the passcode EMNLP2013:

https://resweb.passkey.com/go/EMNLP2013

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:: 9. Invitation letter for US Via Application
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Since US visa applications can take 1-4 months to be approved, we strongly
encourage prospective participants to apply for a US visa well in advance
of the conference. If you require an invitation letter for your visa
application, please contact the ACL Business Manager, Priscilla Rasmussen (
acl at aclweb.org),
including the following information:

your full name
your address
if you have an accepted paper, the title of the paper and whether it is a
main conference or workshop paper

Invitation letters can be requested prior to receipt of paper notifications
and also for prospective participants without papers. For authors who have
papers accepted, it is also possible to request a second invitation letter
which verifies that the paper has been accepted.

Ms. Rasmussen will send on the invitation letter via email as a signed MS
Word document. If you additionally require a hard copy, please indicate
this in your invitation letter request.

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:: 10. Sponsorship
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Google (Gold Sponsor)

Anyone interested in becoming a sponsor or finding out more about
sponsorship, exhibiting, advertising or other opportunities is encouraged
to contact Priscilla Rasmussen (acl at aclweb.org).

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:: 11. Newsletter No. 2
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EMNLP Newsletter No. 2 will be published before the end of September giving
more information on registration, venue, travel and conference program,
among other things.

Contacts:  emnlp-2013 at cl.cam.ac.uk
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