[Corpora] [Corpora-List] EMNLP 2014: Final Call for PARTICIPATION

Fri Oct 17 18:13:21 UTC 2014

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EMNLP 2014: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
                  October 25–29, 2014 — Doha, Qatar
                        Final Call for PARTICIPATION
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SIGDAT, the Association for Computational Linguistics' special interest
group on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP, invites
participation to EMNLP 2014, the 19th conference on Empirical Methods in
Natural Language Processing.

The conference will be held on October 25–29, 2014, in Doha, Qatar. The
conference will consist of three days of full paper presentations with two
days of workshops and tutorials.

Conference URL: http://www.emnlp2014.org<http://www.emnlp2014.org/>. For
information about Doha and Qatar, and an up-to-date FAQ go to
http://emnlp2014.org/local.html.

Please join us for an exciting conference in Doha, Qatar!
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* NEW INFORMATION FOR PARTICIPANTS AND PRESENTERS

  Conference Handbook
  http://emnlp2014.org/files/handbook.pdf

  Conference Program
  http://emnlp2014.org/files/program.pdf

  Instructions for Presenters
  http://emnlp2014.org/presentations.html

  Trip Preparation Information
  http://emnlp2014.org/beforecoming.html

* LATEST FEATURES

   # Flat rate to attend any workshops and tutorials
   # Lunch, breakfast and coffee breaks are included every day
   # Social dinner included in the conference fee

* INVITED SPEAKERS

 EMNLP 2014 will host two world-class invited speakers for the keynote
talks:

   IBM Cognitive Computing - An NLP Renaissance!
   Salim Roukos, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

   Learning from Rational Behavior
   Thorsten Joachims, Cornell University

More details at: http://emnlp2014.org/invited-talks.html

* TUTORIALS

For the first time, EMNLP 2014 will have tutorials. The following eight
tutorials have been accepted and will be presented during October 25 and
29, 2014:

   Sentiment Analysis of Social Media Texts --- Saif M. Mohammad and
Xiaodan Zhu

   Spectral Learning Techniques for Weighted Automata, Transducers, and
Grammars --- Borja Balle, Ariadna Quattoni and Xavier Carreras

   Semantic Parsing with Combinatory Categorial Grammars --- Yoav Artzi,
Nicholas FitzGerald and Luke Zettlemoyer

   Linear Programming Decoders in Natural Language Processing: From Integer
Programming to Message Passing and Dual Decomposition --- André F. T.
Martins

   Syntax-Based Statistical Machine Translation --- Philip Williams and
Philipp Koehn

   Embedding Methods for Natural Language Processing --- Antoine Bordes and
Jason Weston

   Natural Language Processing of Arabic and its Dialects --- Mona Diab and
Nizar Habash

   Text Quantification --- Fabrizio Sebastiani

See http://emnlp2014.org/tutorials.html for more details.

* WORKSHOPS

EMNLP 2014 will host the following 6 one-day workshops, which will take
place during October 25 and 29, 2014:

   Arabic NLP — Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop --- Nizar
Habash, Stephan Vogel, Kareem Darwish, Behrang Mohit, Nadi Tomeh, Wajdi
Zaghouani

   TextGraphs-9 — Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing ---
V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran, Amarnag Subramanya, Gabor Melli, Irina Matveeva

   CodeSwitch — Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code Switching ---
Mona Diab, Pascale Fung, Julia Hirschberg, Thamar Solorio

   SSST-8 — Eighth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in
Statistical Translation --- Dekai Wu, Marine Carpuat, Xavier Carreras, Eva
Maria Vecchi

   MOOC — Modeling Large Scale Social Interaction in Massively Open Online
Courses --- Carolyn Penstein Rosé, George Siemens

   LT4CloseLang — Language Technology for Closely-Related Languages and
Language Variants --- Preslav Nakov, Petya Osenova, Cristina Vertan

See http://emnlp2014.org/workshops.html for more details.

IMPORTANT NOTE: if registered for 5 days, participants will be free to
attend any tutorials and workshops during the two days (October 25 and 29),
allowing as many changes as desired.

* REGISTRATION

Registration is available on-line:

http://emnlp2014.org/register.html

To check on the requirements and procedures for visas, conference hotels at
special rates, and general and touristic information about the venue and
Qatar, please visit the conference website: http://emnlp2014.org<
http://emnlp2014.org/>

* Organizing EMNLP 2014

General Chair

   Alessandro Moschitti, Qatar Computing Research Institute

Program Co-Chairs

   Bo Pang, Google
   Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp

Workshops Co-Chairs

   Enrique Alfonseca, Google Research at Zurich
   Eric Gaussier, Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble I)

Tutorial Co-Chairs

   Lucia, Specia University of Sheffield
   Xavier, Carreras Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Publication Chair

   Yuval Marton, Microsoft Corporation

Sponsorship Co-Chairs

   Jochen Leidner, Thomson Reuters
   Veselin Stoyanov, Facebook
   Min Zhang, Soochow University, China

Publicity Co-Chairs

   Mona Diab, George Washington University
   Irina Matveeva, NexLP - Chicago

Student Scholarship Co-Chairs

   Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin
   Sebastian Padó, University of Stuttgart

Local Co-Chairs:

   Kareem Darwish, Qatar Computing Research Institute
   Kemal Oflazer, Carnegie Mellon University – Qatar

Local Sponsorship Chair:
   Francisco Guzman, Qatar Computing Research Institute

Contact   contact at emnlp2014.org<mailto:contact at emnlp2014.org>

On Oct 17, 2014, at 1:08 AM, Irina Matveeva <irina.matveeva at gmail.com
<mailto:irina.matveeva at gmail.com>> wrote:

Hello Ale,

Please, have a look at the draft for the final call for participation. The
only change is that I added the new links you gave me at the beginning, in
the section

* NEW INFORMATION FOR PARTICIPANTS AND PRESENTERS

Irina

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EMNLP 2014: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
                  October 25–29, 2014 — Doha, Qatar
                        Final Call for PARTICIPATION
=============================================================================

SIGDAT, the Association for Computational Linguistics' special interest
group on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP, invites
participation to EMNLP 2014, the 19th conference on Empirical Methods in
Natural Language Processing.

The conference will be held on October 25–29, 2014, in Doha, Qatar. The
conference will consist of three days of full paper presentations with two
days of workshops and tutorials.

Conference URL: http://www.emnlp2014.org<http://www.emnlp2014.org/>. For
information on Doha and Qatar, and an up-to-date FAQ go to
http://emnlp2014.org/local.html.

Please join us for an exciting conference in Doha, Qatar!
=============================================================================

* NEW INFORMATION FOR PARTICIPANTS AND PRESENTERS

We are excited to share with you the latest updates and information for the
participants and presenters:

  Conference Program
  http://emnlp2014.org/files/program.pdf

  Instructions for Presenters
  http://emnlp2014.org/presentations.html

  Trip Preparation Information
  http://emnlp2014.org/beforecoming.html

* IMPORTANT REGISTRATION INFORMATION

  The  early registration deadline has been extended to October 5, 2014
  Online registration is up and running

We are excited to announce the following news and features of the EMNLP
conference, which you should consider when registering and organizing your
trip to Doha:

* MAIN CONFERENCE PROGRAM

The main conference will take place on October 26-28, 2014.
Check the list of accepted papers at http://emnlp2014.org/papers.html

Additionally, EMNLP 2014 will count on two world-class invited speakers for
the keynote talks: