[Corpora-List] Second Joint Call for Workshops Proposals: NAACL 2015 & ACL 2015 & EMNLP 2015

Tue Sep 30 14:09:38 UTC 2014

Second Joint Call for Workshops Proposals: NAACL 2015 & ACL 2015 & EMNLP 2015

(27 September 2014)

The North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), and the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with NAACL 2015, ACL 2015, or EMNLP 2015. We solicit proposals on any topic of interest to the ACL communities. Workshops will be held at one of the following conference venues:

NAACL 2015 is the Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL). It will be held in Denver, Colorado May 31 - June 5. The NAACL workshops will be held on June 4-5. The webpage for NAACL 2015 is: http://nlp.eecs.umich.edu/~naacl15/.

ACL 2015 is the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. It will be held in Beijing, China, August 15-20, 2015. The dates for the ACL workshops will be August 20-21: http://acl2015.org/.

EMNLP 2015  is the SIGDAT conference on Empirical Methods for Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). It started in 1993 with the series of Workshops on Very Large Corpora and was renamed EMNLP in 1996. The main conference will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, September 17-21, 2015. The dates for the EMNLP workshops are still not definitive, most likely they will be September 17 and September 21.

Proposals will be reviewed jointly by the Workshop Co-Chairs of the three conferences.
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
Proposals for workshops should contain:

1. A title and brief (2-page max) description of the workshop topic and content.
2. The desired workshop length (one or two days) and an estimate of the number of attendees.
3. The names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of the organizers, with one-paragraph statements of their research interests and areas of expertise.
4. A list of Programme Committee members, with an indication of which members have already agreed. It is highly desirable for proposals to have at least 75% of the Programme Committee reviewers confirmed at the time of the submission. Organizers should do their best to estimate the number of submissions (especially for recurring workshops) in order to (a) ensure a sufficient number of reviewers so that each paper receives 3 reviews, and (b) anticipate that no one is committed to reviewing more than 2 papers. This practice is likely to ensure on-time, and more thorough and thoughtful reviews. Submissions should essentially be ready to be turned into a Call for Workshop Papers within one week of notification (see Timelines).
5. A description of any shared tasks associated with the workshop.
6. A description of special requirements for technical needs.
7. A note specifying which venue(s) (NAACL/ACL/EMNLP) would be acceptable and/or preferable.
Workshop co-chairs will review the quality of the workshop proposals. Once the reviews are complete, the workshop co-chairs will work together to assign workshops to the three conferences, taking into account the location preferences and constraints provided by the workshop proposers.
The ACL has a set of policies on workshops.
You can find the ACL's general policies on workshops at
http://www.cis.udel.edu/~carberry/ACL/Workshops/workshop-support-general-policy.html ,
the financial policy for workshops at
http://www.cis.udel.edu/~carberry/ACL/Workshops/workshop-conf-financial-policy.html ,
and the financial policy for SIG workshops at
http://www.cis.udel.edu/~carberry/ACL/Workshops/workshops-Sig-financial-policy.html .

Proposals may be submitted as Plain text, MS Word, or PDF documents (preferably PDF). Proposals should be attached and emailed to the workshop organizers (naacl.acl.emnlp.w15 at gmail.com) no later than 18 October 2014, Samoa Standard Time (SST) (UTC/GMT-11). *You should receive a confirmation of proposal receipt within 24 hours. If you do not, please get in touch with Sebastian Riedel: s.riedel at ucl.ac.uk*

Notification of acceptance of workshop proposals will occur no later than 2 November 2014.

Organizers of accepted proposals will be responsible for publicizing and running the workshop, including reviewing submissions, producing the camera ready workshop proceedings, and organizing the meeting days. It is crucial that organizers commit to all deadlines. In particular, failure to produce the camera ready proceedings on time will lead to the exclusion of the workshop from the CD-ROM/USB & unified author indexes. Workshop organizers cannot accept for publication papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere, although they are free to set their own policies on simultaneous submission and review. Since the conferences will occur at different times, the timescales for the submission and reviewing of workshop papers, and the preparation of camera-ready copies, will be different for each conference. Suggested timescales for each of the conferences are given below. Workshop organizers should not deviate from this schedule unless absolutely necessary.

TIMELINES FOR 2015 WORKSHOPS
SHARED DATES
18 October 2014: Proposal Submission Deadline
2 November 2014: Notifications of Acceptance

NAACL  2015
20 November 2014: First Call for Workshop Papers
20 December 2014: Second Call for Workshop Papers
25 February 2015: Workshop Paper Due Date
20 March 2015: Notification of Acceptance
30 March 2015: Camera-ready papers due
4-5 June 2015: Workshop Dates

ACL 2015
18 January 2015: First Call for Workshop Papers
21 May 2015: Workshop Paper Due Date (*suggested to ensure at least a 3-week review period)
11 June 2015: Notification of Acceptance
28 June 2015: Camera-ready papers due (tentative)
20 - 21 August 2015: Workshop Dates

EMNLP 2015 (The exact dates will be provided in later calls; stay tuned)
April 2015: First Call for Workshop Papers
June 2015: Workshop Paper Due Date
July 2015: Notification of Acceptance
August 2015: Camera-ready papers due
17 and 21 September 2015: Workshop Dates

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
Hang Li, ACL; Huawei Technologies
Sebastian Riedel, ACL; University College London
Bing Liu, NAACL; University of Illinois at Chicago
Cornelia Caragea, NAACL; University of North Texas
Jörg Tiedemann, EMNLP; Uppsala University
Zornitsa Kozareva, EMNLP; Yahoo! Labs

For inquiries, send email to the workshop organizers at:
naacl.acl.emnlp.w15 at gmail.com<mailto:naacl.acl.emnlp.w15 at gmail.com>

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