Connectionists: ACL 2017 - Call For System Demonstrations

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Call For System Demonstrations


The ACL 2017 System Demonstration Program Committee invites proposals for
the Demonstrations Program. Submissions may range from early research
prototypes to mature production-ready systems. Of particular interest are
publicly available open-source or open-access systems. We would like to
strongly encourage demonstrations of industrial systems as long as they
prove technologically innovative given the current state of the art of
theory and applied research in computational linguistics.


Areas of interest include all topics related to theoretical and applied
computational linguistics, such as (but not limited to) the topics listed
on the main conference website: http://acl2017.org


Accepted submissions will be published in a companion volume of the ACL
2017 conference proceedings, and will be presented during two demo sessions
along with accompanying posters.


Please note: Commercial sales and marketing activities are not appropriate
in the Demonstrations Program and should be arranged as part of the Exhibit
Program.



BEST DEMO AWARD

This year we will also award a Best Demo Award! This will encourage
researchers to make their code publicly available and in the form of an
end-to-end runnable system.



IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline Wednesday March 1, 2017

Notification of Acceptance Wednesday April 5, 2017

Camera Ready Due Saturday April 22, 2017

Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM Pacific Time.



SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Submitted systems may be of the following types:


Natural Language Processing systems or system components

Application systems using language technology components

Software tools for computational linguistics research

Software for demonstration or evaluation

Software supporting learning or education

Tools for data visualization and annotation

Development tools

Developers should outline the design of their system and provide sufficient
details to allow the evaluation of its validity, quality, and relevance to
computational linguistics. Pointers to web sites running a demo preview
will also be helpful. For non web-based demos, it is possible to submit a
short (~2 minute) screencast video demonstrating the system. This
screencast will be used to evaluate the paper, but won’t be published
unless requested. We encourage the authors to include visual aids (e.g.,
screenshots, snapshots, or diagrams) in the paper. However, there will be
place on the START website to upload additional material, if needed. If you
choose to submit a screencast, please upload the video to some hosting site
(YouTube, Vimeo, etc.) and include the link in your submission.


Demo submissions should also clearly indicate if any computer equipment is
expected to be provided by the local organizer. If so, please specify
desired hardware platform, hard disk and memory capacity, operating system
and other software needed in order to run the demo.


Submissions may consist of 6 pages (including references. We strongly
recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files tailored for this year’s
conference. Submissions must conform to the official style guidelines,
which are contained in the style files, and they must be in PDF format.


Style files and other information about paper formatting requirements will
be made available on this website.



REVIEWING POLICY

Reviewing will be single-blind, so authors do not need to conceal their
identity. The paper should include the authors’ names and affiliations.
Self-references are also allowed.



CONTACT INFORMATION

Demo co-chairs: Mohit Bansal (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
and Heng Ji (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

Email: acl2017-demochairs at googlegroups.com

ACLWeb link:
https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/call-acl-2017-system-demonstrations-and-new-best-demo-paper-award
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