Connectionists: ACL 2017 - Final Call for Papers

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The 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (
ACL 2017)

Final CALL FOR PAPERS

Call for Papers: ACL 2017

The 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Vancouver, Canada

July 30-August 4, 2017

http://acl2017.org

The Association for Computational Linguistics is pleased to announce that
its 55th annual meeting will take place in Vancouver, Canada, July
30-August 4, 2017. The conference invites the submission of long and short
papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of
automated language processing. As in recent years, some of the
presentations at the conference will be of papers accepted for the
Transactions of the ACL journal (http://www.transacl.org/).

ACL 2017 has the goal of a broad technical program. Relevant topics for the
conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas (in
alphabetical order):

Cognitive modeling and psycholinguistics

Dialog and interactive systems

Discourse and pragmatics

Document analysis including text categorization, topic models, and retrieval

Generation

Information extraction, text mining, and question answering

Machine learning

Machine translation

Multilinguality

Phonology, morphology, and word segmentation

Resources and evaluation

Semantics

Sentiment analysis and opinion mining

Social media

Speech

Summarization

Tagging, chunking, syntax, and parsing

Vision, robots, and other grounding

Dates

Research Papers (both long and short)

Note that both long and short papers are due on the same date.

Deadline for short paper submission: Monday, February 6, 2017

Author Response Period Monday, March 13 -- Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Notification of acceptance: Thursday, March 30, 2017

Camera ready submission due: Saturday, April 22, 2017

Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM GMT -12 (anywhere in the world).

Changed from Pacific Standard Time, an extra 4 hours.


Submissions

Long Papers

Long ACL 2017 submissions must describe substantial, original, completed
and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and
analysis should be included. Review forms will be made available prior to
the deadlines.

Long papers may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited
references; final versions of long papers will be given one additional page
of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into
account.

Long papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the
program committee. The decisions as to which papers will be presented
orally and which as poster presentations will be based on the nature rather
than the quality of the work. There will be no distinction in the
proceedings between long papers presented orally and as posters.

Short Papers

ACL 2017 also solicits short papers. Short paper submissions must describe
original and unpublished work. Please note that a short paper is not a
shortened long paper. Instead short papers should have a point that can be
made in a few pages. Some kinds of short papers are:


   -

   A small, focused contribution
   -

   Work in progress
   -

   A negative result
   -

   An opinion piece
   -

   An interesting application nugget


Short papers may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited
references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content
pages in the proceedings. Authors are encouraged to use this additional
page to address reviewers comments in their final versions.

Short papers will be presented in one or more oral or poster sessions.
While short papers will be distinguished from long papers in the
proceedings, there will be no distinction in the proceedings between short
papers presented orally and as posters.

General Notes

Papers should not refer, for further detail, to documents that are not
available to the reviewers. Papers may be accompanied by a resource
(software and/or data) described in the paper. Papers that are submitted
with accompanying software/data may receive additional credit toward the
overall evaluation score, and the potential impact of the software and data
will be taken into account when making the acceptance/rejection decisions.

ACL 2017 also encourages the submission of supplementary material to report
preprocessing decisions, model parameters, and other details necessary for
the replication of the experiments reported in the paper. Seemingly small
preprocessing decisions can sometimes make a large difference in
performance, so it is crucial to record such decisions to precisely
characterize state-of-the-art methods.

Nonetheless, supplementary material should be supplementary (rather than
central) to the paper. It may include explanations or details of proofs or
derivations that do not fit into the paper, lists of features or feature
templates, sample inputs and outputs for a system, pseudo-code or source
code, and data. The paper should not rely on the supplementary material:
while the paper may refer to and cite the supplementary material and the
supplementary material will be available to reviewers, they will not be
asked to review or even download the supplementary material. Authors should
refer to the contents of the supplementary material in the paper
submission, so that reviewers interested in these supplementary details
will know where to look.

As the reviewing will be blind, papers must not include authors' names and
affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's
identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ..." must be avoided.
Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ..."
Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without
review.

Electronic Submission

Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management
system at

https://www.softconf.com/acl2017/papers  for long papers

https://www.softconf.com/acl2017/shortpapers  for short papers.

Long paper submissions must follow the two-column format of ACL 2017
proceedings without exceeding eight (8) pages of content. References do not
count against this limit. Short paper submissions must also follow the
two-column format of ACL 2017 proceedings, and must not exceed four (4)
pages.  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.

Style files and other information about paper formatting requirements will
be made available on the conference website, http://acl2017.org

Multiple Submission Policy


Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or
publications must indicate this at submission time in an author-blinded
cover page, and must be withdrawn from the other venues if accepted by
ACL 2017.
Authors of papers accepted for presentation at ACL 2017 must notify the
program chairs by the camera-ready deadline as to whether the paper will be
presented. We will not accept for publication or presentation papers that
overlap significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or
have been) published elsewhere.


Preprint servers such as arXiv.org and workshops that do not have published
proceedings are not considered archival for purposes of submission. Authors
must state in the online submission form the name of the workshop or
preprint server and title of the non-archival version. The version
submitted for review should be suitably anonymized and not contain
references to the prior non-archival version. Reviewers will be told: “The
author(s) have notified us that there exists a non-archival previous
version of this paper with significantly overlapping text. We have approved
submission under these circumstances, but to preserve the spirit of blind
review, the current submission does not reference the non-archival
version.” Reviewers are free to do what they like with this information.


Authors submitting more than one paper to ACL 2017 must ensure that
submissions do not overlap significantly (>25%) with each other in content
or results.

Presentation Requirement

All accepted papers must be presented at the conference to appear in the
proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for
ACL 2017 by the early registration deadline.

Contact Information

General chair: Chris Callison-Burch (University of Pennsylvania)

Program co-chairs: Regina Barzilay (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
and Min-Yen Kan (National University of Singapore)

Email: acl17pcchairs at gmail.com

Area Chairs

Biomedical: Aurélie Névéol, Karin Verspoor
Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics: Roger Levy, Anders Søgaard
Dialogue and Interactive Systems: Ron Artstein, Raquel Fernandez, Oliver
Lemon
Discourse and Pragmatics: Yangfeng Ji, Sujian Li, Bonnie Webber
Information Extraction and NLP Applications: Eugene Agichtein, Chia-Hui
Chang, Jing Jiang, Sarvnaz Karimi, Zornitsa Kozareva, Kang Liu, Tie-Yan
Liu, Mausam, Alessandro Moschitti, Smaranda Muresan
Machine Learning: Grzegorz Chrupała, Amir Globerson, Tommi Jaakkola, Sujith
Ravi, William Yang Wang
Machine Translation: Yang Liu, Minh-Thang Luong, Haitao Mi, Graham Neubig,
Deyi Xiong
Multidisciplinary: Michael Piotrowski, Karën Fort
Multilinguality: Omri Abend, Mona Diab
Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation: Jason Eisner, Hinrich Schütze
Resources and Evaluation: Sophie Rosset, Wajdi Zaghouani
Semantics: Manaal Faruqui, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Anna Korhonen, Preslav
Nakov, Mehroosh Sadrzadeh, Aline Villavicencio
Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining: Alexandra Balahur, Lun-Wei Ku, Saif
M Mohammad
Social Media: Zhiyuan Liu, Shimei Pan, Svitlana Volkova
Speech: Chiori Hori, Chia-ying Lee
Summarization and Generation: Wenjie Li, Alexander M Rush, Verena Dieser
Tagging, Chunking, Syntax and Parsing: Emily Pitler, Barbara Plank, Yue
Zhang, Hai Zhao
Vision, Robotics and Grounding: Mohit Bansal, Nate Kushman

For the most up-to-date version of this call for papers, please visit
http://acl2017.org/calls/papers/ <http://acl2017.org/>
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