CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS
http://www.cs.jhu.edu/ACL2014/CallforTutorials.htm
ACL 2014
The 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Proposals are invited for the Tutorial Program of the 52nd Annual Meeting of
the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2014). The main conference
is to be held in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, from June 23rd to June 25th, 2014.
The tutorials are scheduled for Sunday, June 22nd.
ACL 2014 seeks proposals for tutorials on all topics of computational
linguistics, broadly conceived to include areas such as cognitive modeling of
language processing and psycholinguistics, dialogue and interactive systems,
discourse, coreference and pragmatics, text mining and information extraction,
information retrieval and question answering, language resources, lexical
semantics and ontologies, machine translation, multilinguality, NLP
applications, NLP for social media, semantic processing, sentiment analysis,
opinion mining, text classification, spoken language processing, summarization
and generation, syntax and parsing, tagging and chunking, word segmentation,
and evaluation methods. Especially encouraged are tutorials that educate the
community about advancements in neighboring research areas such as machine
learning, knowledge mining, information retrieval, speech processing, relevant
other areas of artificial intelligence and linguistics, as well as applications
of NLP to new domains or problems.
Information on the payment for tutorial instructors can be found in the ACL
Tutorial Teacher Payment Policy. Please note: remuneration for Tutorial
presenters is fixed according to the above policy and does not cover
registration fees for the main conference.
SUBMISSION DETAILS
Proposals for tutorials should contain:
A title and brief description of the tutorial content and its relevance to the
ACL community (not more than 2 pages).
A brief outline of the tutorial structure showing that the tutorial's core
content can be covered in a three-hour slot (including a coffee break). In
exceptional cases six-hour tutorial slots are available as well.
The names, affiliations, email addresses and websites of the tutorial
instructors, including a one-paragraph statement of their research interests
and areas of expertise.
A list of previous venues and approximate audience sizes, if the same or a
similar tutorial has been given elsewhere; otherwise an estimate of the
audience size.
A description of special requirements for technical equipment (e.g., internet
access).
Submission will be by email. Please send your submission to liuyang2011 @
tsinghua dot edu seconddot cn . You will receive a confirmation of your
submission within 72 hours. In case of technical problems, if you do not
receive a confirmation of your submission within 72 hours, please contact both
chairs by email. The submission deadline is Friday, January 24th, 2014.
TUTORIAL SPEAKER RESPONSIBILITIES
Accepted tutorial speakers will be notified by Friday, February 28, 2014, and
must then provide abstracts of their tutorials for inclusion in the conference
registration material by Friday, March 28, 2014. The description should be in
two formats: an ASCII version that can be included in email announcements and
published on the conference website, and a PDF version for inclusion in the
electronic proceedings (detailed instructions will be provided). Tutorial
speakers must provide tutorial materials, at least containing copies of the
course slides as well as a bibliography for the material covered in the
tutorial, by Friday, April 25, 2014.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline for tutorial proposals: January 24, 2014
Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2014
Tutorial descriptions due: March 28, 2014
Tutorial course material due: April 25, 2014
Tutorial date: June 22, 2014
TUTORIAL CHAIRS
Alexander Fraser, CIS, University of Munich, Germany
Yang Liu, Tsinghua University, China
Please send inquiries concerning ACL 2014 tutorials to fraser @ cis dot
uni-muenchen seconddot de
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Yang Liu
Department of Computer Science and Technology
Tsinghua University
http://nlp.csai.tsinghua.edu.cn/~ly/
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