Our tutorial chairs, Alexandra Birch and Nathan Schneider, also outdid themselves, providing seven especially tempting tutorial offerings. I am also very grateful to Victoria Fossum and Karl Moritz Hermann, our Workshop Chairs, who put together a terrific slate of fifteen workshops, and paid meticulous attention to ensuring that each workshop could hold exactly the poster sessions, invited talks and special events that it required. No program chairs ever worked harder to bring you a superb set of presentations in an attendee friendly setting. Finally, Rebecca and Sebastian are bringing you three outstanding invited speakers, Dan Jurafsky, Sharon Goldwater, and Nando de Freitas. This is in response to the survey results from EMNLP 2015 that indicated a decided preference for smaller, more frequent poster sessions during the day rather than evening mega-sessions. We are also trying to raise the visibility and status of the poster sessions by integrating them as parallel sessions alongside oral talks, with poster session chairs. However, there are clearly a few dissenters, since Rebecca and Sebastian ended up writing around 200 meta-reviews themselves at the last minute. Despite the additional time involvement, many of the Area Chairs embraced this new approach, and would like to repeat it. We are soliciting feedback on the meta-review process, from both reviewers and authors. We tried some new things this year (never conducive to a smooth process) including a more careful handling of the COIs that result from Area Chair submissions, and the addition of a meta-review step to encourage more thoughtful reviewing. This involved 51 Area chairs and 980 reviewers. I am especially grateful to our Program Chairs, Rebecca Hwa and Sebastian Riedel, who did a fantastic job managing a backbreaking 1,500 paper submissions (1466 reviewed papers). Welcome to a cosmopolitan city of fantastic restaurants, lovely seascapes, rich history, and lots and lots of cyclists! We have an exciting program lined up for you, with three invited talks, fifteen workshops, seven tutorials, nine TACL presentations, 323 reviewed papers presented as both oral talks and posters, and twenty-one demos. 4 CPH Conference Floorplan (Most workshops, three tutorials) 4ĥ Øksnehallen Floorplan (Main Conference, WMT, Tutorials 5 and 6) 5ħ Contents Table of Contents i 1 Conference Information 1 Message from the General Chair Message from the Program Committee Co-Chairs Organizing Committee Program Committee Venue Info Meal Info Welcome Reception Tutorials: Thursday, September 7 9 T1: Acquisition, Representation and Usage of Conceptual Hierarchies T2: Computational Sarcasm T3: Graph-based Text Representations: Boosting Text Mining, NLP and Information Retrieval with Graphs T4: Semantic Role Labeling Tutorials: Friday, September 8 17 T5: Memory Augmented Neural Networks for Natural Language Processing T6: A Unified Framework for Structured Prediction: From Theory to Practice T7: Cross-Lingual Word Representations: Induction and Evaluation Workshops: Thursday Friday, September W1: Second Conference on Machine Translation (WMT) W2: Subword and Character Level Models in NLP W3: Natural Language Processing meets Journalism W4: 3rd Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text W5: 2nd Workshop on Structured Prediction for Natural Language Processing W6: New Frontiers in Summarization W7: Workshop on Speech-Centric Natural Language Processing W8: 3rd Workshop on Discourse in Machine Translation W9: Workshop on Stylistic Variation W10: 12th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications 45 iĨ W11: 4th Workshop on Argument Mining W12: 8th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis W13: 2nd Workshop on Evaluating Vector Space Representations for NLP W14: Building Linguistically Generalizable NLP Systems Main Conference: Saturday, September 9 59 Invited Talk: Nando de Freitas Session Session Session Main Conference: Sunday, September Invited Talk: Sharon Goldwater Session Session Session SIGDAT Business Meeting Social Event Main Conference: Monday, September Invited Talk: Dan Jurafsky Session Session Honorable Mentions Anti-harassment policy 163 Author Index Local Guide 183 General Sightseeing Shops Events Day-Trips Other Things to Do Dance the Night Away Parks Eating & Drinking Restaurants Close to the Conference Venue Culinary Highlights in the City Cafés and Bars Health iiĩ 1 Conference Information Message from the General Chair Thank you so much for joining us in Copenhagen.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |