Call for System Demonstrations
The ACL 2020 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
additionally strongly encourage demonstrations of industrial systems
that are 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. 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
Accepted submissions will be published in a companion volume of the ACL
2020 conference proceedings.
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
As in previous years, ACL 2020's demo track will feature a Best Demo
Award. We hope to encourage researchers to make their code publicly
available and in the form of an easy-to-use, runnable system.
Important Dates
- Paper submission deadline: Jan 31th, 2020
- Notification of acceptance: Apr 3rd, 2020
- Camera-ready submission: Apr 24th, 2020
All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth")
Demo Details
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. Authors will also be able to
upload and submit 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 paper submission.
Upon acceptance, demo submissions should also clearly indicate if any
computer equipment is expected to be provided by the local organizer.
Also, please specify in you submission, the desired hardware platform,
hard disk and memory capacity, operating system and other software
needed in order to run the demo.
Demo Submission
Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management
system at https://www.softconf.com/acl2020/demos.
Style files should meet the requirements of the ACL main conference.
Submissions may consist of up to 6 pages, plus unlimited references.
Submissions must conform to the ACL 2020 official style guidelines
(https://acl2020.org/calls/papers/) and they must be in PDF format. The
submissions have to be original work (unpublished), as the publication
in ACL will be archival.
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.
Demo co-chairs:
Asli Celikyilmaz (Microsoft Research)
Shawn (Tsung-Hsien) Wen (PolyAI)Call for System Demonstrations
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