Second Call for Tutorial Proposals: ACL/AACL-IJCNLP/EMNLP/COLING 2020
Event Notification Type: Call for Proposals
Contact Email: acl-aacl-emnlp-coling-2020-tutori...@googlegroups.com
Contact: tutorial organizers
Submission Deadline: Monday, 23 September 2019
Changes (wrt. the 1st call): the EMNLP 2020 tutorial chairs are now
known; some details about the dates of the tutorials, the expected
contents, the maximum length of the proposal, and the length of the
reading list are given.
The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), the Asia-Pacific
Chapter of the ACL,
the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
(EMNLP) and the International Committee on Computational Linguistics
(ICCL) invite proposals for tutorials to be held in conjunction with ACL
2020, AACL-IJCNLP 2020, EMNLP 2020 or COLING 2020. We seek proposals in
all areas of computational linguistics, broadly conceived to include
related disciplines such as linguistics, speech, information retrieval
and multimodal processing.
Similar to the call for 2019, we invite proposals for two types of
tutorials:
1. Cutting-edge: tutorials that cover advances in newly emerging areas
not previously covered in any ACL/EMNLP/NAACL/EACL/COLING related
tutorial (see the list of tutorials in the past 4 years).
2. Introductory: tutorials that provide introductions to related
fields that are potentially relevant for the computational linguistics
community (e.g., linguistics, bioinformatics, social media, machine
learning techniques).
In both cases, the aim of a tutorial is primarily to help understand a
scientific problem, its tractability, and its theoretical and practical
implications. Presentations of particular technological solutions or
systems are welcome, provided that they serve as illustration of broader
scientific considerations.
Tutorials will be held at one of the following conference venues:
* ACL 2020 is the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics. It will be held in Seattle, Washington, USA
on July 5-10, 2020. The tutorials will be held on July 5, 2020.
* AACL 2020 is the 1st Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the
Association for Computational Linguistics (AACL). It will be held in
Suzhou, China on December 4-7, 2020, jointly with the 9th International
Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP).
* EMNLP 2020 is the SIGDAT conference on Empirical Methods in Natural
Language Processing (EMNLP). It will be held in Punta Cana, Dominican
Republic on November 8-12, 2020. The tutorials will be held on November
11, 2020.
* COLING 2020 is the 28th International Conference on Computational
Linguistics. It will be held in Barcelona, Spain on September 13-18,
2020. The tutorials will be held on September 13-14, 2020.
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FEE WAIVING
In a change from previous years, tutorial instructors will receive no
payment. However, up to 3 instructors per tutorial can have their
registration fees waived for the main conference and any subset of
co-located tutorials and workshops.
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DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
Following the WiNLP initiative, we recognize the current problems of
demographic imbalance in the field. Therefore, we particularly encourage
submissions from members of under-represented groups in computational
linguistics, i.e. from researchers self-identifying within any
underrepresented demographic (gender, ethnicity, nationality, etc.).
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SUBMISSION DETAILS
Proposals should follow the ACL 2019 paper submission format (for final
submissions), should not exceed 6 pages, should be submitted as PDF
documents and should contain the following:
1. A title, authors and a brief description of the tutorial content
and its relevance to the computational linguistics community (no more
than 2 pages).
2. Type of the tutorial: introductory vs. cutting-edge
3. A brief outline of the tutorial structure. It should notably show
that the core content can be covered in a three-hour slot. In
exceptional cases six-hour tutorial slots are available as well. These
time limits do not include coffee breaks, e.g., a three-hour tutorial in
fact occupies a 3.5-hour slot, and a six-hour tutorial occupies a 7-hour
slot.
4. Breadth: include an estimate of what % of the tutorial covers work
by the tutorial presenters vs. work by other researchers. We ask for a
coverage of at least 50% corresponding to other people’s work, in order
to avoid having tutorials that are “self-invited talks”.
5. Diversity considerations (if any), e.g. use of multilingual data,
indications of how the described methods scale up to various languages
or domains, participation of both senior and junior instructors,
possibly affiliated in different countries, gender balance of the
instructors, etc.
6. Specification of any prerequisites for the attendees. Here are some
examples:
* Math: e.g., “Understand derivatives and integrals as found in
introductory Calculus”
* Linguistics: e.g., “Be able to parse and generate text with
Context Free Grammars”
* Machine Learning: e.g., “Understand ‘classical’ supervised
methods such as decision trees and Naive Bayes”
* Other areas: e.g., “Familiarity with WordNet”
* Programming or other tools: e.g., “Knowledge of Python and Unix
command line tools”
1. Small reading list. It's size should be such that it is reasonable
to expect a trainee to read most of the recommended references before
the tutorial (depending on their length, 4-10 seems a reasonable
number). Preferably, at least 50% of the recommended papers should not
be co-authored by the tutorial presenters.
2. The names, affiliations, email addresses and websites of the
tutorial presenters, including a one-paragraph statement of their
research interests, areas of expertise and experience in teaching for an
international audience.
3. An estimate of the audience size for the tutorial. If the same or a
similar tutorial has been given before, include a note specifying where
previous versions of the tutorial were given, how many attendees were at
the main venue, and how many attendees the tutorial attracted.
4. A description of special requirements for technical equipment
(e.g., Internet access).
5. A note specifying which venue(s) (ACL/AACL-IJCNLP/EMNLP/COLING)
would be acceptable and/or preferable. Include a description of any
constraints that might make the tutorial compatible with only one of
these events, logistically, thematically, or otherwise.
6. Open access. Do you agree to allow the publication of your slides
and video recording of your tutorial in the ACL Anthology? Will other
teaching material (data, software, etc., if any) be openly available?
Tutorial proposals for ACL/AACL-IJCNLP/EMNLP/COLING should be submitted
online using the START system:
https://www.softconf.com/j/acl-tutorials2020
Proposals will be reviewed jointly by the Tutorial Co-Chairs of the four
conferences and by a group of external experts.
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EVALUATION CRITERIA
Each tutorial proposal will be evaluated according to its clarity and
preparedness, novelty or timely character of the topic, instructors'
experience, likely audience interest, open access of the teaching
material, and diversity aspects (see point 5 above). Additionally, while
selecting the final list of tutorials for the 3 conferences, the
tutorial chairs will consider compatibility with the required/preferred
venues.
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TUTORIAL INSTRUCTOR RESPONSIBILITIES
Accepted tutorial presenters will be notified by October 20th, 2019.
They must then provide abstracts of their tutorials for inclusion in the
conference registration material by the specific conference deadlines.
The description should be in two formats: (a) an ASCII version that can
be included in email announcements and published on the conference
website, and (b) a PDF version for inclusion in the electronic
proceedings (detailed instructions will be provided). Tutorial speakers
must provide tutorial materials by the deadlines specified for the three
conferences (TBD), with course slides submitted at least one month prior
to the date of the tutorial. The final submitted tutorial materials must
minimally include copies of the course slides and a bibliography for the
material covered in the tutorial. After the conference, the presenters
will be invited to update their slides in the ACL Anthology (if needed).
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IMPORTANT DATES
ACL/AACL-IJCNLP/EMNLP/COLING shared dates for tutorial proposals:
* Submission deadline for tutorial proposals: September 23th, 2019
* Notification of acceptance: October 20th, 2019
* Tutorial slides + abstract + bibliography: one month prior to the
date of the tutorial
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TUTORIAL CHAIRS
ACL:
* Agata Savary, University of Tours, France
* Yue Zhang, Westlake University, China
AACL-IJCNLP:
To be determined
EMNLP
* Benjamin Van Durme, Johns Hopkins University
* Aline Villavicencio, University of Sheffield, UK and Federal
University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
COLING:
* Daniel Beck, University of Melbourne, Australia
* Lucia Specia, Imperial College London and University of Sheffield,
UK
Please send enquiries concerning ACL/AACL-IJCNLP/EMNLP/COLING 2020
tutorials to the workshop organizers at
acl-aacl-emnlp-coling-2020-tutori...@googlegroups.com.
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