Be an NLP supporter and help get the message out! South by Southwest (SXSW) is a huge conference/show/event that takes place annually in Austin. People get to speak there by making proposals, and the decisions are made partly by committee and partly based on how many votes the proposer can scare up. Proposers are allowed -- in fact, encouraged! -- to lobby for their talks by getting people to vote.
For SXSW 2012, there are several proposed talks about language technology. One is by Philip Resnik, another is Philip with Jason Baldridge, and another is Philip with Lillian Lee. Getting any one of these accepted would be great, and getting all of these in would be an exercise in complete awesomeness. Please go to http://umiacs.umd.edu/~resnik/sxsw2012.html for details -- voting should take all of about two minutes. Then, why not forward this out to your own social network and let's see how many people we can get voting? We've got until September 2. Thanks! Jason (and Philip and Lillian) P.S. Here's a tweet you can cut and paste if you're on Twitter... Pls retweet: Please vote for #NLProc/#textanalytics talks at #SXSW tinyurl.com/4xwa636. Your vote matters! @psresnik @jasonbaldridge -- Jason Baldridge Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics The University of Texas at Austin http://www.jasonbaldridge.com http://twitter.com/jasonbaldridge
