Transcript Lecture on Statistical NLP

ACL-IJCNLP-09
General Chair Report
Keh-Yih Su
August 2nd, Singapore
Team Members
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Local Organizer:
 Li,
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Haizhou (I2R, Singapore)
Program Chairs:
Jan (University of Pittsburgh , USA)
 Su, Jian (I2R, Singapore)
 Wiebe,
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Other Chairs:
 Please
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Program Structure
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Tutorials: 3 rooms (total 6 half-day tutorial)
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Main Conference: 4 parallel tracks
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Workshops (12, excluding EMNLP)
2
two-day, 10 one-day
 First Day: 8 rooms
 Second Day: 6 rooms
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EMNLP: 4 parallel tracks
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Related Statistics (1)
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Total 925 submissions (record high!!):
 569
submissions for full papers (99 + #ACL-08), 120
of them are accepted (21%)
 356
submissions for short papers (81 + #ACL-08), 93
of them are accepted (26%)
 Some
other reference numbers:
Coling-ACL 2006 has 618 submissions (no short papers
category)
 ACL-2007 has 588 submissions (no short papers category)
 ACL 2008 has 470 full papers 275 short papers
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Related Statistics (2)
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Student Workshop (Brian and Grace)
 25
submissions, 12 of them are accepted (48%)
Demo (Gary and Sabine)
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 23
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Tutorial (Diana and Chengqing)
 19
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submissions, 11 of them are accepted (48%)
proposals received, 6 of them are accepted (30%)
Workshop (Jimmy and Yuji)
 18
Top-1 preference for us, 12 of them are accepted
(67%)
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Mentoring Service (Hwee-Tou and Florence)
 10
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Related Statistics (3)
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Sponsorship (Hitoshi and Kim-Teng)
 Total
US$25,456.24
Gold (1), Silver (4), Bronze (1), Supporter (1)
 Student Best Paper Award (IBM)
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 Local
Sponsorship
Entertainment in welcome reception and banquet
 Conference souvenirs (Special Singapore stamps)
 Asian student travel grants
 30 paid registrations for staff/students
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Exhibition (Timothy and Philipp)
 Total
US$3,500.
 2 Publishers, 3 Companies, 2 Local Organizations
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Summary
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Sponsorship and Exhibition under expectation
 Contribution
mainly from traditional USA ACL
sponsors (thanks Priscilla!)
 Possible
Reasons
Bad global economic situation
 Lacking connections? Late movement?
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Paper submissions and registrations beyond
expectation
 925
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submissions, 792 pre-registration!
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