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ACL 2014 NEWSLETTER NO. 2

Quick Links:

Newsletter Link: http://goo.gl/u0JBQq

Online Registration: https://aclweb.org/conference/acl-2014-conference-registration/

All Accepted Papers: http://www.cs.jhu.edu/ACL2014/Program.htm

Tutorials: http://www.cs.jhu.edu/ACL2014/Tutorials.htm

Workshops: http://www.cs.jhu.edu/ACL2014/Workshops.htm

Follow @acl14_baltimore on Twitter for the latest announcements!

Download and share the ACL 2014 Conference Poster:

https://app.box.com/acl2014poster

The 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

http://www.cs.jhu.edu/ACL2014/

June 22–27, 2014 at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront, Baltimore, MD, USA.

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:: Table of Contents

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1. Important Upcoming Dates

2. ACL 2014 Program and Invited Talks

3. Social Events at ACL 2014

4. Workshops at ACL 2014 and CoNLL

5. Tutorials at ACL 2014

6. Venue Information

7. Visa Information

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:: 1. Important Upcoming Dates

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• Online Registration: Now until June 14, 2014
• Onsite Registration: After June 22, 2014 (Prices increase onsite.)
• Tutorials: June 22, 2014
• Welcome Reception: June 22, 2014; 6pm.
• Main Conference: June 23–25, 2014
• Closing Session: June 25, 2014; 6:30pm.
• Workshops: June 26–27, 2014

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:: 2. ACL 2014 Program and Invited Talks

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• The Full ACL 2014 Program is now online!

• Overview: http://acl2014.org/prog24.htm

• Invited Talks by:

• Mon, June 23, 5pm: Corinna Cortes, Head of Google Research New York.
• Tue, June 24, 9am: Zoran Popović, Professor and Director of the Center for
  Game Science at the University of Washington

• We have two Poster and Dinner sessions this year in the Grand Ballroom:

• Monday, June 23:   6:50-9:30pm
• Tuesday, June 24:  6:50-9:30pm  (with Demonstrations)

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:: 3. Social Events at ACL 2014

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Welcome Reception. Catch up with your colleagues at the Welcome Reception on Sunday
evening, June 22 at 6pm, in the Grand Ballroom Foyer of the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront
immediately following the Tutorials. Refreshments, a light dinner, and a cash bar will be provided.

Student Lunch. Join us Monday, June 23 at 12:30pm, at the famous Phillips Seafood Restaurant.
Get to know others who share similar interests and goals and who may become your lifelong
colleagues. Meat, chicken and vegetarian dishes also available. Students only. Generously
sponsored by Nuance.

ACL 2014 Social and Networking Event. Beginning at 7:30pm on Tuesday, June 24, casually
walk over to the National Aquarium for desserts, coffee, tea, and cash bar. Wander through the
exhibits, network with colleagues, dance to the sounds of a local DJ, and enjoy a relaxing evening
with the jellyfish and sharks.

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:: 4. Workshops at ACL and CoNLL

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This year, the following 18 workshops will be held at ACL 2014.
Workshop Chairs: Jill Burstein and Lluis Marquez

Student Research Workshop, June 23.
Student Research Workshop Chairs: Ekaterina Kochmar, Annie Louis and Svitlana Volkova

Two-day Workshops, June 26-27:

• [W1] Ninth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT14)
• [W2] BioNLP 2014

Single-day Workshops, June 26:

• [W3] 9th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA)
• [W4] Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT 2014)
• [W5] Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL)
• [W6] Argumentation Mining
• [W7] ComputEL: The use of computational methods in the study of endangered languages
• [W8] The Second Workshop on Metaphor in NLP
• [W9] Workshop on Semantic Parsing (SP14)
• [W10] Language Technologies and Computational Social Science

Single-day Workshops, June 27:

• [W11] 5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2014)
• [W12] Joint Workshop on Social Dynamics and Personal Attributes in Social Media
• [W13] Joint 1-day workshop between SIGMORPHON and SIGFSM
• [W14] 2nd Workshop on EVENTS: Definition, Detection, Coreference, and Representation
• [W15] Frame Semantics in NLP: A Workshop in Honor of Chuck Fillmore (1929-2014)
• [W16] Workshop on Interactive Language Learning, Visualizations, and Interfaces
• [W17] Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: From Linguistic Signal to Clinical Reality

CoNLL-2014

Also note that the 18th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-2014)

will be held in Baltimore on June 26th and June 27th.

See the CoNLL website for more details: http://www.conll.org

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:: 5. Tutorials at ACL 2014

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Morning Tutorials, June 22

• [T1] Gaussian Processes for Natural Language Processing

Chairs: Trevor Cohn, Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro, and Neil Lawrence

• [T2] Scalable Large-Margin Structured Learning: Theory and Algorithms

Chairs: Liang Huang, Kai Zhao, and Lemao Liu

• [T3] Semantics for Large-Scale Multimedia: New Challenges for NLP

Chairs: Florian Metze and Koichi Shinoda

• [T4] Wikification and Beyond: The Challenges of Entity and Concept Grounding

Chairs: Dan Roth, Heng Ji, Ming-Wei Chang, Taylor Cassidy

Afternoon Tutorials, June 22

• [T5] New Directions in Vector Space Models of Meaning

Chairs: P. Blunsom, G. Dinu, E. Grefenstette, and K. M. Hermann

• [T6] Structured Belief Propagation for NLP

Chairs: Matthew R. Gormley and Jason Eisner

• [T7] Semantics, Discourse and Statistical Machine Translation

Chairs: Deyi Xiong and Min Zhang

• [T8] Syntactic Processing Using Global Discriminative Learning and Beam-Search Decoding

Chairs: Yue Zhang, Meishan Zhang, and Ting Liu

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:: 6. Venue Information

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ACL 2014 will be held on Baltimore's Inner Harbor at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront.

The Baltimore Marriott Waterfront is a AAA 4-diamond hotel and is a TripAdvisor 2013 Certificate of

Excellence Award winner. Guestrooms offer sweeping views of Baltimore’s beautiful waterfront and skyline,

and in addition to guestroom views, ballroom foyers directly overlook the waterfront marina.

More than 40 restaurants, cafes and pubs are within 1-3 blocks, including Harborplace, historic Little Italy

and Fell’s Point. Most are directly overlooking the Inner Harbor and have outdoor seating on the waterfront.

Baltimore is lucky to have a very lively food scene, with various types of cuisine for all price ranges.

Foodies can geek out here: http://goo.gl/m7pQxK

Baltimore's cultural districts (including the Walters Art Museum and Visionary Art Museum) are close by, and easily accessible by the free and frequent Circulator bus system and water taxis leaving
directly in front of the hotel.

Baltimore is served by Baltimore-Washington International Airport (BWI). Other nearby regional airports are
Reagan National Airport (DCA), and Dulles International Airport (IAD).

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:: 7. Visa Information

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Since visa applications can take 1-4 months to be approved, we advise that you apply well in advance.

If you require an invitation letter for your visa application, please email the ACL Business Manager, Priscilla
Rasmussen, at acl@aclweb.org, with the following information:

1. Your full name
2. Your address
3. If you are presenting, the title of the paper your are presenting
4. If you are presenting, the venue of the presentation:

1. Main Conference, or
2. a Workshop (give name of workshop), or
3. a Tutorial (give name of tutorial)

Do you have questions, comments?

Send mail to Jason Riesa, riesa@google.com